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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in the United States. The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy , whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.
October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election The Republican majority fails to deliver enough votes for Jim Jordan to become House Speaker on the third vote, with Jordan also losing a subsequent secret ballot among Republican members, thereby ending his nomination.
2023 Pacific hurricane season Hurricane Otis becomes the most intense landfalling cyclone in the Eastern Pacific basin on record after making landfall near Acapulco , Mexico , and killing at least 27 people in the city, as a category 5 hurricane with 1-minute sustained winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km/h).
2023 began with a bump; more specifically, Rihanna revealed baby number two was on the way during her Super Bowl half-time show. At the movies, Hollywood got off to a big start. "Everything ...
2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election. Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo elect their president, members of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies, and commune councils. Voting is extended until December 21. 2023 Guinea-Bissau coup attempt
Burning Man 2023, September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods. Heavy flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, United States, kills one person and leaves tens of thousands of people stranded in the Black Rock Desert. Organizers close the festival to vehicles after the death was reported. International relations. Nuclear program of Iran
Tornado outbreak of March 24, 2023. At least 23 people are killed after a series of violent tornadoes impact the U.S. state of Mississippi. 2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion. Seven people are killed and many others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. (The Guardian)
Armed conflicts and attacks. Russia–United States relations. 2023 Black Sea drone incident. Russian Air Force Su-27 fighter jets "intercept and hit" a United States Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea, with the collision damaging the drone's propeller and causing the United States to crash the drone into international waters.