Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African-American, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department for possession of a knife. While in police custody, Gray…
Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American, died of injuries sustained while in the custody of the Baltimore Police De
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake killed 8,962 people and injured 21,952 across the countries of Nepal, India, China and Bangladesh. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on Satur…
Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7
The Bali Nine were a group of nine Australians convicted for attempting to smuggle 8.3 kg (18 lb) of heroin out of Indonesia in April 2005. The heroin was valued at around A$4 mill…
The ringleaders of the Bali Nine were executed in Indonesia for attempting to smuggle 8
The Parliament of Malta is the constitutional legislative body in Malta, located in Valletta. The parliament is unicameral, with a democratically elected House of Representatives a…
The Parliament of Malta moved from the Grandmaster's Palace to the purpose-built Parliament House (pictured)
A major earthquake occurred in Nepal on 12 May 2015 at 12:50 pm local time with a moment magnitude of 7.2–7.3, 18 kilometres (11 mi) southeast of Kodari. The epicenter was on the b…
An earthquake in Nepal killed 218 people and injured more than 3,500 others
On May 12, 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional train from Washington, D.C., bound for New York City derailed and wrecked on the Northeast Corridor near the Kensington neighborhood o…
A train derailment killed eight people and injured more than 200 others in Philadelphia
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnation…
Islamic State militants entered the ancient city of Palmyra
MV Dongfang zhi Xing was a river cruise ship that operated in the Three Gorges region of inland China. On the night of 1 June 2015, the ship was traveling on the Yangtze River when…
The river cruise ship Dongfang zhi Xing capsized in the Yangtze, resulting in 442 deaths in China's worst peacetime mari
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white peop…
A white supremacist committed a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Car
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
The Indonesian Air Force is the aerial branch of the Indonesian National Armed Forces. The Indonesian Air Force is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and is headed by the Chief o…
An Indonesian Air Force military transport aircraft (pictured) crashed near a residential neighborhood in Medan, killing
The Suruç bombing was a suicide attack by the Turkish sect of Islamic State named Dokumacılar against Turkish leftists that took place in the Suruç district of Şanlıurfa Province i…
A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed…
The Flint water crisis was a public health crisis from 2014 to 2025 which involved the drinking water for the city of Flint, Michigan, being contaminated with lead and possibly Leg…
The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leadi
On 30 April 2014, a bomb-and-knife attack occurred in the Chinese city of Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The terrorist attack killed 3 people, and injured 79 others. The attack coincided with t…
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others
On 17 May 2014, an Antonov An-74 transport aircraft of the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force crashed while en route to Xiangkhouang Province, northern Laos, killing all but on…
A military plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people
Kerala Blasters Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Blasters, is an Indian professional football club based in Kochi, Kerala, that competes in the Indian Super League (IS…
The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed
On 30 July 2014, a landslide occurred in the village of Malin in the Ambegaon taluka of the Pune district in Maharashtra, India. The landslide, which hit early in the morning while…
Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.
Taavi Aulis Rytkönen was a Finnish footballer. He became the country's first professional player when he signed for France's Toulouse FC in 1952.
Aulis Rytkönen, Finnish footballer and manager (born 1929)
Ernst Florian Winter was an American historian and political scientist, the first director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna after World War II, and chairman of the International…
Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (born 1923)
Bernat Klein CBE was a Serbian textile designer and painter. Based in Scotland, Klein supplied textiles to haute couture designers in the 1960s and 1970s, and later sold his own cl…
Bernat Klein, Serbian-Scottish fashion designer and painter (born 1922)
Wojciech Grzegorz Leśnikowski, was a Polish-American architect, writer and educator. He oversaw and participated in the design and construction of numerous large-scale architectura…
Wojciech Leśnikowski, Polish–American architect and academic (born 1938)
Karpal Singh s/o Ram Singh Deo was an Indian Malaysian politician and lawyer. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Bukit Gelugor in the state of Penang from 200…
Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician (born 1940)
Guru Dhanapal was an Indian film director, who worked in Tamil cinema, mostly with actor Sathyaraj and Karthik (actor).
Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (born 1959)
Sanford Jay "Sandy" Frank, also known as Sandy Frank, was a television writer who was known as a writer for Late Night with David Letterman. He wrote for Letterman's NBC show for f…
Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (born 1954)