1718 events
Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.
A former military aircraft crashed at an airshow at Shoreham Airport in southern England, killing eleven people.
An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than…
NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, the first exoplanet with a radius similar to Earth's discovered in the habi
A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China, killed three people and injured 79 others
Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrain
A military plane crash killed 17 people and left one survivor in northern Laos
At least 12 people were killed and 70 others injured when two bombs exploded in a market in Nairobi, Kenya
Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretake
Prayut Chan-o-cha (pictured), the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretake
The Indian state of Telangana was officially formed, with K
War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-procl
War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-procl
The conviction of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had been found guilty of paying for an underage…
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.
Scotland (flag pictured) voted against independence from the United Kingdom.
An ammonium nitrate explosion occurred at a fertilizer company facility in West, Texas, U
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operat
Two car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured
One World Trade Center (pictured) in New York City, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, was topped out at a