Page 3: Historical Events In 2019

Feb 27   Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam.   

Feb 27   The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un   

Feb 28   YouTube announces it will formally ends all comments on videos featuring children because of paedophiles leaving inappropriate comments.   

Mar 02   37-year-old Swiss 20-time Grand Slam tennis champion Roger Federer beats Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 to win his 100th ATP Tour title at the Dubai Championships.   

Mar 03   An unmanned demonstration flight of the new crew capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.   

Mar 03   SpaceX 's Dragon capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run.   

Mar 03   The 2019 Estonian parliamentary election takes place, for all 101 seats in the Riigikogu   

Mar 04   Canadian minister Jane Philpott steps down in protest at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 's and the governement's handling of scandal involving bribes from engineering firm SNC-Lavalin   

Mar 04   Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi killing 1303 people   

Mar 04   US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump.   

Mar 05   A second case of sustained remission from HIV is reported, ten years after the Berlin Patient   

Mar 05   Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest-ever billionaire at 21, according to Forbes   

Mar 06   2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuela expels German ambassador Daniel Kriener for his alleged meddling in internal affairs   

Mar 06   Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg reveals plans to turn the social media platform into a more "privacy-focused platform".   

Mar 06   LeBron James scores his 32293rd point in the 2nd quarter of a Lakers' 115-99 loss to Denver in LA to pass Michael Jordan into 4th place on the NBA all-time point scoring list   

Mar 07   Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain shares her inaugural Instagram post, a letter between mathematician Charles Babbage and Prince Albert.   

Mar 10   Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board. All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are subsequently grounded worldwide.   

Mar 11   Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, refutes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 's statement “Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it.”   

Mar 12   Cargo ship Grande America sinks after it caught fire on March 10 in the Bay of Biscay, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) west of France, causing a 2200-tonne oil spill.   

Mar 12   Theresa May 's British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242   

Mar 13   Australian Cardinal George Pell is sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys in 1996.   

Mar 13   March 2019 North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.   

Mar 15   51 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand: Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, both of which were the target of shootings by Australia-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand's history and described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as "one of New Zealand's darkest days". Subsequently, Facebook announced they had disabled 1.5 million videos of the gunman's rampage.   

Mar 15   Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.   

Mar 15   Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.   

Mar 19   American Karen Uhlenbeck is the inaugural woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics.   

Mar 19   Nursultan Nazarbayev steps down as President of Kazakhstan after 29 years in office and appoints Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as acting president. Astana is renamed Nur-Sultan the following day in his honor   

Mar 20   Disney acquires the rights to 21st Century Fox leaving out a few assets to be spun-off to the newly formed Fox Corporation.   

Mar 20   Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.   

Mar 20   The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch 's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion   

Mar 21   A major explosion at a chemical plant in Xiangshui, Jiangsu, China, results in the deaths of at least 78 people and injures more than 600 others. Its powerful impact registered as an artificial earthquake   

Mar 21   Emilia Clarke reveals she suffered two brain aneurysms while filming "Games of Thrones" in an article for "The New Yorker"   

Mar 21   Levi Strauss and Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York stock exchange   

Mar 21   New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack   

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next Page »

Jan 01   Ivan dimitrov: Bulgarian footballer   

Jan 01   Ivo gregurević: Croatian actor   

Jan 02   Paulien van deutekom: Dutch world champion speed skater   

Jan 02   Daryl dragon: American musician   

Jan 02   Bob einstein: American actor and comedian   

Jan 02   Gene okerlund: American wrestling announcer   

Jan 03   Herb kelleher: American businessman   

Jan 05   Bernice sandler: American women's rights activist