tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11691774802604170192024-02-20T09:54:01.351-08:00Steve Fly 2019Experimental blog started in 2009 to imagine life in 2019Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-12767350532597837362022-01-21T05:16:00.004-08:002022-01-21T05:16:51.347-08:00How 2019 Turned Out - Ten Years After Starting This Futurism Project In 2009<p>This blog was started back in 2009, brought to my attention by R.U Sirius, I decided to join a project that asked writers and thinkers to predict what the future might look like. To write as from ten years in the future (2019) <br /><br />My <a href="https://twitter.com/FLYAGARIC2019" target="_blank">Twitter account (Fly Agaric2019)</a> and this blog are examples of the beginnings of that process. <br /><br />My best hits involved mushrooms and the part they may play in tackling global climate catastrophe, I just didn't use the words: Mycoremediation and Zero-Emissions technology. I didn't predict a global pandemic. <br /><br /> Here's how Wikipedia community describe 2019. <br /><br />--Steve Fly<br /><br /><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><h3><span class="mw-headline" id="January">January</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ultima_Thule_New_Horizons_CA06_vertical.png"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="1818" data-file-width="1486" height="269" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Ultima_Thule_New_Horizons_CA06_vertical.png/220px-Ultima_Thule_New_Horizons_CA06_vertical.png" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrokoth" title="Arrokoth">Arrokoth</a> by New Horizons</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1" title="January 1">January 1</a>
<ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i> makes a close approach of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt" title="Kuiper belt">Kuiper belt object</a> (KBO) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth" title="486958 Arrokoth">486958 Arrokoth</a> at 05:33 <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC" title="UTC">UTC</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Jair Bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a> begins his four-year term as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Brazil" title="President of Brazil">President of Brazil</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar" title="Qatar">Qatar</a> withdraws from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup></li><li>Works published by authors who died in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948" title="1948">1948</a> enter the public domain in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_copyright_law" title="International copyright law">many countries</a>. In the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.s._copyright" title="U.s. copyright">U.S.</a>, all works published in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923" title="1923">1923</a> enter the public domain, the first entry of published works into the public domain since <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act" title="Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act">1998</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_3" title="January 3">January 3</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_space_program" title="Chinese space program">Chinese probe</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_4" title="Chang'e 4">Chang'e 4</a> becomes the first artificial object to land on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon" title="Far side of the Moon">far side of the Moon</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_5" title="January 5">January 5</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_I_of_Constantinople" title="Bartholomew I of Constantinople">Bartholomew I of Constantinople</a> issues a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomos_(Eastern_Orthodox_Church)" title="Tomos (Eastern Orthodox Church)">formal decree</a> granting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocephaly_of_the_Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine" title="Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine">independence</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine" title="Orthodox Church of Ukraine">Orthodox Church of Ukraine</a> from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6" title="January 6">January 6</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_V_of_Kelantan" title="Muhammad V of Kelantan">Muhammad V of Kelantan</a> abdicates the federal throne as the 15th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_di-Pertuan_Agong" title="Yang di-Pertuan Agong">monarch of Malaysia</a>, the first Malaysian monarch to do so.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_7" title="January 7">January 7</a> – A faction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_Gabon" title="Armed Forces of Gabon">Armed Forces of Gabon</a> attempts a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Gabonese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" title="2019 Gabonese coup d'état attempt">coup d'état</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_10" title="January 10">January 10</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela">Venezuela</a> enters a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">presidential crisis</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_(Venezuela)" title="National Assembly (Venezuela)">National Assembly</a> declare incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Venezuela" title="President of Venezuela">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a> "illegitimate".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23" title="January 23">January 23</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_crisis" title="Venezuelan presidential crisis">Venezuelan presidential crisis</a>: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a>. Several people are killed, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">President Maduro</a> severs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Venezuela_relations" title="United States–Venezuela relations">U.S. diplomatic ties</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25" title="January 25">January 25</a> – A mine tailings dam <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster" title="Brumadinho dam disaster">breaks</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho" title="Brumadinho">Brumadinho</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minas_Gerais" title="Minas Gerais">Minas Gerais</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_28" title="January 28">January 28</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">U.S. Justice Department</a> charges <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_technology" title="Chinese technology">Chinese tech firm</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei" title="Huawei">Huawei</a> with multiple counts of fraud, raising <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_relations" title="China–United States relations">U.S.–China tensions</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="February">February</span></h3><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1" title="February 1">February 1</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._President" title="U.S. President">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> confirms that the U.S. will leave the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty" title="Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty">Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty</a> of 1987, citing Russian non-compliance.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> The next day, Russia follows suit with suspension of its obligations to the treaty.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_3" title="February 3">February 3</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> arrives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi" title="Abu Dhabi">Abu Dhabi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a>, becoming the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope" title="Pope">pope</a> to visit the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Peninsula" title="Arabian Peninsula">Arabian Peninsula</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_6" title="February 6">February 6</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House">Freedom House</a> declares that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> is no longer a free country, making it the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union" title="Member state of the European Union">first country in the EU</a> to be labelled "partly free".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> It also states that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbia" title="Serbia">Serbia</a> is no longer free as well.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_7" title="February 7">February 7</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Haitian_protests" title="2019 Haitian protests">2019 Haitian protests</a>: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Haiti" title="President of Haiti">Haitian President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovenel_Mo%C3%AFse" title="Jovenel Moïse">Jovenel Moïse</a> begin in several cities across the country.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_12" title="February 12">February 12</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Macedonia" title="North Macedonia">Republic of Macedonia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prespa_agreement" title="Prespa agreement">renames</a> itself the Republic of North Macedonia, officially ending a decades-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute" title="Macedonia naming dispute">dispute</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and paving the way for the former's integration into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">EU</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_21" title="February 21">February 21</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL" title="SpaceIL">SpaceIL</a> launches the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beresheet" title="Beresheet">Beresheet</a></i> probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_23" title="February 23">February 23</a> – Venezuelan presidential crisis: President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia">Colombia</a> as humanitarian aid attempts to enter the country across <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia%E2%80%93Venezuela_border" title="Colombia–Venezuela border">the border</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_26" title="February 26">February 26</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">27</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Air_Force" title="Indian Air Force">Indian Air Force</a> launches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Balakot_airstrike" title="2019 Balakot airstrike">airstrikes</a> on purported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_training_camp" title="Terrorist training camp">militant camps</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balakot" title="Balakot">Balakot</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>. It precedes a series of events that lead to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes_(2019)" title="India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2019)">2019 India–Pakistan standoff</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_27" title="February 27">February 27</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">28</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_North_Korea%E2%80%93United_States_Hanoi_Summit" title="2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit">2019 North Korea–United States summit</a> is held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>. It is the second summit between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea">North Korean Chairman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="March">March</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baghuz_ISIL_Families.png"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="753" data-file-width="1430" height="116" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Baghuz_ISIL_Families.png/220px-Baghuz_ISIL_Families.png" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Last ISIS holdout fell at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghuz_Fawqani" title="Battle of Baghuz Fawqani">Battle of Baghuz Fawqani</a></div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_3" title="March 3">March 3</a> – An unmanned demonstration flight of the new crew capable version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Dragon" title="SpaceX Dragon">SpaceX Dragon</a> spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_5" title="March 5">March 5</a> – A second case of sustained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remission_(medicine)" title="Remission (medicine)">remission</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a> is reported, ten years after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Patient" title="Berlin Patient">Berlin Patient</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_6" title="March 6">March 6</a> – Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuela <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Venezuela" title="Foreign relations of Venezuela">expels German ambassador</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Germany" title="Foreign relations of Germany">Daniel Kriener</a> for his alleged meddling in internal affairs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_10" title="March 10">March 10</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302" title="Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302">Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302</a>, a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_8" title="Boeing 737 MAX 8">Boeing 737 MAX 8</a> bound for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Kenyatta_International_Airport" title="Jomo Kenyatta International Airport">Nairobi</a>, crashes shortly after takeoff from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addis_Ababa_Bole_International_Airport" title="Addis Ababa Bole International Airport">Addis Ababa</a>, killing all 157 people on board.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup> All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings" title="Boeing 737 MAX groundings">subsequently grounded</a> worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_15" title="March 15">March 15</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Idai" title="Cyclone Idai">Cyclone Idai</a> makes landfall on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Africa" title="Southern Africa">southern Africa</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup></li><li>51 people are killed and 50 others injured in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_mosque_shootings" title="Christchurch mosque shootings">terrorist attacks</a> on two mosques in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch" title="Christchurch">Christchurch</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_history" title="New Zealand history">New Zealand's history</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_19" title="March 19">March 19</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev" title="Nursultan Nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a> resigns as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Kazakhstan" title="President of Kazakhstan">President of Kazakhstan</a> after 29 years in office and appoints <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassym-Jomart_Tokayev" title="Kassym-Jomart Tokayev">Kassym-Jomart Tokayev</a> as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_president" title="Acting president">acting president</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup> Astana is renamed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur-Sultan" title="Nur-Sultan">Nur-Sultan</a> the following day in his honor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_20" title="March 20">March 20</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law" title="European Union competition law">Europe's antitrust regulators</a> fine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> €1.49 billion (US$1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_advertising" title="Online advertising">online advertising</a> business, bringing the total cost of EU fines against Google at nearly €8.76 billion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_23" title="March 23">March 23</a> – The final territory of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>, located in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Baghuz_Fawqani" title="Al-Baghuz Fawqani">Al-Baghuz Fawqani</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghuz_Fawqani" title="Battle of Baghuz Fawqani">liberated</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_26" title="March 26">March 26</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> votes by 348 to 278 in favour of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market" title="Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market">EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market</a>, which expands legal liability for websites and includes the controversial Article 13.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_31" title="March 31">March 31</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_(aviation)" title="Scramble (aviation)">scrambles</a> its fighter aircraft after two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> jets crossed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Strait" title="Taiwan Strait">maritime border</a> between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_relations" title="Cross-Strait relations">the two nations</a>. Just the day before, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> had similarly scrambled its jets after Chinese jets flew between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyako-jima" title="Miyako-jima">Miyako</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Island" title="Okinawa Island">Okinawa</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="April">April</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NotreDame20190415QuaideMontebello_(cropped).jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="2201" data-file-width="2537" height="191" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/NotreDame20190415QuaideMontebello_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-NotreDame20190415QuaideMontebello_%28cropped%29.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Fire destroys spire and roof of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris" title="Notre Dame de Paris">Notre Dame de Paris</a></div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_-_Messier_87_crop_max_res.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="4320" data-file-width="4320" height="220" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Black_hole_-_Messier_87_crop_max_res.jpg/220px-Black_hole_-_Messier_87_crop_max_res.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div></div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">First image of a black hole (<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M87*" title="M87*">M87*</a>) captured by the Event Horizon Telescope</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2" title="April 2">April 2</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdelaziz_Bouteflika" title="Abdelaziz Bouteflika">Abdelaziz Bouteflika</a> resigns as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Algeria" title="President of Algeria">President of Algeria</a> amid <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Algerian_protests" title="2019 Algerian protests">widespread protests</a>, after nearly two decades in office.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_4" title="April 4">April 4</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Libyan Civil War (2014–present)">Second Libyan Civil War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_National_Army" title="Libyan National Army">Libyan National Army</a> (LNA) launches a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Western_Libya_offensive" title="2019 Western Libya offensive">surprise offensive</a> in western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, moving units towards the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_National_Accord" title="Government of National Accord">Government of National Accord</a>-held capital <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli" title="Tripoli">Tripoli</a> and capturing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gharyan" title="Gharyan">Gharyan</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-39"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-39">[39]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_10" title="April 10">April 10</a>
<ul><li>Scientists from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope" title="Event Horizon Telescope">Event Horizon Telescope</a> project announce the first ever image of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole" title="Black hole">black hole</a>, located in the centre of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_87" title="Messier 87">M87 galaxy</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-40"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-40">[40]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup></li><li>Fossil fragments found in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callao_Cave" title="Callao Cave">Callao Cave</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> reveal the existence of a new species of human, the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_luzonensis" title="Homo luzonensis">Homo luzonensis</a></i>. The species is named after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon" title="Luzon">Luzon island</a>, where the fossils were discovered.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-42"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-42">[42]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_11" title="April 11">April 11</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks">WikiLeaks</a> co-founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange">Julian Assange</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange" title="Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange">arrested</a> after seven years in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Ecuador,_London" title="Embassy of Ecuador, London">Ecuador's embassy</a> in London.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-43"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup></li><li>Amid <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Sudanese_protests" title="2018–19 Sudanese protests">mass protests</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir" title="Omar al-Bashir">Omar al-Bashir</a> is deposed as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Sudan" title="President of Sudan">President of Sudan</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sudanese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="2019 Sudanese coup d'état">a coup d'état</a>, after nearly 30 years in office.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_15" title="April 15">April 15</a> – During <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a>, a major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris_fire" title="Notre-Dame de Paris fire">fire</a> engulfs <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris" title="Notre-Dame de Paris">Notre-Dame Cathedral</a> in Paris, resulting in the roof and main spire collapsing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-46"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-46">[46]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-47"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_16" title="April 16">April 16</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howse_Peak" title="Howse Peak">Howse Peak</a> avalanche kills three noted mountaineers: Austrians <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansj%C3%B6rg_Auer" title="Hansjörg Auer">Hansjörg Auer</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lama" title="David Lama">David Lama</a>, and Canadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess_Roskelley" title="Jess Roskelley">Jess Roskelley</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-auto_48-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-auto-48">[48]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18" title="April 18">April 18</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NepaliSat-1" title="NepaliSat-1">NepaliSat-1</a> is launched. It is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>'s first ever research satellite to be sent into space.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-49"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-50"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_21" title="April 21">April 21</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sri_Lanka_Easter_bombings" title="2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings">A series of bomb attacks</a> occur at eight locations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>, on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter" title="Easter">Easter Sunday</a>, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured. It is the first major terrorist attack in the country since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Civil_War" title="Sri Lankan Civil War">Sri Lankan Civil War</a> ended in 2009.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-51"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_25" title="April 25">April 25</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_leader" title="North Korean leader">North Korean leader</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a> visits Russia to hold a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%E2%80%93Putin_meetings" title="Kim–Putin meetings">series of summits</a> with Russian leaders, including President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-52"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-52">[52]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_26" title="April 26">April 26</a> – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame" title="Avengers: Endgame">Avengers: Endgame</a></i> is released in theatres worldwide, breaking many box-office records, including becoming the second <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_grossing_films" title="List of highest grossing films">highest grossing movie of all time</a>. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-53"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-53">[53]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_28" title="April 28">April 28</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vescovo" title="Victor Vescovo">Victor Vescovo</a> achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep" title="Challenger Deep">Challenger Deep</a> within the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench" title="Mariana Trench">Mariana Trench</a>, at a depth of 10,928 m (35,853 ft).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-54"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-54">[54]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_29" title="April 29">April 29</a> – Elusive <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State</a> leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a> appears in undated footage released by the group, his first appearance on video since 2014.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-55"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-55">[55]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_30" title="April 30">April 30</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_Japan" title="Emperor of Japan">Emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito" title="Akihito">Akihito</a> of Japan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Japanese_imperial_transition" title="2019 Japanese imperial transition">abdicates</a> from his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne" title="Chrysanthemum Throne">throne</a>, the first abdication by a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_monarchy" title="Japanese monarchy">Japanese monarch</a> in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisei" title="Heisei">Heisei</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_names" title="Japanese era names">era of Japan</a> and ushers in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiwa" title="Reiwa">Reiwa era</a> with new emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruhito" title="Naruhito">Naruhito</a> ascending the throne on May 1.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-56"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-56">[56]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-57"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup></li><li>Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan opposition leader and disputed interim President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Guaid%C3%B3" title="Juan Guaidó">Juan Guaidó</a> leads <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuela_uprising" title="2019 Venezuela uprising">an attempted uprising</a> against President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro" title="Nicolás Maduro">Nicolás Maduro</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-58">[58]</a></sup></li></ul></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="May">May</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Juramento-con-Juan-Guaido-Presidente-Interino-Venezuela-Marcha-Caracas-02-02-2019-840.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="3456" data-file-width="5184" height="147" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Juramento-con-Juan-Guaido-Presidente-Interino-Venezuela-Marcha-Caracas-02-02-2019-840.jpg/220px-Juramento-con-Juan-Guaido-Presidente-Interino-Venezuela-Marcha-Caracas-02-02-2019-840.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Guaidó led a failed coup against Maduro in Venezuela</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1" title="May 1">May 1</a>
<ul><li>King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn" title="Vajiralongkorn">Vajiralongkorn</a> of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suthida" title="Suthida">Suthida Tidjai</a> – a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoner" title="Commoner">commoner</a> – in a surprise ceremony, making her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Thai_royal_consorts" title="List of Thai royal consorts">queen consort</a> of Thailand.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-59"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-59">[59]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_President" title="Russian President">Russian President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> signs into law a controversial "<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Sovereignty" title="Network Sovereignty">sovereign internet</a>" bill that allows <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_government" title="Russian government">Russian authorities</a> to better monitor internet routing and to steer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Russia" title="Internet in Russia">Russian internet traffic</a> away from foreign servers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-60"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-60">[60]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a> – The number of deaths from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932020_Kivu_Ebola_epidemic" title="2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic">Kivu Ebola outbreak</a> exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ebola_outbreaks" title="List of Ebola outbreaks">Ebola outbreak</a> in history, only surpassed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic" title="Western African Ebola virus epidemic">Western African Ebola virus epidemic</a> of 2013–2016.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-61"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-61">[61]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_3" title="May 3">May 3</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">6</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_clashes_(May_2019)" title="Gaza–Israel clashes (May 2019)">May 2019 Gaza–Israel clashes</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_conflict" title="Gaza–Israel conflict">Gaza–Israel conflict</a> escalates after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israeli military</a> launches airstrikes into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza</a>
killing more than 20 Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a
toddler following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_4" title="May 4">May 4</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">6</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_of_Vajiralongkorn" title="Coronation of Vajiralongkorn">Coronation</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajiralongkorn" title="Vajiralongkorn">King Vajiralongkorn</a> of Thailand.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_5" title="May 5">May 5</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_1492" title="Aeroflot Flight 1492">Aeroflot Flight 1492</a> crash-lands and bursts into flames at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheremetyevo_International_Airport" title="Sheremetyevo International Airport">Sheremetyevo International Airport</a>, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-62"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-62">[62]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_6" title="May 6">May 6</a>
<ul><li>In its first report since 2005, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Science-Policy_Platform_on_Biodiversity_and_Ecosystem_Services" title="Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services">Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services</a> (IPBES) warns that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_loss" title="Biodiversity loss">biodiversity loss</a>
is "accelerating", with over a million species now threatened with
extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented"
and largely a result of human actions, according to the report.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-63"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-63">[63]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-64"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-64">[64]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War" title="Syrian Civil War">Syrian Civil War</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Army" title="Syrian Army">Syrian Army</a> launches a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_Syria_offensive_(April_2019%E2%80%93present)" title="Northwestern Syria offensive (April 2019–present)">major ground offensive</a> against one of the last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_opposition" title="Syrian opposition">rebel</a> strongholds in the country.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-65"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-65">[65]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_8" title="May 8">May 8</a> – A British teenager, Isabelle Holdaway, 17, is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy" title="Phage therapy">phage therapy</a> to treat a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance" title="Antimicrobial resistance">drug-resistant infection</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-66"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-66">[66]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_10" title="May 10">May 10</a> – Amid ongoing negotiations, the U.S.'s 25% tariff hike on US$200 billion worth of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_United_States" title="List of the largest trading partners of the United States">Chinese imports</a> takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war" title="China–United States trade war">China–United States trade war</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-67"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-67">[67]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_12" title="May 12">May 12</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident" title="May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident">May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident</a>: Four commercial ships, including two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco" title="Saudi Aramco">Saudi Aramco</a> oil tankers, are damaged near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujairah" title="Fujairah">Fujairah</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" title="Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-68"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-68">[68]</a></sup> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">UAE</a> claims it as a "sabotage attack", while an early U.S. assessment blames <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. The incident occurs after increased <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Persian_Gulf_crisis" title="2019–2020 Persian Gulf crisis">U.S.-Iran tensions</a> provoked by the deployment of U.S. military to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a> in response to an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_-_Iran_Relations" title="US - Iran Relations">alleged plot by Iran</a> to attack <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forces" title="U.S. Forces">U.S. forces</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-69"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-69">[69]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_13" title="May 13">May 13</a> – Prosecutors in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a> reopen the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority" title="Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority">rape allegation investigation</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks">WikiLeaks</a> founder <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" title="Julian Assange">Julian Assange</a>. Swedish prosecutors mention their intent to seek extradition of Assange from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">U.K.</a> after he has served his 50-week prison sentence for skipping bail.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-70"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-70">[70]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_14" title="May 14">May 14</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">18</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2019" title="Eurovision Song Contest 2019">Eurovision Song Contest 2019</a> takes place in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>, and is won by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest" title="Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest">Dutch</a> entrant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Laurence" title="Duncan Laurence">Duncan Laurence</a> with the song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_(song)" title="Arcade (song)">Arcade</a>".</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_17" title="May 17">May 17</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Yuan" title="Legislative Yuan">Taiwan's parliament</a> becomes the first in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a> to legalise <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Taiwan" title="Same-sex marriage in Taiwan">same-sex marriage</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-71"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-71">[71]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_18" title="May 18">May 18</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Australian_federal_election" title="2019 Australian federal election">2019 Australian federal election</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Morrison" title="Scott Morrison">Scott Morrison</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Australia" title="Liberal Party of Australia">Liberal</a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Party_of_Australia" title="National Party of Australia">National</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_(Australia)" title="Coalition (Australia)">Coalition</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Government" title="Morrison Government">Government</a> is narrowly re-elected,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-72"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-72">[72]</a></sup> defeating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Labor_Party" title="Australian Labor Party">Labor Party</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Shorten" title="Bill Shorten">Bill Shorten</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_19" title="May 19">May 19</a>
<ul><li>Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m" title="Belém">Belém</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-73"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-73">[73]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war" title="China–United States trade war">China–United States trade war</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> pulls <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> update support for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei" title="Huawei">Huawei</a> phones, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Play" title="Google Play">Google Play Store</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a> apps, after the company's blacklisting by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Government" title="U.S. Government">U.S. government</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-74"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-74">[74]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_20" title="May 20">May 20</a> – The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_SI_base_units" title="2019 redefinition of SI base units">redefinition</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_system" title="SI system">SI system</a> of measurement adopted by the majority of countries in the world takes effect.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-75"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-75">[75]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_23" title="May 23">May 23</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_general_election" title="2019 Indian general election">2019 Indian general election</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> secures a landslide victory, with his party <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">BJP</a> alone gaining 303 of the 543 seats in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_India" title="Parliament of India">parliament</a>, and his political alliance winning 353 seats of the 543.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-76"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-76">[76]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-77"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-77">[77]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-78"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-78">[78]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_24" title="May 24">May 24</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">British Prime Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> announces her resignation as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> leader, effective June 7, 2019.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarigua_prison_riot" title="Acarigua prison riot">A prison riot</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acarigua" title="Acarigua">Acarigua</a>, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-79"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-79">[79]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_26" title="May 26">May 26</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_27" title="May 27">27</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonas_prison_massacres" title="Amazonas prison massacres">Amazonas prison massacres</a>: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazonas_(Brazilian_state)" title="Amazonas (Brazilian state)">Amazonas</a>, Brazil.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-80"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-80">[80]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_27" title="May 27">May 27</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._President" title="U.S. President">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, during an official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_presidential_trips_made_by_Donald_Trump" title="List of international presidential trips made by Donald Trump">state visit to Japan</a>, becomes the first foreign leader to meet with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_emperor" title="Japanese emperor">Japanese emperor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruhito" title="Naruhito">Naruhito</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-81"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-81">[81]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_30" title="May 30">May 30</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_14" title="July 14">July 14</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Cricket_World_Cup" title="2019 Cricket World Cup">2019 Cricket World Cup</a> is held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, and is won by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_cricket_team" title="England cricket team">England</a>.</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="June">June</span></h3><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1" title="June 1">June 1</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C." title="Liverpool F.C.">Liverpool F.C</a> win their 6th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Champions_League" title="UEFA Champions League">UEFA Champions League</a> title, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitano_Stadium" title="Metropolitano Stadium">Metropolitano Stadium</a>, with goals from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Salah" title="Mohamed Salah">Mohamed Salah</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divock_Origi" title="Divock Origi">Divock Origi</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-82"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-82">[82]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2" title="June 2">June 2</a>
<ul><li>Nearly five years after <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I_of_Spain#Abdication" title="Juan Carlos I of Spain">abdication</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_monarchs" title="List of Spanish monarchs">King</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I_of_Spain" title="Juan Carlos I of Spain">Juan Carlos I of Spain</a> retires from public life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-83"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-83">[83]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sammarinese_referendum" title="2019 Sammarinese referendum">2019 San Marino referendum</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammarinese" title="Sammarinese">Sammarinese</a> voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_San_Marino" title="Government of San Marino">reform of the electoral system</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-84"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-84">[84]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3" title="June 3">June 3</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_massacre" title="Khartoum massacre">Khartoum massacre</a>: More than 100 people are killed when <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces_(Sudan)" title="Rapid Support Forces (Sudan)">Sudanese troops</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janjaweed" title="Janjaweed">Janjaweed</a> militiamen storm and open fire on a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Sudanese_protests" title="2018–19 Sudanese protests">protest camp</a> outside of a military headquarters in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum" title="Khartoum">Khartoum</a>, Sudan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-85"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-85">[85]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3" title="June 3">June 3</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">5</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._President" title="U.S. President">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> makes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_visit" title="State visit">state visit</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">U.K.</a>, meeting with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> and outgoing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>. It is the first official state visit to the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.K._-_U.S._relations" title="U.K. - U.S. relations">U.K. by a sitting U.S. president</a> since 2011. Trump also attends <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_landings" title="Normandy landings">D-Day</a> commemorative ceremonies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-86"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-86">[86]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_5" title="June 5">June 5</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_8" title="June 8">8</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="President of the People's Republic of China">Chinese President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> makes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_visit" title="State visit">state visit</a> to Russia, where he also attends the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_International_Economic_Forum" title="St. Petersburg International Economic Forum">St. Petersburg International Economic Forum</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-87"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-87">[87]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_6" title="June 6">June 6</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Sudanese_protests" title="2018–19 Sudanese protests">2018–19 Sudanese protests</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> suspends Sudan's membership "with immediate effect" after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khartoum_massacre" title="Khartoum massacre">Khartoum massacre</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-88"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-88">[88]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_prime_minister" title="British prime minister">British Prime Minister</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> resigns as leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_7" title="June 7">June 7</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7" title="July 7">July 7</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup" title="2019 FIFA Women's World Cup">2019 FIFA Women's World Cup</a> is held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> and is won by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States women's national soccer team">United States</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_9" title="June 9">June 9</a>
<ul><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: Over 1 million people in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> protest against <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Offenders_and_Mutual_Legal_Assistance_in_Criminal_Matters_Legislation_(Amendment)_Bill_2019" title="Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019">proposed legislation</a> regarding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition" title="Extradition">extradition</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a>. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong" title="Handover of Hong Kong">1997 handover</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-89"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-89">[89]</a></sup></li><li>A large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_eruption" title="Explosive eruption">explosive eruption</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinabung" title="Mount Sinabung">Mount Sinabung</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a> sends a 7,000-meter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_column" title="Eruption column">ash column</a> into the air, generating a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow" title="Pyroclastic flow">pyroclastic flow</a> 3–3.5 kilometers long towards the south and southeast of the mountain.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-90"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-90">[90]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-91"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-91">[91]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_11" title="June 11">June 11</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana">Botswana</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Botswana" title="LGBT rights in Botswana">decriminalizes homosexuality</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-92"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-92">[92]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>
<ul><li>The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Ecuador" title="Supreme Court of Ecuador">Supreme Court of Ecuador</a> rules in favor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_Ecuador" title="Same-sex marriage in Ecuador">same-sex marriage</a>, making it legal throughout the country.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-93"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-93">[93]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_June_2019_Hong_Kong_protest" title="12 June 2019 Hong Kong protest">June 12, 2019 Hong Kong protest</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_government" title="Hong Kong government">Hong Kong government</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force" title="Hong Kong Police Force">police</a> controversially declare that the protest has "turned into a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot" title="Riot">riot</a>".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-94"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-94">[94]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-95"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-95">[95]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-96"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-96">[96]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_13" title="June 13">June 13</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2019_Gulf_of_Oman_incident" title="June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident">June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident</a>: Two oil tankers are attacked near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz" title="Strait of Hormuz">Strait of Hormuz</a> while transiting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Oman" title="Gulf of Oman">Gulf of Oman</a> amid heightened tension between <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-U.S._relations" title="Iran-U.S. relations">Iran and the U.S.</a>, with the latter blaming the former for the incident.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-97"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-97">[97]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15" title="June 15">June 15</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Extradition_Bill_2019" title="Hong Kong Extradition Bill 2019">extradition bill</a>, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chief Executive of Hong Kong">Chief Executive</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Lam" title="Carrie Lam">Carrie Lam</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-98"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-98">[98]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_16" title="June 16">June 16</a> – A large-scale <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Argentina,_Paraguay_and_Uruguay_blackout" title="2019 Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay blackout">power outage</a> hits <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Argentina" title="Energy in Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Uruguay" title="Energy in Uruguay">Uruguay</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Paraguay" title="Energy in Paraguay">parts of Paraguay</a>, affecting nearly 50 million people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-99"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-99">[99]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_17" title="June 17">June 17</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Borno_bombings" title="2019 Borno bombings">A triple suicide blast</a> kills 30 and injures over 40 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borno_State" title="Borno State">Borno</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>, at a hall where people were watching a football match.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_18" title="June 18">June 18</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> sends an additional 1,000 troops to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> as tensions build with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-100"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-100">[100]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a> – Four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17" title="Malaysia Airlines Flight 17">Malaysia Airlines Flight 17</a>, an airliner shot down while flying over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Ukraine" title="Eastern Ukraine">Eastern Ukraine</a> in July 2014.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-101"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-101">[101]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_21" title="June 21">21</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="President of the People's Republic of China">Chinese President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping" title="Xi Jinping">Xi Jinping</a> makes a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%E2%80%93Xi_meetings#Fifth_meeting" title="Kim–Xi meetings">state visit</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a>. It is his first visit to the country as president and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_China_relations" title="North Korea China relations">first visit to North Korea by a Chinese leader</a> since <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a>'s visit 14 years prior.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-102"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-102">[102]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20" title="June 20">June 20</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2019_Iranian_shoot-down_of_American_drone" title="June 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone">June 2019 Iranian shoot-down of American drone</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> shoots down a U.S. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-4_Global_Hawk" title="RQ-4 Global Hawk">RQ-4 Global Hawk</a> surveillance drone over the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz" title="Strait of Hormuz">Strait of Hormuz</a>
after claiming it violated their airspace. The U.S. claims it has been
shot down in international airspace in an "unprovoked attack".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-103"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-103">[103]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22" title="June 22">June 22</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Amhara_Region_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" title="2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt">2019 Amhara Region coup d'état attempt</a>: In the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara_Region" title="Amhara Region">Amhara Region</a> of Ethiopia, regional president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambachew_Mekonnen" title="Ambachew Mekonnen">Ambachew Mekonnen</a> and national-military chief of staff <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%27are_Mekonnen" title="Se'are Mekonnen">Se'are Mekonnen</a> are assassinated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-104"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-104">[104]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_30" title="June 30">June 30</a> – During a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Koreas%E2%80%93United_States_DMZ_Summit" title="2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit">trilateral gathering</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Security_Area" title="Joint Security Area">Panmunjom Truce Village</a> between <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_President" title="South Korean President">South Korean President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Jae-in" title="Moon Jae-in">Moon Jae-in</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_leader" title="North Korean leader">North Korean Leader</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un" title="Kim Jong-un">Kim Jong-un</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._President" title="U.S. President">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. president to cross the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone" title="Korean Demilitarized Zone">Korean Demilitarized Zone</a> and enter North Korea. Trump and Kim also agree to restart stalled <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction" title="North Korea and weapons of mass destruction">denuclearization</a> negotiations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-105"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-105">[105]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="July">July</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cas9_Apo_Structure.png"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="653" data-file-width="848" height="169" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Cas9_Apo_Structure.png/220px-Cas9_Apo_Structure.png" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR_gene_editing" title="CRISPR gene editing">CRISPR gene editing</a> first used in July to experimentally treat a patient with a genetic disorder</div></div></div>
<ul><li>July – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration" title="National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> (NOAA) reports, on August 15, that July 2019 has been the hottest month on record globally, at 0.95 °C (1.71 °F) above the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_periods_and_events_in_climate_history" title="List of periods and events in climate history">20th-century average</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-106"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-106">[106]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-107"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-107">[107]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-108"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-108">[108]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1" title="July 1">July 1</a>
<ul><li>Japan resumes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan" title="Whaling in Japan">commercial whaling</a> after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Whaling_Commission" title="International Whaling Commission">International Whaling Commission</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-109"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-109">[109]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-110"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-110">[110]</a></sup></li><li>Japan announces tightening high-tech exports to South Korea, thus begin the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_trade_dispute" title="2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute">trade dispute between the two countries</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-111"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-111">[111]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a> confirms that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> has breached the limit on its stockpile of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium" title="Enriched uranium">enriched uranium</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-112"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-112">[112]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: During the annual July 1 protests that mark the anniversary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong" title="Handover of Hong Kong">British handover of the city to China</a>, a group of a few hundred protesters stormed the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Council" title="Legislative Council">Legislative Council</a> of Hong Kong, defacing various portraits and destroying furniture before being dispersed by police using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas" title="Tear gas">tear gas</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-113"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-113">[113]</a></sup></li><li>A fire on the Russian deep-diving submarine <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik" title="Russian submarine Losharik">Losharik</a></i> kills 14 crew members. Submarine commander Denis Dolonsky is among those killed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-114"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-114">[114]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2" title="July 2">July 2</a> – A total <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_2,_2019" title="Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019">solar eclipse</a> occurs over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>. It is the 58th solar eclipse from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Saros_127" title="Solar Saros 127">Saros cycle 127</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-115"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-115">[115]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-116"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-116">[116]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_3" title="July 3">July 3</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tajoura_migrant_center_airstrike" title="2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike">2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike</a>: An airstrike by Field Marshal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalifa_Haftar" title="Khalifa Haftar">Khalifa Haftar</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_National_Army" title="Libyan National Army">Libyan National Army</a> hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli" title="Tripoli">Tripoli</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injures 130 others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-117"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-117">[117]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_10" title="July 10">July 10</a> – The last <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle" title="Volkswagen Beetle">Volkswagen Beetle</a> rolls off the line in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebla_(city)" title="Puebla (city)">Puebla</a>, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-118"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-118">[118]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12" title="July 12">July 12</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asasey_Hotel_attack" title="Asasey Hotel attack">Asasey Hotel attack</a>: A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26 people, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismayo" title="Kismayo">Kismayo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>. Islamist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a> claims responsibility.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-119"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-119">[119]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_13" title="July 13">July 13</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Barry_(2019)" title="Hurricane Barry (2019)">Hurricane Barry</a> strikes the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Coast" title="Gulf Coast">Gulf Coast</a>, killing one and causing over $500 million (2019 USD) in damages.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_16" title="July 16">July 16</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> elects <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a> as the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a>. Succeeding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Juncker" title="Jean-Claude Juncker">Jean-Claude Juncker</a>, she will be sworn in on December 1, 2019. She is the first female to be elected to this office in EU history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-120"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-120">[120]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-121"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-121">[121]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_17" title="July 17">July 17</a>
<ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Guzm%C3%A1n" title="United States v. Guzmán">United States v. Guzmán</a></i>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n" title="Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán">Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán</a>, former head of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaloa_Cartel" title="Sinaloa Cartel">Sinaloa Cartel</a>, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-122"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-122">[122]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization" title="World Health Organization">World Health Organization</a> (WHO) declares the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932020_Kivu_Ebola_epidemic" title="2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic">Kivu Ebola epidemic</a> to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Health_Emergency_of_International_Concern" title="Public Health Emergency of International Concern">public health emergency of international concern</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-123"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-123">[123]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_18" title="July 18">July 18</a> – 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack" title="Kyoto Animation arson attack">arson attack</a> at an animation company in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, Japan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-124"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-124">[124]</a></sup> It is one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Japan" title="List of massacres in Japan">deadliest massacres</a> in the country's history since the end of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and the deadliest building fire in the country in 18 years, since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myojo_56_building_fire" title="Myojo 56 building fire">Myojo 56 building fire</a> in 2001.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-125"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-125">[125]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_19" title="July 19">July 19</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_of_the_Islamic_Revolutionary_Guard_Corps" title="Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps">Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps</a> captures <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> tanker <i>Stena Impero</i> and temporarily seizes British-operated and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberian</a>-flagged tanker <i>Mesdar</i> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf" title="Persian Gulf">Persian Gulf</a>. The British <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" title="Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Foreign Secretary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a>, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-126"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-126">[126]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-127"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-127">[127]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-128"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-128">[128]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_21" title="July 21">July 21</a> – A mob of over 100 suspected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organized_crime)" title="Triad (organized crime)">triad</a> members dressed in white and armed with batons <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Yuen_Long_violence" title="2019 Yuen Long violence">attack commuters indiscriminately</a> at MTR <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuen_Long_station" title="Yuen Long station">Yuen Long station</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a>, injuring 45, including a pro-democracy legislator and a pregnant woman. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Police_Force" title="Hong Kong Police Force">Hong Kong police</a>
have been accused of allowing the violence to happen due to their
delayed response and decision to limit emergency services in the area. <a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/22/where-were-the-police-hong-kong-outcry-after-masked-thugs-launch-attack" rel="nofollow">(<i>The Guardian</i>)</a> <a class="external text" href="https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3019524/least-10-injured-baton-wielding-mob-suspected-triad" rel="nofollow">(SCMP)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_24" title="July 24">July 24</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> becomes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister of the United Kingdom</a> after defeating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Conservative_Party_leadership_election" title="2019 Conservative Party leadership election">leadership contest</a>, succeeding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-129"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-129">[129]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26" title="July 26">July 26</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_11" title="August 11">August 11</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Pan_American_Games" title="2019 Pan American Games">2019 Pan American Games</a> are held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima" title="Lima">Lima</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30" title="July 30">July 30</a> – India bans <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_talaq_in_India" title="Triple talaq in India">triple <i>talaq</i></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-130"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-130">[130]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="August">August</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_anti-extradition_bill_protest_(48108527758).jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="3024" data-file-width="4032" height="165" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Hong_Kong_anti-extradition_bill_protest_%2848108527758%29.jpg/220px-Hong_Kong_anti-extradition_bill_protest_%2848108527758%29.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">A Hong Kong anti-extradition law protest in June</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_1" title="August 1">August 1</a> – Danish polar research institution Polar Portal reports a large spike in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland" title="Greenland">Greenland</a> ice loss, with 11 billion tons melted in one day and 197 gigatonnes during the month of July.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-131"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-131">[131]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2" title="August 2">August 2</a>
<ul><li>The United States officially withdraws from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty" title="Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty">Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty</a> established with Russia in 1987.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-132"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-132">[132]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_trade_dispute" title="2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute">2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute</a>: Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-133"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-133">[133]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_3" title="August 3">August 3</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting" title="2019 El Paso shooting">A mass shooting</a> at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> store in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso, Texas</a>, United States, leaves 23 people dead and 23 others injured.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-134"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-134">[134]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT23_135-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-NYT23-135">[135]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_4" title="August 4">August 4</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Cairo_bombing" title="2019 Cairo bombing">2019 Cairo bombing</a>: A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cancer_Institute_Egypt" title="National Cancer Institute Egypt">National Cancer Institute Egypt</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-136"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-136">[136]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Dayton_shooting" title="2019 Dayton shooting">2019 Dayton shooting</a>: Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton,_Ohio" title="Dayton, Ohio">Dayton, Ohio</a>, United States, just 13 hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-137"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-137">[137]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_5" title="August 5">August 5</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revocation_of_the_special_status_of_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir">Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir</a>: India revokes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_370_of_the_Constitution_of_India" title="Article 370 of the Constitution of India">part of its constitution</a> that gives <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(state)" title="Jammu and Kashmir (state)">Indian-administered Kashmir</a> special status in an unprecedented move.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-138"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-138">[138]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-139"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-139">[139]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: Amid ongoing protests, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> is hit by the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike" title="General strike">general strikes</a> of their kind since 1967.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-140"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-140">[140]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_7" title="August 7">August 7</a> – The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Convention_on_Mediation" title="Singapore Convention on Mediation">Singapore Convention on Mediation</a>,
also known as the UN Convention on International Settlement Agreements
Resulting from Mediation, comes into effect with 46 countries ratifying
it. States that have ratified the treaty will have to ensure that
international commercial settlement agreements are enforced by their
courts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-141"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-141">[141]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_8" title="August 8">August 8</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident" title="Nyonoksa radiation accident">Nyonoksa radiation accident</a>: Reports indicate that there may have been a nuclear explosion at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa" title="Nyonoksa">Nyonoksa</a> weapons-testing site in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhangelsk_Oblast" title="Arkhangelsk Oblast">Arkhangelsk Oblast</a>, Russia. At least five people were killed and three others injured in the blast, with radiation levels in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severodvinsk" title="Severodvinsk">Severodvinsk</a>, 47 km (29 mi) from the site, being 20 times above normal levels temporarily.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-142"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-142">[142]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_10" title="August 10">August 10</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morogoro_tanker_explosion" title="Morogoro tanker explosion">Morogoro tanker explosion</a>: A fuel tanker truck explodes in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morogoro" title="Morogoro">Morogoro</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-143"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-143">[143]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-144"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-144">[144]</a></sup></li><li>32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Lekima_(2019)" title="Typhoon Lekima (2019)">Typhoon Lekima</a> makes landfall in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang" title="Zhejiang">Zhejiang</a>, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-145"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-145">[145]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_10" title="August 10">August 10</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">25</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Canary_Islands_wildfires" title="2019 Canary Islands wildfires">2019 Canary Islands wildfires</a>: A number of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildfire" title="Wildfire">forest fires</a> break out in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_Canaria" title="Gran Canaria">Gran Canaria</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenerife" title="Tenerife">Tenerife</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanzarote" title="Lanzarote">Lanzarote</a>.
The fires on the island of Gran Canaria were the most severe, resulting
in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the
evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and
villages.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-146"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-146">[146]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-147"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-147">[147]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_11" title="August 11">August 11</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_floods" title="2019 Indian floods">2019 Indian floods</a>: At least 114 people, including 57 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala" title="Kerala">Kerala</a>, 30 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka" title="Karnataka">Karnataka</a> and 27 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra" title="Maharashtra">Maharashtra</a>, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. At least 227 died across India, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-148"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-148">[148]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_12" title="August 12">August 12</a>
<ul><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_International_Airport" title="Hong Kong International Airport">Hong Kong International Airport</a> is closed due to protests.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-149"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-149">[149]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Japan%E2%80%93South_Korea_trade_dispute" title="2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute">2019–2020 Japan–South Korea trade dispute</a>: South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-150"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-150">[150]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-151"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-151">[151]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-152"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-152">[152]</a></sup></li><li>The Trump administration announces it will delay its proposal for 10
percent tariffs slated to take effect from September 1 on certain
consumer goods from China while exempting other products — less than two
weeks after Trump announced the new proposed tariffs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-153"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-153">[153]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_13" title="August 13">August 13</a> – The main yield curve for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security" title="United States Treasury security">U.S. Treasury bonds</a> inverts, as the yield rate for 2-year bonds rises higher than the yield rate for 10-year bonds.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-154"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-154">[154]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_14" title="August 14">August 14</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average" title="Dow Jones Industrial Average">Dow Jones</a> plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_curve_inversion" title="Yield curve inversion">yield curve inversion</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-155"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-155">[155]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-156"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-156">[156]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-157"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-157">[157]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_15" title="August 15">August 15</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Central_Bank" title="European Central Bank">European Central Bank</a> shuts down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNB_Banka" title="PNB Banka">PNB Banka</a>
after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called
Norvik Banka, has been Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and a critic of
the Baltic country's financial authorities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-158"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-158">[158]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_16" title="August 16">August 16</a> – Russian airstrike kills <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hass_refugee_camp_bombing" title="Hass refugee camp bombing">20 civilians in the Hass refugee camp</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-159"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-159">[159]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_18" title="August 18">August 18</a> – 100 activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a> hold a funeral for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okj%C3%B6kull" title="Okjökull">Okjökull glacier</a>, which has completely melted after once covering 15.5 km<sup>2</sup> (6 sq mi).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-160"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-160">[160]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_19" title="August 19">August 19</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Papua_protests" title="2019 Papua protests">2019 Papua protests</a> erupt, mainly across <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_Papua" title="Indonesian Papua">Indonesian Papua</a>, in response to an incident in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surabaya" title="Surabaya">Surabaya</a> where a group of Papuan students were arrested for alleged disrespect of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_flag" title="Indonesian flag">Indonesian flag</a>. In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapura" title="Jayapura">Jayapura</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorong" title="Sorong">Sorong</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakfak" title="Fakfak">Fakfak</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timika" title="Timika">Timika</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manokwari" title="Manokwari">Manokwari</a>,
protests turned violent, with various private buildings and public
facilities being damaged or burned. The protests and unrest were
described by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a> as "the most serious civil unrest in years over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-161"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-161">[161]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_21" title="August 21">August 21</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Amazon_rainforest_wildfires" title="2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires">2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires</a>: Brazil's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Space_Research" title="National Institute for Space Research">National Institute for Space Research (INPE)</a> reports fires burning in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest" title="Amazon rainforest">Amazon rainforest</a> at a record rate, with more than 36,000 in the year to date, while smoke reaches <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo" title="São Paulo">São Paulo</a> more than 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) away.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-162"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-162">[162]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Conte" title="Giuseppe Conte">Giuseppe Conte</a> offers his resignation as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Italy" title="Prime Minister of Italy">Prime Minister of Italy</a> in order to avoid a no-confidence motion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-163"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-163">[163]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_23" title="August 23">August 23</a> – German Chancellor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a> and French President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> describe the widespread <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Brazil_wildfires" title="2019 Brazil wildfires">Amazon fires</a> as an international emergency, urging the matter to be discussed at the weekend's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_G7_summit" title="45th G7 summit">G7 summit</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-164"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-164">[164]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-165"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-165">[165]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_25" title="August 25">August 25</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Beirut_drone_crash" title="2019 Beirut drone crash">2019 Beirut drone crash</a>: According to Lebanese officials, two Israeli drones attack <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beirut" title="Beirut">Beirut</a>,
Lebanon. One crashed into the roof of the Hezbollah Media Center, about
45 minutes before the second exploded in the air and damaged the
building.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-166"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-166">[166]</a></sup> It is the first such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War" title="2006 Lebanon War">2006 Lebanon War</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-167"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-167">[167]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="September">September</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marche_pour_le_climat_27-09-2019_(Montr%C3%A9al)_14.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="2975" data-file-width="4462" height="147" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Marche_pour_le_climat_27-09-2019_%28Montr%C3%A9al%29_14.jpg/220px-Marche_pour_le_climat_27-09-2019_%28Montr%C3%A9al%29_14.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg" title="Greta Thunberg">Greta Thunberg</a> is the youngest TIME person of the year</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1" title="September 1">September 1</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian" title="Hurricane Dorian">Hurricane Dorian</a> makes landfall on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a>
as the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin outside
the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-168"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-168">[168]</a></sup> 43 deaths are reported.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-169"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-169">[169]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2" title="September 2">September 2</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Conception" title="Sinking of MV Conception">Sinking of MV <i>Conception</i></a>: 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Island" title="Santa Cruz Island">Santa Cruz Island</a>, California, United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-170"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-170">[170]</a></sup> It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-171"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-171">[171]</a></sup></li><li>Iranian woman <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahar_Khodayari" title="Sahar Khodayari">Sahar Khodayari</a> sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>. She dies a week later.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-172"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-172">[172]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_4" title="September 4">September 4</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chief Executive of Hong Kong">Chief Executive</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Lam" title="Carrie Lam">Carrie Lam</a> announces the official withdrawal of the controversial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_extradition_bill" title="2019 Hong Kong extradition bill">Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019</a>, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-173"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-173">[173]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_6" title="September 6">September 6</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-2" title="Chandrayaan-2">Chandrayaan-2</a>, India's second lunar probe, is successfully placed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_orbit" title="Lunar orbit">lunar orbit</a>, but the lander <i>Vikram</i> crashes into the surface of the moon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-174"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-174">[174]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_7" title="September 7">September 7</a>
<ul><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_peace_process" title="Afghan peace process">Afghan peace process</a>: U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> announces he "called off" planned peace talks with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David" title="Camp David">Camp David</a> after they claimed responsibility for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_and_5_September_2019_Kabul_bombings" title="2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings">the September 2 and 5 bombings in Kabul</a> which killed a U.S. soldier, among others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-175"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-175">[175]</a></sup></li><li>Ukrainian filmmaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Sentsov" title="Oleg Sentsov">Oleg Sentsov</a> and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-176"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-176">[176]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_10" title="September 10">September 10</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_controversy" title="2019 British prorogation controversy">prorogued</a> amid unprecedented protests from opposition MPs, who hold up signs in the House of Commons and refuse to back the shutdown.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-177"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-177">[177]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11" title="September 11">September 11</a> – Astronomers announce the detection of water in the atmosphere of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet" title="Exoplanet">exoplanet</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-18b" title="K2-18b">K2-18b</a>, the first such discovery for an exoplanet in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone" title="Circumstellar habitable zone">habitable zone</a> around a star.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-178"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-178">[178]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_14" title="September 14">September 14</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" title="2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack">2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack</a>: Two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco" title="Saudi Aramco">Saudi Aramco</a> oil refineries in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq" title="Abqaiq">Abqaiq</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khurais_oil_field" title="Khurais oil field">Khurais</a>, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement" title="Houthi movement">Houthi militants</a>
claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack.
Aramco's oil exports and production are disrupted by five million
barrels a day, close to half of the entire Saudi Arabian oil exports.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-179"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-179">[179]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_16" title="September 16">September 16</a> – A gas explosion in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koltsovo,_Novosibirsk_Oblast" title="Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast">Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease" title="Ebola virus disease">ebola</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrax" title="Anthrax">anthrax</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-180"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-180">[180]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17" title="September 17">September 17</a> – Interest rates on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repurchase_agreement" title="Repurchase agreement">repurchase agreements</a> (or "repos") in the United States experience a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_U.S._repo_market" title="September 2019 events in the U.S. repo market">sudden and unexpected spike</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-181"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-181">[181]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_19" title="September 19">September 19</a> – 30 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nangarhar_Province" title="Nangarhar Province">Nangarhar Province</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-182"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-182">[182]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – An international <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_climate_strike" title="September 2019 climate strike">strike and protest</a> led by young people and adults is held three days before the latest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_UN_Climate_Action_Summit" title="2019 UN Climate Action Summit">UN Climate Summit</a>, to demand action be taken to address the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_crisis" title="Climate crisis">climate crisis</a>. The event is one of the largest climate mobilizations in history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-183"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-183">[183]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-184"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-184">[184]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_20" title="September 20">September 20</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2" title="November 2">November 2</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Rugby_World_Cup" title="2019 Rugby World Cup">2019 Rugby Union World Cup</a> is held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_national_rugby_union_team" title="South Africa national rugby union team">South Africa Springboks</a> defeat the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_team" title="England national rugby union team">England national rugby union team</a> 32–12.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-185"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-185">[185]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_21" title="September 21">September 21</a> – U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> following the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_attack" title="2019 Abqaiq–Khurais attack">September 14 attack</a> on Saudi oil refineries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-186"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-186">[186]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-187"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-187">[187]</a></sup> Both Saudi Arabia and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> vow to defend themselves.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-188"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-188">[188]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_22" title="September 22">September 22</a> – Nearly three weeks after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_Hurricane_Dorian_in_The_Bahamas" title="Effects of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas">Hurricane Dorian</a> makes landfall on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a>,
the official death toll stands at 52 and 1,300 are reported missing.
Rescuers report the widespread stench of rotting bodies in the rubble.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-189"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-189">[189]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_23" title="September 23">September 23</a>
<ul><li>One of the largest and oldest travel firms, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cook_Group" title="Thomas Cook Group">Thomas Cook</a>, goes bankrupt as last-minute rescue negotiations fail, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-190"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-190">[190]</a></sup></li><li>Russia formally adopts the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris climate agreement</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-191"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-191">[191]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24" title="September 24">September 24</a>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Supreme Court of the United Kingdom">Supreme Court of the United Kingdom</a> unanimously rules in <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller)_v_The_Prime_Minister" title="R (Miller) v The Prime Minister">R (Miller) v The Prime Minister</a></i> that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_British_prorogation_controversy" title="2019 British prorogation controversy">September 2019 prorogation of Parliament</a> is unlawful and void.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-192"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-192">[192]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Spain" title="Supreme Court of Spain">Supreme Court of Spain</a> unanimously rules in favour of the exhumation of the remains of Spanish dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco" title="Francisco Franco">Francisco Franco</a> from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos" title="Valle de los Caídos">Valle de los Caídos</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-193"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-193">[193]</a></sup> He is finally exhumed on October 24, being re-inhumed in a private crypt with his wife.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-194"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-194">[194]</a></sup></li><li>U.S. Speaker of the House <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> announces the start of a formal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump" title="Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump">impeachment inquiry</a> against President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-195"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-195">[195]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_27" title="September 27">September 27</a> – 500,000 people march in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> protest led by activist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg" title="Greta Thunberg">Greta Thunberg</a> and Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, Canada.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-196"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-196">[196]</a></sup> 4,000,000 go on strike around the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-197"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-197">[197]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_30" title="September 30">September 30</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_mitigation" title="Climate change mitigation">combat climate change</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-198"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-198">[198]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="October">October</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hong_Kong_protests_-_IMG_20190818_204612.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="3024" data-file-width="4032" height="165" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Hong_Kong_protests_-_IMG_20190818_204612.jpg/220px-Hong_Kong_protests_-_IMG_20190818_204612.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Hong Kong protests turned into widespread riots and civil disobedience</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1" title="October 1">October 1</a>
<ul><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: A protester is shot in the chest with a live round of ammunition and critically injured.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-199"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-199">[199]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-200"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-200">[200]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanfang%27ao_Bridge" title="Nanfang'ao Bridge">Nanfang'ao Bridge</a>, the only steel single-arch bridge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-201"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-201">[201]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2" title="October 2">October 2</a> – 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondoro" title="Mondoro">Mondoro</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-202"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-202">[202]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_police_headquarters_stabbing" title="Paris police headquarters stabbing">Paris police headquarters stabbing</a>: A man stabs five officers at the central police headquarters in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>,
France, killing four of them. The attacker, shot dead by other
officers, is an administrative intelligence employee at the station.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-203"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-203">[203]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Court_of_Justice" title="European Court of Justice">European Court of Justice</a> rules that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> must take down a post about Austrian politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Glawischnig-Piesczek" title="Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek">Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek</a>. The post originated in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> and the court ruled that the post defamed and insulted the politician and must be removed all over the world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-204"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-204">[204]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Commission</a> spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_in_United_States_history" title="Tariff in United States history">United States imposes</a>
a US$7.5-billion (approximately €6.8-billion) tariff on products such
as olives, whiskey, wine, cheese, yogurt, and airplanes. The tariffs are
scheduled to take place on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-205"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-205">[205]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_4" title="October 4">October 4</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Executive_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chief Executive of Hong Kong">Chief Executive</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Lam" title="Carrie Lam">Carrie Lam</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_in_Council" title="Order in Council">Chief Executive in Council</a> invokes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Regulations_Ordinance" title="Emergency Regulations Ordinance">Emergency Regulations Ordinance</a> and banning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_mask" title="Surgical mask">face mask</a> in public gatherings with immediate effect.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-206"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-206">[206]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_5" title="October 5">October 5</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_Iraqi_protests" title="2018–19 Iraqi protests">2019 Iraqi protests</a>: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-207"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-207">[207]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><span title="The material preceding this tag may lack sufficient importance. (May 2020)">importance?</span></a></i>]</sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_8" title="October 8">October 8</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ecuadorian_protests" title="2019 Ecuadorian protests">2019 Ecuadorian protests</a>: The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Ecuador" title="Government of Ecuador">Government of Ecuador</a>, headed by President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len%C3%ADn_Moreno" title="Lenín Moreno">Lenín Moreno</a>, moves to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil" title="Guayaquil">Guayaquil</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carondelet_Palace" title="Carondelet Palace">Carondelet Palace</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito" title="Quito">Quito</a> is overtaken by protesters and chaos persists in the capital.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-208"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-208">[208]</a></sup></li><li>About 200 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion" title="Extinction Rebellion">Extinction Rebellion</a> activists block the gates of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leinster_House" title="Leinster House">Leinster House</a> (parliament) in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-209"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-209">[209]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_9" title="October 9">October 9</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Turkish_offensive_into_north-eastern_Syria" title="2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria">2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria</a>: President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan" title="Recep Tayyip Erdoğan">Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a> announces a military invasion of north-eastern Syria, targeting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces" title="Syrian Democratic Forces">SDF</a> and other Kurdish militias.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-210"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-210">[210]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Assistance_Mission_in_Afghanistan" title="United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan">United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Human_Rights" title="Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights">U.N. Human Rights Office</a> issue a report that says that U.S. bombings in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimroz" title="Nimroz">Nimroz</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farah_Province" title="Farah Province">Farah Province</a>, Afghanistan, that killed 39 civilians are unlawful. The U.S. said the attacks were against drug labs that fund the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-211"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-211">[211]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12" title="October 12">October 12</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Hagibis_(2019)" title="Typhoon Hagibis (2019)">Typhoon Hagibis</a> makes landfall in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-212"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-212">[212]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_14" title="October 14">October 14</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Catalonia_independence_leaders" title="Trial of Catalonia independence leaders">Trial of Catalonia independence leaders</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Spain" title="Supreme Court of Spain">Supreme Court of Spain</a> sentences nine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_independence_movement" title="Catalan independence movement">Catalan independence movement</a>
leaders to 9 to 13 years of prison for sedition and misuse of public
funds. Three others are disqualified for 1 year and 8 months for
disobedience. Violent <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Catalan_protests" title="2019 Catalan protests">protests</a> erupt across Catalonia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-213"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-213">[213]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-214"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-214">[214]</a></sup></li><li>A <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">New York Times</a></i> investigation reveals that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> planes had bombed at least 50 hospitals and clinics in opposition-held <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idlib" title="Idlib">Idlib</a>, Syria.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-215"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-215">[215]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (November 2019)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_16" title="October 16">October 16</a> – Venezuelan councilman and opposition politician <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_Rada" title="Edmundo Rada">Edmundo Rada</a> is reported missing. He is found dead the following day on the side of the road out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petare" title="Petare">Petare</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracas" title="Caracas">Caracas</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:1_216-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-:1-216">[216]</a></sup> burned and with two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_de_gr%C3%A2ce" title="Coup de grâce">coup de grâce</a> shots in the back of his neck.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-:02_217-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-:02-217">[217]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_17" title="October 17">October 17</a> – Shootouts erupt in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culiac%C3%A1n" title="Culiacán">Culiacán</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, after the arrest of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_%22El_Chapo%22_Guzm%C3%A1n" title="Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán">El Chapo</a>'s son, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovidio_Guzm%C3%A1n_L%C3%B3pez" title="Ovidio Guzmán López">Ovidio Guzmán López</a>, on an arrest warrant for drug dealing in the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-218"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-218">[218]</a></sup>
Eight people are killed and 56 convicts escape from prison; 7 are
recaptured by October 18. Guzmán López is released in an effort to
restore peace and to prevent more bloodshed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-219"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-219">[219]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_18" title="October 18">October 18</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> astronauts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Meir" title="Jessica Meir">Jessica Meir</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Koch" title="Christina Koch">Christina Koch</a> conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.</li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests" title="2019 Chilean protests">Riots in Chilean capital city Santiago</a>
erupt as civil unrest escalated as a reaction to a series of economic
measures and Government's declarations labeled as abuse by protesters<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-220"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-220">[220]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-221"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-221">[221]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_19" title="October 19">October 19</a> – An estimated one million people march through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> in a protest organised by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Vote" title="People's Vote">People's Vote</a>, to demand a second referendum on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-222"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-222">[222]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_23" title="October 23">October 23</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_lorry_deaths" title="Essex lorry deaths">The bodies of 39 people are found in a truck container</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-223"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-223">[223]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> announces that its 53-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit" title="Qubit">qubit</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_processor" title="Sycamore processor">"Sycamore" processor</a> has achieved <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy" title="Quantum supremacy">quantum supremacy</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-224"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-224">[224]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-225"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-225">[225]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-226"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-226">[226]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-227"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-227">[227]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> disputes the claim.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-228"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-228">[228]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_25" title="October 25">October 25</a> – Tourists visit the summit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru" title="Uluru">Uluru</a> (also known as Ayers Rock) for the last time, as a ban on climbing the famous rock in Australia's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory" title="Northern Territory">Northern Territory</a> comes into effect.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-229"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-229">[229]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_26" title="October 26">October 26</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Bishops_for_the_Pan-Amazon_region" title="Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region">Amazon Catholic bishops synod</a> proposes that married men be ordained as priests, which would reverse the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-230"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-230">[230]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_27" title="October 27">October 27</a>
<ul><li>U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> announces that the leader of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi" title="Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>, has been killed in a U.S. special forces <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barisha_raid" title="Barisha raid">operation</a>. It is reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-231"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-231">[231]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-auto1_232-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-auto1-232">[232]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_30" title="October 30">October 30</a>
<ul><li>Social media website <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> bans all political advertising worldwide.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-233"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-233">[233]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Cotabato_earthquakes" title="2019 Cotabato earthquakes">An earthquake of 6.5. M<sub>w</sub></a> rocks the Philippine island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindanao" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a> two days after an earthquake killed at least five and left around 12,000 people homeless.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-234"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-234">[234]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_31" title="October 31">October 31</a>
<ul><li>A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shurijo" title="Shurijo">Shuri Castle</a>, a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Educational,_Scientific_and_Cultural_Organization" title="United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization">UNESCO</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-235"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-235">[235]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Pakistan_train_fire" title="2019 Pakistan train fire">A train catches fire</a> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahim_Yar_Khan" title="Rahim Yar Khan">Rahim Yar Khan</a> in Pakistan. The blaze, sparked by gas used by passengers cooking on board, kills at least 74 people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-236"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-236">[236]</a></sup></li><li>Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200,000 people are homeless in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beledweyne" title="Beledweyne">Beledweyne</a>, Somalia. Meanwhile, 29 are dead and 29,000 homeless due to flooding in nearby <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-237"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-237">[237]</a></sup></li></ul></li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="November">November</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF_%22_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A_%22_%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="3078" data-file-width="5472" height="124" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF_%22_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A_%22_%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86.jpg/220px-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AF_%22_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%8A_%22_%D9%88_%D9%84%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Protesters in Baghdad during the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2019%E2%80%9320_Iraqi_protests&action=edit&redlink=1" title="2019–20 Iraqi protests (page does not exist)">October Revolution</a></div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_4" title="November 4">November 4</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeBar%C3%B3n_and_Langford_families_massacre" title="LeBarón and Langford families massacre">LeBarón and Langford families massacre</a>:
Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their
vehicles while driving to a wedding about 110 kilometres (70 mi) south
of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border">Mexico–United States border</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-238"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-238">[238]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> alleges that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a> killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing" title="Extrajudicial killing">extrajudicial executions</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-239"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-239">[239]</a></sup></li><li>The United States formally begins process to pull out of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement" title="Paris Agreement">Paris Agreement</a> on climate change.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-240"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-240">[240]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_5" title="November 5">November 5</a>
<ul><li>11,000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal <i>BioScience</i>, warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-241"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-241">[241]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-242"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-242">[242]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-243"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-243">[243]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_pollution_in_Delhi" title="Air pollution in Delhi">Air pollution in parts of India</a> hits record levels.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-244"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-244">[244]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_6" title="November 6">November 6</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Fada_N%27Gourma_attack" title="2019 Fada N'Gourma attack">2019 Fada N'Gourma attack</a>: At least 37 people are killed and 60 others injured when gunmen attack <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semafo" title="Semafo">a Canadian gold mining company</a> convoy on a road in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-245"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-245">[245]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_7" title="November 7">November 7</a> – Former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congolese</a> rebel leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Ntaganda" title="Bosco Ntaganda">Bosco Ntaganda</a> is sentenced to 30 years in prison for <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes" title="War crimes">war crimes</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity" title="Crimes against humanity">crimes against humanity</a>, the longest sentence ever handed down by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-246"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-246">[246]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_9" title="November 9">November 9</a>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_India" title="Supreme Court of India">Supreme Court of India</a> awards a holy site in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodhya_dispute" title="Ayodhya dispute">Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh</a> to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. The move is likely to spur sectarian disputes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-247"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-247">[247]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><span title="The material preceding this tag may lack sufficient importance. (May 2020)">importance?</span></a></i>]</sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Bulbul" title="Cyclone Bulbul">Cyclone Bulbul</a> kills seven in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal" title="West Bengal">West Bengal</a>, India and seven in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>. 2,000,000 people are evacuated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-248"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-248">[248]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_11" title="November 11">November 11</a>
<ul><li>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Mercury" title="Transit of Mercury">transit of Mercury</a> occurs.</li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: A traffic officer shoots a youth in Sai Wan Ho during a city-wide strike.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-249"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-249">[249]</a></sup> A man is also set on fire by protesters on the same day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-250"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-250">[250]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_13" title="November 13">November 13</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_against_Donald_Trump" title="Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump">Public impeachment hearings</a> against U.S. President Donald Trump begin in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-251"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-251">[251]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-252"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-252">[252]</a></sup></li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong" title="Chinese University of Hong Kong">Chinese University of Hong Kong</a>
officially announces a premature end to the semester as a result of
large-scale protests and civil unrest. Besides CUHK, several Hong Kong
universities switch to online learning and suspend on-campus class. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Bureau" title="Education Bureau">Education Bureau</a> in Hong Kong officially announces to close all schools in Hong Kong due to the ongoing protests.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-253"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-253">[253]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-254"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-254">[254]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_14" title="November 14">November 14</a>
<ul><li>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saugus_High_School_shooting" title="Saugus High School shooting">shooting</a> occurs at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saugus_High_School_(California)" title="Saugus High School (California)">Saugus High School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clarita,_California" title="Santa Clarita, California">Santa Clarita, California</a>, United States, resulting in 3 deaths (including the perpetrator) and 3 injuries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-255"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-255">[255]</a></sup></li><li>Italy declares a state of emergency in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a> following record flooding.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-256"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-256">[256]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_17" title="November 17">November 17</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–20 Hong Kong protests">2019–20 Hong Kong protests</a>: Police use tear gas and water cannons against protesters who try to break through cordons and reach <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University" title="The Hong Kong Polytechnic University">The Hong Kong Polytechnic University</a>, which is at the center of a week-long standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement. Protesters fight back with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail" title="Molotov cocktail">Molotov cocktails</a>, arrows, and bricks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-257"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-257">[257]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_19" title="November 19">November 19</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> enters the video game market with the launch of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Stadia" title="Google Stadia">Stadia</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-258"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-258">[258]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a> – Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu" title="Benjamin Netanyahu">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-259"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-259">[259]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_23" title="November 23">November 23</a>
<ul><li>An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bougainvillean_independence_referendum" title="2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum">independence referendum</a> begins in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Region_of_Bougainville" title="Autonomous Region of Bougainville">Bougainville</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinea</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-260"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-260">[260]</a></sup> Voters overwhelmingly choose independence.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-261"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-261">[261]</a></sup></li><li>The last known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_rhinoceros" title="Sumatran rhinoceros">Sumatran rhinoceros</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a> dies.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-262"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-262">[262]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_24" title="November 24">November 24</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Busy_Bee_crash" title="2019 Busy Bee crash">2019 Busy Bee crash</a>: A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goma" title="Goma">Goma</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a>, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-263"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-263">[263]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25" title="November 25">November 25</a>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization" title="World Meteorological Organization">World Meteorological Organization</a> reports that levels of heat-trapping <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gases" title="Greenhouse gases">greenhouse gases</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth" title="Atmosphere of Earth">atmosphere</a> have reached another new record high of 407.8 parts per million, with "no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-264"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-264">[264]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-265"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-265">[265]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion" title="IPv4 address exhaustion">IPv4 address exhaustion</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPE_NCC" title="RIPE NCC">RIPE NCC</a>, which is the official regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, officially announces that it has run out of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4" title="IPv4">IPv4</a> addresses.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-266"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-266">[266]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_26" title="November 26">November 26</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Albania_earthquake" title="2019 Albania earthquake">2019 Albania earthquake</a>: 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AP1_267-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-AP1-267">[267]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-268"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-268">[268]</a></sup> The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_2019#By_death_toll" title="List of earthquakes in 2019">the world's deadliest earthquake in 2019</a>.</li><li><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests" title="2019 Chilean protests">2019 Chilean protests</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a>
issue reports on Chile's situation denouncing grave human rights
violations, including excessive violence use and detention abuses by
police forces.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-269"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-269">[269]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-270"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-270">[270]</a></sup>
Among police brutality acts there are records of police agents firing
non-lethal ammunition to protesters' faces against provider's
regulations, resulting in more than 200 people with severe eye trauma
and more than 50 requiring prosthetic eyes.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-271"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-271">[271]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_27" title="November 27">November 27</a> – The U.S. Government passes the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Human_Rights_and_Democracy_Act" title="Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act">Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Nov27NYT_272-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-Nov27NYT-272">[272]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a> – 22 people (two civilians, four police officers and 16 drug dealers) are killed in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Villa_Uni%C3%B3n_shootout" title="2019 Villa Unión shootout">shootout</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Uni%C3%B3n_Municipality" title="Villa Unión Municipality">Villa Unión, Coahuila, Mexico</a>, the largest such crime in the country's history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-273"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-273">[273]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30" title="November 30">November 30</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Southeast_Asian_Games" title="2019 Southeast Asian Games">2019 Southeast Asian Games</a> are held in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>.</li></ul>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="December">December</span></h3><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marcha_Mas_Grande_De_Chile_2019_Plaza_Baquedano_Drone.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="2976" data-file-width="3968" height="165" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Marcha_Mas_Grande_De_Chile_2019_Plaza_Baquedano_Drone.jpg/220px-Marcha_Mas_Grande_De_Chile_2019_Plaza_Baquedano_Drone.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">Chilean protests</div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_1" title="December 1">December 1</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>: First known human case of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019" title="Coronavirus disease 2019">Coronavirus disease 2019</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan" title="Wuhan">Wuhan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubei" title="Hubei">Hubei</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Novel_Coronavirus—China_274-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-Novel_Coronavirus—China-274">[274]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5days_275-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-5days-275">[275]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Kammuri_(2019)" title="Typhoon Kammuri (2019)">Typhoon Kammuri</a> hits the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, causing the evacuation of 200,000 people, but without reports of injuries or serious damage.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-276"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-276">[276]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2" title="December 2">December 2</a>–<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_13" title="December 13">13</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a> takes place in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>, Spain, after Chilean President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A1n_Pi%C3%B1era" title="Sebastián Piñera">Sebastián Piñera</a> announced in October that his country could not host the conference due to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_protests" title="2019 Chilean protests">political unrest</a> in the country.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-common_277-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-common-277">[277]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_5" title="December 5">December 5</a>
<ul><li>The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Burundi_landslide" title="2019 Burundi landslide">2019 Burundi landslide</a> is reported to have caused at least 26 deaths.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-278"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-278">[278]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> asks the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Judiciary_committee" title="House Judiciary committee">House Judiciary Committee</a> to begin drafting the articles of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment" title="Impeachment">impeachment</a> against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-279"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-279">[279]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_8" title="December 8">December 8</a> – <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_factory_fire" title="Delhi factory fire">A fire</a> at a factory in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, India, kills 43 people and injures at least 50 others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-280"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-280">[280]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_9" title="December 9">December 9</a>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Anti-Doping_Agency" title="World Anti-Doping Agency">World Anti-Doping Agency</a> votes unanimously to ban <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> from international sport for four years for doping offences, meaning it will be excluded from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Summer_Olympics" title="2020 Summer Olympics">2020 Summer Olympics</a> in Tokyo, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Winter_Olympics" title="2022 Winter Olympics">2022 Winter Olympics</a> in Beijing and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2022 FIFA World Cup">2022 World Cup</a> in Qatar.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-281"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-281">[281]</a></sup></li><li>A volcano <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari/White_Island_eruption" title="2019 Whakaari/White Island eruption">erupts</a> on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whakaari/White_Island" title="Whakaari/White Island">White Island</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, killing 20 people and injuring 27 others.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20thDeath_282-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-20thDeath-282">[282]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-283"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-283">[283]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Chilean_Air_Force_C-130_crash" title="2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash">2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash</a>: A Chilean military transport aircraft crashes while en route to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Presidente_Eduardo_Frei_Montalva" title="Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva">Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica" title="Antarctica">Antarctica</a>, killing all 38 people on board.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-284"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-284">[284]</a></sup> The crash site is located on December 12.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-285"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-285">[285]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_10" title="December 10">December 10</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Marin" title="Sanna Marin">Sanna Marin</a>, at the age of 34, becomes the world's youngest serving prime minister after being selected to lead <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Finland" title="Social Democratic Party of Finland">Social Democratic Party</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-286"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-286">[286]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> announce formal charges against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, accusing him of abusing power and "obstructing Congress"; he becomes the fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-287"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-287">[287]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_11" title="December 11">December 11</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization" title="World Trade Organization">World Trade Organization</a> is left unable to intervene in trade disputes after the U.S. blocks the appointment of new panel members.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-288"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-288">[288]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-289"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-289">[289]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-290"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-290">[290]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16" title="December 16">December 16</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> abolishes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_secret" title="Pontifical secret">pontifical secrecy</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sexual_abuse_cases" title="Catholic Church sexual abuse cases">sex abuse cases</a>; the move follows the Vatican's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_on_the_Protection_of_Minors_in_the_Church" title="Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church">Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church</a> months prior.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-291"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-291">[291]</a></sup> The Pope also raises the definition of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_child_pornography" title="Legality of child pornography">child pornography</a>" from 14 to 18 years old.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-292"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-292">[292]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_17" title="December 17">December 17</a> – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Shandong" title="Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong">Shandong</a></i>, China's first fully domestically built <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_carrier" title="Aircraft carrier">aircraft carrier</a>, enters naval service.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-293"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-293">[293]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-294"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-294">[294]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_18" title="December 18">December 18</a>
<ul><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHEOPS" title="CHEOPS">CHEOPS</a> space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planets" title="Extrasolar planets">extrasolar planets</a> and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-295"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-295">[295]</a></sup></li><li>The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a> approves two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">articles of impeachment against President Trump</a>, making him the third <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president</a> to be impeached in the nation's history.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-296"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-296">[296]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_19" title="December 19">December 19</a>
<ul><li>Libya's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_National_Accord" title="Government of National Accord">Government of National Accord</a> activates a cooperation accord with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, allowing for a potential Turkish military intervention in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)" title="Libyan Civil War (2014–present)">Second Libyan Civil War</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-297"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-297">[297]</a></sup></li><li>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locust" title="Locust">locust</a> plague devastates 173,000 acres (70,000 hectares) of crop and grazing land in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-298"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-298">[298]</a></sup></li><li>A court in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a> convicts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andal_Ampatuan_Jr." title="Andal Ampatuan Jr.">Andal Ampatuan Jr.</a>, his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaldy_Ampatuan" title="Zaldy Ampatuan">Zaldy Ampatuan</a> and 31 others including three members of the Ampatuan clan, of 57 counts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">murder</a> and sentences them to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclusion_perpetua" title="Reclusion perpetua">life imprisonment</a> without <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">parole</a> for their role in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguindanao_massacre" title="Maguindanao massacre">Maguindanao massacre</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-299"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-299">[299]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-300"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-300">[300]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20" title="December 20">December 20</a>
<ul><li>The United States founds the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force" title="United States Space Force">United States Space Force</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_branch" title="Military branch">branch</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">United States Armed Forces</a> dedicated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_warfare" title="Space warfare">space warfare</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-301"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-301">[301]</a></sup></li><li>The Dutch Supreme Court affirms that the Dutch government is
responsible for management of carbon dioxide emissions for the country
and is bound to protect human rights.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-302"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-302">[302]</a></sup> The ruling reiterated from the Court of Appeals is that "every country is responsible for its share" of emissions.</li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_23" title="December 23">December 23</a>
<ul><li>Five men are sentenced to death and another three face 24 years in prison for their roles in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi" title="Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi">murder</a> of dissident journalist and <i>Washington Post</i> columnist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Khashoggi" title="Jamal Khashoggi">Jamal Khashoggi</a> at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-303"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-303">[303]</a></sup></li><li>28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatra" title="Sumatra">Sumatra</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-304"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-304">[304]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><span title="The material preceding this tag may lack sufficient importance. (May 2020)">importance?</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul></li></ul>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:House_of_Representatives_Votes_to_Adopt_the_Articles_of_Impeachment_Against_Donald_Trump.jpg"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="1796" data-file-width="3197" height="124" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/House_of_Representatives_Votes_to_Adopt_the_Articles_of_Impeachment_Against_Donald_Trump.jpg/220px-House_of_Representatives_Votes_to_Adopt_the_Articles_of_Impeachment_Against_Donald_Trump.jpg" width="220" /></a> </div></div><div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 222px;"><div class="thumbcaption">House of Representatives votes to adopt the articles of impeachment against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a></div></div></div>
<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_24" title="December 24">December 24</a> – Thousands of Muslims protest the December 20 burning of four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque" title="Mosque">mosques</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara_Region" title="Amhara Region">Amhara Region</a> of Ethiopia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-305"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-305">[305]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_26" title="December 26">December 26</a> – An annular <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_December_26,_2019" title="Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019">solar eclipse</a> is visible from South Asia. This is a part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Saros_132" title="Solar Saros 132">Saros 132</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-306"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-306">[306]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_27" title="December 27">December 27</a> – Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-307"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-307">[307]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-308"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-308">[308]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Encyclopedic_content" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not"><span title="The material preceding this tag may lack sufficient importance. (May 2020)">importance?</span></a></i>]</sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_28" title="December 28">December 28</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2019_Mogadishu_bombing" title="December 2019 Mogadishu bombing">truck bomb</a> attributed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shabaab_(militant_group)" title="Al-Shabaab (militant group)">al-Shabaab</a> kills at least 78 and wounds 125 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu, Somalia</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-309"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-309">[309]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_29" title="December 29">December 29</a>
<ul><li>A report by the Multi-Sector Epidemic Response Committee (CMRE) indicates that 2,231 people have died so far in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivu_Ebola_epidemic" title="Kivu Ebola epidemic">2018–20 Kivu Ebola epidemic</a> in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-310"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-310">[310]</a></sup></li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>'s ruling council agrees to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, opening a door to a peace agreement with the United States.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-311"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-311">[311]</a></sup></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_30" title="December 30">December 30</a> – Chinese authorities announce that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui" title="He Jiankui">He Jiankui</a>, who claimed to have created the world's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair" title="He Jiankui affair">first genetically edited human babies</a>, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000) for his genetic research efforts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYT-20191230_312-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-NYT-20191230-312">[312]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CNN-20191230_313-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-CNN-20191230-313">[313]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a>
<ul><li>Iraqi militiamen and protesters <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_attack_on_the_United_States_embassy_in_Baghdad" title="2019–20 attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad">breach</a> the front gate checkpoint of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_the_United_States,_Baghdad" title="Embassy of the United States, Baghdad">United States embassy in Baghdad</a> following a U.S. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_United_States_bombing_of_Kata%27ib_Hizbollah" title="2019 United States bombing of Kata'ib Hizbollah">military operation</a> that targeted an Iraqi militia on December 29.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-314"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-314">[314]</a></sup></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>: First official reports of "viral pneumonia" from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan" title="Wuhan">Wuhan</a> Municipal Health Commission<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-315"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019#cite_note-315">[315]</a></sup></li></ul></li></ul>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-34956084871193171542021-12-13T05:38:00.001-08:002021-12-13T05:38:15.838-08:00Books by Squintin Quarantino (Paperback)<p>I intended to collect 2020 Haiku poems into a book and publish it
quarterly, after the world tilted toward a new trajectory due to novel
coronavirus, as you will see, my writing shatters slowly returning to
freestyle rhyme and longer pieces, trying to make meaning of the new
world of 2020 and what lies beyond the horizons. <br /><br />On reflection
my first explicit mention of the virus is in the following lines from
February 2nd: coronavirus / spreading like racism flu / check your
prejudice / solidarity / with all east asian people / li sao for
sorrow." These scrawls you track my attention moving with the spread of
the virus and its potential impact and its dangers, within creative
works and social media posts curated for your quarantainment, culled
from blog poems, tweets and rants fresh.<br /><br />For the record, my best
guess is a Pangolin and a Bat spawned a new chimera near a Chinese a wet
market, and since that moment power hungry greed heads have been trying
to figure out how to twist the pandemic to forward their goals. Please
consider my chronological diary of writings on Covid-19 as a testament
to one individual trying to make sense of the available data. Stay safe,
and keep supporting each other. Be nice. Thanks.<br /><br />www.patreon.com/stevefly <br /></p><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="a5lgl" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><span data-text="true">2020: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-1-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVMFD6V/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_2XJ8FSAZDQN3WE1SNT5F</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9d74q-2-0"><span data-text="true"> via </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="9d74q-3-0"><span data-text="true">@amazon</span></span></span><br /></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRAAtMi3akjSw5wqX8puim-hsqtQZn3pzdJ_oYLfM2VFhtEAZ2rtx2mYtdKCir466jYQEbTRAWJ3Cc3gqMv_9sXjen_CJsMQ4fiq0WA19SfTxTQpV8c6VKZa8LSlP6Cdu0vwu8xMzdk5Fs8gi8DMCXkfGED7HoaG7U2x8QnJB4mWVt_MWw_8mvEA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="2048" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRAAtMi3akjSw5wqX8puim-hsqtQZn3pzdJ_oYLfM2VFhtEAZ2rtx2mYtdKCir466jYQEbTRAWJ3Cc3gqMv_9sXjen_CJsMQ4fiq0WA19SfTxTQpV8c6VKZa8LSlP6Cdu0vwu8xMzdk5Fs8gi8DMCXkfGED7HoaG7U2x8QnJB4mWVt_MWw_8mvEA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0">PLUS</div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="9d74q-0-0"><br /><br />CORONA SLAYER By Squintin Quarantino (Poetry)<br /><div data-contents="true"><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="doear" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span data-text="true">Corona Slayer: Squintin Quarantino by Steven James Pratt </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-1-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JVM38N8/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_A3Y18W8SHCEE49KHC814</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="7265t-2-0"><span data-text="true"> via </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true">@amazon</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7265t-0-0"><span style="color: #1d9bf0;"><span data-offset-key="7265t-3-0"><span data-text="true"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrM8qqbRgirJbLNiHWZ2AJf5yv2aUFXA56OMipLF7wt9cdYkppHW80CQvGLDxYhbZmg_Z7eQCjD-4KBOTMZ_6z0T4rIO13-8ug1FOD8gzfArexTtphVsFVV9NeL1yPcBceewD4BFxMQSe9Q4OsU5236WrHQuV71D-Oyq0NCkkvGrGlSWtRHl2dVA=s2048" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1561" data-original-width="2048" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrM8qqbRgirJbLNiHWZ2AJf5yv2aUFXA56OMipLF7wt9cdYkppHW80CQvGLDxYhbZmg_Z7eQCjD-4KBOTMZ_6z0T4rIO13-8ug1FOD8gzfArexTtphVsFVV9NeL1yPcBceewD4BFxMQSe9Q4OsU5236WrHQuV71D-Oyq0NCkkvGrGlSWtRHl2dVA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span><br /><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-42580582390198068722020-03-23T13:50:00.001-07:002020-03-23T13:50:11.740-07:002019 YEAR IN REVIEW – BLADERUNNER FIRES<br /><br />FIRE! FIRE!<br />POUR ON WATER, POUR ON WATER<br /><br />The world is on fire! Literally and figuratively. Don’t panic. The gap between the richest and poorest is growing, and seems set to keep growing, as nations continue to repeat history and vote for the toughest big-daddy they can, to protect them from foreign influences, or rather the foreign influences not paid for. Don’t panic. Often I think to myself…I’d like to retreat to a cave and sharpen my pencils, watch TV and be blissfully unaware of all the drama out there.” No, this is the last day of 2019 and we are awake.<br /><br />2019, 365 days that changed the world? Much different from 2018? Hotter or richer or poorer? Here’s my round-up of things that impinged on my nervous system, balanced between events in my life and those on the world stage. 2019 was bittersweet. I could say, the world has gone to hell, but I’m all right Jack, but I try to avoid sounding like a self-centred idiot who only talks about himself and his interests. Truth, beauty, excellence and compassion are my weapons of choice. Lets burst the big pimples first. Let us not look away from the violence, but try to understand the root causes and organize together to prevent division and hatred.<br /><br />To scrape the surface of the year in politics speak, from the opening play on January 1st, when right-wing fucktrumpet, Jair Bolsonaro started his unholy presidency in Brazil, and sets the worrying tone of the rise of right-wing populism across the world, ending in 2019 with Boris “Hard Right Brexit” Johnson, sweeping to victory after the dirtiest and expensive smear campaign Britain has ever seen, as if organized by United Snakes. Feb 1st, Trump signs off America from the mid-range Nuclear treaty, Putin responds with the same the next day. March 15, 51 people murdered in Christchurch, New Zealand, by a racist lunatic called Brenton. The same day, Greta Thunberg returns to Sweeden as a figurehead of a worldwide climate awareness movement. April 10th, first-ever image of a Black Hole M87 Galaxy, the first glimpse of Trump UK trade-deal. April 11th, Julian Assange arrested in London. April 21st, the Sri Lanka Terror attacks result in 500 murdered by religious extremists. April 29, Isis nut, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, releases footage of Sri Lanka Terror attacks, he’s clearly mentally ill but treated by the media as some kind of criminal mastermind. May 1st, Bad Vlad Putin signs the Sovereign Internet bill into law (In which he can hack British sovereignty at the source, sucks it all up, and funnel it back over to the Kremlin for the Skeksis to lap up.) May 6th, Syrian army launches ground attack on last rebel stronghold in the country. May 24th, Maybot plans shut down of her dancing queen program. June 3-5th, Trump balloon visits the UK and the Queen, cheeses with the Maybot and Boris the lapdog. June 7th, Maybot dancing queen stops dancing for Tories, a new beast is required to be born. July 17th, Netflix star, El Chapo, is sentenced to life in prison. July 24th, Boris Johnson becomes the UK prime mongrel, voted in by less than 0.4% of the UK. His lies begin in overdrive. August 3rd, mass shooting in a U.S Wallmart store leaves 23 people dead, the racist shithead shooter targeted Mexicans. August 10th, child rapist billionaire friend of Prince Andrew, Jeffery Epstein dies in jail, reports are that he killed himself? August 21st, Amazon wildfires rage as Bolsonaro does sweet fuck all. September 10th, Boris and the Tories prorogued Parliament, shutting it down in a Trump-like manner. September 20th, International climate strikes. September 24th, a British court ruled prorogued parliament was void, Boris did indeed do a Trump move. October 17th, Trump pulls U.S troops in Syria, away from helping the Syrian army, blessing Turkey to invade, all to “protect the oil”. October 19th, 1 million March in London for the second referendum on Brexit. October 27th, Trump announces that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, killed by American weapons. October 30th, Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide. November 21st, Ben Netanyahu is indicted on charges of fraud and bribery. Nov 26th, Chilean protests, 50 protestors require prosthetic eyes after police shoot in the face. December 12th, Tories win UK general election, with Boris leading the UK into a Brexit more than half the country does not want. “Just Get On With It,” combined with “Love Actually,” spoke in volumes to the soul of English exceptionalism. Dec 18th, the orange-to-peach balloon becomes the third U.S president in history to be impeached for meddling in the 2020 elections, the least of his long litany of crimes. Dec 20th, U.S Space force founded by the orange windmill king. Wildfires continue to burn across Australia, wiping out millions of animals and their habitats, homes, and some people, leaving Sydney in a hot fog, and new highest temperatures set every week. Ian Duncan Smith, the Godfather of Universal Credit and the war on vulnerable people in the UK, is bestowed a Knighthood by the British Crown. That about sums up the UK nicely, politically speaking.<br /><br />Phew, but we made it through didn’t we? First off, a toast to those who didn’t, those that passed over to the great trade-deal in the sky in 2019, in particular, Jake Black, who I had the pleasure of knowing a little bit, rest easy friend. The Zen Bastard Paul Krassner checked out, one of my all-time favourite American’s, who first published a piece of my writing (Magic Mushrooms: From Toad Slime To Ecstacy, 2003,) and was present at a most memorable mind-bending afternoon with Robert Anton Wilson in Palm Springs, 2000. Paul kept in touch with me via email whenever he could write, his contributions to the western countercultural tradition are incalculable. Know his name. Paul Krassner, R.I.P. The great Dr John, and Art Neville, both natives of New Orleans had their traditional Jazz Funerals, and full musical send-offs, or carry-ons. And the psychedelic twin of Timothy Leary turned yogi and dharma teacher, Baba Ram Dass, passed into the clear light of bliss. Rutger Hauer and Ginger Baker also left the world stage leaving behind them large bodies of excellent art. To all my friends who may have lost a family member or friend this year, may they’re memory live on eternally and their souls rest in peace. One statistic that you can’t argue with overtime is that the older you get the more dead people you know. Honour your ancestors with life-affirming actions and thinking, music, merrymaking and contemplation as you see fit, that’s my best advice for dealing with the grief of 2020 and beyond. Enough about the dead, let’s get onto some of the living critters who have set 2019 alight, and who will certainly be caught playing with matches in 2020.<br /><br />First, my three to watch and study in 2020. The goodies. If you take anything away from this year in review, make it these three names: Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow and Alan Moore. For me, the holy trinity of the next decade, each fully capable of turning it all around, if…IF…we could be so bold and brave as to listen, compute, understand, and share that good stuff. As Douglas Rushkoff said, program or be programmed. For me, the next decade will be dominated and in the hands of those who can program, write and juggle legal facts to the degree that Cory Doctorow is capable, present design-science innovation and tech-criticism to the calibre of Bruce Sterling, and synthesize Art and Magick in the grain of Alan Moore. And so, to the villains.<br /><br />My first three to watch are predictable, Trumpet Booris Pootin. The three claws of the new Tsarist Anglo American alliance, playing cold war games with their billionaire friends, foes, and who the fuck knows. But that’s obvs. Steve Bannon is a better villain to keep your eye on, he’s smarter than Trump. In the same fashion, I’d say, learn from Jacob Reece Mogg, a nasty but smart English motherfucker, if you want to fight. Boris is the distraction like Trump, in 2020 you might be fitter if you filter-out the dog whistle alt. right bait, and the pumped-up lies and bluster guaranteed to be splattered all over 2020 UK tabloids. Reading and sourcing some Mogg literature, and a study of law will be much more helpful in the long run. Watch Tommy Yaxley Lennon Robinson if you like, but there’s nothing new to learn here since early hominids leant how to use clubs, you’d be smarter watching a chocolate fudge sundae melt, look for a worthy intellectual opponent in 2020. And, perhaps learn some self defense? Find the smartest racist you can, and study them. If you want to fight, take the strongest opposing argument to your own, first. Racism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Xenophobia are all built on a logical fallacy, and categorical untruth in the first place. A part of the problem in 2019 is that many are not doing philosophy and social psychology, and such intellectual pursuits are increasingly branded lefty cultural Marxism. In 2019 a meme goes around the world seven times before a PhD. thesiskeksis footnotes on! The domain of the thick, the stupid, and the ignorant, is the domain of categories and group-think. Overemphasis on nationality and not enough emphasis on the unique individual. The fact remains movements, based on gene-pool ignorance, are founded on lies and blind-faith based thinking, the opposite of scientific – research-based thinking. The wars of the words will continue up until the Chinese written character puts a backstop on the limping 26 letters, and English crumbles away into Finnegans Wake completely.<br /><br />Highlights for me this year, personally speaking on a creative tip are, editing and releasing my paper The Entourage Effect At Finnegans Wake, concerning Cannabis Terpenes, and the perfumed language of James Joyce. Visited the Island of Kos in Greece with sweet Janne, spending quality time with cats on the beach, shells on the bottom of the ocean and the Tree Of Hippocrates, and the Hippocratic oath. Opened a night of funk and jazz in for DJ Eddie Pillar, who chatted for a while and made my weekend. Played a DJ set for Red Light Radio, and 3 sessions at the Hill Street Booze Bar in the centre of Amsterdam. For Radio Free Amsterdam I recorded more than 40 one-hour shows this year and made lots of artwork for the station continuing into 2020 with brother John Sinclair. I tracked some turntable work for a new tune with Garaj Mahal, that should be coming out in 2020, we will be jamming.<br /><br />2019 marks the year I studied turntable beat-juggles, and in nine months, with an average of practicing around 10 hours per month, I can hold a beat, deploy a few tricks and new techniques. I will continue the practice, and craft some ready-made routines, and make some tight tracks. Maybe I’ll get out there for battle someday. Much of the driving impetus to learn to juggle and scratch better, came from working on my novel (trans-media project) called Deep Scratch. I figured that, if I’m writing about DJ’s I should learn to do what I’m writing about, with the bonus of making soundtrack material for the trans-media project. I started filming practice sessions, and uploading them to Youtube to help gauge any progress. In 2020 I may finally land on Serato software, a decade after every other DJ went over to the digital side. It’s not cheap to get up and running. Nuff’ about me? How you doing? If you got this far your probably thinking of books and albums that you like or want to make, and perhaps you have stories you want to tell? Now is the time, publish or perish. Be bold, say it loud. “Do it now!” Try not to lose your centre fighting the world. Please, check your facts in 2020, your life may depend on it. Oh, and do art.<br /><br />If you want to link with my britinternational.org ensemble join me at Patreon.com/stevefly Make your own account and I’ll support you back. Or else, create some other such community-based network of like-minded individuals, help the vulnerable, the disabled, the homeless if you can. Visit them. I’d advise occasionally stepping away from the digital mobile-screen-world and reconnecting with community and nature in equal measure. Recharge you charity next to the stream. As cliche as that may sound. You will have to compromise at some point, you will have to let go, to be able to swing and grab something new, and let go again, things in motion and motion in things. Oh, and the post-quantum superimposition revolution, coupled with Artificial General Intelligence, Internet Of Things, 5G, and the global industrial military entertainment complex is sure to deliver some, lively, stuff. You need cognitive security! Maybe Logic and Multi-Model Agnosticism are a good place to start. Start now. Bladerunner, remember the future?<br /><br />I raise a toast to an independent hand-made, hand-printed 2020, of and for the people. The new art and literature and ecological innovations are here with us. Stay awake. Love all the people. I wish you good luck and happy trails, enjoy every success on the path ahead.<br /><br />xx<br /><br />–Steve Fly<br /><br />Support Me At Patreon<br /><a href="http://www.patreon.com/stevefly">www.patreon.com/stevefly</a>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-78571721933145072892019-09-02T17:18:00.002-07:002019-09-02T17:18:16.758-07:00Steve Fly Over At Good Reads<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15174504.Steven_Pratt">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15174504.Steven_Pratt</a><br /><br />Yum.<br /><br />Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-39193009374138703272019-08-31T16:22:00.000-07:002019-08-31T16:22:16.338-07:00DEEP SCRATCH <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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deepscratch.netSteve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0Amsterdam, Netherlands52.3666969 4.894539799999961452.2115244 4.571816299999961 52.5218694 5.2172632999999617tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-79051385988710529952019-02-20T04:37:00.000-08:002019-02-20T04:37:20.062-08:00Steve Fly 2019 In 2019 - Update #001Hi,<br /><br />This blog was set up 10 years ago, as apart of an experiment in futurism. The plan was to write and post and publish for 10 years, and then in the year 2019, look back and analyse.<br /><br />
Since this blog was started in September 2008 I have added a few posts, but to really track my work over the last decade you have to branch out into my other websites, blogs and publications. Most but not all of these materials can be found at my website: flyagaric23.com<br /><br />In the coming months I'll be posting here and creating a retrospective of the last 10 years, both personally speaking, and geopolitically, ecologically, and with regards to digital culture and the IMPACT of technology.<br /><br />--Steve Fly<br /><a href="https://flyagaric23.com/">https://flyagaric23.com/</a><br /><br />Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-35943499729905917102018-03-27T17:12:00.001-07:002018-09-14T06:05:40.294-07:00RAW Radio Show For Radio Free Amsterdam - Fly By Night<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
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Turn it down to see the other side, </div>
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the down side, the shit-slide, the mind-ride inside</div>
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looking far below where the breakbeats flow</div>
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the lower lights, cid-flights, in sync they go</div>
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falling or flying living or dying</div>
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film in a film in a film in a film</div>
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T.V can’t stop lying</div>
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the opposition movement trying</div>
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to break the monopoly</div>
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on bleeding the economy</div>
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and blocking our autonomy</div>
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it gets to me</div>
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i hope you see</div>
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the neuro-relativity</div>
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getting back in the game in the</div>
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flame out of name sake</div>
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jump into the fire, be the </div>
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wheel and the tire</div>
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prospect for good will </div>
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and spill a wise wordthrill trill</div>
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till pastures for others </div>
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the future of others</div>
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so burn your shit down </div>
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burn your shit down</div>
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remove all possessions and pass</div>
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on the lessons</div>
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learn your shit down learn </div>
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pick up the teaching </div>
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before you go preaching</div>
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Run your shit down run </div>
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beat</div>
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Nukes</div>
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Austerity</div>
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Spying</div>
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Coercion</div>
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Lies</div>
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Hate</div>
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Corporate Music</div>
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Out Of Date Meat</div>
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Darpa</div>
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Drone Commanders</div>
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Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-51096030645730977192015-07-18T14:44:00.000-07:002015-07-18T14:44:32.723-07:00360 Interactive photography by Richard Tang at RichTeaMedia<iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1437255704204!6m8!1m7!1skh4ke0Ly8VIAAAQpmJ3D5Q!2m2!1d43.647956!2d-79.388838!3f141.20204055298507!4f-7.397214198498389!5f0.7820865974627469" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0" style="border:0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-87888567929572086892015-05-20T03:42:00.000-07:002015-05-20T03:45:22.071-07:00re:publica 2015 - Ethan Zuckerman: The system is broken – and that's the good news<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJAJ8CNAT3A" width="560"></iframe>
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All hateful and hurtful shit</div>
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Holyness and Goddlyness</div>
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left ideology equally</div>
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cheerfullness one can</div>
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muster to bolster the</div>
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First inquiry on Electronic Mass Surveillance of European Citizens in European Parliament</h2>
Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-86399979718233184972014-06-30T18:59:00.002-07:002014-06-30T18:59:42.594-07:00Cosmic Trigger Play<iframe src="https://www.indiegogo.com/project/cosmic-trigger-play/embedded" width="222px" height="445px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1169177480260417019.post-63881268263302552392014-01-01T09:18:00.001-08:002014-01-01T09:18:08.397-08:00M O H A W K A R T W O R K<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mohawk: Front Cover by CHU</td></tr>
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Mohawk Album Artwork </h2>
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UK Graffiti boss and aerosol virtuoso, CHU, has been busy in 2013 working, among a myriad of other works, on the artwork for the album Mohawk.<br />
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As a very close friend of CHU, i finally got the the chance to work with him on a musical project that <br />
will see a proper release, a very special one based around the poet and cultural revolutionary, and <br />
good friend of mine, John Sinclair.<br />
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CHU and i have spent hundreds of hours over the last 4 years developing a unique new platform for <br />
interacting with multimedia based upon using 360 degree panoramas.<br />
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This work was initiated with the help of Matt Black of Coldcut and the estate of Dr Robert Anton Wilson. www.raw360.net was the result, and CHU is only scratching the surface of this new medium and what can be achieved making the most of new powerful hand held devices and his skill at hand crafting worlds and spaces to make the mouth water.<br />
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From the beginning of the Mohawk album project, CHU and i had the 360 panorama in mind, i reminded CHU that the construction of a John Sinclair themed 360 degree pano' would simultaneously produce some <br />
unique and stunning artwork for the CD, with the added bonus of having an almost infinite variety of variations, due to the power of the software and the equal depth and detail of the artwork. A rare match IMHO. And further testament to the multi disciplinary nature of CHU output.<br />
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Working backwards from the 360 panorama proved to be a great idea, and the final product is out of <br />
this world, it sets the bar for CD album artwork and visually captures John Sinclair and the feel of the <br />
poetry on the record, objectified<br />
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As with many of CHUs works there is often a universe of goings on backstage, sketches and notes, experiments, renders, alternative versions, in the tradition of the scientific method, CHU does a special deep research on his subject matter, and in the case of Mohawk, i was able to steer him in a few directions that i thought would light up his creative candles.<br />
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One of these useful hints came pretty early on in the project when i mentioned the legendary artwork <br />
for the album by Thelonious Monk called <i>Underground</i>, which features Monk at the piano in a scene <br />
from an underground resistance bunker from WW2.<br />
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CHU quickly sourced the back cover from the original L.P and hit upon the idea of making an extension to underground, or a retrofitted tribute to that classic album cover, but substituting Monk for John Sinclair, and flipping the scene to depict John in Detroit at the typewriter working inside an artist collective headquarters, maybe the Detroit Artists Workshop, during WW3.<br />
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And so the work began, CHU rigged up a room, mathematically figured out to mimic the dimensions of the room from underground, and began mapping, remapping and building his set.<br />
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CHU invented a location in Detroit, close to the site of the Grande ballroom, and basically built an entire city block where the Mohawk resistance barbershop would be located. As the project developed, CHU began to deconstruct the scene and apply damage and destruction to reflect the very real damage and destruction in Detroit itself, where hundreds of square miles of once swarming city lie in ruins.<br />
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His method of working on Mohawk is with the digital stylus, drawing on a tablet, which then relays the images to one computer program or other, that allows him to manipulate the images into virtual 3 dimensional objects. For example, he will hand draw a turntable in 2 dimensions then add the third, and continue to further illustrate the object on all sides so as to become a turntable with a top, bottom, sides, raised platter, tone arm, etc.<br />
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As far as i know, CHU is the pioneer of these hand crafted 360 panoramas, and to paraphrase CHU "it <br />
presents, for the first time, the perfect picture, the perfect way to create and view a painting, in every <br />
direction."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mohawk - Album Poster by CHU</td></tr>
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Mohawk.</h3>
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The challenge of creating the artwork for the CD Mohawk was reverse engineering the 360 into a <br />
cover back and front, an inner sleeve, and a booklet. Plus the addition of the texts and usual album <br />
details, without detracting too much from the graphical action.<br />
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I think you will agree that the results are stunning and serve as evidence to the success of the idea and the hard graft involved in making it real.<br />
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The juicy psychedelic color scheme developed by CHU is itself a tribute to the original screen printing <br />
dons and innovators, using the full spectrum and in such a way that it catches the eyes instantly invoking rainbow fruits, reaching from ultra violet to infra-red. Even the spine displays a special effect and builds a future friendly identity when viewed from the edge, typical of the attention to detail and perfection evident on Mohawk.<br />
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The objects within the scene each have a specific meaning and story in themselves, or connect. One <br />
principle for decoding the scene is different forms of media. Reel to reel tape, phonograph, film, photo, type, print, sound waves, all pre-digital, somewhat mechanical chemical processes. old school, authentic and meaningful.<br />
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The words by John Sinclair on Mohawk are ten poems taken from his epic work <i>Always know: a book of monk,</i> which features poems to accompany every tune every recorded by Thelonious Monk. A work of extreme mental patience, as john might say.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mohawk Booklet Scene by CHU</td></tr>
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<h3>
Monk and John Sinclair in Underground scenes</h3>
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The scene combines elements from Monk and the original underground cover with elements from the life and works of John Sinclair. For example.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1. The Buffalo related to white buffalo prayer by John Sinclair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">2. The smoking lady at the back of the room is made to represent pannonica, Monks friend and patron, and the subject of one of John's poems, previously recorded with steve fly, pannonica.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">3. The rolling tin next to John's typewriter is an exact copy of John's celestial seasons, smoking tin.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. The Free John Sinclair poster is a copy of the real poster alerting people to the fact that John Lennon, Stevie Wonder and Allen Ginsberg were performing at a benefit to free john Sinclair from jail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">5. The wrecking ball swinging from the lamp towards the map of Detroit on the wall, draws further attention to the destruction of Detroit and reflects what is happening outside the barber shop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">6. John Sinclair sat at the typewriter replaces Thelonious Monk at the piano. A fair juxtaposition.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">7. The original Monk L.P sleeve hangs, as a developing photo, on a drying line. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">8. The colors are from the original screen printing color palette used in the 1960s. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">9. A Book of Monk, by John Sinclair, sits on the table next to the tape-to-tape recorder.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">10. The words 'kick out the jams' are scrawled across the back wall, iconic graffiti from John's time </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">managing the MC5</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">11. The large gashes in the barber chair signify some kind of Panther is close by.</span><br />
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I have made many textual interpretations of the Mohawk scene. One of which i will share with you <br />
now as a bit of fun.<br />
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<h3>
Underground Barbershop Fiction Scene 1</h3>
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Somewhere in deep Detroit, between the abandoned factory units and tenement blocks is the underground barber shop known as Mohawk, run by Mo,of course. <br />
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The joint is under siege by a rogue collective of artists who are set on transforming the barbershop into a temporary headquarters only moments before the state wrecking ball is due to come crashing through to demolish it. An all too familiar tale for Detroit.<br />
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John Sinclair sits at his typewriter transcribing a final statement from uncle Sam, who originally sold the land ownership rights to the building over to the state, behind the backs of the local community. Uncle Sam has been taken hostage and held as a human shield, as a final resort, in an effort to halt the destruction of the underground barbershop, and the headquarters of the local artist resistance.<br />
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If we track back over the last 24 hours from this snapshot, a new picture emerges that involves the process of creating a movie, an underground ransom video showing uncle Sam and John Sinclair in heated debate. John is playing and recording his poetry, developing photographs and editing video documentary footage of everything, as it happens. <br />
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The flurry of creativity comes to a climax sequence when uncle Sam stands before the handgun, swearing allegiance to the flag, tripping on Hoffman acid. What we see in the pictures are all taken only minutes after Sam is tied up after facing the gun. John begins to write the closing statement of the Mohawk barbershop from his underground headquarters, somewhere in Detroit, as the wrecking ball closes in.<br />
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--Steve fly<br />Amsterdam<br />1/1/14<br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Venus holds a secret — it has some of the most Earth-like conditions (that we know of) in the Solar System. 50km above the rocky, smoking surface the atmospheric pressure is the same as on Earth, and average temperatures rarely exceed 50°C or drop below zero. The atmosphere — 96 percent carbon dioxide — is so dense that large metal structures filled with the nitrogen and oxygen mix we call ‘air’ would float with half as much lifting power on Venus as helium has here.--</span><a href="https://medium.com/weird-future/4da31237b2ac">https://medium.com/weird-future/4da31237b2ac</a></blockquote>
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Amiri Baraka on Charles Olson & Sun Ra in Gloucester, MA</h1>
<span class="author vcard">By <a class="url fn n" href="http://urbanwritersmixtape.wordpress.com/author/gkappes/" title="View all posts by gkappes">gkappes</a></span> <br />
<a href="http://urbanwritersmixtape.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/amiri-baraka-on-charles-olson-sun-ra-in-gloucester-ma/">http://urbanwritersmixtape.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/amiri-baraka-on-charles-olson-sun-ra-in-gloucester-ma/</a><br />
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Amiri Baraka—dramatist, novelist, poet, and activist—is one of the
most respected and widely published African-American writers. He was
born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, NJ. After leaving Howard
University and the Air Force, he moved to the Lower East Side in
Manhattan. There, in 1957, he co-edited the avantgarde literary magazine
<i>Yugen</i> and founded Totem Press, which first published works by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Charles Olson.<br />
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In May of 1959 he published <i>Projective Verse</i> and gave Olson a standing offer to publish anything he wished. Olson went on to have pieces published in <i>Yugen, Kulchur</i> and<i> Floating Bear</i>.
Later that year Michael McClure, Phillip Whalen, Donald Allen and Jones
visited Olson in Gloucester. Olson's tour with his friends resulted in
his writing of <i>Maximus from Dogtown – I</i>. In a letter to Robert
Creeley he says, "In fact the past year he (Jones) has saved my life in
publishing..." With the beginning of Civil Rights Movements during the
sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his
writings as a weapon against racism. He published his first volume of
poetry, <i>Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note</i>, in 1961. His <i>Blues People: Negro Music in White America</i> (1963) is still regarded as the seminal work on Afro-American music and culture. He also edited <i>The Moderns: An Anthology of New Writing in America</i>, published in 1963.<br />
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His reputation as a playwright was established with the production of <i>Dutchman</i>
at Cherry Lane Theatre in New York in 1964. The controversial play
subsequently won an Obie Award for Best Off-Broadway Play and was made
into a film. The play was revived by Cherry Lane Theatre in January 2007
and has been reproduced around the world. His numerous literary honors
include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Rockefeller
Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award from The City
College of New York, and a lifetime achievement award from the Before
Columbus Foundation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.capeannmuseum.org/events/amiri-baraka/">http://www.capeannmuseum.org/events/amiri-baraka/ </a>
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<b> Published on 21 Nov 2012
Share Festival 2012 | Open Your City
09th nov -- 6PM -- Regional Museum of Natural Science
Alan Turing. Strange Oceans of Thought
Bruce Sterling</b>Steve Fly Agarichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471582582737353275noreply@blogger.com0