Explore 2580 historical events from 2010–2019.
United States v. Manning was the court-martial of Chelsea Manning, a former United States Army Private First Class.
The trial of United States Army private Chelsea Manning for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks begins in Fort Mead
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon o…
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Similar to t…
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The 2013 Hawija clashes relate to a series of violent attacks within Iraq, as part of the 2012–2013 Iraqi protests and Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013). On 23 April, an army raid again…
At least 111 people are killed and 233 injured as violence breaks out in Hawija, Iraq
The Rana Plaza collapse occurred on 24 April 2013 in Savar Upazila, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a structural failur…
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others
On April 29, 2013 at around 10:00am CEST, an explosion occurred in a building in the centre of Prague, Czech Republic. The incident occurred in a townhouse belonging to the Air Nav…
A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43
On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng (吉林宝源丰) poultry processing plant in Mishazi (米沙子镇), a town about 35 km (22 mi) from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic …
At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, commonly shortened to ERT, is the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster of Greece.
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras
On 15 June 2013, a series of bombings resulted in the deaths of 26 people and injuries to dozens more. On the same day, separatist militants attacked and demolished the historic Qu…
A bomb explodes on a bus in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 25 people and wounding 22 others
National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak near the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport…
National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan
Between 2002 and 2004, Ariel Castro abducted Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus from the roads of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and later held them captive in his ho…
Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by D…
One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere
Kermit Barron Gosnell was an American serial killer and abortion doctor. At his clinic in West Philadelphia, Gosnell provided illegal and unsafe late-term abortions, committed post…
American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted
The Enhanced Fujita scale is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage a tornado causes. It is used in the United States, Brazil and France, among ot…
An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others
On 26 June 2013, rioting broke out in Shanshan County, in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. 35 people died in the riots, including 22 civilians, two police officers and ele…
Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others
On 2 July 2013, an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a moment magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). The strike-slip earthquake kil…
A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
On 6 July 2013, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Secondary School in the village of Mamudo in Yobe State, Nigeria and killed at least 42 people. Most of the victims we…
At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
Fusilier is a name given to various kinds of soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. While fusilier is derived from the 17th-century French word fusil – meaning a …
Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by 2 Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London
Interstate 5 (I-5) is an Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States that serves as the region's primary north–south route. It spans 277 miles (446 km) across the sta…
A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington
A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by out…
Start of the Gezi Park protests in Turkey
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers…
Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage
An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jup…
The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries
On 12 July 2013, a train crash in the commune of Brétigny-sur-Orge in the southern suburbs of Paris left seven people dead and 428 injured when a passenger train carrying 385 peopl…
Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in Brétigny-sur-Orge.
An outdoor sculpture depicting the biologist, conservationist, and author Rachel Carson by David Lewis was installed in Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States,…
Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.