Tag: today in history

2019More than 1.5 million students participated in climate change protests around the world as part of Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish...

2020The World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic.2006Chilean politician Michelle Bachelet became the first woman to serve as the country's...

2010American director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, for The Hurt Locker (2008).1999American director and writer...

2009President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau was assassinated by government soldiers, following years of unrest between Vieira and the military.1999British singer Dusty Springfield—who made...

2012National debates about racism and racial profiling ensued after Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African American teenager returning from a convenience store in Sanford, Florida,...

2001 -- Australian cricketer Don Bradman, one of the greatest run scorers in the history of the game and often judged the greatest player...