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1660 – The four-year-old Charles XI became King of Sweden upon his father's death.; 1891 – Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
April 20: SpaceX conducts the first full stack test launch of the world's most powerful rocket, Starship. May 5: World Health Organization ends the designation of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern. May 6: Charles III is crowned king of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms. May 17: 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis.
October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas ...
1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1 1 ⁄ 2 million units around the world. 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus. 1991 – Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 109 crashes in Venezuela, killing 45. [14]
1914 – World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire for the first time. [7] 1921 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio. 1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people. [8]
History, by period (See also Timeline of world history) Prehistory – events occurring before recorded history (that is, before written records). Colorado prehistory – Prehistoric technology – technologies that emerged before recorded history (i.e., before the development of writing).
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army. 1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. [20] 1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.