Explore 3882 historical events from 2010–2019.
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952…
Herman Wouk, American author (born 1915)
Stephen Austin Eubanks was an American motivational speaker on addiction and recovery. He was one of the best known survivors of the Columbine High School massacre, both in its imm…
Austin Eubanks, American addiction recovery advocate, survivor of the Columbine shooting (born 1981)
Pieter Marinus "Piet" Blauw was a Dutch politician for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He was born in Alkmaar, North Holland and was a farmer by profession. Bla…
Piet Blauw, Dutch politician (born 1937)
The 2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack occurred on 10 August 2019 at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Bærum, Norway, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the capital city Oslo. Philip…
Philip Manshaus shoots his stepsister and attacks a mosque in the Bærum mosque shooting.
On 17 August 2019, a suicide bombing took place during a wedding in a wedding hall in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least 92 people were killed in the attack and over 140 injured. The Isl…
A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured.
Iceland is a Nordic island country between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Europe and North America. It is culturally and p…
One hundred activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which…
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone, which became the most intense on record to strike the Bahamas. It is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurr…
Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda was an Austrian racing driver, motorsport executive, and aviation entrepreneur, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1979 and from 1982 to 1985. L…
Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (born 1949)
Rik Kuypers was a Belgian film director. He directed 29 films between 1947 and 1981. He co-directed the film Seagulls Die in the Harbour, which was entered into the 1956 Cannes Fil…
Rik Kuypers, Belgian film director (born 1925)
Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina was a Kenyan author, journalist and 2002 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. In 2003, he became the founding editor of Kwani? literary magazi…
Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (born 1971)
The sinking of MV Conception occurred on September 2, 2019 after the 75-foot (23 m) dive boat caught fire and eventually sank off the coast of Santa Cruz Island, California, United…
The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34.
Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in southern Arabia, the country includes the Socotra Archipelago and borders Saudi Arabia to the north, …
Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
The September 2019 climate strikes, also known as the Global Week for Future, were a series of international strikes and protests to demand action be taken to address climate chang…
Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old…
Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms, from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second…
Alan García, Peruvian lawyer and politician, twice President of Peru (born 1949)
Claus von Bülow was a British lawyer, consultant and socialite. In 1982, he was convicted of attempting to murder his wife Sunny von Bülow in 1979, which had left her in a temporar…
Claus von Bülow, Danish-British socialite (born 1926)
Prem Tinsulanonda was a Thai military officer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th prime minister of Thailand from 1980 to 1988.
Prem Tinsulanonda, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1920)
William Thad Cochran was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator for Mississippi from 1978 to 2018. A Republican, he previously served in the U.S.…
Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
Jason Marcano was a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who played as a forward.
Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (born 1983)
Kristiani Herrawati better known as Ani Yudhoyono was an Indonesian political and female activist, who was the wife of former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Firs…
Ani Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician, 6th First Lady of Indonesia
Pauline Hélène "Polly" Higgins was a Scottish barrister, author, and environmental lobbyist, described by Jonathan Watts in her obituary in The Guardian as, "one of the most inspir…
Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (born 1968)
Alia Abdulnoor was an Emirati woman convicted of supporting and financing Al Qaeda. She was arrested in 2015 and sentenced in 2017 to a 10 year imprisonment on convictions of finan…
Alia Abdulnoor, Emirati imprisoned woman (born 1977)
Sprent Arumogo Dabwido was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru between 2011 and 2013, and was also a weightlifter. The son of a parliamentarian, Dabwido was origi…
Sprent Dabwido, President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013 (born 1972)
Freddie Starr was an English stand up comedian, impressionist, singer and actor. Starr was the lead singer of Merseybeat rock and roll group the Midniters during the early 1960s, a…
Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (born 1943)