Events
34 dated, sourced timelines.
Binance $6.3 billion hack
On October 29, 2026 attackers drained Binance hot wallets across about ten blockchains. Binance estimated the impact at about $6.3 billion, said it would cover all...
Spain Urda train crash
On 28 October 2026 a Renfe AVE train travelling from Madrid to Seville struck the rear of a stopped Iryo train near Urda in Toledo province, after a failure of the...
2026 Ebola epidemic
An outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 15 May 2026 and determined a public health emergency...
Trump v. Wall Street Journal
In July 2025 the Wall Street Journal reported on a letter bearing Donald Trump's name in a 2003 birthday album for Jeffrey Epstein. Trump denied writing it and sued...
Kenya-linked ghost student fraud
US prosecutors say a network using stolen identities enrolled fake "ghost students" at US colleges and sent the federal student aid refunds to people in Kenya. On...
WHCA dinner shooting case
On April 25, 2026 a man ran through a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton and fired a shotgun...
Titan submersible
On June 18, 2023, OceanGate's submersible Titan imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, killing all five people aboard. Debris was...
Comey prosecutions
Former FBI director James Comey has been charged in three federal cases since September 2025. The first, over his 2020 Senate testimony, was dismissed in November...
Fukushima Daiichi accident
The magnitude 9.1 earthquake of 11 March 2011 and the tsunami that followed cut power to the Fukushima Daiichi plant, leading to loss of reactor cooling, hydrogen...
Turkey and Syria earthquakes
Two large earthquakes struck southern Turkey on 6 February 2023, nine hours apart, killing 53,537 people in Turkey by the government's count. AFP reported Syrian...
Charlie Kirk shooting case
Charlie Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University on 10 September 2025. Tyler James Robinson, 22...
Besigye treason case
Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye went missing in Nairobi in November 2024 and appeared days later before a military court in Kampala. After Uganda's Supreme...
LA wildfires 2025
On January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire broke out in Los Angeles County in strong winds, killing 31 people and destroying more than 16,000...
Louvre jewel theft
On the morning of 19 October 2025 four people used a truck-mounted lift to reach a window of the Louvre's Galerie d'Apollon in Paris and took eight pieces of the...
Shakahola deaths
In April 2023 police in Kilifi County, Kenya, began finding starving followers of the Good News International Ministries and graves in Shakahola forest, and a Senate...
Grenfell Tower fire
In the early hours of June 14, 2017, a fire that began in a fourth floor flat at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington spread up and around the 24 storey block through...
Rana Plaza collapse
The Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, collapsed on 24 April 2013. The compensation scheme set up with the ILO puts the...
State Farm hail claim lawsuits
Hundreds of homeowner lawsuits, most of them in Oklahoma, allege that State Farm ran an internal program from 2020 to cut payouts on hail and wind roof claims...
Lahaina wildfire
On August 8, 2023, a fire started by broken power lines in Lahaina, Maui, was reported contained in the morning but rekindled in the afternoon and spread through the...
Surfside condo collapse
Early on June 24, 2021, much of the 12 story Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people. NIST opened a National...
Beirut port explosion
On 4 August 2020 about 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut since 2014 exploded, killing 218 people according to Human Rights Watch. The...
Letitia James prosecution
After a federal housing regulator referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Justice Department in April 2025, a grand jury in the Eastern District of...
TikTok US ownership fight
The United States spent more than five years trying to separate TikTok's US business from its China-based owner ByteDance, through 2020 executive orders that courts...
Air India 171 crash
On June 12, 2025, Air India flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 bound for London Gatwick, crashed into buildings in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff, killing 241 of the 242...
East Palestine derailment
On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and tank cars carrying hazardous materials were involved in a fire. Three days...
El Salvador gang crackdown
After 62 killings in a single day in March 2022, El Salvador's Legislative Assembly approved a state of exception that suspended some constitutional rights and has...
Lac-Mégantic derailment
Early on 6 July 2013 an unattended Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway crude oil train rolled away from Nantes, Quebec, and derailed in downtown Lac-Mégantic, where...
DCA midair collision
On the evening of January 29, 2025, a PSA Airlines CRJ700 operating as American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a US Army UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River...
MH17 shootdown
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down over eastern Ukraine on 17 July 2014 by a Buk missile, killing all 298 people on board, according to the Dutch Safety...
MH370 disappearance and search
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard, disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in the early hours of 8 March 2014 Malaysian...
Key Bridge collapse
Early on March 26, 2024, the containership Dali lost electrical power leaving Baltimore and struck a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed into the...
737 MAX crashes
Lion Air flight 610 crashed off Indonesia in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed near Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 346 people aboard the...
CrowdStrike outage
On July 19, 2024, a faulty content update to CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor caused Windows computers worldwide to crash, disrupting airlines, banks, hospitals and other...
Alaska 1282 door plug
On January 5, 2024, the left mid exit door plug separated from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 climbing out of Portland, Oregon, and the airplane returned and landed...