History Hop Tags - People

879-05-21

Pope John VIII gives blessings to duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state.

1185-09-11

Isaac II Angelus kills Stephanus Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronicus I Comnenus and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire.

1282-03-30

The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.

1347-05-20

Rienzo calls Rome for people's tribunal

1347-11-20

Coke di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addressess a meeting of on the Capitol during people's revolt in Rome

1349-09-29

People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells

1374-06-24

A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1391-03-15

Jew-hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews

1520-11-08

Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

1570-11-01

All Saints Flood, tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland; killing more than 1,000 people.

1597-08-11

Germany throws out English sales people

1610-06-19

Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

1614-08-22

Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of ghetto in Frankfurt

1647-07-07

People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples

1648-04-05

Spanish troops/feudal barons strike down people's uprising in Naples

1648-06-10

Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov

1648-08-26

People's uprising against Anna of Austria & Cardinal Mazarin

1667-11-25

A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.

1676-08-03

Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia"

1692-02-29

Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne & Tituba, an Indian servant first people to be accused of witchcraft in Salem Mass.

1692-07-19

5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem Mass

1692-08-19

Five more people hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts

1692-09-22

Last (8) people hanged for witchcraft in US (Salem Mass) 20 hanged overall

1693-10-05

Haarlem people's revolution due to food shortages

1698-07-14

The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the Isthmus of Panama.

1699-09-22

People of Rotterdam strike over high cost of butter

1714-10-07

People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth

1726-05-24

-26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax

1727-09-08

A barn fire during a puppet show in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, England kills 78 people, many of whom are children.

1731-12-22

Dutch people revolt against meat tax

1741-04-13

Dutch people protest bad quality of bread

1752-09-03

Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

1765-11-23

People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

1775-03-19

4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)

1776-08-02

Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people

1777-01-15

People of New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England

1781-09-25

-26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets

1785-11-28

The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people

1791-07-17

Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.

1803-07-04

The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.

1810-04-19

Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.

1819-08-16

Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators.15 people killed and 400—700 injured

1820-01-28

Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen and his expedition become the first people to sight the Antarctic mainland (continental Antarctic mountains)

1832-06-07

Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

1833-01-01

Curacao census: 2,602 whites, 6,531 free people & 5,894 slaves

1835-11-19

A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved

1839-11-25

A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.

1848-01-09

People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

1849-05-29

Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

1854-09-27

Steamship "Arctic" sinks with 300 people on board

1856-07-17

The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people.

1858-09-08

Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time"

1864-03-11

The Great Sheffield Flood: the largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.

1864-08-16

Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam

1866-07-30

New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

1876-11-17

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.

1879-08-21

The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

1880-04-18

An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri, killing 99 people and injuring 100.

1883-08-27

Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1884-02-19

Tornadoes in Miss, Ala, NC, SC, Tenn, Ky & In kill 800 people

1884-05-24

Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US

1891-08-17

1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)

1893-07-06

The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.

1893-07-31

Gaelic League is founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill in order to encourage Irish people to speak the language and take a greater interest in their culture

1894-08-16

Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith

1896-05-18

Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.

1896-05-26

James Dunham murders six people in Campbell, California.

1900-03-26

1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)

1900-04-01

1st edition of Dutch newspaper "The People"

1902-04-08

Growing unrest in Belgian society as people demand better education, better work and living conditions, the right to strike and universal male suffrage, culminate in a demonstration organised by Socialists. In the rioting that ensues, many Belgians are killed

1904-01-11

Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising

1904-01-23

Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.

1904-10-04

1st day of NYC subway, 350,000 people ride 9.1 mile tracks

1905-02-08

Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people

1905-10-20

Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish

1906-01-08

A landslide in Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.

1906-09-18

A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.

1906-11-06

Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people

1908-01-13

Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.

1908-06-18

Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship

1908-10-28

The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries

1908-12-09

The German Reichstag adopts a progressive social law restricting hours of factory work by young people and women

1909-02-12

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms

1909-11-30

The British House of Lords rejects the 'People's Budget' prepared by David Loyd George; the budget tries to shift the tax burden to the wealthy

1910-02-26

Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa

1910-12-24

Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain

1912-01-08

Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organisations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms

1912-09-04

First accident (collision) in London Underground: 22 people injured

1913-07-25

A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland

1913-11-25

The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to "secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland"

1914-04-09

US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been elected by the people

1914-08-15

A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.

1914-08-19

In a message to the Senate, US President Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name'

1916-11-21

HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.

1917-05-21

The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality

1917-06-04

Most Excellent Order of British Empire inaugurated by King George V to recognise the efforts of his people in WW1

1917-06-10

60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution

1917-11-08

People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution

1918-03-25

The Belarusian People's Republic is established.

1918-10-12

Cloquet fire kills 453 and injures or displaces 52,000 people

1918-11-16

Hungarian People's Republic declared

1918-11-26

The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.

1919-05-01

Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages

1919-10-02

1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth

1920-04-14

Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi

1921-08-14

Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).

1922-11-16

Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite

1923-01-17

Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied

1924-02-03

Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)

1924-07-20

Teheran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.

1924-11-26

Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1925-01-16

Gen M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense

1926-05-25

Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.

1928-03-12

In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.

1928-07-02

British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men (Representation of the People Act 1928)

1929-01-06

Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.

1929-04-18

Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire

1929-05-19

Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death

1930-03-04

Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.

1930-06-13

22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece

1931-05-14

Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

1931-07-24

A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.

1931-11-07

Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

1933-01-07

1st edition of People & Fatherland published in Netherlands

1933-12-25

Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor

1934-05-02

Nazi-Germany begins People's court

1934-07-27

French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms

1935-10-20

Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels

1936-01-23

Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms

1936-02-16

Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections

1936-05-03

French People's Front wins elections

1936-07-14

1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government

1937-06-04

Leon Blum becomes premier of People's front government of France

1937-06-21

French People's front government-Blum falls

1938-09-21

The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.

1938-10-25

The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".

1939-01-13

The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.

1939-09-03

German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans

1941-07-10

Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

1941-10-13

Nazis kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people

1942-03-01

Suriname camp for NSB people opens to save Jews

1942-04-15

George VI awards George Cross to people of Malta

1942-12-10

Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"

1942-12-12

A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 100 people.

1943-02-10

"Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination

1944-02-23

Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.

1944-07-12

Theresienstadt Family camp disbands, with 4,000 people gased

1944-08-12

Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

1944-10-02

Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people

1944-10-11

Tuvinian People's Republic or formerly Tannu Tuva was annexed by the U.S.S.R

1944-11-27

4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed

1944-12-31

48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah

1945-03-10

US Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.

1945-06-06

"Free People" premieres in Amsterdam

1945-12-22

Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established

1946-01-11

Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator

1946-07-03

The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people

1947-07-03

252,288 people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC

1948-01-24

Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)

1948-05-01

North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea

1948-05-30

A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.

1948-09-01

Communist form North China People's Republic

1948-09-09

People's Democratic Republic of Korea proclaimed

1949-07-08

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa

1949-08-20

Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution

1949-09-21

Chinese Communist leaders proclaim People's Republic of China

1949-10-01

People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)

1949-10-02

USSR recognizes People's Republic of China

1949-12-17

Burma recognizes People's Republic of China

1949-12-30

India recognizes People's Republic of China

1950-03-27

Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China

1950-05-01

New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic of China

1950-05-02

Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China People's Republic

1950-09-19

UN reject membership of China's People Republic

1951-02-01

UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea

1952-10-08

Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.

1953-06-05

US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN

1954-09-03

The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy.

1954-09-20

1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution

1955-01-18

Battle of Yijiangshan Islands between Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the People's Liberation Army

1955-03-17

After Maurice Richard is suspended for the remainder of the season, riots break out in Montreal. 37 people are injured and over 100 are arrested. The following morning, Richard goes on the radio to ask citizens to stop vandalizing the city.

1956-01-01

A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.

1956-01-18

German DR forms own army (National People's Army)

1956-04-08

M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon

1956-05-16

Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China

1957-01-31

Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.

1957-02-17

A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri kills 72 people.

1957-02-27

Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals

1957-05-15

18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade

1957-12-05

Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.

1958-06-09

"Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1

1958-07-24

14 people named 1st life peers in UK

1958-08-23

Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

1959-04-27

Liu Sjau-chi elected president of China People's Republic

1959-04-27

The last Canadian missionary leaves the People's Republic of China.

1959-06-16

In South Africa, Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the outskirts, is met with violent resistance.

1959-06-23

A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim, Norway kills 34 people.

1959-09-26

Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing

1960-08-24

60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil

1961-06-13

"Billy Barnes People" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 8 performances

1961-06-17

"Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs

1962-08-12

1st time 2 people in space

1962-11-21

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

1962-12-17

Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places)

1963-02-08

1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)

1963-09-04

Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board.

1964-01-13

Hindu-Muslim rioting breaks out in the Indian city of Calcutta - now Kolkata - resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.

1964-10-12

1st time 3 people in space

1964-10-31

Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks

1964-12-15

1st time 4 people in space

1965-01-01

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul.

1965-04-20

People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid

1965-12-25

The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Taiz

1966-03-11

A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.

1966-06-08

Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.

1966-11-24

A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.

1966-12-07

A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.

1967-02-07

A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.

1967-10-27

4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

1967-10-27

NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen

1967-11-05

The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.

1967-11-30

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK

1967-12-11

People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established

1967-12-15

The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.

1968-02-26

Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission

1968-03-04

Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign

1968-05-27

The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.

1968-06-19

50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1968-06-20

Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and a number of other people, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squating' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

1968-10-09

About 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's Democracy—was formed

1968-10-16

The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland

1968-10-24

The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1968-11-02

A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary are unable to prevent it

1968-11-16

The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people

1968-12-20

The People's Democracy (PD) announce that its members will undertake a protest march from Belfast to Derry beginning 1 January 1969

1969-01-01

People's Democracy (PD) begin a 4-day march from Belfast across Northern Ireland to Derry, modeled on Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery march

1969-01-04

A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers

1969-01-14

An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.

1969-02-23

Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine

1969-03-29

Communist New People's Army found in Philippines

1969-04-17

People's Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old

1969-05-30

People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao

1969-06-23

Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; it is alleged that they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Province

1969-08-17

Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana)

1969-10-11

Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast

1969-10-12

1st time 5 people in space

1969-10-13

1st time 7 people in space

1969-12-31

Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi

1970-12-01

Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen

1971-01-22

John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Power to the People"

1971-04-14

President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

1971-04-17

People's Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman

1971-07-11

The Irish Republican Army set off a number of bombs in the centre of Belfast injuring a number of people

1971-07-15

Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China

1971-07-23

The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people

1971-08-09

Operation Demetrius (or Internment) is introduced in Northern Ireland allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial; the security forces arrested 342 people suspected of supporting paramilitaries

1971-08-11

4 people are shot dead in separate incidents in Belfast; three of them by the British Army, as violence continues following the introduction of Internment and Operation Demetrius

1971-09-01

The Irish Republican Army set off a series of bombs across Northern Ireland injuring a number of people

1971-09-06

William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a 'third force' to defend 'Ulster'

1971-11-23

China People's Republic seated in UN Security Council

1971-12-18

People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic

1971-12-25

Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson

1972-01-03

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) explodes a bomb in Callender Street, Belfast, which injures over 60 people

1972-02-06

A Civil Rights march is held in Newry, County Down; there is a very large turn-out for the march with many people attending to protest at the killings in Derry the previous Sunday

1972-02-22

Aldershot bombing: seven people killed by an Official IRA car bomb at Aldershot Barracks in England; thought to be in retaliation for Bloody Sunday

1972-02-22

The Official Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb at Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, killing seven people

1972-03-18

Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"

1972-03-20

Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded

1972-04-18

The Widgery Report on 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"

1972-07-07

7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland

1972-07-12

Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

1972-08-22

IRA bomb explodes prematurely at a customs post at Newry, County Down - 9 people, including three members of the IRA and five Catholic civilians, are killed in the explosion

1972-09-14

2 people are killed and 1 mortally wounded in a Ulster Volunteer Force bomb attack on the Imperial Hotel, Belfast

1972-09-29

Japan & People's Republic of China begin diplomatic relations

1972-10-30

The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document 'The Future of Northern Ireland'; the paper states Britain's commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom

1972-12-01

2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car bombs explode in the centre of Dublin, Republic of Ireland

1972-12-28

2 people are killed in a Loyalist bomb attack on the village of Belturbet, County Cavan, Republic of Ireland

1973-02-07

The United Loyalist Council hold a one-day strike to "re-establish some sort of Protestant or loyalist control over the affairs of the province"; loyalist paramilitaries forcibly tried to stop many people going to work and to close any businesses that had opened, North Ireland

1973-06-26

On Plesetsk Cosmodrome, USSR, 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.

1973-08-03

National People's party wins Dutch Antilles National elections

1973-11-17

US President Richard Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"

1974-01-05

An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.

1974-01-08

E Wilson Jr's musical "Let My People Come," premieres in NYC

1974-02-27

"People" magazine begins sales

1974-03-11

Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album

1974-04-03

The Super Outbreak : tornadoes in the east, south & midwest United States killed approximately 315 people, with nearly 5,500 injured

1974-05-15

Ma'alot massacre: A total of 31 people, including hostage takers, are killed.

1974-06-17

The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb the Houses of Parliament in London, injuring 11 people and causing extensive damage

1974-08-01

China's People's Liberation Army Navy, put into service ChangZheng 1, their first nuclear-powered submarine

1975-02-28

A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.

1975-03-03

1st People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

1975-05-06

3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska

1975-06-25

After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique.

1975-07-01

WEDway People Mover inaugurated

1975-09-28

The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people were taken as hostages, takes place in London.

1975-12-02

Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)

1975-12-03

Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed

1976-03-04

2nd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Carol Burnett win (TV)

1976-06-02

East Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation by Indonesia

1976-06-27

In South Africa, the National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness

1976-07-22

"Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances

1976-08-10

A Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer is shot dead by the British Army as he drove along a road in Belfast; his car then went out of control and killed 3 children, sparking a series of "peace rallies" throughout the month by a group that became known as 'Peace People'

1976-09-16

Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.

1976-10-02

"Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs

1976-10-06

Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.

1976-11-23

In Kozani, Greece, 50 people arere killed when an Olympic Airways flight crashed into mountainous terrain after being diverted to Kozani due to poor weather in Larissa

1977-01-19

World's largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 million people

1977-03-03

Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

1977-03-05

3rd People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and Telly Savalas & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

1977-03-07

Ali Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party wins elections

1977-04-14

Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license

1977-04-27

28 people are killed in the Guatemala City air disaster.

1977-05-01

36 people are killed in Taksim Square, Istanbul, during the Labour Day celebrations.

1977-12-11

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams, leaders of the group 'Peace People' (an organisation dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland) receive the Nobel Peace Prize

1978-02-20

4th People's Choice Awards: John Wayne & Barbra Streisand win (Motion Picture) and James Garner & Mary Tyler Moore win (TV)

1978-07-06

The Taunton sleeping car fire occurred in Taunton, Somerset killing twelve people.

1978-09-14

The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people

1978-10-31

People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution

1978-11-29

UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries

1979-01-06

The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day

1979-01-13

YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1979-02-03

"YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart

1979-03-07

5th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore & Carol Burnett win (TV)

1979-04-08

People's Republic of China joins IOC

1979-04-10

Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.

1979-04-18

"Real People" premieres on NBC TV

1979-05-19

"In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1979-09-21

Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed.

1979-11-03

Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC

1979-11-10

Mississauga train detrailment. In Mississauga Ontario a 106 car train derails and more than 200,000 people evacuated.

1980-03-08

6th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV)

1980-05-27

South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed

1980-06-23

South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails; the Council was part of Botha's plan to effect broad ranging constitutional changes which would allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political representation for African people.

1981-01-31

38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter

1981-02-14

Stardust Disaster: A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people

1981-02-23

People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips

1981-02-24

An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.

1981-03-09

7th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda & Goldie Hawn win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Carol Burnett win (TV)

1981-03-31

53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People", R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win

1981-05-23

Barcelona fascists take 200 people hostage

1981-09-07

Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV

1982-02-05

DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people

1982-03-10

8th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field & Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda & Barbara Mandrell win (TV)

1982-10-20

During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

1982-10-27

China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

1983-02-16

The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people in Australia's worst ever fires.

1983-03-01

Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people

1983-03-11

9th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV)

1983-03-31

Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people

1983-05-16

Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.

1983-12-09

Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"

1983-12-17

The Provisional IRA bombs Harrods department store in London, killing six people and injuring 90

1984-02-08

1st time 8 people in space

1984-03-15

10th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans win (TV)

1984-04-06

1st time 11 people in space

1984-07-12

A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people

1984-12-19

Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people

1985-03-12

11th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Joan Collins & Linda Evans win (TV)

1985-05-11

Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India

1985-07-19

The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

1986-02-22

Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

1986-02-26

People Power Revolution in the Philippines.

1986-03-13

12th People's Choice Awards: Sylvester Stallone & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby, Linda Evans win (TV)

1986-05-25

30,000,000 people watch "Live Aid", a benefit concert for the Ethiopian famine

1986-05-25

Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

1986-08-23

Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon

1986-10-12

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China

1987-03-14

13th People's Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)

1987-06-22

A bomb blast in a Johannesburg video-game arcade kills an unborn baby and injures ten people

1987-07-31

A rare, class F-4 tornado rips through Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people and causing $330 million in damage.

1987-08-19

Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.

1987-10-16

Great Storm of 1987: hurricane force winds to hit much of the South of England killing 23 people.

1987-11-18

31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station

1988-01-02

Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique's western border, killing at least 22 people and injuring 71.

1988-03-13

14th People's Choice Awards: Michael Douglas & Glenn Close win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV)

1988-03-20

Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

1988-07-31

32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.

1989-03-12

15th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)

1989-09-20

USAir overshoots runway at LaGuardia Airport in NYC, 2 people die

1990-03-11

16th People's Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)

1990-04-08

Norwegian ferry Scandinavian Star catches fire; 159 people die

1990-08-15

At least 150 people die in clashes between the African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party, South Africa

1990-09-27

Gunman holds 33 people (killing 1) hostage in Berkeley Calif

1990-11-13

In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in the Aramoana Massacre.

1990-12-02

1st time 12 people in space

1991-01-22

Gulf War. Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.

1991-02-11

UNPO, Unrepresented Nations & People Org forms in Hague Neth

1991-03-11

17th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Kirstie Alley win (TV)

1991-03-30

Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)

1991-05-25

"People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35

1991-09-28

"Shiny Happy People" by REM peaks to #10

1991-12-01

Ukrainian people vote for independence

1992-02-06

The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.

1992-03-17

18th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Candice Bergen win (TV)

1992-05-13

Li Hongzhi gave the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.

1992-07-11

Pres candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"

1992-07-27

Nelson Mandela says that a general strike will go ahead; the aim of the mass protest was the peaceful removal of President De Klerk from power, the immediate transfer of political power to the people and free and fair elections to a constituent assembly

1992-08-24

Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.

1993-01-25

Five people were shot outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia resulting in two murders.

1993-02-10

"Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people

1993-03-17

19th People's Choice Awards: Kevin Costner & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)

1993-03-27

Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.

1993-05-18

Danish people vote in favor of ratifying the Maastricht Treaty

1993-10-23

Seven people killed by IRA bomb attack in Belfast

1993-10-31

25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match

1993-12-07

The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

1994-03-08

20th People's Choice Awards: Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne Arnold win (TV)

1994-04-19

Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

1994-05-08

President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people

1994-06-11

Drunken police officer shoots 7 people dead in Falun, Sweden

1994-07-03

The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes.

1994-07-05

US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people back

1994-09-28

909 people die when an Estonian ferry capsizes & sinks in Baltic sea

1995-02-15

Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

1995-02-17

Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the Long Island Rail Road in NY

1995-03-05

21st People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Jodie Foster win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Roseanne win (TV)

1995-03-14

1st time 13 people in space

1995-05-28

Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people

1995-08-06

Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb

1995-11-10

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.

1996-01-06

Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44)

1996-03-10

22nd People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Demi Moore win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Candice Bergen win (TV)

1996-05-13

Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.

1996-07-17

230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC

1996-08-06

Korean Air Flight 801 crashes in the United States territory of Guam, killing 228 people

1996-10-16

Eighty-four people are killed and more than 180 injured as 47,000 football fans attempt to squeeze into the 36,000-seat Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

1997-01-03

The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.

1997-01-12

23rd People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Sandra Bullock win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV)

1997-03-13

The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.

1997-06-16

The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria; 50 people are killed.

1997-07-01

Britain hands Hong Kong and the New Territories - ceded in 1841 - to the People's Republic of China.

1997-07-27

Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.

1997-08-20

Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.

1997-08-26

Beni-Ali massacre in Algeria; 60-100 people killed.

1997-11-16

After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

1997-11-17

In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).

1997-12-24

The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.

1997-12-30

In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people are killed from four villages.

1998-01-11

Sidi-Hamed massacre takes place in Algeria, over 100 people are killed.

1998-01-11

24th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV)

1998-01-25

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth, killing 8 people injuring 25 others.

1998-01-26

President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

1998-03-24

Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.

1998-03-24

A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.

1998-03-26

Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2.

1998-08-15

Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles, killed 29 people and injured about 220

1998-08-17

Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. On the same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about his relationship.

1998-09-02

Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.

1998-10-11

A Congo Airlines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40 people.

1998-11-28

The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.

1998-12-08

Tadjena massacre: 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.

1999-01-04

Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.

1999-01-10

25th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Sandra Bullock win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Helen Hunt win (TV)

1999-02-24

A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People's Republic of China, killing 61.

1999-03-24

Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.

1999-04-14

NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.

1999-04-20

Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.

1999-05-03

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado was one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak.

1999-05-25

The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.

1999-07-20

Falun Gong is banned in the People's Republic of China, and a large scale crackdown of the practice is launched.

1999-08-15

Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.

1999-09-07

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.

1999-09-13

Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.

1999-09-21

Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.

1999-10-05

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

1999-11-09

TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident.

1999-11-19

Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

1999-12-26

Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar).

2000-01-09

26th People's Choice Awards: Harrison Ford & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Calista Flockhart win (TV)

2000-01-31

A fight between Ray Lewis and his companions and another group of people results in the stabbing deaths of Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar, resulting in the indictment of Lewis 11 days on murder and aggravated-assault charges

2000-05-13

In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.

2000-07-09

Police fired tear gas at fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a stampede that killed twelve people in Harare, Zimbabwe

2000-08-27

540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.

2000-11-15

A chartered Antonov AN-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people

2001-01-07

27th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Drew Carey & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

2001-01-13

Earthquake measuring magnitude 7.6 strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people

2001-02-28

Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.

2001-03-04

A massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.

2001-03-04

Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.

2001-04-11

The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People's Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter is released.

2001-07-03

A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.

2001-08-03

The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).

2001-09-11

Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crashes into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both & death of 2,752 people

2001-09-11

Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the death of 125 people

2001-09-11

Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people onboard

2001-09-12

Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed.

2001-09-20

In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

2001-09-21

AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people

2001-10-04

Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

2001-10-19

SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

2001-12-11

The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.

2001-12-13

the Indian Parliament Sansad is attacked by terrorists. 15 people are killed, including all the terrorists.

2001-12-27

The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade relations with the United States.

2002-01-13

28th People's Choice Awards: Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Kelsey Grammer, Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

2002-01-17

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

2002-03-27

Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

2002-04-09

Funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people line the streets

2002-05-07

A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.

2002-05-25

A train crash in Tenga, Mozambique kills 197 people.

2002-05-25

China Airlines Flight 611: A Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in mid-air and plunges into the Taiwan Strait killing 225 people.

2002-06-22

An earthquake in western Iran measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale kills more than 261 people.

2002-10-29

Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.

2002-11-06

12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.

2002-11-16

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people

2002-11-22

In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.

2003-01-12

29th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

2003-01-18

A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.

2003-02-15

An estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to protest against the looming war with Iraq

2003-02-18

Nearly 200 people die in the Daegu subway fire in South Korea.

2003-03-15

Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China.

2003-05-16

In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.

2003-05-21

An earthquake hits northern Algeria killing more than 2,000 people.

2003-06-01

The People's Republic of China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges Dam.

2003-07-08

Sudan Airways Flight 39, with 116 people on board, crashes in Sudan; the only survivor is a two-year-old boy who subsequently dies as a result of his injuries.

2003-07-10

A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong.

2003-07-20

France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice.

2003-07-27

A group of 321 Filipino armed soldiers called "Magdalo" took over the Oakwood Premier Ayala Center in Makati City to show the Filipino people the alleged corruption of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration

2003-08-11

A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

2003-08-28

An electricity blackout cuts off power to around 500,000 people living in south east England and brings 60% of London's underground rail network to a halt.

2003-10-15

The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi collides with a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.

2003-10-26

The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes 250,000 acres (1,000 km²), and destroys 2,200 homes around San Diego.

2003-11-09

A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.

2003-11-12

Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.

2003-12-09

A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more.

2004-01-03

Flight 604, a Boeing 737 owned by Flash Airlines, an Egyptian airliner, plunges into the Red Sea, killing all 148 people on board.

2004-01-11

30th People's Choice Awards: Mel Gibson & Julia Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Aniston win (TV)

2004-02-01

251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

2004-02-05

Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.

2004-02-14

In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.

2004-02-18

Up to 295 people, including nearly 200 rescue workers, die near Neyshabur in Iran when a run-away freight train carrying sulfur, petrol and fertiliser catches fire and explodes.

2004-03-19

A truck and a bus crash head-on in Äänekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.

2004-04-22

Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.

2004-05-23

Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.

2004-08-01

A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 in Asunción, Paraguay.

2004-09-03

The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

2004-09-09

2004 A bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people.

2004-09-21

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) People's War and the Maoist Communist Centre of India merge to form the Communist Party of India (Maoist).

2004-10-23

A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.

2004-10-24

10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports.

2004-11-26

Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.

2004-12-26

A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

2005-01-09

The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.

2005-01-09

31st People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Julia Roberts win (Motion Picture) and Matt LeBlanc & Marg Helgenberger win (TV)

2005-01-10

A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

2005-02-14

Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.

2005-03-26

The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.

2005-07-23

Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

2005-07-28

A tornado touches down in a residential area in south Birmingham, England, causing £4,000,000 worth of damages and injuring 39 people.

2005-08-12

An F2 tornado strikes the coal mining town of Wright, Wyoming, destroying nearly 100 homes and killing two people.

2005-08-18

Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

2005-08-31

A stampede on Al-Aaimmah bridge in Baghdad kills 1,199 people.

2005-09-05

Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.

2005-10-01

Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.

2005-10-02

The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.

2005-11-09

Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.

2005-12-04

Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.

2005-12-23

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 217 from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Aktau, Kazakhstan crashes shortly after takeoff killing 23 people.

2005-12-23

Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.

2006-01-10

32nd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Motion Picture) and Ray Romano & Jennifer Garner win (TV)

2006-01-19

Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously.

2006-03-10

Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.

2006-03-25

Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

2006-04-02

Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.

2006-04-22

243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

2006-05-03

Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea, killing 113 people on board, with no survivors.

2006-05-21

The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.

2006-05-26

The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless.

2006-05-27

The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600 people.

2006-07-01

The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.

2006-07-09

At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.

2006-07-10

Pakistan International Flight PK-688 crashes in Multan, Pakistan shortly after takeoff, killing all 45 people on board.

2006-07-11

209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.

2007-01-01

Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.

2007-01-09

33rd People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Jennifer Aniston win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Eva Longoria win (TV)

2007-01-18

The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England.

2007-02-03

A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

2007-02-12

A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.

2007-03-31

In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.

2007-04-11

2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.

2007-04-16

Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

2007-05-12

2007 Karachi riots, which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city.

2007-06-08

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.

2007-07-16

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.

2007-08-14

The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.

2007-09-16

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

2007-10-19

Bomb explosion rocks Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, the Philippines killing 11, injuring more than 100 people.

2007-11-07

Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

2007-11-13

An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.

2007-11-15

A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

2007-11-23

MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.

2007-11-30

Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

2007-12-05

Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

2007-12-11

Two car bombs go off at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.

2007-12-19

The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.

2007-12-31

Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.

2008-01-08

34th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Reese Witherspoon win (Movie Star) and Patrick Dempsey & Katherine Heigl win (TV)

2008-05-02

Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Myanmar killing over 130,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.

2008-05-06

Chaiten Volcano erupts in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people.

2008-05-12

2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people

2008-06-25

Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.

2008-08-20

Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. 146 people are killed in the crash, 8 more die afterwards. Only 18 people survive.

2008-09-25

The "Celtic Tiger" slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter; its last recession in 1983 saw thousands of people leave Ireland to seek work overseas

2008-11-25

A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one

2008-11-26

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

2009-01-07

35th People's Choice Awards: Will Smith & Reese Witherspoon win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Christina Applegate win (TV)

2009-01-31

In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

2009-02-12

Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people.

2009-02-25

BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.

2009-03-11

Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.

2009-03-27

Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.

2009-06-30

Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor

2009-07-05

Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China

2009-07-17

Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.

2009-10-02

The economic crisis in Ireland is considered to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London in 20 years, it is reported today

2009-11-25

Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.

2009-12-28

43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims were observing the Day of Ashura.

2010-01-06

36th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Katherine Heigl win (TV Drama)

2010-01-17

A dragon boat from Chung Ling High School capsizes and collides with a tugboat amid strong currents in Penang, Malaysia, killing 6 people and injuring 12

2010-01-25

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after take-off from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on-board.

2010-04-10

Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.

2010-04-12

A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.

2010-07-02

Oil tanker truck explosion in South Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, kills at least 230 people

2011-01-06

37th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Kristen Stewart win (Movie Star) and Hugh Laurie & Lisa Edelstein win (TV Drama)

2011-02-22

An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people

2011-03-11

An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

2011-04-01

After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

2011-04-09

A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands.

2011-04-25

At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak.

2011-05-02

The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.

2011-05-22

An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950.

2011-09-07

Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team

2011-10-23

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

2011-11-25

Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.

2012-01-11

38th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Emma Stone win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Nina Dobrev win (TV Drama)

2012-02-01

At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said

2012-02-02

Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)

2012-02-02

MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)

2012-02-04

Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland

2012-02-19

44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels

2012-02-25

Al Qaeda suicide bombing kills at least 26 people in Mukalla, Yemen

2012-03-02

Tornadoes kill at least 27 people in the American states of Indiana and Kentucky

2012-03-03

Two trains crash in Szczekociny, Poland, with 16 people dead and up to 50 injured

2012-03-04

Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo

2012-03-12

100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan

2012-03-12

45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs

2012-03-13

19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia

2012-03-13

110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh

2012-03-13

28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland

2012-03-16

Turkish NATO helicopter crashes into a house killing ten people in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan

2012-03-20

50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq

2012-03-22

Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education

2012-03-31

Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated

2012-04-01

Plane crash in Western Siberia kills at least 31 people (UTair Aviation ATR-72)

2012-04-02

Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3

2012-04-04

Somalia's National Theatre is struck by a suicide bomber killing ten people including the presidents of the Somali Olympic Committee and Football Federation

2012-04-05

Severe storms in Argentina kill 14 people

2012-04-15

US Secret Service inappropriate conduct scandal begins with at least 11 people implicated

2012-04-16

At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire

2012-04-20

Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people

2012-04-20

40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico

2012-04-21

Two trains in Sloterdijk, Netherlands, injure 117 people in a head on collision

2012-04-26

70 people are killed by rocket attacks by the Syrian Army on the city of Hama

2012-04-27

Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people

2012-04-28

Tent collapse in St Louis, Missouri, kills one and injures 110 people

2012-04-30

Overloaded ferry in the Brahmaputra River, India, killing 103 people

2012-05-05

17 people are killed and 47 missing after a flash flood in Nepal

2012-05-09

A Russian passenger jet disappears with 45 people on board

2012-05-10

Two bombings in Damascus, Syria, kill 55 people and injure 370

2012-05-13

Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge, 3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people

2012-05-21

120 people are killed and 350 injured by a suicide bomb in Sana'a, Yemen

2012-05-21

13 people are killed and 22 people injured after a bus falls 80 metres off a cliff in Albania

2012-05-22

14 people die and 30 are injured in train collision in India

2012-05-25

Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province

2012-05-29

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy

2012-06-03

Suicide car bombing kills 15 and inures 42 people in Bauchi, Nigeria

2012-06-03

Plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, kills all 152 passengers and 40 people on the ground

2012-06-04

Car bomb kills 26 and injures 190 people in central Baghdad, Iraq

2012-06-04

Wedding party bus crashes killing 23 and injuring 60 people in Islamabad, Pakistan

2012-06-07

A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people

2012-06-08

A bus bombing in Pakistan kills 18 and injures 35 people

2012-06-09

Burma (Myanmar) riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses

2012-06-10

A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister

2012-06-11

Five people are killed after an ambulance hits a roadside bomb in Afghanistan

2012-06-11

23 people are killed after two villages are attacked in northern Nigeria

2012-06-11

Two earthquakes in Afghanistan trigger landslides that kill more than 80 people

2012-06-13

A series of bombings across Iraq kill 93 and wound 300 people

2012-06-14

An explosion at an Indian steel plant kills 11 people and severely injures 16

2012-06-16

32 people are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad

2012-06-16

30 people are killed and 15 injured after a bus falls into a gorge in Osmanabad, India

2012-06-18

15 people are killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack in Baquba, Iraq

2012-06-20

Western Libyan tribal clashes kill 105 people and injure 500

2012-06-22

Two Baghdad market bombings kill 14 people and injure 106

2012-06-28

A series of car bombs in Iraq kills 14 and injures 50 people

2012-06-29

Three bombs in Balid, Iraq, kill 6 people and injure 45

2012-06-30

30 people attending a funeral in Zamalka, Syria, are killed on a day that saw 83 civilian deaths

2012-07-01

17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya

2012-07-02

Monsoon rain in East India kills at least 79 people and leaves 2.2 million homeless

2012-07-03

Truck bombing kills 25 people and wounds 40 in Diwaniyah, Iraq

2012-07-06

Gunmen kill 18 people in Turbat, Pakistan

2012-07-07

Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people

2012-07-12

200 people are killed by the Syrian army in Tremseh

2012-07-12

90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria

2012-07-13

19-30 people are killed after a train collides with a truck in Malelane, South Africa

2012-07-14

Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern Afghanistan

2012-07-17

17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2012-07-18

14 people are killed after a bomb explosion at Pakistan's Orakzai Agency

2012-07-18

24 people are killed after a ferry sinks off the coast of Zanzibar

2012-07-18

Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

2012-07-20

12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,

2012-07-20

21 people are killed and 29 injured in a bus accident in Nayarit, Mexico

2012-07-22

Car bombs kills 20 people and injures 80 in Madaen and Najaf, Iraq

2012-07-22

At least 77 people are killed by torrential rain in Beijing, China

2012-07-23

A series of attacks across Iraq kill 103 people

2012-07-26

At least 200 people are killed in a day of violence in Syria

2012-07-26

Insurgent attack kills 19 people and destroys a helicopter at Baqubah, Iraq

2012-07-26

North Korea is hit by Tropical Storm Khanun, killing 88 people and leaving 60,000 people homeless

2012-07-28

18 people are killed and 11 injured in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia

2012-07-29

Tropical Storm Khanun kills 88 people and leaves 60,000 homeless in North Korea

2012-07-30

Train fire kills 32 and injures 27 people in Andhra Pradesh, India

2012-07-31

Two car bombs kill 21 people in Baghdad, Iraq

2012-07-31

A second power grid failure in two days leaves 670 million people in India without power

2012-08-01

Typhoon Saola kills elven people and displaces over 150,000 in the Philippines

2012-08-02

23 people are killed after two blasts in a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan

2012-08-04

45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen

2012-08-05

Gunman opens fire on Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin killing six people and committing suicide

2012-08-05

19 people are killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakk

2012-08-07

21 people are killed by a gun attack in a church in Okene, Nigeria

2012-08-07

Heavy rain forces 20,000 people to flee their homes in Manila, Phillipines

2012-08-07

200,000 people are evacuated from Shanghai in anticipation of Typhoon Haikui

2012-08-08

16 people are killed from flooding from heavy rain in Manilla, Philippines

2012-08-11

153 people are killed and 1300 injured in Tabriz and Ahar, Iran after two earthquakes of up to 6.4 magnitude

2012-08-11

13 people are killed and 15 injured by a lightning strike at a Mosque in Bangladesh

2012-08-14

46 people are killed and 80 injured after a series of suicide bombings in Afghanistan

2012-08-16

113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq

2012-08-16

South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people

2012-08-18

Al-Qaeda militants kill 14 people in an attack in Aden, Yemen

2012-08-19

32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan

2012-08-20

20 people are killed in a riot in Caracas, Venezuela

2012-08-21

20 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo die from the Ebola virus

2012-08-22

47 people are killed in the Syrian civil war

2012-08-22

48 people are killed in Kenyan tribal wars between the Pokomo and Orma

2012-08-23

Four people are killed and 28 injured in a hot air ballooning accident in Slovenia

2012-08-24

Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan

2012-08-24

Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people

2012-08-25

330 people are killed as a result of conflict in the Syrian civil war

2012-08-25

39 people are killed and 80 are injured after a gas leak in North Venezuelan refinery

2012-08-25

85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar

2012-08-26

36 people are killed in a bus crash in Yan'an, China

2012-08-30

Cholera outbreak kills 229 people in Sierra Leone

2012-09-01

Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan's Sayed Abad district

2012-09-01

US drone strike kills 5 people in North Waristan, Pakistan

2012-09-02

15 people are killed by a car bomb attack at a refugee camp in Sbeineh, Palestine

2012-09-03

3 people are killed and 19 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan

2012-09-03

Typhoon Bolaven kills 48 people in North Korea

2012-09-04

42 people are killed and 25 injured as a passenger bus falls down a ravine in Morocco

2012-09-04

25 people are killed at a funeral suicide bombing in Nangarhar, Pakistan

2012-09-05

54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu

2012-09-07

US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia

2012-09-07

64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China

2012-09-08

6 people are killed by a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan

2012-09-08

8 people are killed after a tractor is hit by a train in Romania

2012-09-09

17 people are killed and at least 40 injured after two car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria

2012-09-09

100 people are killed and 350 injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq

2012-09-10

16 people are killed by a suicide bombing n Kunduz, Afghanistan

2012-09-10

29 people are killed by floods and heavy rain in Vietnam

2012-09-11

The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador

2012-09-11

29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal

2012-09-12

314 people are killed in factory fire in Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan

2012-09-13

19 people are killed after a freight elevator crashes from 100 meters in Wuhan, China

2012-09-13

33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala's Volcano of Fire erupts

2012-09-14

21 people are killed after a ferry sank in Indonesia

2012-09-16

14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey

2012-09-17

13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia

2012-09-18

26 people are killed in a fire in a Pemex gas facility in Reynosa, Mexico

2012-09-19

9 people are killed and 20 wounded by a car bombing in Peshawar, Afghanistan

2012-09-20

50 people are killed and dozens injured after a gas station is bombed by the Syrian Army in Ain Issa

2012-09-20

14 people are killed in a cafe suicide bominbg in Somalia

2012-09-28

Aircraft crash kills 16 people in Kathmandu, Nepal

2012-09-30

Car bomb blasts kill at least 32 people across Iraq

2012-10-01

36 people are killed in a ferry collision in Hong Kong

2012-10-02

10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines

2012-10-03

34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria

2012-10-04

19 people are killed after being buried by a landslide in Yunnan, China

2012-10-07

13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum

2012-10-08

35 people are killed by a Nigerian military bomb struck a convoy in Maiduguri

2012-10-09

25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel

2012-10-11

A further 83 people are killed throughout Syria by the Syrian army

2012-10-13

15 people are killed by a market suicide bombing in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan

2012-10-14

20 people are gunned down in a mosque in Dogo Dawa, Nigeria

2012-10-18

Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan

2012-10-19

8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon

2012-10-23

12 people are killed and 40 are injured in a hospital fire in Tainan, Taiwan

2012-10-24

3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California

2012-10-25

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage

2012-10-26

64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes

2012-10-26

41 people are killed and 50 injured by a suicide bombing of a mosque in Maymana, Afghanistan

2012-10-26

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in the Bahamas killing 2 people and causing over $300 million in damage

2012-10-27

46 people are killed and 123 injured in Iraq after a series of attacks and bombs

2012-10-28

Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence

2012-10-28

15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings

2012-11-01

22 people are killed and 111 injured after a fuel tanker explodes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

2012-11-01

Yellow fever kills 32 people and sickens 50 more in Darfur, Sudan

2012-11-05

Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million

2012-11-06

5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California

2012-11-07

48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala

2012-11-09

25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma

2012-11-09

An Algerian C-295 military transport plane crashes near Avignon, France, killing 6 people

2012-11-10

27 people are killed and dozens injured in a prison conflict in Colombo, Sri Lanka

2012-11-10

17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey

2012-11-11

12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma

2012-11-15

At least 95 people are killed in Syrian conflicts

2012-11-22

2 people are killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog in Texas

2012-11-22

6 attacks across Pakistan kill 37 people and injure 92

2012-11-25

11 people are killed and 30 are wounded by twin car bombs hitting a Protestant church in Nigeria

2012-11-25

16 people are killed and 44 injured after a wedding party bus plunges 300 ft down a gorge in India

2012-11-26

10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground

2012-11-27

29 people are killed and 126 are wounded by 8 car bombings across Iraq

2012-11-28

54 people are killed and 120 are injured by two car bombs in Damascus, Syria

2012-11-29

30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq

2012-11-30

At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo

2012-12-01

8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia

2012-12-02

9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan

2012-12-04

29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria

2012-12-04

Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines killing at least 81 people

2012-12-05

8 people are killed and 12 injured by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake in South Korea

2012-12-06

7 people are killed and 770 injured during Egyptian protests

2012-12-09

13 people are killed and 10 are injured after a bus rolls of a cliff and falls 100 meters in Taiwan

2012-12-09

6 people are killed and 41 are injured after a bus plunges 30 metres down a gorge in Guatemala

2012-12-10

11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China

2012-12-10

9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia

2012-12-11

125 people are killed and 200 are injured by bombings in Aqrab, Syria

2012-12-13

A car bombing in Qatana, outside Damascus, kills 16 people and injures 12

2012-12-14

28 people, including 20 children, are shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut

2012-12-16

4 people are killed after Cyclone Evan strikes Fiji

2012-12-17

17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan

2012-12-17

18 people drown after an overloaded boat sinks in Cotonou, Benin

2012-12-18

4 people are killed and 11 are injured after an apartment block collapses in Palermo, Italy

2012-12-18

The Seleka rebel coalition kills 15 people during its capture of Bria, the Central African Republic

2012-12-21

39 people are killed in violent clashes in Kenya

2012-12-22

6 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus

2012-12-22

8 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan

2012-12-25

27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan

2012-12-25

8 people are killed and thousands left homeless after two fires strike Manila, Philippines

2012-12-28

13 people are killed and 19 are injured after a bus plunges into a river in western Nepal

2012-12-29

200 people are executed by the Syrian army in Homs

2012-12-29

5 people are killed in a Tupolev Tu-204 plane crash in Moscow

2012-12-30

19 people are killed by a suicide bomber in Balochistan, Pakistan

2012-12-30

9 people are killed and 26 are injured in a tour bus crash off interstate 84, Oregon, US

2013-01-01

60 people are killed and 200 are injured after a stampede following New Year celebrations

2013-01-01

18 people are killed and 16 wounded after a bus and mini-bus collision in Thiès, Senegal

2013-01-01

10 people are killed and 120 are injured in a stampede in Luanda, Angola

2013-01-04

9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria

2013-01-04

8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines

2013-01-04

6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy

2013-01-04

3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida

2013-01-06

10 people are killed by a US drone attack in South Waziristan, Pakistan

2013-01-10

81 people are killed and 120 are wounded by a twin bombing in Quetta, Pakistan

2013-01-10

39th People's Choice Awards: Robert Downey, Jr & Jennifer Lawrence win (Movie Star) and Nathan Fillion & Ellen Pompeo win (TV Drama)

2013-01-11

46 people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China

2013-01-11

29 people are killed and 12 are injured after a bus veers off a mountain road in Doti, Nepal

2013-01-15

83 people are killed and 150 are injured in a rocket attack on Aleppo University, Syria

2013-01-16

24 people are dead after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria

2013-01-16

25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria, Egypt

2013-01-17

106 people are massacred by Syrian army forces in Homs

2013-01-17

33 people are killed by a series of bombs across Iraq

2013-01-17

4 people are killed and over 2,000 are evacuated after a massive flood hits Jakarta, Indonesia

2013-01-17

8 people are killed in a plane crash in Chiapas, Mexico

2013-01-21

30 people are killed in a car bombing in Salamiyeh, Syria

2013-01-21

41 people are injured after two trains collide in Vienna, Austria

2013-01-21

18 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus falls down a ravine in Yungas, Bolivia

2013-01-22

A series of Baghdad car bombings kill 17 people

2013-01-23

23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq

2013-01-23

18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria

2013-01-24

17 people are killed and 34 are injured in a bus crash in Taperas, Bolivia

2013-01-25

6 civilians and 1 police officer are shot dead and 456 people are injured during a nationwide protest against Egypt's 2011 revolution

2013-01-25

8 people are killed by 2 car bombs in Golan Heights, Syria

2013-01-25

50 people are killed and 90 are injured in a prison riot in Barquisimeto, Venezuela

2013-01-26

30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt

2013-01-26

10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan

2013-01-27

In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured

2013-01-27

11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal

2013-01-27

7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur Sports Facility, Turkey

2013-01-28

10 people are killed and 11 are injured in after a freight train collides with a bus in Heihe City, China

2013-01-28

20 people are killed after a Bombardier CRJ200 airliner crashes outside Almaty, Kazakhstan

2013-01-31

300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa

2013-01-31

36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico

2013-02-01

The Nigerian Army bombs a Boko Haram camp, killing 18 people

2013-02-01

21 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a market suicide bombing in Hangu, Pakistan

2013-02-01

26 people are killed after a fireworks truck explodes and causes a highway to collapse in Henan, China

2013-02-02

23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan

2013-02-02

18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province, China

2013-02-03

33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq

2013-02-04

20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria

2013-02-04

22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji, Iraq

2013-02-04

8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California

2013-02-04

22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

2013-02-06

A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people

2013-02-07

Eugène Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People is vandalized at the Louvre-Lens museum

2013-02-08

16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan

2013-02-08

100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka

2013-02-08

29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings

2013-02-08

A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people

2013-02-09

5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway

2013-02-10

5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands

2013-02-10

36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India

2013-02-15

Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia

2013-02-16

84 people are killed and 190 are injured after a market bombing in Hazara Town, Pakistan

2013-02-17

37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings

2013-02-17

5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic

2013-02-18

15 people are killed by flooding and landslides in Indonesia

2013-02-19

12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a

2013-02-21

83 people are killed and 250 are injured in a series of bombing attacks in Damascus, Syria

2013-02-21

21 people are killed and 54 are injured in a bombing in Hyderabad, India

2013-02-22

29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo

2013-02-23

51 people are killed and 62 are injured in conflict between rival tribes in Darfur, Sudan

2013-02-27

20 people are killed in a market fire in Calcutta, India

2013-02-28

28 people are killed and 60 are injured after a series of bombings across Baghdad, Iraq

2013-02-28

35 people are killed in violent demonstrations across Bangladesh

2013-03-01

14 people are killed in the Lahad Datu standoff between Malaysian government and rebel forces

2013-03-03

45 people are killed by a bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan

2013-03-06

9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru

2013-03-09

19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan

2013-03-13

10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan

2013-03-13

An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil

2013-03-14

25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-03-14

7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico

2013-03-14

Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China

2013-03-15

24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa

2013-03-15

16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico

2013-03-17

10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq

2013-03-18

Explosions kill 25 people at a bus park in Kano, Nigeria

2013-03-18

A car bombing kills 10 people and injures 20 in Mogadishu, Somalia

2013-03-18

98 people are killed and 248 are injured across Iraq from a series of bombings and shootings

2013-03-19

27 people are killed and 14 are injured in a bus crash in Maharashtra, India

2013-03-19

16 people are killed by mudslides in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013-03-21

12 people are killed and 30 are injured by a car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-03-21

42 people are killed and 84 are injured by a bombing in a mosque in Damascus, Syria

2013-03-21

At least 45 people drown and 60 are missing after a Nigerian boat sinks off the shore of Gabon

2013-03-21

24 people are killed and 100 are injured by a tornado and hail storm in southern China

2013-03-21

A barter dispute loses control and results in 10 people being killed, 20 injured, and 4 mosques being burnt to the ground in Myanmar

2013-03-22

37 people are killed and 200 are injured in a refugee camp fire in Ban Mae, Thailand

2013-03-23

20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh

2013-03-24

25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria

2013-03-27

12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize

2013-03-29

10 people are killed and 31 are injured by a blast outside the US consulate in Pakistan

2013-03-29

23 people are killed by coordinated bombings on Shiite mosques in Iraq

2013-03-29

36 people are killed after a 16-floor building collapses in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2013-03-31

11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis, Mauritius

2013-03-31

2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China

2013-04-01

9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq

2013-04-02

7 people are killed in an attack on a power plant in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-04-02

13 people are killed in a quarry accident, in Arusha, Tanzania

2013-04-03

46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan

2013-04-03

50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina

2013-04-03

24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papa New Guinea

2013-04-04

74 people are killed after an illegally constructed building collapses in Thane, India

2013-04-04

9 people have been killed on an axe-murdering rampage in Chhattisgarh state, India

2013-04-05

60 people are killed in Nigeria after a bus collides with an oil tanker

2013-04-06

22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq

2013-04-06

11 people are killed in an attack on a village in Midlu, Nigeria

2013-04-07

15 people, including 9 children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force

2013-04-08

15 people are killed and 53 are wounded by a car bombing in Damascus

2013-04-08

163 people are killed and 50,000 are displaced after tribal violence erupts in Darfur, Sudan

2013-04-09

37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran

2013-04-09

13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia

2013-04-11

14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico

2013-04-11

57 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Daraa Governorate, Syria

2013-04-12

11 people are killed and 30 are injured in mosque attacks across Iraq

2013-04-13

8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-04-14

20 people are killed in attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia

2013-04-14

33 people are killed after a bus tumbled off a cliff in Trujillo, Peru

2013-04-14

11 people are killed and 50 are injured after a hotel fire in Xiangyang, China

2013-04-15

3 people are killed and 183 are injured after two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon

2013-04-15

33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq

2013-04-16

37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran

2013-04-16

16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana

2013-04-17

5 people are killed in Wana, Pakistan, by a United States drone attack

2013-04-17

15 people are killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas

2013-04-18

27 people are killed and 65 are injured in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-04-20

193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China

2013-04-21

185 people are killed in a conflict between Islamic extremists and the Nigerian military

2013-04-22

6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia

2013-04-23

28 people are killed and 70 are injured during clashes between police and Sunni Muslims in Hawija, Iraq

2013-04-23

21 people are killed during violent unrest in Xinjiang, China

2013-04-24

33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan

2013-04-24

256 people are killed and 1,000 are injured after a building collapses Savar Upazila, Bangladesh

2013-04-25

38 people are killed in a psychiatric hospital fire in Ramensky, Russia

2013-04-26

30 people are killed after a bus crashes following a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan

2013-04-27

10 people are killed and 25 are injured after a bomb attack in Karachi, Pakistan

2013-04-28

8 people are killed and dozens are injured after Taliban attacks on election candidates in Pakistan

2013-04-28

3 people are killed and 14 are injured after a gas explosions causes a building to collapse in Reims, France

2013-04-29

7 people are killed after a Boeing 747 crashes in Bagram, Afghanistan

2013-04-30

13 people are killed after a bomb explodes in Damascus

2013-05-01

Insurgents kill 6 people in Pattani, Thailand

2013-05-01

15 people are killed by multiple bomb attacks across Iraq

2013-05-01

16 people are killed in a flash flood in Saudi Arabia

2013-05-02

100 people are killed by the Syrian Army in a raid on al-Bayda, Baniyas

2013-05-04

77 people are killed by the Syrian Army in Baniyas

2013-05-04

39 people are killed at a funeral in Wukari, Nigeria

2013-05-05

10 people are killed in a church attack in Njilan, Nigeria

2013-05-05

5 people are killed after a limousine catches fire in Hayward, California

2013-05-06

10 people are killed and 26 people are injured after a wave of attacks across Iraq

2013-05-06

13 people are killed in clashes with Bangladeshi police in Dhaka

2013-05-06

15 people are killed and 50 are injured after a bomb detonates at a political rally in Pakistan

2013-05-07

55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

2013-05-07

4 people are killed after the Mayon Volcano erupts in the Philippines

2013-05-07

20 people are killed and 36 are injured after a gas tanker explodes in Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico

2013-05-07

8 people are killed and a dozen are injured after bear attacks in Orissa, India

2013-05-07

Jolly Nero, an Italian cargo ship, crashes into the port of Genoa, killing seven people

2013-05-08

33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India

2013-05-11

43 people are killed in two car bombings in Reyhanlı, Turkey

2013-05-17

90 people are killed and 200 are injured after a series of bombings across Iraq

2013-05-20

133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq

2013-05-20

2 people are killed and 20 are injured after a hot air balloon crashes in Cappadocia, Turkey

2013-05-27

75 people are killed and 200 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq

2013-06-03

20 people, including 10 children, are killed by a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan

2013-06-03

119 people are killed in a poultry farm fire in Jilin Province, China

2013-06-05

44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India

2013-06-07

42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China

2013-06-07

18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India

2013-06-10

70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq

2013-06-14

Massive flooding occurs in northern India killing up to 10,000 people

2013-06-16

20 people are killed by a series of car bombings across Iraq

2013-06-18

31 people are killed and 60 are injured by two suicide bombings in al-Qahira, Baghdad

2013-06-18

27 people are killed and 30 are injured by a suicide bomb in Sher Garh, Pakistan

2013-06-19

48 people are killed by armed bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria

2013-06-21

15 people are killed and 20 are injured after a suicide bomber attacks a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-06-25

37 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in the Central African Republic

2013-06-26

20 people are killed after a rescue helicopter crashes in Uttarakhand

2013-06-30

30 people are killed after a fuel truck explodes in Kampala, Uganda

2013-07-01

Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of their President, Mohammed Morsi

2013-07-01

47 people are killed and 90 are wounded in two bomb blasts in Pakistan

2013-07-02

16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi

2013-07-04

12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago

2013-07-05

15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-07-06

42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria

2013-07-06

14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan

2013-07-06

42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and set of fires in Lac-Megantic, Quebec

2013-07-06

3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport

2013-07-07

10 people are killed after an air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska

2013-07-08

42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit in protest in Cairo

2013-07-08

A dozen people are killed and injured after a hotel collapses in Hyderbad, India

2013-07-10

40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China

2013-07-11

30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq

2013-07-12

8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris

2013-07-13

18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia

2013-07-13

Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil

2013-07-15

13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria

2013-07-15

18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia

2013-07-17

7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria

2013-07-17

58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China

2013-07-19

20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq

2013-07-21

12 people are killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

2013-07-22

89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China

2013-07-23

19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand

2013-07-24

80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2013-07-26

57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan

2013-07-27

100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt

2013-07-28

39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy

2013-07-29

44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq

2013-07-30

28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria

2013-07-30

134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan

2013-08-02

40 people are killed after an ammunition depot explodes in Homs, Syria

2013-08-03

80 people are killed in a wave of insurgency across Iraq

2013-08-05

160 people are killed by flash floods across Afghanistan and Pakistan

2013-08-06

18 people are killed and 55 are wounded by a car bomb explosion in Damascus, Syria

2013-08-06

25 people are killed and 60 are wounded by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-08-07

11 people are killed by a bombing in Karachi, Pakistan

2013-08-08

28 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan

2013-08-08

14 people are killed by a bomb explosion in Nangarhar, Afghanistan

2013-08-08

4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas

2013-08-09

8 people are killed and 24 are injured after gunmen open fire on a Sunni mosque in Quetta, Pakistan

2013-08-10

6 people are killed after Paluweh volcano erupts in Indonesia

2013-08-11

22 people are killed by flash floods in Kabul, Pakistan

2013-08-11

2 people are killed and 30 are injured after a coach crash in southern France

2013-08-12

8 people are killed and 25 are injured in a suicide bomb attack in Balad, Iraq

2013-08-12

30 people are killed by gunmen in northeast Nigeria

2013-08-14

14 people are killed and 26 are injured by two roadside bombings in Baqubah, Iraq

2013-08-14

638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt

2013-08-15

20 people are killed and 200 are injured in an explosion in Beirut

2013-08-16

61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines

2013-08-17

18 people are killed in conflict between Boko Harem and Nigerian military

2013-08-18

6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India

2013-08-19

91 people are killed by floods across China

2013-08-21

37 people are killed and 16 are injured in a bus crash near Chin Swee Temple, Malaysia

2013-08-21

21 people are killed in flash floods in Qinghai province, China

2013-08-22

14 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Western Iraq

2013-08-23

50 people are killed in mosque bombings in Tripoli, Lebanon

2013-08-23

26 people are killed and 55 are injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-08-24

4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands

2013-08-24

30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia

2013-08-25

41 people are killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Iraq

2013-08-25

4 people are killed and 25 are injured after a train derails in Tabasco, Mexico

2013-08-28

51 people are killed in a series of bombings across Iraq

2013-08-29

41 people are killed and 33 are injured in a bus accident in Kenya

2013-08-30

15 people are killed by a liquid ammonia leak at a cold storage plant in Shanghai, China

2013-09-06

20 people are killed by Islamist militants in villages in northeast Nigeria

2013-09-07

15 people are killed by a restaurant car bombing by Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia

2013-09-08

11 people are killed and 18 are injured after a gunfire attack in Guatemala City

2013-09-08

11 people are killed after a minibus collides with a train in Lasi, Romania

2013-09-08

6 people are killed and 9 are injured after a minibus collides with a car in Jakarta, Indonesia

2013-09-09

60 people are killed in conflict between rebels and loyalists in the Central African Republic

2013-09-09

18 people are killed in conflict between government and Boko Harem troops in Borno State, Nigeria

2013-09-09

44 people are killed and 45 are injured after a bus crashes into a ravine in Northern Guatemala

2013-09-10

16 people are killed after a series of bomb attacks across Iraq

2013-09-10

3 people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Artic Ocean

2013-09-13

30 people are killed by a mosque bombing attack in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-09-13

9 people are killed after massive floods in Galati County, Romania

2013-09-15

21 people are killed in a series of bombings in Baghdad and Shia provinces, Iraq

2013-09-15

27 people are killed after a coal mine collapses in Afghanistan

2013-09-16

21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico

2013-09-16

12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington DC

2013-09-17

6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada

2013-09-21

6 people are killed in military and insurgent conflict in Zamboanga City, Philippines

2013-09-21

100 people are killed in a series of attacks across Iraq

2013-09-21

59 people are killed and 175 wounded in a shopping mall gun battle in Nairobi, Kenya

2013-09-22

78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-09-23

25 people are killed after Typhoon Usagi passes Hong Kong and China

2013-09-24

515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan

2013-09-27

7 people are killed in mosque bombings in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-09-27

19 people are killed and 45 are injured in a bus bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan

2013-09-27

At least 22 people are killed after a refugee ship capsizes off the island of Java

2013-09-27

60 people are killed after a building collapses in Mumbai, India

2013-09-29

42 people are killed by Boko Harem in a college attack in Gujba, Nigeria

2013-09-29

16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria

2013-09-30

54 people are killed by a series of car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-10-02

8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee

2013-10-03

325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy

2013-10-03

13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria

2013-10-06

53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt

2013-10-09

60 people are killed in clashes between militias and Seleka rebels in the Central African Republic

2013-10-11

10 people are killed and a hospital fire in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

2013-10-11

27 people are killed after a migrant boat sinks in the Channel of Sicily

2013-10-12

50 people are killed after a truck veers of a cliff in  La Convencion Province, Peru

2013-10-12

15 people are killed by a series of explosions in a fireworks factory in Vietnam

2013-10-13

109 people are killed in a stampede on a bridge in  Datia district, Madhya Pradesh, India

2013-10-16

21 people are killed after a minibus hits a land mine in Nawa, Syria

2013-10-16

49 people are killed after Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes in the Mekong River, Laos

2013-10-16

18 people are killed after Typhoon Wipha strikes Japan

2013-10-17

59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq

2013-10-19

16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia

2013-10-19

11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium

2013-10-20

30 people are killed by a suicide truck bomber in Hama, Syria

2013-10-20

37 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-10-20

78 people are killed by cattle raiders in Jonglei, Sudan

2013-10-27

38 people are killed in a series of car bombings in Bagdhad, Iraq

2013-10-27

18 people are killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan

2013-10-30

44 people are killed after a bus catches fire in Mahbubnagar, India

2013-11-03

8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia

2013-11-03

6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand

2013-11-05

4 people are killed after a 4-story building under construction collapses in Lagos, Nigeria

2013-11-06

8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria

2013-11-06

15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-11-08

11 people are killed in a car park bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia

2013-11-08

At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm recorded at landfall, makes landfall in the Philippines

2013-11-09

8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia

2013-11-11

4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India

2013-11-11

100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia

2013-11-15

5 people are killed and 10 are injured after a train derails in Nashik, India

2013-11-17

50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia

2013-11-18

20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt

2013-11-19

23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

2013-11-21

31 people are killed by a truck bomb in northeaster Iraq

2013-11-21

54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia

2013-11-25

17 people are killed and 37 are wounded in a cafe bombing in Baghdad, Iraq

2013-12-05

52 people are killed and 167 are injured in a militant attack on a defense ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen

2013-12-11

20 people are killed by the bubonic plague in a small Madagascan village

2013-12-16

21 people are killed and 20 are injured after a bus falls from an elevated highway in Manila, Philippines

2013-12-19

81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre

2013-12-27

29 people are killed after a bus plunged off the Huay Tong Bridge, Thailand

2013-12-29

16 people are killed and 40 are wounded by a suicide bomb attack at Volgograd-1 railway station, Russia

2013-12-30

15 people are killed in a trolley-bus bomb attack in Voglograd, Russia

2014-01-02

30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India

2014-01-04

14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India

2014-01-08

40th People's Choice Awards: Johnny Depp & Sandra Bullock win (Movie Star) and Josh Charles & Stana Katić win (Dramatic TV)

2014-01-09

5 people are killed in a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant, Yokkaichi, Japan

2014-01-13

14 people are killed and 7 are injured after an explosion in an illegal gambling hall in Kaili City, China

2014-01-17

21 people are killed in a suicide bombing in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan

2014-01-26

21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

2014-02-01

14 people are killed after Mount Sinabung erupts in Indonesia

2014-02-04

10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India

2014-02-08

15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia

2014-02-08

17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina

2014-02-11

11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan

2014-02-11

77 people are killed after a military transport plan crashes in Algeria

2014-02-21

11 people are killed after a Libyan Air Force plan crashes in Tunisia

2014-02-24

7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam

2014-02-27

Chaos erupts after the Swedish Public Employment Service mistakenly invites 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm

2014-03-01

29 people are killed & 130 are injured by a group of knife-wielding terrorists at Kunming Railway Station, China

2014-03-08

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history

2014-03-12

8 people are killed, 70 are injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York

2014-03-22

251 people are killed after a boat capsizes in Lake Albert, Uganda

2014-03-22

30 people are killed by a mudslide in Oso, Washington

2014-04-23

60 people are killed & 80 are injured after a train crashes in The Democratic Republic of the Congo

2014-06-14

49 people are killed after a Ukrainian Ilyushin Il-76 airlifter is shot down

2014-07-09

Typhoon Rammasun begins and kills 151 people

2014-07-15

20 people are killed & 100 are injured after a train derails in Moscow

2014-07-23

44 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan

2014-07-24

116 people are killed after Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed in Mali

2014-09-04

Monsoon rains beging and cause flooding over a sustained period that kills over 400 people in India & Pakistan

2014-09-13

At least 8 people are killed after the ferry MV Maharlika II sinks off the Philippines coast

2014-09-13

40 people are killed after T. B. Joshua's The Synagogue Church of All Nations collapses in Nigeria

2014-09-18

8 people (including 2 children) are shot dead in Bell, Florida

2014-09-27

57 people are killed after Mount Ontake erupts in Japan

2014-10-02

15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria

2014-11-11

The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence

2014-11-23

A suicide bomber kills 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan

2014-11-23

An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country

2014-12-28

AirAsia Flight QZ8501, enroute from Surabaya to Singapore, crashes in the Java Sea killing all 162 people aboard.

2015-10-31

Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai with 224 people on board

2015-11-14

Paris attacks: Horror as terror strikes France again, killing 132 people

2015-12-13

Explosion at bus stop kills 12 people in Pakistan

2015-12-13

Fire kills 23 people at Russian psychiatric hospital

2015-12-27

8 people killed when severe storms, tornadoes hit Dallas area

2015-12-29

Blast kills 14 people; Pakistani Taliban faction claims responsibility

2016-01-02

Saudi Arabia executes 47 people in 1 day after terror convictions

2016-01-17

The 62 richest people have as much wealth as half the world

2016-02-10

Ryan Reynolds named 'Sexiest Dad Alive!' by People

2016-04-19

Ecuador earthquake: At least 413 people confirmed dead

2016-06-06

Australia storm kills three people, with more missing

2016-06-22

Senators seek bipartisan deal to ban gun sales to people on no-fly list

2016-08-04

London Knife Attack Kills Woman and Wounds 5 Other People

2016-08-10

Politics|Donald Trump Suggests 'Second Amendment People' Could Act Against Hillary Clinton

2016-08-10

Trump suggests "Second Amendment people" could deal with "SCOTUS picks"

2016-08-25

Italy earthquake has killed at least 120 people - prime minister

2016-10-07

Hurricane Matthew: At least 100 people killed in Haiti devastation

2016-11-20

Train in Northern India Derails, Killing at Least 45 People

2016-12-31

US plane carrying six people goes missing

2017-01-07