Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative,…
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resultin…
A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434…
The Turkish Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. The TAF consist of the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The Chief of the General Staff …
Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
The Sagamihara stabbings were committed on 26 July 2016 in Midori Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan. Nineteen people were killed and twenty-six others were injured, thirteen severe…
The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. Nineteen people are killed.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2…
Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for president of the United States by a major political party at the…
Michael George Raymond Agostini was a Trinidadian track and field athlete. He was the first athlete from his country to win a gold medal at what is now known as the Commonwealth Ga…
Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (born 1935)
Murray Arnold Straus was an American professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. He is best known for creating the conflict tactics scale, the "most widely used inst…
Murray A
Darwyn Cooke was a Canadian comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and animator who worked on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The…
Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (born 1962)
Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose ca…
Morley Safer, Canadian-born American journalist (born 1931)
Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led …
Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
Victoria Wood was an English comedian, actress, musician, screenwriter, and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several …
Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (born 1953)
Banharn Silpa-archa was a Thai politician who served as the Prime Minister of Thailand from 1995 to 1996. Banharn made a fortune in the construction business before he became a Mem…
Banharn Silpa-archa, Thai politician, Prime Minister from 1995 to 1996 (born 1932)
Thomas Lancelot Lewis was a New South Wales politician who served as the 33rd Premier of New South Wales from 1975 to 1976, and served as a minister in the cabinets of Sir Robert A…
Tom Lewis, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1922)
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publi…
Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (born 1947)
Alan Young was a British Canadian and American actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McD…
Alan Young, English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919)
Nicholas Menza was an American musician who was the drummer of the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1989 to 1998. He played drums on four of Megadeth's albums: Rust in Peace (1990),…
Nick Menza, American drummer and songwriter (born 1964)
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović was a Yugoslav and Serbian actor and politician. He appeared in more than 340 films and TV series, and is regarded as one of the best actors in former Yu…
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (born 1933)
Hedy Epstein was a German-born Jewish-American political activist and Holocaust survivor known for her support of the Palestinian cause through the International Solidarity Movemen…
Hedy Epstein, German-born American human rights activist and Holocaust survivor (born 1924)
Kho Jabing, later in life Muhammad Kho Abdullah, was a Malaysian of mixed Chinese and Iban descent from Sarawak, Malaysia, who partnered with a friend to rob and murder a Chinese c…
Kho Jabing, Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (born 1984)
Harambe was a western lowland gorilla who lived at the Cincinnati Zoo. On May 28, 2016, a three-year-old boy visiting the zoo climbed under a fence into an outdoor gorilla enclosur…
Harambe, Cincinnati Zoo western lowland gorilla (born 1999)
Thomas James Lysiak was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Selected in the first round, second overall, of the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft by the Atlanta Flames, he was addition…
Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey player (born 1953)
Richard George MacLeish was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Philadelphia Flyers, Hartford Whalers, Pit…
Rick MacLeish, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1950)
Mohamed Abdelaziz ben Khalili ben Mohamed al-Bachir Er-Rguibi was the 3rd Secretary General of the Polisario Front, from 1976, and the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Repu…
Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976–2016) (born 1947)
Janice Wendell Crouch was an American religious broadcaster. Crouch and her husband, Paul, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973.
Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1938)