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October 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 Falklands War. October 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.
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 2019 – James Earl Carter Jr. becomes the longest ever living U.S. president at 94 years old, following the death of George H. W. Bush in December 2018. April 27, 2019 – A gunman kills one and injures three in a California Synagogue. The suspect is white supremacist John Timothy Earnest, who was 19 years old at the time.
Why Police Are Reopening a Cold Case After 21 Years. It was Sept. 17, 1992. 14-year-old Misty Copsey and a friend were dropped off at the Puyallup fair. They were supposed to take the bus home but ...
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku SatÅ agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases ...
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich "The product name Kodachrome resurfaced in the 1930s with a three-color chromogenic process, a variant that we still use today," Osterman continues.