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Tuesday, 03 February 2026
Sep 21 Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for US$7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry. 
Sep 21 WHO Director Tedros Ghebreyesus says countries representing 2/3 of the world's population have joined its COVAX vaccine-distribution initiative to deliver 2 billion doses by end 2021.
Sep 22 PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a 'perilous turning point' in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions.
Sep 22 President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060
Sep 24 David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Aniston's record as the quickest person to reach 1 million followers on Instagram.
Sep 25 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is recorded as becoming the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington D.C
Sep 27 Deadly clashes erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Republic of Artsakh introduce martial law and mobilize forces
Sep 29 The Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah dies at the age of 91. Crown Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is named his successor
Sep 29 [COVID-19 pandemic] The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds one million.
Oct 01 The EU began legal proceedings against the UK after it ignored their deadline to drop controversial sections from its internal market Bill.
Oct 02 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and inaugural Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day.
Oct 05 Massive protests breakout in Kyrgyzstan following accusations that the October 2020 parliamentary election was "unfair"
Oct 05 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 35 million worldwide. The news coincides with the World Health Organization estimating that total worldwide cases may be around 760 million - roughly a tenth of the global population.
Oct 10 Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on a ceasefire in the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Oct 11 French Open Men's Tennis: Rafael Nadal beats Novak Äoković 6-0, 6-2, 7-5; 20th Grand Slam singles title; record 13th French singles title.
Oct 11 In this year, British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton claims Eifel Grand Prix at Germany's Nürburgring to equal Michael Schumacher's record of 91 Formula 1 victories.
Oct 11 NBA Finals: LA Lakers beat Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 to win record equalling 17th title; MVP: LeBron James ; inaugural to win the award with 3 different teams.
Oct 12 UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge.
Oct 14 A copy of William Shakespeare 's inaugural Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York.
Oct 14 French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases.
Oct 15 President of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov steps down from office after weeks of massive protests in the wake of the October 2020 parliamentary election; opposition leader Sadyr Japarov assumes office as both the acting President and Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan.
Oct 15 Thai protests: The Government of Thailand declares a "severe" state of emergency banning gatherings of five or more people, initiating a crackdown on demonstrations and imposing media censorship.
Oct 17 In this year, 2020 New Zealand general election: Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party claims a landslide second term in office, defeating the National Party led by Judith Collins and gaining the country's inaugural parliamentary majority since the introduction of the MMP voting system.
Oct 17 Labour Party headed by Jacinda Ardern re-elected in a landslide in New Zealand's general election
Oct 19 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 40 million worldwide.
Oct 20 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly touches down on Bennu, becoming the agency's inaugural probe to retrieve samples from an asteroid, with its cargo due for return to Earth in 2023.
Oct 21 Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film "Francesco".
Oct 22 The Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women's Health and Strengthening the Family is signed by government representatives from 34 countries
Oct 23 At the end of an 11-year demining process, the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines, 38 years after the end of the 1982 war.
Oct 23 Israel and Sudan agree to normalise relations, marking the fifth Israel–Arab peace deal.
Oct 25 Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet
Oct 26 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will is recorded as becoming carbon neutral by 2050
Oct 26 NASA confirms the existence of molecular water on the sunlit side of the Moon, near Clavius crater, at concentrations of up to 412 parts per million
Oct 29 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal on a vessel bound for the Spanish Canary Islands. It is the deadliest shipwreck of 2020 so far.
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