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Algeria
Country in North Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Country in Central Africa
Ethiopia
Country in the Horn of Africa
Kenya
Country in East Africa
Morocco
Country in North Africa
Nigeria
Country in West Africa
Tanzania
Country in East Africa
Iran
Country in West Asia
Bangladesh
Country in South Asia
India
Country in South Asia
Pakistan
Country in South Asia
People's Republic of China
Country in East Asia
South Korea
Country in East Asia
Malaysia
Country in Southeast Asia
Myanmar
Country in Southeast Asia
Vietnam
Country in Southeast Asia
Israel
Country in West Asia
France
Country primarily in Western Europe
Germany
Country in Western and Central Europe
Italy
Country in Southern and Western Europe
Russia
Country in Eastern Europe and North Asia
Hong Kong
Special administrative region of China
Singapore
Island country in Southeast Asia
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Internet
Global system of connected computer networks
COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2
HIV/AIDS
Spectrum of conditions caused by HIV infection
Full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war
Current phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war
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September 11 attacks
2001 terror attacks in the U.S.
Vietnam War
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
Korean War
1950–1953 conflict in Korean Peninsula
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Chernobyl disaster
1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Gaza war
Ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East
Syrian Civil War
2011–2024 armed conflict in Syria
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Russo-Ukrainian war
Ongoing conflict since 2014
Gulf War
1990–1991 conflict in the Middle East
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Arab Spring
2010s protests and revolutions in the Arab world
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Laptop
Personal computer for mobile use
Iraq War
2003–2011 conflict in Iraq
Six-Day War
1967 war between Israel and Arab states
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Rapping
Type of musical delivery involving rhythmic speech
November 2015 Paris attacks
2015 Islamist terror attacks in France
Soviet-Afghan War
1979–1989 armed conflict in South Asia
Iran–Iraq War
1980–1988 armed conflict in West Asia
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Megathrust earthquake off Japan's east coast
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Yom Kippur War
1973 war between Israel and Arab states
Falklands War
1982 undeclared Argentina–United Kingdom war
2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes
Major earthquakes in the Turkey–Syria border region
Libyan Civil War
2011 armed conflict in North Africa
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
Student-led demonstrations in China
1994 Genocide against Tutsi
Mass murder campaign in Rwanda
Black Lives Matter
Social movement originating in the US
2011 Norway attacks
Domestic terrorist attacks
Suez Crisis
1956 British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
2024 shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
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2010 Haiti earthquake
Magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
Russo-Georgian War
2008 war between Russia and Georgia
2020 Beirut explosions
Ammonium nitrate explosion in Lebanon
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Armed conflict in South Asia
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Internet Protocol
Communication protocol that allows connections between networks
Gaza genocide
Ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip
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CN Tower
Communications and observation tower in Toronto, Canada
Pop art
Art movement emerging in the mid-1950s
Anonymous
Decentralized hacktivist collective
London Eye
Observation wheel in London, England
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2016 Brussels bombings
Islamic State suicide bombings in Belgium
2016 Nice attack
Islamist terrorist attack in France
First Chechen War
1994–1996 war between Russia and Chechen separatists
Christchurch mosque shootings
2019 terrorist attacks in New Zealand
Hurricane Katrina
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
Twelve-Day War
2025 war in West Asia
Charlie Hebdo shooting
2015 terrorist attack in Paris, France
April 2015 Nepal earthquake
Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal
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2006 Lebanon War
Armed conflict primarily between Israel and Hezbollah
Srebrenica genocide
1995 genocidal killing of Bosniak Muslim men
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
2011 nuclear accident in Japan
War on Terrorism
Military campaign following the September 11 attacks
Kosovo War
1998–1999 armed conflict in the Balkans
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Consumerism
Acquisition of goods beyond essential needs
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan (2020)
Crocus City Hall attack
2024 mass shooting and explosion in Krasnogorsk, Russia
Algerian War
1954–1962 war of Algerian independence from France
Tokyo Skytree
Broadcasting and observation tower in Japan
Bucha massacre
2022 massacre by Russian forces in Ukraine
2025 Myanmar earthquake
Earthquake impacting Myanmar and Thailand
2026 United States strikes in Venezuela
Airstrikes and capture of Nicolás Maduro
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Open source
Source code made freely available
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MeToo movement
Social movement against sexual abuse and harassment
2009 swine flu pandemic
2009–2010 pandemic of swine influenza caused by H1N1 influenza virus
Murder of George Floyd
2020 police murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Tokyo Tower
Communications and observation tower in Japan
Bangladesh Liberation War
1971 Bangladesh–Pakistan armed conflict
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1988–1994)
First Indochina War
1946–1954 French colonial war in Indochina
Sudanese civil war
Yellow vests movement
2018 social movement started in France
Iron Dome
Israeli air defense system
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Germanwings Flight 9525
2015 deliberate aircraft crash in France
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Second Chechen War
1999–2009 conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 murder in Dallas, Texas
Lebanese Civil War
1975–1990 conflict in Lebanon
Yugoslav Wars
1991–2001 series of wars in the Balkans
1948 Palestine war
First Israeli–Palestinian war
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Croatian War of Independence
1991–95 war during the Yugoslav Wars
My Lai Massacre
1968 U.S. war crime during the Vietnam War
2017 Manchester Arena bombing
2017 terrorist attack in the United Kingdom
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Boston Marathon bombings
2013 domestic terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Transhumanism
Philosophical movement
2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris
2019 church fire in Paris, France
Munich massacre
1972 Summer Olympics terrorist attack
Kashmir conflict
Territorial conflict in South Asia
Western African Ebola virus epidemic
2013–2016 major disease outbreak
Gaza War (2008–2009)
Armed conflict in the Gaza Strip
Ostankino Tower
Radio and television tower in Moscow
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Armed conflict
Titan submersible implosion
2023 maritime disaster
2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake
Earthquake in Morocco
Orlando nightclub shooting
2016 mass shooting in Florida, U.S.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle in the First Indochina War
Fernsehturm Berlin
Television tower in Berlin
Assassination of Shinzō Abe
2022 shooting in Nara, Japan
Hip hop culture
Subculture including music, dance and graffiti
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October 7 attacks
2023 armed incursions and massacres in Israel
War in Darfur
Genocidal conflict in Western Sudan
Yemeni civil war
Civil war in Yemen
Conceptual art
Art movement
Metrojet Flight 9268
2015 aircraft bombing over Egypt
26/11 Mumbai attacks
Islamist terror attacks in India
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
2012 mass shooting in Connecticut, US
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2010 Chile earthquake
Magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of central Chile
Sino-Indian War
1962 war between China and India
Columbine High School massacre
1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Magnitude 8.0 earthquake in China
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Sri Lankan civil war
1983–2009 Sri Lankan internal conflict
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Khojaly Massacre
1992 mass killing of Azerbaijanis during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War
Hurricane Sandy
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2012
2019 Sri Lanka bombings
Series of suicide bombings
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Darvaza gas crater
Burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan
Op art
Art movement
Greek Civil War
1946–1949 civil war in Greece
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Beslan school siege
2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre
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2016 Berlin attack
2016 truck attack in Berlin, Germany
1982 Lebanon War
1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
Fridays for Future
International youth movement for climate action
Canton Tower
Communications and observation tower in Guangzhou (Canton), China
1960 Valdivia earthquake
9.4–9.6 magnitude earthquake in Chile
Somali Civil War
Ongoing civil war in East Africa
Kargil War
1999 conflict between India and Pakistan
Occupy Wall Street
2011 American protest movement
2005 Kashmir earthquake
Earthquake in South Asia
Oriental Pearl Tower
TV tower in Shanghai, China
2017 Istanbul nightclub attack
2017 nightclub shooting in Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey
1976 Tangshan earthquake
Mw 7.6 earthquake in Hebei, China
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan
Bloody Sunday
Mass shooting in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1972
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Military confrontation between India and Pakistan alongside the Bangladesh Liberation War
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Great Chinese Famine
Famine killing millions (1959–1961)
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2017 Las Vegas shooting
Deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history
Mexican drug war
War between Mexico's government and various drug trafficking syndicates
Black January
Violent 1990 crackdown on anti-government/anti-Armenian movements in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR
Nigerian Civil War
1967–1970 war
Robb Elementary School shooting
2022 mass shooting in Texas, US
Oklahoma City bombing
1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City
2016 Istanbul airport attack
Terrorist attacks in Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attack
Terrorist attack by the Islamist militant group in Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 Catalonia attacks
Terrorist attacks in Spain in August 2017
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Sino-Vietnamese War
War between China and Vietnam in 1979
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948
1947–1948 war between India and Pakistan
Second Congo War
1998–2003 war in central Africa
Siege of Mariupol
Siege in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Angolan Civil War
1975–2002 military conflict
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2004 Madrid train bombings
Terrorist attack on Madrid's suburban trains
Hundred Hour War
Brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969
2016 Munich shooting
Mass shooting in Munich, Germany
Cambodian genocide
1970s mass killing of Cambodians
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June 2017 London attack
Terror attack in London
2021 European floods
July 2021 flooding in Europe
Anti-globalization movement
Worldwide political movement against multinational corporations
Transnistria War
1990–1992 separatist conflict in Moldova
Moscow theater hostage crisis
2002 terrorist attack and hostage crisis in Moscow
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war
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Britpop
1990s UK pop culture movement
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Killing of Osama bin Laden
2011 U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Pan Am Flight 103
1988 aircraft bombing over Scotland
August 2016 Central Italy earthquake
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2011 England riots
6–11 August 2011 riots in cities and towns across England
War of Attrition
1967–1970 war between Israel and Egypt
Hurricane Irma
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
Iran hostage crisis
Occupation of Tehran's U.S. embassy (1979–1981)
Fluxus
International network of artists, composers and designers
American Airlines Flight 11
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
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2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks
Explosive device attacks in Lebanon and Syria
Great Hanshin Earthquake
Earthquake in Japan on January 17, 1995
Sino-Soviet border conflict
Undeclared conflict between China and the Soviet Union
Ogaden War
1977–1978 war between Ethiopia and Somalia over Ogaden region
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
1978–89 conflict between Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge
Tokyo subway sarin attack
1995 terrorist attack by Aum Shinrikyo
Itaewon Halloween crowd crush
2022 crowd crush in South Korea
2024 Noto earthquake
Earthquake in Japan
2025 Kamchatka earthquake
Megathrust earthquake in Russia
2026 Crans-Montana bar fire
Deadly nightclub fire in Switzerland
Black September
1970–1971 conflict in Jordan
2014 Peshawar school attack
Terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan
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Virginia Tech shooting
2007 mass shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, US
2015 Mina stampede
Crowd crush incident in Saudi Arabia
2017 Stockholm attack
Terrorist attack in Sweden
Mali War
Ongoing conflict in West Africa since 2012
Heysel Stadium disaster
Fatal spectator riot in Brussels, Belgium in 1985
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
Beginning of the 1990–1991 Gulf War
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Great Smog of London
1952 air pollution event
Tigray war
Armed conflict in Ethiopia (2020–2022)
Tajikistani Civil War
Armed conflict in Tajikistan from 1992 to 1997
Storm Daniel
2023 storm in the Mediterranean Sea
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2024 Hualien earthquake
7.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan
2025 Pahalgam attack
Islamist terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir
2025 Bondi Beach shooting
Terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia
Hurricane Irene
Category 3 Atlantic hurricane in 2011
Sabra and Shatila massacre
1982 mass murder of civilians in Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Westminster attack
Terrorist attack in London
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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1988 Spitak earthquake
Devastating earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR
Persecution of Uyghurs in China
January 2025 Southern California wildfires
Series of wildfires in California, United States
2
2010 Copiapó mining accident
Cave-in and miner rescue in Atacama Region, Chile
Sharpeville massacre
1960 South African Police killing of protestors
United Airlines Flight 93
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Cambodian Civil War
1967–1975 conflict in Cambodia
2024 Spain floods
2024 weather disaster in Spain
2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war
Ongoing armed conflict in South Asia
Hillsborough disaster
Fatal crowd crush during 1989 FA Cup semi-final
Grenfell Tower fire
2017 fatal fire in West London
First Congo War
1996–1997 war in central Africa
Laotian Civil War
1959–1975 conflict in Laos
Murder of Samuel Paty
2020 murder in Éragny-sur-Oise, France
2021 Suez Canal obstruction
Maritime incident caused by grounded vessel
Snake Island campaign
Campaign in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Battle of Bakhmut
Battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022 and 2023
Sinking of the MV Sewol
2014 ferry sinking disaster in South Korea
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Battle of Vukovar
1991 Croatian War of Independence siege
Aegean Sea earthquake of 2020
7.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami affecting Turkey and Greece
2021 Kabul airport attack
Suicide bombing at Kabul airport, Afghanistan
Deir Yassin massacre
1948 mass killing by Zionist militants
2025 Tibet earthquake
Earthquake in Asia
Wang Fuk Court fire
2025 apartment fire in Tai Po, Hong Kong
February 2011 Christchurch earthquake
February 2011 earthquake in New Zealand
2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull
Volcanic events in Iceland
Assassination of Andrei Karlov
2016 murder in Ankara, Turkey
American Airlines Flight 77
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Extinction Rebellion
Environmental pressure group
Assassination of Qasem Soleimani
2020 assassination in Baghdad, Iraq
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Ryanair Flight 4978
2021 aviation incident in Belarus
Croat–Bosniak War
1992–1994 armed conflict within the Bosnian War
United Airlines Flight 175
9/11 hijacked passenger flight
Assassination of Ali Khamenei
2026 assassination in Tehran, Iran
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Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Armed conflict involving Pakistan and armed militant groups
Van earthquake of 2011
2011 earthquakes in eastern Turkey
Nepalese Civil War
Maoist insurgency in Nepal (1996–2006)
2012 Aurora shooting
Mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
Domodedovo International Airport bombing
2011 suicide bombing in a Moscow airport
2009 L'Aquila earthquake
Earthquake in Abruzzo, Italy
Ethiopian Civil War
1974–1991 conflict in Ethiopia
Slow Food
Organization that promotes local food
Fall of Saigon
End of the Vietnam War, 30 April 1975
Eritrean War of Independence
1961–1991 conflict within Ethiopia
2021 Haiti earthquake
7.2-magnitude earthquake in Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti
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2023 Prague shooting
Mass murder in the Czech Republic
2024 Kerman bombings
Suicide bombings in Iran
Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
2024 murder of Hamas leader in Tehran, Iran
Assassination of Charlie Kirk
2025 assassination in Orem, Utah, U.S.
Libyan Civil War
Multilateral civil war in North Africa
Gwangju Uprising
1980 anti-government protest in South Korea
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Dogme 95
Danish filmmaking movement
COBRA
Artist collective and art movement
2010 Moscow Metro bombings
Islamist terror attacks
1999 İzmit earthquake
Earthquake in Kocaeli Province, Turkey
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
Portuguese Colonial War
1961–1974 wars of independence in Africa
Kyoto Animation arson attack
2019 mass murder in Kyoto, Japan
Sky Tower
Observation and communication tower in Auckland, New Zealand
Sierra Leone Civil War
1991–2002 war in West Africa
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
1998–2000 international conflict
Istanbul pogrom
1955 state-sanctioned violence against minorities in Turkey
2020 Vienna attacks
Islamist terrorist attack in Vienna
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Re'im music festival massacre
2023 massacre in southern Israel
Guatemalan Civil War
1960–1996 conflict
Soweto uprising
1976 student-led anti-apartheid protests in South Africa
Angolan War of Independence
1961–1974 armed conflict in Southwestern Africa
Uganda–Tanzania War
1978–1979 armed conflict in East Africa
2015 Tianjin explosions
Explosions at the Binhai New Area of Tianjin, China
2015 Ankara bombings
2015 terror attack during a protest movement in Ankara, Turkey
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2016 Kumamoto earthquakes
Earthquake in Japan
Battle of Mosul
Large-scale military campaign to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State
Nepalese royal massacre
2001 mass shooting in Kathmandu
Battle of Mogadishu
Military conflict during the Somali Civil War
Halabja massacre
1988 chemical attack in Iraqi Kurdistan
2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires
Wildfires in Brazil
Operation Storm
1995 military offensive and last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence
Second Sudanese Civil War
1983–2005 war for South Sudanese independence
2020 Zagreb earthquake
Myanmar civil war
Ongoing armed conflict in Southeast Asia
Capture of Chernobyl
Part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Battle of Kharkiv
2022 battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Terrorist attack in the United States
2022 Istanbul bombing
Terrorist attack in Turkey
War in Abkhazia
Conflict between Georgia and Abkhaz separatists
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Effective altruism
Philosophical and social movement
Algerian Civil War
1992–2002 conflict between the Algerian government and Islamist rebels
Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
2007 murder in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Mozambican War of Independence
1964–1974 armed conflict in Southeastern Africa
Gaza flotilla raid
2010 Israeli military operation against a humanitarian ship convoy
2007 Peru earthquake
Extreme earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Peru
2016 Lahore suicide bombing
Anti-Christian terrorist attack by the Taliban in Lahore, Pakistan
Rohingya genocide
Genocide in Myanmar
2017 Iran–Iraq earthquake
Fatal 7.3 Mw earthquake near the Iran–Iraq border
National Reorganization Process
1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship
Hama Massacre
Anti-Sunni massacre in Hama, Syria
Singapore Flyer
Observation wheel in Singapore
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Death of Michael Jackson
2009 death of American singer in Los Angeles, California, US
Grand Mosque Seizure
1979 radical Islamic insurgency in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2020 Petrinja earthquake
Earthquake in Croatia
Battle of Kherson
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 Crimean Bridge explosion
2022 explosion on the Crimean Bridge
Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
2023 dam breach in Ukraine
Costa Concordia disaster
2012 cruise ship sinking off the Italian coast
2025 Risbergska school shooting
School shooting in Örebro, Sweden
1957–1958 influenza pandemic
Hurricane Patricia
Category 5 Pacific hurricane in 2015
Malayan Emergency
1948–1960 British colonial war in Malaya
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2016 Ecuador earthquake
Rhodesian Bush War
1964–1979 conflict in Southern Africa
228 Incident
1947 uprising in Taiwan
Battle of Khe Sanh
Part of the Vietnam War (1968)
Ajka alumina plant accident
Ajka alumina 2010 industrial accident in Hungary
2017 Oaxaca and Chiapas Earthquake
8.2 Mw earthquake and tsunami off of Mexico and Guatemala
2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami
7 Mw earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia
1963 Skopje earthquake
Earthquake in SR Macedonia
2018 Sunda Strait tsunami
Tsunami in coastal regions of Banten and Lampung, Indonesia
Jokela school shooting
2007 school shooting in Tuusula, Finland
Elazığ–Sivrice earthquake of 2020
Earthquake in Turkey
2002 Bali bombings
Terrorist attacks in Indonesia
2021 Kazan school attack
2021 school shooting in Russia
Battle of Antonov Airport
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Attempted assassination of Robert Fico
2024 shooting in Handlová, Slovakia
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August 2025 Afghanistan earthquake
Earthquake in Kunar Province, Afghanistan
South African Border War
1966–1990 war between South Africa and PLAN
Murder of John Lennon
1980 murder in New York City, US
Montgomery bus boycott
1950s American protest against racial segregation
2017 Pedrógão Grande Wildfire
Four deadly fires in Leiria, Portugal
Air India Flight 182
1985 aircraft bombing over the Atlantic Ocean
Rwandan Civil War
1990–1994 armed struggle in Rwanda
Battle of Inchon
1950 battle of the Korean War
North Sea flood of 1953
31 January–1 February storm surge
North Yemen civil war
1962–1970 conflict
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
Environmental movement
Bologna massacre
1980 terrorist bombing of train station in Bologna, Italy
2018 Strasbourg attack
Terrorist attack in Strasbourg, France
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Port Said Stadium riot
February 2012 football stadium riot in Port Said, Egypt
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2020 Nova Scotia shooting
Series of murders in Canada
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968 shooting in Los Angeles, California
2023 Hawaii wildfires
Natural disasters in the USA
2024 Magdeburg car attack
Vehicle-ramming attack in Germany
2025 New Orleans truck attack
Terrorist attack in Louisiana, U.S.
Killing of Iryna Zarutska
2025 stabbing in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Mecca crane collapse
2015 structural failure in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2015 Hindu Kush earthquake
Earthquake in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India
2016 Istanbul bombing
ISIL suicide bombing in Turkey
Hurricane Gustav
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2008
2017 Tehran attacks
Series of terrorist attacks in Tehran, Iran
2010 Pakistan flood
2010 natural disaster in Pakistan
Hurricane Harvey
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
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Sutherland Springs church shooting
2017 mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
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2017 Sinai mosque attack
Terrorist bombing in a Sinai mosque, Egypt
Arte Povera
Italian art movement
Mozambican Civil War
1977–1992 civil war in southeast Africa
1964 Alaska great earthquake and tsunami
Second most powerful earthquake in recorded history
First Sudanese Civil War
Military conflict in Sudan (1955–1972)
2020–2021 China–India skirmishes
Border conflict between China and India
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Hong Kong flu
1968–70 flu pandemic
June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake
Earthquake in Afghanistan and Pakistan
2023 Herat earthquakes
Earthquakes in western Afghanistan
Kočani nightclub fire
2025 fire in North Macedonia
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2026 Iran massacres
Mass killing of protesters in Iran
Killing of Renée Good
2026 shooting by a US immigration agent
Westgate shopping mall shooting
2013 terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya
Afghan Conflict
Near-continuous series of wars in Afghanistan
South Sudanese Civil War
2013–2018 conflict in South Sudan
Soma mine disaster
2014 mine fire in Turkey
Salvadoran Civil War
1979–1992 conflict in El Salvador
Iraqi Civil War of 2014–2017
Armed Conflict in the Middle East
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Battle of Aleppo
Military confrontation in Aleppo (2012–2016)
2015 Bamako hotel attack
2015 terrorist attack in Radisson Blu, Bamako
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2015 San Bernardino shooting
Mass shooting in California, U.S.
2016 Kaohsiung earthquake
Deadly earthquake centered north of Pingtung City, Taiwan
Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
Indirect conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Hurricane Matthew
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2016
Hurricane Mitch
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1998
Hurricane Ike
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2008
Hurricane Maria
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017
2017 Central Mexico earthquake
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Mexico
October 2017 Mogadishu bombings
Terrorist attacks in Somalia
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
2018 mass shooting in Florida, U.S.
War of Dagestan
Conflict in the Dagestan Russian Republic
2019 El Paso shooting
Mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
Namsan Seoul Tower
Communications and observation tower in Seoul, South Korea
New Urbanism
Urban design movement promoting sustainable land use
Seveso disaster
Toxic chemical leak in Italy in 1976
Sydney Tower
Tall architectural structure in Sydney, Australia
1999 Russian apartment bombings
Terrorist bombings in Russia
2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami
Volcanic event in the South Pacific Ocean
2023 Peshawar mosque bombing
Suicide attack in Pakistan
Belgrade school shooting
2023 mass shooting in Serbia
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
2024 bridge collapse near Baltimore, Maryland, US
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Earthquake in Mexico
Siege of Kobanî
2014 IS offensive in northern Syria during the Syrian Civil War
King David Hotel bombing
1946 terrorist attack in Jerusalem
Afghan Civil War
Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992)
Hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181
1977 aircraft hijacking
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2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes
2012 earthquake near Aceh Province, Indonesia
2017 Lower Manhattan attack
Vehicle-ramming attack in Manhattan, US
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Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal
2018 attempted murder in Salisbury, England
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
2018 school shooting in Crimea
The Zeitgeist Movement
Movement emerging from the Zeitgeist film series
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
1981 shooting in Washington, D.C., U.S.
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2019 Albania earthquake
Earthquake in Northwestern Albania
Nakhon Ratchasima shootings
2020 mass shooting in Thailand
COVID-19 pandemic in Israel
Battle of Sievierodonetsk
Battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Kramatorsk railway station attack
2022 Russian missile attack in Ukraine
2022 Pakistan floods
Disaster in Pakistan
Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster
2022 association football match disaster
2022 Cianjur earthquake
Earthquake in Indonesia
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2024 Wayanad landslide
Landslides in Kerala, India
Hurricane Milton
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2024
2025 Graz school shooting
2025 mass shooting in Styria, Austria
Kyshtym disaster
1957 radiological contamination disaster in the Soviet Union
First Liberian Civil War
1989–1997 war in West Africa
2014 Sydney hostage crisis
Terror hostage-taking in 2014 in Sydney, Australia
2015 Charleston, South Carolina shooting
2015 mass shooting in South Carolina, U.S.
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2015 Sousse attack
Mass shooting at a Tunisian tourist resort on 26 June 2015
2015 Bangkok bombing
2015 terrorist attack in Thailand
2
2015 Beirut bombings
Suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
1963–1974 armed conflict in West Africa
Georgian–Ossetian conflict
1989–present conflict in the South Caucasus
2010 Yushu earthquake
2010 earthquake centered in Yushu, Qinghai, China
Kent State shootings
1970 shootings in Kent, Ohio, US
2
2011 Lorca earthquake
Moderate 5.1 Mw earthquake in Spain
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New Romantic
1970s popular culture movement originating in the UK
2
2019 Pulwama attack
Terrorist attack in India
Hurricane Dean
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2007
1960 Agadir earthquake
Earthquake in Morocco
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North Korean famine
1994–1999 famine in North Korea
Avaaz
Nonprofit organization to promote global activism
Crushing The Rebellions of 1965–1966
Anti-communist killings and unrest in Indonesia
COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
May 2006 Java earthquake
Earthquake in Java, Indonesia
1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Major earthquake in Northern California
2021 Meron crowd crush
Multi-casualty crush incident in Israel at public religious event
Assassination of Jovenel Moïse
2021 murder in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Women in Black
Women's anti-war movement
Battle of Vasylkiv
Russian offensive in Ukraine
Battle of Avdiivka
Battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2023 and 2024
2022 Buffalo shooting
Mass shooting in New York, U.S.
Child abductions in the Russo-Ukrainian war
Forced Russian adoption of Ukrainian children
Sumgait pogrom
1988 anti-Armenian riots in Azerbaijan SSR
80 Albert Street Fire
Deadly blaze in South Africa
Afghan Civil War
1996–2001 civil war in Afghanistan
Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
2023 deadly explosion in the Gaza Strip
Winnenden school shooting
2009 shooting spree in Winnenden, Germany
Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping
2014 kidnapping by Boko Haram
Arab Winter
Violence and instability after the 2010–12 Arab Spring
Bardo National Museum attack
2015 mass killing of hostages by militants in Tunis, Tunisia
Paris massacre of 1961
French police killing of Algerian demonstrators
February 2016 Ankara bombing
Bombing in Turkey by Kurdish separatists
Body positive movement
Movement advocating accepting oneself and one's body
March 2016 Ankara bombing
Terrorist attack in Ankara, Turkey, by Kurdish militants
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1948 Ashgabat earthquake
Earthquake in Turkmenistan
2001 Gujarat earthquake
Earthquake in India and Pakistan
2017 Quebec City mosque shooting
2017 mass shooting in Quebec, Canada
Bangladesh genocide
1971 genocide of Bengalis in East Pakistan
Assassination of Indira Gandhi
1984 murder in New Delhi, India
A
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
1948 murder in New Delhi, India
I
Iranian Embassy Siege
1980 hostage situation in London
Years of Lead
Period of social and political turmoil in Italy
T
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Series of Islamist terrorist attacks
2018 Kemerovo fire
Shopping mall fire in Kemerovo, Russia
P
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
2018 mass shooting in Pennsylvania, U.S.
B
Brumadinho dam disaster
2019 dam collapse in Brumadinho, Brazil
Murder of Junko Furuta
1989 murder of Japanese high school girl
Hurricane Dorian
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2019
Tlatelolco massacre
1968 killing of anti-government protestors by the Mexican Armed Forces in Mexico City
2
2020 Kabul University attack
Armed terrorist attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
Siege of Chernihiv
Battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
West Fertilizer Company explosion
2013 explosion of ammonium nitrate in Texas, USA
Killing of Hind Rajab
2024 killing of a Palestinian child in the Gaza Strip
2023-2024 mpox epidemic
Global disease outbreak since September 2023
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Žižkov Television Tower
TV tower in Prague, Czech Republic
December 2013 Volgograd bombings
Two suicide bombings in the city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Southern Russia
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Second Liberian Civil War
1999–2003 war in West Africa
2015 Illapel earthquake
8.3 magnitude quake in Chile
2015–16 Zika virus epidemic
Widespread epidemic of Zika fever
2016 Gulshan, Dhaka attack
Terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh
July 2016 Baghdad bombings
2016 bombing in Karrada, Iraq
Sagamihara stabbings
2016 hate crime in Japan
Aberfan disaster
1966 Welsh colliery disaster
2012 Northern Italy earthquakes
Severe earthquakes centered in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Hurricane Michael
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2018
Novocherkassk massacre
1962 mass killing in the Soviet Union
Donauturm
Building in Vienna
1999 Jiji earthquake
Earthquake in Taiwan
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
Solarpunk
Literary, political and artistic movement
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Major volcanic eruption in Skamania County, Washington
Hurricane Wilma
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
Myanmar conflict
Ongoing armed conflict in Southeast Asia
Tajbeg Palace assault
1979 Soviet assassination of Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
Indian anti-government conflict since 1967
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Gülen movement
International Islamist fraternal movement
2020 Nice attack
Stabbing attack in France
Hurricane Andrew
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 1992
Georgian civil war
1991–1993 civil war in Georgia
2022 Oslo shooting
Mass shooting in Norway
Great Train Robbery
1963 robbery in Ledburn, England
1991–1992 South Ossetia War
Conflict between Georgia and Russian-backed Ossetian separatists
2
2024 Southport stabbings
2024 mass stabbing in North West England
Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida
Foiled assassination plot in Florida, U.S.
2024 Hezbollah headquarters strike
Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon
2024 Lebanon War
Israeli military operation against Lebanon
Grand Kartal fire
Fire in Bolu Province, Turkey
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
1963–1966 military conflict
Hurricane Melissa
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2025
2026 Onikişubat school shooting
2026 mass shooting in Turkey
Iran–Israel proxy conflict
Kafr Qasim massacre
1956 Israeli massacre of Arab civilians
2014 Southeast Europe floods
Natural disaster in Europe
2
2015 Copenhagen shootings
Spree shootings that occurred in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 14 February 2015
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Garissa University College attack
2015 Al-Shabaab shooting in Kenya
Afghan Civil War
Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996)
1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine
First phase of the 1947–1949 Palestine war
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
Mass shooting in Texas, U.S.
December 2016 Istanbul bombings
Terrorist attack
Central African Republic Civil War
Conflict in the Central African Republic since 2012
1984 anti-Sikh riots
Series of organised pogroms in India
2017 Turku attack
Terrorist attack in Turku, Finland
2011 Minsk Metro bombing
Terrorist attack in Minsk, Belarus
Kauhajoki school shooting
2008 shooting in Finland
1983 Beirut barracks bombing
1983 bombings in Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Attica wildfires
Series of wildfires in Greece
2018 Ahvaz military parade attack
2018 terrorist attack in Iran
Chadian–Libyan War
1978–1987 series of military campaigns
Otpor
Former Serbian civic movement and liberal political party
2
2010 Canterbury earthquake
Earthquake in New Zealand
Hurricane Bret
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1999
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
2
2009 Sumatra earthquakes
Earthquakes in Indonesia
2
2006 Mumbai train bombings
2006 terrorist attack on the Mumbai Suburban Railway by Lashkar-e-Taiba
2020 Norilsk oil spill
2020 industrial disaster in Russia
2023 French pension reform strikes
2023 civil unrest in France
2023 Ohio train derailment
2023 disaster in Ohio, United States
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Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus
2024 Israeli airstrike in Syria
2024 Persian Gulf floods
2026 Minab school attack
2026 Iran war missile strike
Libyan–Egyptian War
Four-day border war in July 1977
Riga supermarket roof collapse
2013 disaster in Riga, Latvia
1958 Lebanon crisis
Lebanese political crisis
Cave of the Patriarchs massacre
1994 shooting massacre in Hebron
Popular Front of Latvia
Latvian political party
Sand War
1963 conflict between Algeria and Morocco
2003 Bam earthquake
Earthquake in Iran
Indian Airlines flight 814 hijacking
1999 Indian aircraft hijacking
Colectiv nightclub fire
2015 fire in Bucharest, Romania
Kielce pogrom
1946 outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in Kielce, Poland
Avianca Flight 203
1989 airliner bombing in Colombia
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Palm Sunday church bombings
2017 suicide bombings at Coptic churches in Egypt
Siege of Marawi
2017 conflict between the Philippine government and the Maute Group
In Aménas hostage crisis
2013 hostage crisis in Algeria
AMIA bombing
1994 attack on a Jewish Community Centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Bosnian Genocide
1995 genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Battle of Gaza (2007)
Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip from Fatah
Murder of James Bulger
1993 child murder in Liverpool, England
École Polytechnique massacre
1989 mass shooting in Montreal, Canada
V
Vukovar massacre
Massacre of civilians and prisoners of war following the Battle of Vukovar
2001 anthrax attacks
Bioterrorist attacks in the United States
Croatian Spring
1967–1971 Yugoslavian political crisis
Toyota War
Last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict
Hurricane Rita
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
1977 Vrancea earthquake
Romanian earthquake
Black Saturday bushfires
2009 Australian fires
2010 Pichilemu earthquakes
Intraplate earthquakes in Chile
I
Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing
Suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan on 20 September 2008
1998 War in Abkhazia
Ethnic conflict in Georgia
Battle of Grozny
1994–95 invasion of the Chechen capital by Russia during the First Chechen War
Surfside condominium collapse
2021 building collapse near Miami, Florida, US
Gay liberation
Social and political movement in the 1960s and 70s
Capture of Melitopol
Battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
2022 Fukushima earthquake
Severe off-shore earthquake near Fukushima, Japan
Nord Stream pipelines sabotage
Gas pipe explosions in the Nord Stream pipelines
Battle of Aleppo (2024)
HTS-led military operation of the Syrian civil war
Killing of Brian Thompson
2024 killing of American CEO in New York City
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
1996 aircraft hijacking and crash in the Comoros
Second Battle of Fallujah
2004 battle of the Iraq War
July 2025 Central Texas floods
Natural disaster in Texas, U.S.
Killing of Alex Pretti
2026 shooting by US Border Patrol agents
August 2013 Ghouta chemical attack
2013 gas attack during the Syrian Civil War
2
2011 Tarlay earthquake
Earthquake affecting Myanmar and Thailand
First Battle of Fallujah
Operation of the Iraq War
Ifni War
1957–58 war between Morocco and Spain
2
2014 Isla Vista killings
Terrorist attacks in California, U.S.
2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
2014 abduction of rural Mexican college students
2
2016 Jakarta attacks
Terrorist attacks in Indonesia
Attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II
1981 shooting in St. Peter's Square
2016 Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray church attack
Terrorist attack in July 2016 in France
Kivu conflict
Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Nedelin catastrophe
1960 fatal Soviet launch pad disaster
2018 Japan floods
Heavy rain disaster that occurred in July 2018 in Japan
National Museum of Brazil fire
2018 museum fire at Rio de Janeiro
Ufa train disaster
1989 railway accident in Iglinksy District, Bashkir SSR, Soviet Union
Hurricane Felix
Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2007
A
Andijan massacre
Violent incident in Andijan, Uzbekistan
BT Tower
Communications tower in London, England
2002–2004 SARS outbreak
Epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome originating in China
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Operation Moshtarak
Military operation
V
Visakhapatnam gas leak
2020 gas leak incident in Visakhapatnam, India

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