Todays History

The last male northern white rhinoceros, Sudan, dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species.

In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.

In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Australian colonies—New South Wales,…

Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo

The Dunblane massacre leads to the death of sixteen primary school children and one teacher in Dunblane, Scotland.

Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more

The World Health Organization (WHO) declares COVID-19 virus a pandemic. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, marking…

The World Health Organization officially announces the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic