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1/8/16 | Joaquín Guzmán， the world's most powerful drug trafficker， is recaptured in Mexico. |
1/10/16 | David Bowie dies in New York City from liver cancer. |
1/12/16 | A bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul kills 10 people and wounds 15. |
1/16/16 | Terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou， Burkina Faso kill 30 and injure 56. |
1/16/16 | Tsai Ing-wen becomes the first female President of Taiwan after the Democratic Progressive Party wins the general election. |
2/6/16 | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes southern Taiwan， killing 117 people. |
3/21/16 | The ICC finds Jean-Pierre Bemba guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
3/22/16 | Brussels bombings kill 35 and injure 300. |
3/24/16 | Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years for genocide and crimes against humanity. |
4/1/16 | Nagorno-Karabakh clashes result in 350 deaths. |
4/16/16 | A 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador kills 676 and injures over 6，000. |
5/9/16 | Rodrigo Duterte is elected President of the Philippines. |
5/19/16 | EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes， killing all 66 on board. |
5/28/16 | Gorilla Harambe is shot at the Cincinnati Zoo， becoming a global meme. |
6/12/16 | A gunman kills 49 and injures 53 at a nightclub in Orlando， Florida. |
6/23/16 | The UK votes to leave the EU， triggering Brexit. |
6/28/16 | Atatürk Airport attack in Istanbul kills 999 and injures 230. |
7/14/16 | Nice truck attack kills 86 and injures over 400 during Bastille Day celebrations. |
7/15/16 | A failed coup in Turkey results in 240 deaths and widespread purges. |
8/24/16 | A 6.2 earthquake in central Italy kills 299 people. |
10/3/16 | Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti， killing 546 and causing $2.8 billion in damages. |
11/8/16 | Donald Trump is elected the 45th President of the United States. |
11/28/16 | LaMia Flight 2933 crashes， killing 71， including members of the Chapecoense football team. |
12/19/16 | Berlin truck attack kills 12 and injures 56 at a Christmas market. |
12/25/16 | Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea， killing all 92 on board. |
1/1/17 | Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman opens fire at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul， Turkey， killing 39 people and injuring 79 others. |
1/8/17 | 2017 Jerusalem truck attack: A Palestinian assailant kills 4 people and injures 15 others in Jerusalem. |
1/16/17 | Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes in a residential area in Bishkek， Kyrgyzstan， killing all four crew members and 35 people on the ground. |
2/13/17 | Kim Jong-nam is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. |
3/31/17 | Political crisis in Paraguay leads to the storming of Congress and the assassination of Rodrigo Quintana. |
4/13/17 | The U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB at an ISIL base in Afghanistan. |
4/15/17 | Emma Morano， the last known person born in the 1800s， dies. |
5/22/17 | ISIL bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester， England， kills 22 people. |
6/3/17 | London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered by Islamist terrorists. |
6/7/17 | ISIL terrorists attack the Iranian Parliament and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. |
6/21/17 | The Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul， Iraq， is destroyed by ISIL. |
8/12/17 | Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville， Virginia， results in the death of Heather Heyer. |
8/17/17 | First observation of a neutron star collision provides evidence for the r-process theory. |
8/17/17 | Barcelona attacks: A van attack kills 13 people on La Rambla. |
9/19/17 | A 7.1 Mw earthquake strikes central Mexico， killing 370 people. |
10/1/17 | Las Vegas shooting: 60 people are killed in the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history. |
10/14/17 | A truck bombing in Mogadishu， Somalia， kills at least 587 people. |
11/2/17 | A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia. |
11/5/17 | Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in Texas. |
11/12/17 | A magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes the border region between Iraq and Iran. |
11/20/17 | Nature recognizes ʻOumuamua as the first known interstellar object. |
11/24/17 | A mosque attack in Sinai， Egypt， kills 305 worshippers. |
2/6/18 | SpaceX successfully conducts its maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket. |
2/14/18 | A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland， Florida results in 17 fatalities. |
3/4/18 | Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned by the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury， England. |
3/19/18 | The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya， making the subspecies functionally extinct. |
3/23/18 | An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes， France， kills five people. |
4/7/18 | A chemical attack in Douma， Syria， reportedly kills at least 70 people. |
7/10/18 | Twelve boys and their football coach are rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand. |
7/25/18 | Scientists report the presence of a subglacial lake on Mars， the first known body of water on the planet. |
8/20/18 | 15-year-old Greta Thunberg starts a school strike for climate change. |
9/28/18 | A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi， Indonesia， causing a tsunami that kills at least 4，340 people. |
10/2/18 | Journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul， Turkey. |
12/22/18 | An eruption from Krakatoa causes a tsunami in the Sunda Strait， Indonesia， killing at least 430 people. |
1/25/19 | A mine tailings dam breaks in Brumadinho， Brazil， killing at least 248 people. |
2/26/19 | Indian Air Force launches airstrikes in Balakot， Pakistan， leading to the India–Pakistan standoff. |
3/10/19 | Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashes， leading to the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft worldwide. |
3/15/19 | Cyclone Idai hits Mozambique， causing over 1，073 fatalities. |
4/15/19 | A major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. |
4/21/19 | Islamist bomb attacks in Sri Lanka kill 259 people on Easter Sunday. |
6/3/19 | Khartoum massacre in Sudan kills over 100 people. |
9/14/19 | Drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil refineries disrupt oil exports. |
10/27/19 | U.S. announces the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. |
12/1/19 | First known human case of COVID-19 documented in Wuhan， China. |
12/9/19 | Volcano erupts on White Island， New Zealand， killing 22 people. |
1/3/20 | A United States drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. |
1/8/20 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iranian forces， killing all 176 people on board. |
5/25/20 | Protests caused by the murder of George Floyd break out across hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world. |
6/15/20 | At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes in the disputed Galwan Valley. |
8/4/20 | An explosion in Beirut， Lebanon， kills at least 218 people and causes extensive damage. |
9/27/20 | Beginning of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: deadly clashes erupt between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. |
11/3/20 | Joe Biden is elected as the 46th President of the United States. |
1/6/21 | Supporters of US President Donald Trump attack the US Capitol， disrupting certification of the 2020 presidential election. |
2/1/21 | A coup d'état in Myanmar removes Aung San Suu Kyi from power and restores military rule. |
3/23/21 | Ever Given runs aground and obstructs the Suez Canal， disrupting global trade. |
4/20/21 | Idriss Déby， President of Chad， is killed in clashes with rebel forces. |
5/23/21 | Ryanair Flight 4978 is forced to land by Belarusian authorities to detain journalist Roman Protasevich. |
7/7/21 | Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated. |
8/26/21 | A suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport kills at least 182 people， including 13 U.S. service members. |
10/25/21 | The Sudanese military launches a coup against the government. |
1/10/22 | The first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient occurs in Baltimore， Maryland， United States. |
1/15/22 | A large eruption of Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai triggers tsunami warnings in multiple countries. |
2/3/22 | Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed in a counter-terrorism raid by U.S. special forces in Syria. |
2/24/22 | Russia begins a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
2/26/22 | The EU， US， and allies commit to removing Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system. |
2/27/22 | Putin orders Russia's nuclear deterrent forces to be on 'special alert.' |
3/5/22 | Researchers find Endurance， a shipwreck from Ernest Shackleton's exploration. |
3/21/22 | China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 crashes in Guangxi， China， killing all 133 people on board. |
4/14/22 | The Russian flagship Moskva sinks， claimed by Ukraine to have been struck by missiles. |
5/6/22 | An outbreak of monkeypox begins in London， UK. |
5/9/22 | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns amid protests. |
5/18/22 | Finland and Sweden apply to join NATO. |
5/24/22 | Uvalde school shooting: 18-year-old Salvador Ramos fatally shoots 19 students and two teachers. |
6/22/22 | A 6.2 earthquake strikes the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan， killing at least 1，163 people. |
7/8/22 | Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated. |
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