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2024 Gramado Piper PA-42 crash. Ten people are killed and seventeen others are injured when a Piper PA-42 Cheyenne crashes into shops and a hotel while taking off from the Canela Airport in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The death toll from the stampede at two food distribution events in Abuja and Okija, Nigeria, increases to 32.
2024–25 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Chido increase to 34, with more than 23,000 homes destroyed. 2024 Port Vila earthquake. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake strikes Vanuatu's capital Port Vila, with at least fourteen people killed and more than 200 others injured. Health and environment
2009 World Habitat Day. World Habitat Day is marked on the first Monday of October each year, [1] and is recognized by the United Nations to reflect on the state of towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter. [2]
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, was the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. [1] Mukhtar Babayev presided, while Samir Nuriyev headed the Organising Committee. [2] [3]
2024 Brazil wildfires, 2023–2024 South American drought. Fifty-nine percent of Brazil's area suffers from significant drought conditions, the worst national drought recorded. These conditions cause historically low Amazon basin levels and are contributing to at least 160,000 wildfires in 2024 that are causing widespread air pollution.
2024 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
2024 Mexican general election. Mexicans elect a new president and legislature, eight governors, the mayor of Mexico City, and around 20,000 other positions in federal and local elections. Claudia Sheinbaum wins the presidential election. She will begin her term as Mexico's first female president on October 1. 2024 Iranian presidential election