Major Events
- Mar 13 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia
- Mar 15 Climate change strikes held by school children take place around the world inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg
- Mar 23 Syrian Democratic Forces announce that the last Islamic State territory has been retaken raising flags in Baghuz, Syria and ending the five-year Islamic State "caliphate"
- Apr 11 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power following massive street protests
- Jun 9 Over 1 million people protest in Hong Kong over proposed new extradition laws to China in one of largest-ever protests in the city
- Jul 24 Global warming is the fastest in 2,000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause is at 99%, according to three major reports published in journals "Nature" and "Nature Geoscience"
- Sep 20 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
- Oct 26 Raid by US Special Forces kills ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria
- Nov 23 Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
- Dec 12 British General Election won by Boris Johnson's Conservative Party in landslide win with 80 seat majority. Scottish National Party also wins 48 of 59 seats in Scotland.
- Dec 18 US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power (230-197) and obstruction of Congress (229-198)
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2019 in Film & TV
- Dec 14 Miss World won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London. First time all five major beauty titles held by black women.
2019 in Music
- Jun 11 "The New York Times" reveals an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, lost in 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles
- Dec 3 Spotify say Drake the most streamed star of the 2010s with 28 billion streams, Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" most streamed track with 2.4 billion streams
2019 in Sport
- Oct 13 Simone Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast in history when she wins record 25th medal at the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany
- Oct 27 Tiger Woods scores a wire-to-wire 3-stroke win over Hideki Matsuyama at the inaugural Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf & Country Club to tie Sam Snead's record of 82 PGA victories
Did You Know?
Colonization of the America's in the late 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a "Little Ice Age", according to a scientific report published in "Quaternary Science Reviews"
Born in 2019
- May 6 Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, British son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, born in London, England
Fun Fact About 2019
Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother after giving birth to twins, aged 74 in Hyderabad, India
I. M. Pei
Ross Perot
Toni Morrison
Robert Mugabe
Jacques Chirac
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Albert Finney
Luke Perry
Doris Day
Jim Bouton
Rip Taylor
Robert Evans
Keith Flint
Dr. John
Jessye Norman
Juice WRLD
Matti Nykänen
Frank Robinson
John Havlicek
Niki Lauda
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Articles About 2019
Grammy Awards 2019
Cardi B at the 2019 Grammy AwardsFebruary 11
Reiwa Era
Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga announcing the new imperial era "Reiwa" to reportersApril 1
Anti Omar al-Bashir Protest
Alaa Salah during a protest against President Omar al-BashirApril 8
1st Photo of a Black Hole
The first ever picture of black holeApril 10
Notre Dame on Fire
Thirty minutes from collapse, the Notre Dame' towers and belfries were savedApril 15
COVID-19 Pandemic
Burial of a coronavirus victim in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemicDecember 1
Famous Weddings in 2019
- Jan 1 Austrian women Nicole Kopaunik (37) and Daniela Paier (37) become the 1st same-sex couple to be officially married in the predominantly Catholic country, in a ceremony in Velden, southern Austria, shortly after midnight
- May 1 English "Game of Thrones" actress Sophie Turner (23) and American pop singer Joe Jonas (29) are married by an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas, Nevada; separate in 2023
- May 18 Lady Gabriella Kingston (née Windsor) marries Thomas Kingston at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Famous Divorces in 2019
- Apr 4 Amazon's Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos agree record-breaking $35 billion divorce settlement
- Aug 11 American singer Miley Cyrus (26) and Australian actor Liam Hemsworth (28) announce their separation and intention to divorce, after 8 months of marriage
More 2019 Weddings
Greta Thunberg
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Renée Zellweger
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Angela Merkel
Donald Trump
Emmanuel Macron
Narendra Modi
Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping