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4/6/09 | A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila， Italy， killing 308. |
6/1/09 | Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean， killing all 228 on board. |
6/25/09 | Death of Michael Jackson triggers worldwide grief and internet traffic surge. |
6/28/09 | Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is ousted in a coup. |
7/26/09 | Boko Haram initiates an uprising in Nigeria. |
9/29/09 | An 8.1 Mw earthquake strikes Samoa， leaving at least 192 dead. |
9/30/09 | A 7.6 Mw earthquake strikes Sumatra， Indonesia， leaving at least 1，115 dead. |
11/23/09 | 58 people are killed in the Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. |
12/25/09 | A Nigerian terrorist attempts to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253. |
1/12/10 | A 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurs in Haiti， devastating the nation's capital， Port-au-Prince. |
1/19/10 | Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh is assassinated in Dubai. |
2/27/10 | An 8.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in Chile， triggering a tsunami over the Pacific and killing at least 525. |
3/26/10 | The ROKS Cheonan， a South Korean Navy ship， sinks off the country's west coast， killing 46. |
4/5/10 | Julian Assange leaks footage of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq titled 'Collateral Murder' on WikiLeaks. |
4/10/10 | The President of Poland， Lech Kaczyński， is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk， Russia. |
4/20/10 | The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico， causing a massive oil spill. |
5/6/10 | The 2010 Flash Crash， a trillion-dollar stock market crash， occurs over 36 minutes. |
7/25/10 | WikiLeaks leaks over 90，000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan. |
9/4/10 | A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch， New Zealand， causing significant damage. |
10/25/10 | An earthquake and consequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra， Indonesia， kills over 400 people. |
11/28/10 | WikiLeaks releases a collection of more than 250，000 American diplomatic cables. |
1/4/11 | Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi dies after setting himself on fire， sparking the Arab Spring protests. |
1/14/11 | The Tunisian government falls; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia. |
3/11/11 | A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Japan， causing significant casualties and nuclear emergencies. |
3/17/11 | The UN Security Council votes to create a no-fly zone over Libya. |
5/2/11 | U.S. Navy SEALs kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. |
7/22/11 | Anders Behring Breivik kills 77 people in Norway in a bomb blast and massacre. |
10/20/11 | Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is killed in Sirte， ending the war. |
12/17/11 | North Korean leader Kim Jong-il dies， succeeded by his son Kim Jong Un. |
1/13/12 | Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off Italy， causing 32 deaths. |
2/1/12 | Port Said Stadium riot in Egypt results in 74 deaths. |
2/6/12 | Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Philippines， killing 112. |
3/4/12 | Explosions at a munitions dump in Brazzaville， Congo， kill at least 250. |
3/12/12 | Coach crash in Switzerland kills 28， including 22 children. |
4/11/12 | 8.6 earthquake strikes Indonesia， triggering a small tsunami. |
4/13/12 | North Korean satellite explodes shortly after launch. |
4/20/12 | Bhoja Air Flight 213 crashes in Pakistan， killing all 127 on board. |
5/2/12 | The Scream painting sells for $120 million， setting a new auction record. |
5/19/12 | Chelsea wins the UEFA Champions League. |
6/3/12 | Dana Air Flight 0992 crashes in Nigeria， killing 153 on board and 6 on the ground. |
6/24/12 | Lonesome George， last Pinta Island tortoise， dies. |
7/4/12 | CERN announces discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. |
7/20/12 | Aurora， Colorado shooting kills 12 and injures 58. |
7/30/12 | India experiences the worst power outage in history， affecting 620 million people. |
9/11/12 | US diplomatic missions attacked worldwide， US ambassador killed in Libya. |
10/22/12 | Hurricane Sandy causes 233 deaths and $68.7 billion in damage. |
11/6/12 | Barack Obama reelected President of the United States. |
12/14/12 | Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting kills 28 people. |
1/5/13 | A Mw 7.5 earthquake shakes Prince of Wales Island， Alaska. |
1/10/13 | At least 130 people are killed and 270 are injured in several bomb blasts in Pakistan. |
1/16/13 | Hostage crisis at a natural gas facility in Algeria results in 40 deaths. |
1/27/13 | A nightclub fire in Santa Maria， Brazil， kills an estimated 245 people. |
2/11/13 | Emergency Alert Systems in the U.S. are hijacked with a 'Zombie apocalypse' hoax. |
2/15/13 | A meteor explodes over Chelyabinsk， Russia， injuring over 1，400 people. |
2/21/13 | American scientists create a living lab-grown ear using a 3D printer. |
3/24/13 | Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees after rebels capture Bangui. |
4/15/13 | Boston Marathon bombing kills 3 and injures 264. |
4/20/13 | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Sichuan， China， killing 193. |
4/24/13 | The Savar building collapse in Bangladesh kills 1，134 people. |
5/15/13 | Researchers produce human embryonic stem cells by cloning. |
5/20/13 | An EF5 tornado hits Moore， Oklahoma， killing 24. |
5/22/13 | British soldier Lee Rigby is murdered in Woolwich， London. |
6/6/13 | Edward Snowden discloses U.S. government mass surveillance operations. |
6/23/13 | A bus crash in Montenegro kills 19 Romanian tourists. |
7/6/13 | A train derailment in Lac-Mégantic， Quebec， kills 47. |
8/14/13 | Egyptian security forces raid anti-coup camps， killing 2，696. |
8/21/13 | 1，429 are killed in the Ghouta chemical attack in Syria. |
9/21/13 | al-Shabaab militants attack Westgate mall in Nairobi， Kenya， killing at least 62. |
10/15/13 | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Bohol， Philippines， killing 222. |
10/16/13 | Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashes， killing all 49 on board. |
11/21/13 | Euromaidan protests begin in Ukraine. |
11/29/13 | A police helicopter crashes into a pub in Glasgow， Scotland， killing 10. |
1/9/14 | Elk River Chemical Spill in Charleston， West Virginia， leaves 300，000 residents without drinkable water. |
3/1/14 | Kunming attack in China results in 31 deaths and 143 injuries. |
3/8/14 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. |
4/16/14 | South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes， killing 304 people. |
5/2/14 | WHO identifies the spread of poliomyelitis as a major worldwide health emergency. |
5/5/14 | Boko Haram militants kill approximately 300 people in Nigeria. |
5/20/14 | Jos bombings in Nigeria kill 118 people. |
6/12/14 | Camp Speicher massacre by ISIL in Iraq kills 1，566 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets. |
7/17/14 | Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shot down in Ukraine， killing all 298 on board. |
8/3/14 | Sinjar massacre by ISIS results in over 4，000 Yazidi deaths. |
8/9/14 | Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson， Missouri， triggers riots. |
9/18/14 | Scottish independence referendum results in a vote against independence. |
9/26/14 | 43 students abducted in Iguala， Mexico， causing international protests. |
10/24/14 | Alan Eustace sets world record for highest and longest free fall jump. |
12/16/14 | Peshawar school massacre by Pakistani Taliban kills at least 145 people. |
12/28/14 | Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Java Sea， killing all 162 on board. |
1/3/15 | Boko Haram massacres in Baga， Nigeria， and surrounding villages kill more than 2，000 people. |
1/7/15 | Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris by Al-Qaeda gunmen kills 12 people. |
3/24/15 | Germanwings Flight 9525 is deliberately crashed in the French Alps， killing all 150 on board. |
3/25/15 | Saudi-led coalition begins military intervention in Yemen against Houthi forces. |
4/25/15 | A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal causes over 9，000 deaths. |
5/7/15 | UK General Election results in the first Conservative majority government in 18 years. |
8/5/15 | Debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is found on Réunion Island. |
9/14/15 | First observation of gravitational waves by LIGO. |
9/28/15 | NASA announces the discovery of liquid water on Mars. |
10/23/15 | Hurricane Patricia becomes the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. |
11/13/15 | ISIL terrorist attacks in Paris result in 130 fatalities. |
11/24/15 | Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet on the Turkish-Syrian border. |
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