Events

2017 At least 27 killed in road accident along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway in eastern Kenya

2017 Large blast hits a mini bus in NW Pakistan,killing at least 20 people

2016 ISIS bomb attack in eastern Baghdad kills at least 11, injures 39

2015 17 confirmed killed when avalanche hit Mount Everest base camp after Nepal Quake - mountain's worst-ever disaster

2015 Deadly earthquake Nepal

2015 Nepal Earthquake 7.5 Strikes West Of Nepal Capital Kathmandu

2005 Amagasaki rail crash

1990 The US Hubble Space Telescope was released into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery

1988 Ukranian John "Ivan the Terrible" Demjanuk was sentenced to death as a Nazi war criminal in Israel

1953 The journal "Nature" published a paper by James D Watson and Francis Crick that described the structure of DNA

1945 San Francisco Conference of United Nations

1945 The Allies liberate Italy. Benito Mussolini is captured

1933 Hitler's Nazi government began persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses

1931 Porsche

1925 General Paul von Hindenburg became President of Germany

1916 The British government declared martial law in Ireland in response to the nationalist 'Easter Rising'

1915 WW1. 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Gallipoli Campaign

1915 90,000 Australian, NZ, British and French forces began landing on the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula

1900 The first issue of the "Daily Express" was published

1846 The Mexican-American War begins

1719 'Robinson Crusoe' by Daniel Defoe was published

1416 Brotherhood of Blackheads established in Riga

Events in other languages

2023 Juristu dienas 2023 atklāšana

2022 Krievijas iebrukums Ukrainā. 61. diena

2022 Ugunsgrēki Brjanskā. "Družbas" naftas glabāšanas bāze. Neoficiāli tiek ziņots, ka dažas minūtes vēlāk izcēlies otrs ugunsgrēks Krievijas 120. Galvenās raķešu un artilērijas pārvaldes arsenālā, bet trešais sprādziens noticis dzelzceļa mezglā

2019 Policija slēdz Deglava ielas tiltu Rīgā - Sardeļu pikniks

2016 Vismaz divi cilvēki nogalināti un viens smagi ievainots apšaudē blakus skolai Francijas pilsētā Grenoblē

2015 На Эвересте от схода лавины погибли 65 альпинистов

2005 107 osób zginęło, a 555 zostało rannych w katastrofie pociągu pasażerskiego w japońskim mieście Amagasaki

1984 David Anthony Kennedy the son of Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room

1945 W Torgau nad Łabą doszło do pierwszego spotkania wojsk radzieckich i amerykańskich

1855 Krimas karš. Atbildot uz Krievijas iebrukumu Krimā, britu kuģi bloķē pieeju Rīgas ostai, sagūsta un aizved 6 Rīgas tirdzniecības kuģus

1792 Pirmo reizi izpildīts nāvessods izmantojot giljotīnu

1697 Liepājā ierodas Krievijas cars Pēteris I, kurš apmetas madame Hoyer viesnīcā, Kungu ielā 24