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2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea on 9 February 2018. It began at 20:00 KST and finished at approximately 22:20 KST. The Games were officially opened by Pr ...

PyeongChang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United States and the world; The

Yellow vests protests The Yellow Vests Protests or Yellow Jackets Protests or Yellow Vests Revolution (french: Mouvement des gilets jaunes, ) are a series of populist, grassroots weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018. At first the protestors advo ...

break out in France; The Camp Fire (2018), that burned the town of

Paradise, California Paradise is a town in Butte County, California, United States in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 4,764. On November 8, 2018, a major wildfire, the Camp Fire ...

, is seen from outer space;

SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and a satellite communications corporation headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of ...

CEO Elon Musk launches his

Tesla Roadster (first generation) The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric vehicle (BEV) sports car, based on the Lotus Elise chassis, that was produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) in California from 2008 to 2012. The Roadster was the first highway ...

into outer space; Rescuers assemble to begin search-and-rescue operations during the Tham Luang cave rescue; North Korean Supreme Leader

Kim Jong-un Kim Jong-un (; , ; born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's sec ...

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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spacesuit, dubbed "Starman", occupies the dr ...

rect 800 800 1200 1200 Camp Fire (2018) 2018 was designated as the third International Year of the Reef by the

International Coral Reef Initiative The International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) is an informal partnership among nations, international organisations and non-government organisations to help protect coral reefs globally. It aims to implement Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, Aichi Target 10 ...

Events

January

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

– SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of South Sudan. * January 12– 13 – The first round of voting of the

2018 Czech presidential election Presidential elections were held in the Czech Republic in January 2018. The first round took place on 12 and 13 January. As no candidate won a majority, a run-off election between the top two candidates, Jiří Drahoš and President Miloš Zeman, ...

is held. *

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– Turkey, led by President

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the List of presidents of Turkey, 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as Lis ...

, announces the beginning of a military offensive to capture a portion of

northern Syria Northern Syria or North Syria may refer to: *Upper Mesopotamia Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the ear ...

from Kurdish forces, amidst the ongoing Kurdish–Turkish conflict. *

– 22 – The US government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. * January 24 – Scientists in China report in the journal '' Cell'' the creation of the first

monkey Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...

clones using somatic cell nuclear transfer, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua. * January 26– 27 – The second round of voting of the

is held and incumbent president Miloš Zeman is reelected. * January 28 **

2018 Finnish presidential election Presidential elections were held in Finland on 28 January 2018. The incumbent Sauli Niinistö received 62.7% of the vote and was elected for a second term, avoiding a Two-round system, second round. The term is from 1 March 2018 to 1 February 20 ...

: Incumbent president

Sauli Niinistö Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (; born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician who has served as president of Finland since March 2012, the 12th person to hold that office. A lawyer by education, Niinistö was Chairman of the National Coalition Part ...

is reelected on the first round of voting. ** The first round of voting of the

2018 Cypriot presidential election Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 28 January 2018.January 31 – A

total lunar eclipse A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. Such alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six months, during the full moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to Ecliptic, the plane of t ...

takes place, the 49th eclipse of

Lunar Saros 124 Saros cycle series 124 for lunar eclipses occurs at the moon's ascending node, 18 years 11 and 1/3 days. It contains 73 member events, with 28 total eclipses, starting in 1657 and ending in 2144. The order is 20 penumbral, 8 partial, 28 total, 8 p ...

. This was referred to by the media as a 'super blue blood moon' as it was close to a supermoon, with perigee being on January 30, and a

blue moon A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: the third of four full moons in a season. The phrase in modern usage has nothing to do with the actual color of the Moon, although a visually blue Moon (the Moon a ...

eclipse, the first since

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

February

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...

** The second round of voting of the

2018 Cypriot presidential election Presidential elections were held in Cyprus on 28 January 2018.incumbent president Nicos Anastasiades is reelected. **

2018 Costa Rican general election General elections were held in Costa Rica in 2018 to elect both the President and Legislative Assembly. The first round of the presidential election was held on 4 February 2018, with the two highest-ranked candidates being Christian singer an ...

: The first round of voting of the presidential election and legislative election are held. *

February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...

–

successfully conducts its maiden flight of its most powerful rocket to date, the Falcon Heavy, from LC39A at John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. * February 9– 25 – The

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

are held in

Pyeongchang Pyeongchang (; in full, ''Pyeongchang-gun'' ; ) is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea, located in the Taebaek Mountains region. It is home to several Buddhist temples, including Woljeongsa. It is about east southeast of Seou ...

, South Korea. * February 10 –

Kay Goldsworthy Kay Maree Goldsworthy (born 1956) is an Australian bishop of the Anglican Church of Australia. She is the current archbishop of Perth in the Province of Western Australia.ABC Online Upon her installation as archbishop, on 10 February 2018, she ...

becomes the first female

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in the Anglican Communion on her installation in the

Anglican Diocese of Perth The Anglican Diocese of Perth is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia. The constitution of the Diocese of Perth was passed and adopted in 1872 at the first synod held in Western Australia. In 1914 in Australia, 1914, the ...

, Western Australia. *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

–

2018 Monegasque general election General elections were held in Monaco on 11 February 2018. Since the 2013 Monegasque general election, General Election of 2013, the largest party, Horizon Monaco, split, which led to the formation of a new political party – Primo ! Priorité ...

: The Priorité Monaco party, led by

Stéphane Valeri Stéphane Valeri (born 1 March 1962) is a Monegasque politician and businessman. He served as the president of the National Council, which is the most powerful elected position in Monaco, between 22 February 2018 and 23 October 2022. He is the ...

, won 21 out of the 24 seats in the National Council. *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...

Jacob Zuma Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (; born 12 April 1942) is a South African politician who served as the fourth president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018. He is also referred to by his initials JZ and clan name Msholozi, and was a former anti-aparth ...

resigns as

President of South Africa The president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president heads the executive branch of the Government of South Africa and is the commander-in-chief of the South African Nationa ...

after nine years in power. ** A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in

Parkland, Florida Parkland is a suburban city, 42 miles northwest of Miami, in northern Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of Parkland was 34,670. Parkland is part of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6,166 ...

is one of the deadliest school massacres with 17 fatalities and 17 injuries. * February 18 - Kizlyar church shooting: a man carrying a knife and a

double-barreled shotgun A double-barreled shotgun is a break-action shotgun with two parallel barrels, allowing two single shots to be fired in quick succession or simultaneously. Construction Modern double-barreled shotguns, often known as ''doubles'', are almost u ...

opens fire on a crowd at an Orthodox church in Kizlyar,

Dagestan Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...

, killing five women and injuring several other people; the perpetrator is shot and killed by police.

March

* March 4 ** Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, are

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by the

Novichok Novichok (russian: Новичо́к, lit=newcomer, novice, newbie) is a group of nerve agents, some of which are binary chemical weapons. The agents were developed at the GosNIIOKhT state chemical research institute by the Soviet Union and Ru ...

nerve agent in Salisbury, England. UK counter-terrorism police investigate amid speculation the

Kremlin The Kremlin ( rus, Московский Кремль, r=Moskovskiy Kreml', p=ˈmɐˈskofskʲɪj krʲemlʲ, t=Moscow Kremlin) is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow founded by the Rurik dynasty, Rurik dynasty. It is the best known of th ...

was behind the incident. ** The

2018 Salvadoran legislative election Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 4 March 2018 to choose 84 members of the Legislative Assembly and 262 mayors. The elections were carried out by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal. Electoral system The 84 members of the Legisla ...

is held to elect all 84 members of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador. ** The

2018 Italian general election The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective membe ...

is held to elect all 315 members of the Senate of the Republic and all 630 members of the

Chamber of Deputies The chamber of deputies is the lower house in many bicameral legislatures and the sole house in some unicameral legislatures. Description Historically, French Chamber of Deputies was the lower house of the French Parliament during the Bourbon R ...

. * March 6 – 2018 Russian Air Force Antonov An-26 crash: An Antonov An-26 transport aircraft operated by the

Russian Air Force " Air March" , mascot = , anniversaries = 12 August , equipment = , equipment_label = , battles = , decorations = , bat ...

crashes on approach to

Khmeimim air base Khmeimim Air Base (Russian: Хмеймим), also Hmeimim Air Base, is a Syrian airbase currently operated by Russia, located south-east of the city of Latakia in Hmeimim, Latakia Governorate, Syria. The airbase shares some airfield faciliti ...

in Syria, killing all 39 people on board. All of them were servicemen of the

Russian Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (, ), commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military forces of Russia. In terms of active-duty personnel, they are the world's fifth-largest military force, with at least two m ...

, including Major-General Vladimir Yeremeyev. * March 9– 18 – The

2018 Winter Paralympics ) , nations = 49 , athletes = 569 , events = 80 in 6 sports , opening = 9 March , closing = 18 March , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Eun-jung Seo Soon-seok , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic ...

are held in

, South Korea. * March 9 – President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from

North Korean leader The supreme leader () of North Korea is the ''de facto'' paramount leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, the state and the Korean People's Army. The title has not been written into the national constitution as a separate office, but it currently ...

for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North Korea. * March 11 ** China's government approves a constitutional change that removes term limits for its leaders, granting Xi Jinping the status of " President for Life". Xi is also the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (

paramount leader Paramount leader () is an informal term for the most important political figure in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The paramount leader typically controls the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), often hol ...

). ** The

2018 Colombian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 11 March 2018 to elect 102 members of the Senate and 165 members of the House of Representatives. Electoral system The Chamber of Representatives consisted of 172 members; 162 were elected by p ...

is held to elect all 102 members of the Senate of Colombia and all 165 members of the House of Representatives of Colombia. *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...

– Flight BS211 crashes and bursts into flames at Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal, killing 51 of the 71 people aboard. The 20 surviving passengers were seriously injured from the impact and the fire. * March 13 – The

2018 Grenadian general election General elections were held in Grenada on 13 March 2018. The result was a victory for the New National Party and incumbent Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, winning his fifth term in office. Electoral system The 15 members of the House of Represe ...

is held to elect all 15 members of the

House of Representatives of Grenada The Parliament of Grenada is composed of the monarch and two chambers: Senate and the House of Representatives. It operates from the New Parliament Building in St. George's. Structure Parliament consists of the King, represented by the Gove ...

, the lower chamber of the Parliament of Grenada and the New National Party won all 15 seats for the second consecutive time. *

March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...

– In response to gun violence in the United States, and particularly triggered by the

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Miami suburban town of Parkland, Florida, murdering 17 people and injuring 17 others. Cruz, a former student at t ...

in Parkland, Florida, thousands of high school students across the country participate in an organized protest they called the National School Walkout. * March 18 – In the

Russian presidential election Russian presidential elections determine who will serve as the president of Russia for the next six (formerly four from 1996 to 2012 and five from 1991 to 1996) years. Since the establishment of the position of the President of Russia in 1991, t ...

, Vladimir Putin is elected for a fourth term. * March 19 – The world's last male northern white rhinoceros dies in Kenya, making the subspecies functionally extinct. *

March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...

– The

2018 Antiguan general election General elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 21 March 2018 to elect members to House of Representatives (Antigua and Barbuda), House of Representatives of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda, 15th Antigua and Barbuda Parliament. Each ...

is held to elect all 17 members of the

House of Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda The House of Representatives of Antigua and Barbuda is the lower chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda, parliament. The current House of Representatives has a total of 19 members. 17 members are directly elected ...

, the lower chamber of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda and the governing Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party win 15 out of 17 seats. * March 23 – An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, kills five people, including the perpetrator. * March 24 – In over 900 cities internationally, people participate in

demonstrations Demonstration may refer to: * Demonstration (acting), part of the Brechtian approach to acting * Demonstration (military), an attack or show of force on a front where a decision is not sought * Demonstration (political), a political rally or prote ...

against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the " March for Our Lives". *

March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

** Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and

Heathrow Airport Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others be ...

, making it the first commercially non-stop service between

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

and the United Kingdom. **

2018 Kemerovo fire On 25 March 2018 at 16:00 local time (9:00 UTC), a fire engulfed the "Zimnyaya vishnya" shopping mall and entertainment complex in Kemerovo, Russia. It killed at least 60 people (more than half of which were children) according to official sta ...

: At least 60 people are killed and 79 others injured in a fire at the Winter Cherry shopping mall and entertainment complex in

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Ba ...

, Russia. * March 26 – More than 100 Russian diplomats are expelled by more than 20 countries in the wake of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal. * March 28 ** North Korean supreme leader

meets Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping, leaving the country for the first time since assuming office in 2011. ** At least 78 people die in a fire in the police headquarters of Valencia, Venezuela.

April

* April 1 –

: The second round of voting for the presidential election is held and Citizens' Action Party candidate

Carlos Alvarado Quesada Carlos Andrés Alvarado Quesada (; born 14 January 1980) is a Costa Rican politician, writer, journalist and political scientist who served as the 48th president of Costa Rica from 8 May 2018 to 8 May 2022. A member of the Citizens' Action P ...

is elected president. *

April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

– 15 – The

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

are held in

Gold Coast, Queensland The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...

, Australia. *

April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...

– Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is given an arrest warrant after a vote by the Supreme Court voted 6–5 in favor of denying his '' habeas corpus'', due to corruption and other scandals. * April 6 – A semi-truck collides with a bus carrying the

Humboldt Broncos The Humboldt Broncos are a Canadian junior "A" ice hockey team from Humboldt, Saskatchewan. Established in 1970, the Broncos play in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. History The Broncos were established in 1970 by a group of local organ ...

ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people. * April 7 –

2018 Münster attack On 7 April 2018, a man drove a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster. He killed four people and injured about 20 others, six of them seriously, before committing su ...

: A man drives a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster. *

April 8 Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Ro ...

** Syrian Civil War: At least 70 people are reported to have died and hundreds suffering injuries after a sarin chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. **The

2018 Hungarian parliamentary election The 2018 Hungarian parliamentary election took place on 8 April 2018. This parliamentary election was the eighth since the 1990 first multi-party election and the second since the adoption of a new Constitution of Hungary which came into force on ...

is held to elect all 199 members of the National Assembly of Hungary and the Fidesz–KDNP Party Alliance won 133 out of 199 seats. * April 11 – 257 people are killed after an Ilyushin Il-76 belonging to the Algerian Air Force crashes near Algiers. * April 14 – Syrian Civil War: The United States, the United Kingdom and France order the bombing of Syrian military bases in response to the sarin attack allegedly by the

Bashar al-Assad Bashar Hafez al-Assad, ', Levantine pronunciation: ; (, born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the ...

regime on civilians in

Ghouta Ghouta ( ar, غُوطَةُ دِمَشْقَ / ALA-LC: ''Ḡūṭat Dimašq'') is a countryside and suburban area in southwestern Syria that surrounds the city of Damascus along its eastern and southern rim. Name Ghouta is the Arabic term (''gh ...

. * April 15 – The

2018 Montenegrin presidential election Presidential elections were held in Montenegro on 15 April 2018. Former Prime Minister Milo Đukanović, leader of the ruling DPS was elected as new President of Montenegro in the first round. Electoral system The president is elected using th ...

is held and the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro candidate, former prime minister and former president Milo Đukanović is elected on the first round of voting. * April 18 ** In Nicaragua, protests begin against announced reforms of Social Security which would decrease retirement pension benefits. An estimated number of 34 protesters are killed by police. ** Cinemas open in Saudi Arabia for the first time since 1983 with the American film ''

Black Panther A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard (''Panthera pardus'') and the jaguar (''Panthera onca''). Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present. They have been d ...

'' chosen as the first to be screened. ** NASA's

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, Explorer 95 or MIDEX-7) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the ''Kepler' ...

(TESS) is launched. * April 19 ** Miguel Díaz-Canel is sworn in as President of Cuba, replacing

Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (; ; born 3 June 1931) is a retired Cuban politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, succeedi ...

, but Castro remains the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position in Cuba. ** Swaziland changes its English name, officially becoming the

Kingdom of Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...

. * April 20 – The 2018 Bhutanese National Council election is held to elect 20 out of 25 members of the National Council of Bhutan, the upper house of the

bicameral Bicameralism is a type of legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single grou ...

Parliament of Bhutan The Parliament of Bhutan ( dz, རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་ ''gyelyong tshokhang'') consists of the King of Bhutan together with a bicameral parliament.Constitution: Art. 1, § 3; Art. 10 This bicameral parliament is ...

. * April 22 – The

2018 Paraguayan general election General elections were held in Paraguay on 22 April 2018. President Horacio Cartes and Vice-President Juan Afara of the Colorado Party were not eligible for re-election. The presidential elections were won by the Colorado Party's Mario Abdo Be ...

is held to elect the president of Paraguay, all 45 members of the Chamber of Senators of Paraguay and all 80 members of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay. Colorado Party candidate Mario Abdo Benítez is elected president, the Colorado Party wins 17 out of 45 seats in the Chamber of Senators and 42 out of 80 members in the Chamber of Deputies. *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...

– A vehicle-ramming attack kills 10 people and injures 16 others in Toronto, Canada. A 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, is arrested. *

April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...

–

crosses into South Korea to meet with President Moon Jae-in, becoming the first North Korean leader to cross the Demilitarized Zone since its creation in 1953.

May

* May 3 ** The separatist group

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

officially announces its final dissolution after 40 years of conflict and more than 800 deaths in Spain. ** The

2018 lower Puna eruption The 2018 lower Puna eruption was a volcanic event on the island of Hawaiʻi, on Kīlauea volcano's East Rift Zone that began on May 3, 2018. It is related to the larger eruption of Kīlauea that began on January 3, 1983, though some volcanolog ...

causes destruction of structures and forces thousands of residents of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land. * May 5 ** NASA's space probe '' InSight'' is launched. It landed on Mars in November and uses a drill to conduct geological science. ** In North Korea, clocks are adjusted to UTC+9 (GMT+09:00) to the same as South Korea *

May 8 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...

– U.S. President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement. *

– 12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is held in

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, Portugal, and is won by

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entrant Netta Barzilai with the song " Toy". * May 9 – The opposition-led Pakatan Harapan coalition, led by former Prime Minister

Mahathir Mohamad Mahathir bin Mohamad ( ms, محاضير بن محمد, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset; ; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who served as the 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the office ...

, secures a

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in the Malaysian Parliament as the result of the

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, ending the 61-year rule of the Barisan Nasional coalition since independence in 1957. * May 12 – The

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is held to elect all 65 members of the

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and the Alliance for Change and Progress ( CNRT– PLP– KHUNTO) wins 34 out of 65 seats. *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 ...

– The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Muhammad V, pardons Malaysian opposition leader

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who is immediately released. *

May 18 Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 4 ...

–

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crashed shortly after take-off near José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, killing 112 people and leaving only one survivor. * May 19 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at

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, England, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion. * May 20 – The

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was held with incumbent President

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reelected with 67.8% of the vote and the lowest turnout in Venezuela's modern democratic history since the 1958 coup d'état. The elections were denounced as a "sham" by several Latin American countries, the United States, Canada, the

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and the European Union. *

May 24 Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus La ...

** Foreign journalists report that tunnels in the Punggye-ri nuclear test site have been destroyed by the North Korean government in a move to reduce regional tensions. ** The

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of the

Parliament of Barbados and the Barbados Labour Party wins all 30 seats. * May 25 ** The European Union's

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(GDPR) goes into effect, imposing strict privacy controls for European citizens worldwide. ** A constitutional referendum on whether to repeal the ban on abortion in Ireland takes place, with a landslide win of 66.4% to 33.6% for the repeal side. ** Solo: A Star Wars Story released in the United States. *

May 26 Events Pre-1600 * 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe. * 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...

–

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wins the 2017-18 Champions League held in Kyiv, Ukraine by beating Liverpool in the final 3–1. *

May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...

– The first round of voting of the

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is held. * May 31 – The U.S. announces that it will extend its tariffs on imported steel (25%) and aluminium (10%) to include the EU, Mexico and Canada, starting at midnight.

June

* June 2 –

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is appointed new Prime Minister of Spain, a day after a vote of no confidence against his predecessor, Mariano Rajoy. * June 3 ** At least 109 people are killed and hundreds wounded by the eruption of

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, Guatemala's deadliest volcanic eruption in over a century. ** Snap parliamentary elections are held in Slovenia, following the resignation of prime minister Miro Cerar, to elect all 90 members of the

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, the

of the Slovenian Parliament. * June 8– 9 – The 44th G7 summit is held in Canada. President Trump pushes for the reinstatement of the G8 (to include Russia). He also proposes the elimination of tariffs. *

June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...

** The

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is held in Singapore. It is the first summit between a sitting United States President and a North Korean leader. ** Greece and the Republic of Macedonia reach a deal to end a 27-year naming dispute between both countries, which would result in Macedonia being officially renamed the Republic of North Macedonia. * June 13 –

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awards hosting rights for the

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to a joint bid from Canada, Mexico and the United States. * June 14 – July 15 – The

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is held in Russia and is won by France, which hosted the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament from June 10 to July 10,

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. * June 16 – Seventeen people die in Caracas, Venezuela following the

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after a tear gas canister is detonated in a crowded club. *

June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...

– The second round of voting of the

is held and the Democratic Center party candidate

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is elected president of Colombia. * June 19 ** The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. ** Canada becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis took effect on October 17. * June 22 –

July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...

– The 2018 Mediterranean Games are held in Tarragona, Spain. * June 24 ** Saudi Arabia Women to drive movement, allows women to drive. ** 2018 Turkish general election, Early general elections was held in Turkey to 2018 Turkish presidential election, elect the president of Turkey and 2018 Turkish parliamentary election, all 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Turkey's Unicameralism, unicameral legislature. Justice and Development Party (Turkey), Justice and Development Party candidate, incumbent President of Turkey, president

is reelected and the Justice and Development Party, led by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comes out as the largest party winning 295 out of 600 seats.

July

– The 2018 Mexican general election is held to elect the president of Mexico, all 128 members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico), Senate of the Republic and all 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico), Chamber of Deputies.The presidential candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is elected president and the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition wins a majority of 69 out of 128 out of seats in the Senate and 312 out of 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. * July 5 ** Lithuania becomes the 36th member of the OECD. ** The 2018 North American heat wave takes place, killing 33 people in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. * July 6 ** Former Aum Shinrikyo leader Shoko Asahara and six other main members of Aum Shinrikyo, who led the Tokyo subway sarin attack, 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack, are executed by hanging. ** U.S. tariffs on United States dollar, US$ 34 billion of Chinese goods come into effect, as President Trump suggests the final total could reach $550bn. China accuses the U.S. of starting the "largest trade war in economic history" and announces immediate retaliatory tariffs. * July 7 – 2018 Japan floods, a torrential heavy massive rain, flash flood, landslide hit in Hiroshima, Kurashiki and Ehime Prefecture, Japan. According to Japanese government official confirmed report, 232 people were killed and 459 injured. * July 9 – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict, twenty-year conflict. * July 10 – Twelve boys and their football coach are successfully rescued from the flooded Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Thailand, following a Tham Luang cave rescue, 17-day ordeal that gained worldwide attention. * July 11–July 12, 12 – The 2018 Brussels summit, 2018 Brussels NATO summit is held in Belgium. * July 17 – The Japan–European Union relations, EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement is signed, the world's largest bilateral free trade deal, creating an open trade zone covering nearly one-third of global GDP. *July 19- A Tourist duck boat capsizes and sinks in Branson, Missouri during a severe thunderstorm, resulting in the deaths of 17 people. * July 23 – The Saddle Dam D in Paksong, Laos 2018 Laos dam collapse, collapsed leaving up to 1100 people missing. * July 25 – Scientists report the presence of a Water on Mars#Subglacial liquid water, subglacial lake on Mars, below the southern polar ice cap and extending sideways about , the first known body of water on the planet. * July 26 ** Heavy 2018 Attica wildfires, wildfires in Greece leave 102 dead and more than a hundred buildings destroyed. ** The share price of Facebook drops by almost 20 percent after the company warns investors that user growth has slowed following the data leak scandal. Over $109 billion is wiped from its market value, the largest single day loss in corporate history. * July 27 – The longest July 2018 lunar eclipse, total lunar eclipse of the 21st century occurs, lasting 102 minutes and 57.3 seconds, but the longest total lunar eclipse of the 3rd millennium will occur on May 12, 2264, lasting 106 minutes and 13.2 seconds, over 3 minutes longer than this eclipse. It was the 38th eclipse of Lunar Saros 129, with an umbral eclipse magnitude of 1.60868. The total lunar eclipse with the greatest magnitude in the 21st century will occur on June 2029 lunar eclipse, June 26, 2029, with an umbral eclipse magnitude of 1.84362. * July 31 ** Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since 2003, four days after reaching opposition. ** Aeroméxico Connect Flight 2431 crashed on takeoff from Durango International Airport. Shortly after becoming airborne, the plane encountered sudden wind shear caused by a microburst. The plane rapidly lost speed and altitude and impacted the runway, detaching the engines and skidding to a halt about 1,000 feet (300 m) beyond the runway. The plane caught fire and was destroyed. All 103 people on board survived, but 39 passengers and crew members were injured.

August

* August 1 – The 2018 Kivu Ebola outbreak begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It becomes the second-deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus on November 29, surpassed only by the 2013 West African Ebola virus epidemic. * August 2 – Apple Inc. becomes the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of $1 trillion. * August 5 - 5 August 2018 Lombok earthquake, A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the island of Lombok, Indonesia, killing 563 people and injuring more than a thousand people. * August 7 – The United States reimposes sanctions on Iran. * August 10–August 20, 20 – Heavy rainfall causes 2018 Kerala floods, severe floods in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the worst flood to hit the state in a century. * August 12 ** The five littoral states – Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan – sign the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, ending the 20-year long dispute over the Caspian Sea's legal status. ** NASA launches the uncrewed ''Parker Solar Probe'' to study the Sun at close range and the solar wind. * August 14 – Part of the Morandi Bridge collapses after a violent storm in Genoa, Italy, causing 43 fatalities. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and transport minister Danilo Toninelli blame private company Autostrade per l'Italia. * August 18 – September 2 – The 2018 Asian Games are held in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. * August 20 – 15 year old Swedish pupil Greta Thunberg starts to School strike for the climate, stay out of school in an attempt to give attention to the global warming, climate change issue. * August 23 – Ecuador withdraws from ALBA. * August 24 – Scott Morrison succeeds Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister of Australia following a Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party Liberal Party of Australia leadership spills, 2018, leadership ballot. Morrison is sworn in as Prime Minister later that evening. *August 25 – The KSI vs. Logan Paul, amateur boxing match between KSI and Logan Paul takes place at Manchester Arena, the fight is dubbed as the biggest amateur boxing match in history. * August 26 - Three people are killed and eleven wounded during a Jacksonville Landing shooting, mass shooting at a Madden NFL 19, Madden NFL '19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida.

September

* September 2 – National Museum (Rio de Janeiro)#2018 fire, A fire breaks out in the National Museum (Rio de Janeiro), National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying more than 90 percent of its archive of 20 million items. * September 6 – The Supreme Court of India decriminalises homosexuality. * September 9 – The 2018 Swedish general election is held to elect all 349 members of the Riksdag, Sweden, Sweden's Unicameralism, unicameral legislature. * September 16 - Hydrail train enters service on the Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven line in Lower Saxony, Germany. * September 17 – Syrian Civil War: While the Israeli Air Force conduct missile strikes that hit targets in western Syria, a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane is Syria missile strikes (September 2018), shot down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile, killing all 15 Russian servicemen on board. Russia blamed Israel's military for the accident because the Israeli jets that conducted the strikes allegedly used the Russian plane as cover to allow them to approach their targets without being hit by Syrian fire. * September 20 – The Sinking of the MV Nyerere, MV ''Nyerere'' capsizes on Lake Victoria, killing at least 228 passengers. * September 22 – Ahvaz military parade attack, An attack at a military parade kills 30 people (including 5 attackers) and injures 70 more in Ahvaz, Iran. * September 28 – 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami, A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Sulawesi, Indonesia, causing a tsunami that kills at least 4,340 people and injures more than 10,679 others.

October

*October 1 – The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean, not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia. * October 2 – ''The Washington Post'' journalist Jamal Khashoggi is Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia. * October 6 – The 2018 Latvian parliamentary election is held to elect All 100 members of the Saeima, Latvia, Latvia's Unicameralism, unicameral legislature. * October 8 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC releases its Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, warning that "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" are needed to ensure that global warming is kept below 1.5 °C. * October 10 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall at Mexico Beach, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph (260 km/h) and a minimum pressure of . It is the most intense hurricane to hit the mainland United States since Hurricane Camille, Camille in 1969. * October 16 – Canada legalises the sale and use of cannabis, becoming the second country in the world to do so, after Uruguay in 2013. * October 17 – Kerch Polytechnic College massacre, A school shooting and bomb attack in Kerch, Crimea, kills 20 people and injures 70 others. * October 19 ** At least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a Amritsar train disaster, train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India. ** The uncrewed European-Japanese spacecraft ''BepiColombo'' is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury (planet), Mercury. * October 20 ** 700,000 people Opposition to Brexit in the United Kingdom#The People's Vote March for the Future, march through central London demanding a second referendum on the final Brexit deal. The event is the second most attended protest of the 21st century in the United Kingdom after the 15 February 2003 anti-war protest, "Stop the War" anti-Iraq War march in 2003. ** President Trump announces that the US will "terminate" the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty over alleged Russian violations. * October 23 – The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, the world's longest sea crossing bridge, is opened by Chinese Paramount leader Xi Jinping. * October 27 - Michael D. Higgins is officially declared President of Ireland after receiving 822,566 first preference votes. * October 28 – The right-wing Jair Bolsonaro is elected as the next President of Brazil, with 55% of the vote. * October 29 – Lion Air Flight 610 crashes off the coast of Java, killing all 189 people on board. * October 30 – NASA's ''Kepler (spacecraft), Kepler'' mission ends after the spacecraft runs out of fuel.

November

* November 1 – NASA's ''Dawn (spacecraft), Dawn'' mission concludes after it runs out of hydrazine fuel. * November 4 **New Caledonia holds an 2018 New Caledonian independence referendum, independence referendum, with 56.4% voting against independence versus 43.6% in favour. **2018 Amazonas ambush, Amazonas ambush, three Venezuelan border guards were killed and ten were wounded in a suspected Colombian National Liberation Army (Colombia), ELN guerrilla attack in the Venezuelan Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas state. * November 5 - Two U.S. space probes simultaneously (and coincidentally) reach "opposite" milestones in relation to the solar heliosphere: Voyager 2 passed through the Heliopause (astronomy), heliopause, the outer limit of the Sun's magnetic field, into Interstellar medium, interstellar space within hours of the Parker Solar Probe reaching its first perihelion, the closest point to the Sun on its initial orbit. * November 8 – The Camp Fire (2018), Camp Fire ignites in Butte County, California. It becomes California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire, with 88 deaths and 18,804 buildings destroyed. * November 11 – Many nations around the world, particularly ones in Europe and the Commonwealth, along with the United States, commemorate the Armistice Day centenary, centenary of the end of World War I with Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day ceremonies, speeches, parades, and memorials. * November 26 – NASA's '' InSight'' probe successfully lands on the surface of Mars. * November 27 – Kerch Strait incident: Ukraine declares martial law after an armed incident in which the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Coast Guard (Russia), coast guard fired upon and captured three Ukrainian Navy vessels attempting to pass from the Black Sea into the Sea of Azov through the Kerch Strait. * November 28 – Chinese scientist He Jiankui, at a public conference in Hong Kong, announces that he has Genetically modified organism, altered the DNA of twin human girls born earlier in the month to try to make them resistant to infection with the HIV virus; he also reveals the possible second pregnancy of another gene-modified baby. * November 30 - The Kanden Tunnel Electric Bus, Kanden Tunnel Trolleybus, one of the last remaining Japanese trolleybus systems, closes.

December

* December 1–December 8, 8 – France experiences its worst civil unrest since the May 1968 events in France, protests of 1968 due to the yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in the country. * December 1 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the Oulu child sexual exploitation scandal, much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland. * December 3 – NASA reports the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx probe at 101955 Bennu, Bennu, the agency's first sample-return mission to an asteroid. * December 7 – The U.N.'s International Telecommunication Union reports that, by the end of 2018, more than half – a full 51.2 percent – of the world's population are now using the Internet. * December 9 – 2018 Armenian parliamentary election, Parliamentary elections were held in Armenia on 9 December 2018. *December 13 - Marşandiz train collision, A train collision occurred in Ankara, Ankara, Turkey due the incorrect Railroad switch, switch setting *December 15 – At the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Katowice Climate Change Conference, nearly 200 nations agree rules on implementing the Paris Agreement, 2015 Paris agreement. * December 17 – Scandinavian tourists Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland, Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland are murdered by Islamic terrorists in the foothills of Toubkal, Mount Toubkal near to the village of Imlil, Marrakesh-Safi, Imlil in Morocco. At least one victim is beheaded with the murders recorded on video and posted on social media. In a previous video the perpetrators pledge allegiance to ISIS. * December 19–December 21, 21 – Gatwick Airport drone incident: Reports of drone sightings close to the runway at Gatwick Airport in England causes major disruption, affecting approximately 140,000 passengers and 1,000 flights, making it the largest disruption since 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, ash from an Icelandic volcano shut the airport in 2010. * December 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 22,445 after its worst week since 2008. * December 22 ** A 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami, tsunami hits the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, killing at least 430 people and injuring nearly 1,500. ** The United States government enters a United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019, second government shutdown, arising over a dispute over funding for the Mexico–United States barrier, U.S.–Mexico border wall. The shutdown, which lasted until January 25, 2019, is the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. * December 24 – Burundi moves its capital from Bujumbura to Gitega. * December 26 – After weeks of losses the Dow Jones Industrial Average posts its largest ever one-day point gain: 1,086 points. * December 31 – 2018 Magnitogorsk building collapse: An apartment block in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, partially collapses, killing 39 people and injuring 17 more. According to the official investigation the collapse was caused by a gas explosion.

Births

– Prince Louis of Wales, Prince Louis, fourth in line to the throne of the United Kingdom

Deaths

January

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* January 2 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and writer (b. 1927) *

– Aharon Appelfeld, Ukrainian-Israeli writer (b. 1932) * January 5 ** Thomas Bopp, American astronomer (b. 1949) ** Antonio Valentín Angelillo, Antonio Angelillo, Italian-Argentine footballer (b. 1937) ** John Young (astronaut), John Young, American astronaut (b. 1930) * January 6 – Horace Ashenfelter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1923) * January 7 ** France Gall, French singer (b. 1947) ** Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman, politician and UN official (b. 1946) * January 8 – George Maxwell Richards, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1931) * January 9 – Odvar Nordli, 21st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1927) * January 14 ** Dan Gurney, American racing driver (b. 1931) ** Cyrille Regis, English footballer (b. 1958) * January 15 ** Dolores O'Riordan, Irish musician (b. 1971) ** Óscar Alberto Pérez, Venezuelan rebel leader and detective (b. 1981) * January 16 – Oliver Ivanović, Serbian politician (b. 1953) * January 19 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (b. 1924) *

– Paul Bocuse, French chef (b. 1926) * January 22 ** Jimmy Armfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1935) ** Ursula K. Le Guin, American novelist (b. 1929) * January 23 ** Hugh Masekela, South African jazz musician (b. 1939) ** Nicanor Parra, Chilean poet (b. 1914) * January 25 ** Claribel Alegría, Nicaraguan poet (b. 1924) ** Neagu Djuvara, Romanian historian, essayist, and philosopher (b. 1916) * January 27 – Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish businessman (b. 1926) * January 28 – Gene Sharp, American political scientist (b. 1928) * January 29 – Ion Ciubuc, 7th Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1943) * January 30 – Azeglio Vicini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1933) * January 31 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1951)

February

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* February 1 – Barys Kit, Belarusian-American rocket scientist (b. 1910) * February 3 ** Dennis Edwards, American singer (b. 1943) ** Károly Palotai, Hungarian footballer and referee (b. 1935) *

** Alan Baker (mathematician), Alan Baker, English mathematician (b. 1939) ** John Mahoney, British-American actor (b. 1940) *

– Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist (b. 1935) * February 9 ** John Gavin, American actor and diplomat (b. 1931) ** Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic film composer (b. 1969) ** Liam Miller, Irish footballer (b. 1981) * February 10 – Alan R. Battersby, English organic chemist (b. 1925) *

– Asma Jahangir, Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer (b. 1952) * February 12 – Leo Falcam, 5th President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1935) * February 13 ** Dobri Dobrev, Bulgarian ascetic and philanthropist (b. 1914) ** Prince Henrik of Denmark, Prince Henrik, consort of Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1934) *

** Ruud Lubbers, 47th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1939) ** Morgan Tsvangirai, 2nd Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (b. 1952) * February 18 ** Günter Blobel, Silesian-American Nobel biologist (b. 1936) ** Didier Lockwood, French jazz violinist (b. 1956) ** Idrissa Ouédraogo, Burkinabé film director (b. 1954) * February 19 ** Sergey Litvinov (athlete, born 1958), Sergey Litvinov, Russian Olympic hammer thrower (b. 1958) ** Yury Tyukalov, Russian Olympic rower (b. 1930) * February 20 – Jiichiro Date, Japanese Olympic wrestler (b. 1952) * February 21 – Billy Graham, American evangelist (b. 1918) * February 22 ** Forges (cartoonist), Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942) ** Richard E. Taylor, Canadian Nobel physicist (b. 1929) * February 23 – Lewis Gilbert, British film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920) * February 24 – Sridevi, Indian actress (b. 1963) * February 27 – Quini, Spanish football player (b. 1949)

March

20150616 - Portugal - Italie - Genève - Davide Astori (cropped)

* March 1 ** Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess grandmaster (b. 1931) ** Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle racer (b. 1929) * March 3 ** Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete and neurologist (b. 1929) ** David Ogden Stiers, American actor (b. 1942) * March 4 – Davide Astori, Italian footballer (b. 1987) * March 5 – Trevor Baylis, English inventor (b. 1937) * March 6 – John Sulston, British Nobel biologist and academic (b. 1942) * March 7 – Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928) * March 9 ** Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer (b. 1927) ** Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player (b. 1982) * March 11 ** Karl Lehmann, German cardinal (b. 1936) ** Mary Rosenblum, American science fiction and mystery author (b. 1952) *

– Oleg Tabakov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1935) *

– Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1942) * March 17 – Phan Văn Khải, 5th Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1933) * March 18 – Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 4th Prime Minister of Djibouti (b. 1930) * March 19 ** Keith O'Brien, Scottish cardinal (b. 1938) ** Kedarnath Singh, Indian poet (b. 1934) * March 22 – René Houseman, Argentine footballer (b. 1953) * March 24 ** José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan conductor and politician (b. 1939) ** Lys Assia, Swiss singer (b. 1924) ** Rim Banna, Palestinian singer and activist (b. 1966) * March 27 – Stéphane Audran, French actress (b. 1932) * March 30 – André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 9th Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1934)

April

Ex General Efrain Rios Montt testifying during the trial

* April 1 – Efraín Ríos Montt, 26th President of Guatemala (b. 1926) * April 2 ** Morris Halle, Latvian-American linguist (b. 1923) ** Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, South African activist and politician (b. 1936) * April 3 – Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938) *

– Ray Wilkins, English footballer and manager (b. 1956) *

** Eric Bristow, English darts player (b. 1957) ** Isao Takahata, Japanese film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1935) * April 6 – Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1961) * April 7 – Peter Grünberg, German Nobel physicist (b. 1939) *

** Leila Abashidze, Georgian actress, director, and writer (b. 1929) ** André Lerond, French footballer (b. 1930) ** John Miles (racing driver), John Miles, English racing driver (b. 1943) * April 13 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American film director (b. 1932) * April 15 ** R. Lee Ermey, American actor (b. 1944) ** Michael Halliday, English-Australian linguist (b. 1925) ** Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director (b. 1929) * April 16 ** Choi Eun-hee, South Korean actress (b. 1926) ** Ivan Mauger, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider (b. 1939) * April 17 – Barbara Bush, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1925) * April 18 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian-born American professional wrestler (b. 1935) * April 19 – Vladimir Lyakhov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut (b. 1941) * April 20 – Avicii, Swedish DJ (b. 1989) * April 21 – Verne Troyer, American actor (b. 1969) * April 24 – Henri Michel, French footballer and coach (b. 1947) * April 25 ** Abbas (photographer), Abbas, Iranian photographer (b. 1944) ** Shuhrat Abbosov, Uzbek actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1931) ** Michael Anderson (director), Michael Anderson, English film director (b. 1920) *

– Álvaro Arzú, 32nd President of Guatemala (b. 1946) * April 29 – Luis García Meza, 57th President of Bolivia (b. 1929)

May

Al Bean during EVA training in the Flight Crew Support Building

* May 1 – Wanda Wiłkomirska, Polish violinist and teacher (b. 1929) * May 2 – Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924) * May 3 – Afonso Dhlakama, Mozambican politician, leader of RENAMO (b. 1953) * May 5 – Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931) * May 7 – Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (b. 1960) *

– Anne V. Coates, British film editor (b. 1925) * May 9 – Per Kirkeby, Danish artist (b. 1938) * May 10 – David Goodall (botanist), David Goodall, English-Australian scientist (b. 1914) * May 12 – Antonio Mercero, Spanish film and television director (b. 1936) * May 13 ** Glenn Branca, American composer and musician (b. 1948) ** Margot Kidder, Canadian-American actress and activist (b. 1948) * May 14 ** E. C. George Sudarshan, Indian theoretical physicist (b. 1931) ** Tom Wolfe, American author and journalist (b. 1930) * May 15 – Ray Wilson (English footballer), Ray Wilson, English footballer (b. 1934) * May 17 ** Nicole Fontaine, French politician, President of the European Parliament (b. 1942) ** Richard Pipes, Polish-American academic and historian (b. 1923) *

– Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Colombian cardinal (b. 1929) * May 19 ** Robert Indiana, American artist (b. 1928) ** Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (b. 1916) * May 22 – Philip Roth, American writer (b. 1933) * May 23 – Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban exile militant and Central Intelligence Agency, CIA agent (b. 1928) *

– Gudrun Burwitz, German Neo-Nazi militant (b. 1929) *

** Alan Bean, American astronaut (b. 1932) ** Roger Piantoni, French footballer (b. 1931) *

– Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, 44th Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1935) * May 28 ** María Dolores Pradera, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1924) ** Jens Christian Skou, Danish medical doctor and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) ** Ola Ullsten, 28th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1931)

June

* June 1 ** John Julius Norwich, English historian, travel writer and broadcaster (b. 1929) ** Sinan Sakić, Serbian singer (b. 1956) * June 2 ** Paul D. Boyer, American biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918) ** Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Austrian ethologist (b. 1928) ** Emil Wolf, Czech-American physicist (b. 1922) * June 3 – Miguel Obando y Bravo, Nicaraguan cardinal (b. 1926) * June 5 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer (b. 1962) * June 6 – Kira Muratova, Ukrainian director, screenwriter, and actress (b. 1934) * June 8 ** Anthony Bourdain, American chef, writer, and television personality (b. 1956) ** Maria Bueno, Brazilian tennis player (b. 1939) ** Danny Kirwan, British musician (b. 1950) * June 9 ** Reinhard Hardegen, German U-boat commander and businessman (b. 1913) ** Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo-Albanian footballer (b. 1960) * June 13 ** D. J. Fontana, American musician (b. 1931) ** Charles Vinci, American Olympic weightlifter (b. 1933) * June 14 ** Fazlullah (militant leader), Fazlullah, Pakistani terrorist, leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (b. 1974) ** Stanislav Govorukhin, Russian film director, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1936) * June 16 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor (b. 1931) * June 18 ** Walter Bahr, American soccer player (b. 1927) ** Big Van Vader, American professional wrestler and football player (b. 1955) ** XXXTentacion, American singer and rapper (b. 1998) * June 19 ** Stanley Cavell, American philosopher (b. 1926) ** Sergio Gonella, Italian businessman and football referee (b. 1933) ** Koko (gorilla), Koko, American-bred western lowland gorilla (b. 1971) * June 20 – Peter Thomson (golfer), Peter Thomson, Australian golfer (b. 1929) * June 23 ** Alberto Fouilloux, Chilean footballer (b. 1940) ** Kim Jong-pil, 9th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1926) * June 26 – Henri Namphy, 35th President of Haiti (b. 1932) * June 27 – Joe Jackson (manager), Joe Jackson, American talent manager (b. 1928) * June 28 ** Harlan Ellison, American writer (b. 1934) ** Christine Nöstlinger, Austrian writer (b. 1936) * June 29 ** Arvid Carlsson, Swedish neuropharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923) ** Steve Ditko, American comic-book writer and artist (b. 1927) ** Irena Szewińska, Polish Olympic sprinter (b. 1946)

July

– Dame Gillian Lynne, British dancer and choreographer (b. 1926) * July 3 – Robby Müller, Dutch cinematographer (b. 1940) * July 4 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French poet and novelist (b. 1914) * July 5 ** Claude Lanzmann, French filmmaker (b. 1925) ** Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (b. 1943) * July 6 – Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader and terrorist (b. 1955) * July 9 ** Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (b. 1919) ** Hans Günter Winkler, German show jumping rider (b. 1926) * July 11 – Lindy Remigino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1931) * July 14 – Theo-Ben Gurirab, 2nd Prime Minister of Namibia (b. 1938) * July 18 – Burton Richter, American Nobel physicist (b. 1931) * July 19 ** Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese screenwriter (b. 1918) ** Denis Ten, Kazakh figure skater (b. 1993) * July 23 ** Paul Madeley, English footballer (b. 1944) ** Oksana Shachko, Ukrainian feminist (b. 1987) * July 25 – Sergio Marchionne, Italian-Canadian automotive executive (b. 1952) * July 27 – Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer (b. 1932) * July 29 ** Oliver Dragojević, Croatian singer (b. 1947) ** Vibeke Skofterud, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier (b. 1980) ** Tomasz Stańko, Polish trumpeter and composer (b. 1942) ** Nikolai Volkoff, Croatian professional wrestler (b. 1947)

August

* August 1 ** Mary Carlisle, American actress (b. 1914) ** Rick Genest, Canadian fashion model and artist (b. 1985) * August 6 – Joël Robuchon, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1945) * August 7 – Stan Mikita, Slovak-born Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1940) * August 8 – Nicholas Bett, Kenyan track and field athlete (b. 1990) * August 11 – V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-British Nobel writer (b. 1932) * August 12 – Samir Amin, Egyptian-French Marxian economist (b. 1931) * August 14 – Eduard Uspensky, Russian author and screenwriter (b. 1937) * August 16 ** Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942) ** Yelena Shushunova, Russian Olympic gymnast (b. 1969) ** Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 10th Prime Minister of India (b. 1924) * August 18 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat, 7th United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel laureate (b. 1938) * August 20 **Uri Avnery, Israeli peace activist and politician (b. 1923) **Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model and businesswoman (b. 1978) * August 21 ** Barbara Harris (actress), Barbara Harris, American actress and singer (b. 1935) ** Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor and singer (b. 1975) * August 22 – Ed King, American musician (b. 1949) * August 25 – John McCain, American politician and military officer (b. 1936) * August 26 – Neil Simon, American playwright (b. 1927) * August 29 – James Mirrlees, Scottish Nobel economist (b. 1936) * August 30 – Joseph Kobzon, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1937) * August 31 – Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (b. 1976)

September

* September 1 – Randy Weston, American jazz musician (b. 1926) * September 3 – Jalaluddin Haqqani, Afghan Haqqani insurgent (b. 1939) * September 5 – Bhagwatikumar Sharma, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist (b. 1934) * September 6 ** Burt Reynolds, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936) ** Claudio Scimone, Italian conductor (b. 1934) * September 7 ** Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (b. 1939) ** Mac Miller, American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1992) * September 8 – Gennadi Gagulia, Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1948) * September 12 – Rachid Taha, Algerian singer and activist (b. 1958) * September 15 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist, entomologist and professor (b. 1922) * September 16 – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (b. 1953) * September 18 – Robert Venturi, American architect (b. 1925) * September 19 ** Győző Kulcsár, Hungarian Olympic fencer (b. 1940) ** Arthur Mitchell (dancer), Arthur Mitchell, American ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1934) * September 20 – Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 7th List of heads of government of Morocco, Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1919) * September 21 ** Vitaliy Masol, 3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1928) ** Trần Đại Quang, 8th List of heads of state of Vietnam, President of Vietnam (b. 1956) * September 23 – Charles K. Kao, Hong-Kong-born British-American Nobel electrical engineer (b. 1933) * September 25 – Baba Hari Dass, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator (b. 1923) * September 27 – Marty Balin, American singer and musician (b. 1942) * September 28 – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 8th List of Prime Ministers of Swaziland, Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1942) * September 29 – Otis Rush, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1934) * September 30 – Kim Larsen, Danish rock singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)

October

* October 1 ** Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer (b. 1924) ** Đỗ Mười, 9th General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (b. 1917) * October 2 ** Geoff Emerick, English recording engineer (b. 1945) ** Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958) * October 3 – Leon M. Lederman, American Nobel physicist (b. 1922) * October 6 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano (b. 1933) * October 9 – Thomas A. Steitz, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1940) * October 10 – Mary Midgley, British philosopher (b. 1919) * October 11 – Paul Andreu, French architect (b. 1938) * October 14 ** Patrick Baumann (basketball), Patrick Baumann, Swiss basketball administrator, FIBA secretary general (b. 1967) ** Milena Dravić, Serbian actress (b. 1940) * October 15 ** Paul Allen, American businessman (b. 1953) ** Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer (b. 1942) * October 17 – Ara Güler, Turkish-Armenian photojournalist (b. 1928) * October 18 ** Lisbeth Palme, Swedish child psychologist, former chairwoman of UNICEF (b. 1931) ** Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 5th List of heads of state of Sudan, President of the Sudan (b. 1934) * October 19 – Osamu Shimomura, Japanese Nobel chemist and marine biologist (b. 1928) * October 20 – Wim Kok, 48th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1938) * October 21 – Joachim Rønneberg, Norwegian military officer and anti-Nazi resistant (b. 1919) * October 22 – José Varacka, Argentine football player and coach (b. 1932) * October 26 – Nikolai Karachentsov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1944) * October 27 – Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai businessman (b. 1958) * October 30 ** Sangharakshita, English Buddhist teacher and writer (b. 1925) ** Jin Yong, Hong Kong writer (b. 1924)

November

Stephen Hillenburg by Carlos Cazurro (cropped 2)

* November 1 – Yurik Vardanyan, Armenian Olympic weightlifter (b. 1956) * November 2 ** Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927) ** Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969) * November 3 – Sondra Locke, American actress (b. 1944) * November 4 – Serhiy Tkach, Russian-Ukrainian serial killer (b. 1952) * November 7 – Francis Lai, French composer (b. 1932) * November 12 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor and actor (b. 1922) * November 13 – Lucho Gatica, Chilean singer (b. 1928) * November 14 ** Rolf Hoppe, German actor (b. 1930) ** Fernando del Paso, Mexican writer (b. 1935) * November 15 ** Adolf Grünbaum, German-American philosopher of science (b. 1923) ** Zhores Medvedev, Russian agronomist, biologist, and historian (b. 1925) * November 16 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1931) * November 19 – Apisai Ielemia, 10th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1955) * November 20 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English Nobel chemist (b. 1926) * November 22 – Soslan Andiyev, Russian wrestler (b. 1952) * November 23 – Nicolas Roeg, British film director (b. 1928) * November 24 – Ricky Jay, American magician and actor (b. 1946) * November 25 – Viktor Kanevskyi, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1936) * November 26 ** Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1941) ** Stephen Hillenburg, American cartoonist, animator, and marine biology teacher (b. 1961) * November 29 – Viktor Matviyenko, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1948) * November 30 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)

December

* December 1 – Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933) * December 2 – Paul Sherwen, English cyclist and broadcaster (b. 1956) * December 3 ** Andrei Bitov, Russian writer (b. 1937) ** Geoff Murphy, New Zealand film director (b. 1938) ** Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish businessman (b. 1931) * December 6 – Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1955) * December 7 ** Belisario Betancur, 26th President of Colombia (b. 1923) ** Luigi Radice, Italian football player and manager (b. 1935) * December 8 ** Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Russian historian and human rights activist (b. 1927) ** Evelyn Berezin, American computer designer (b. 1925) * December 9 – Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born American Nobel astrophysicist (b. 1931) * December 12 – Iraj Danaeifard, Iranian footballer (b. 1951) * December 13 – Nancy Wilson (jazz singer), Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress (b. 1937) * December 15 – Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 2nd President of Ethiopia (b. 1924) * December 17 ** Penny Marshall, American actress and film director (b. 1943) ** Andrey Shcharbakow, Belarusian footballer (b. 1991) * December 18 ** Tulsi Giri, 23rd Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1926) ** Shinobu Sekine, Japanese Olympic judoka (b. 1943) * December 22 ** Paddy Ashdown, British politician, UN official and military officer (b. 1941) ** Roberto Suazo Córdova, 29th President of Honduras (b. 1927) * December 23 – Elias M. Stein, American mathematician (b. 1931) * December 24 ** Jozef Adamec, Slovakian footballer and manager (b. 1942) ** Stanko Poklepović, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1938) * December 25 – Nancy Roman, American astronomer (b. 1925) * December 26 ** Roy J. Glauber, American Nobel physicist (b. 1925) ** Lawrence Roberts (scientist), Lawrence Roberts, American computer scientist (b. 1937) ** Morton Sobell, American engineer and spy (b. 1917) * December 27 – Juan Bautista Agüero, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1935) * December 28 ** Abdelmalek Benhabyles, acting President of Algeria (b. 1921) ** Amos Oz, Israeli author and journalist (b. 1939) ** Shehu Shagari, 6th President of Nigeria (b. 1925) * December 29 – Ringo Lam, Hong Kong film director (b. 1955) ** Dame June Whitfield, English actress (b. 1925) * December 31 – Kader Khan, Indian actor (b. 1937)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Frances Arnold, George Smith (chemist), George Smith and Greg Winter * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – William Nordhaus and Paul Romer * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Olga Tokarczuk (awarded in 2019) * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad * Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo

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