2023

According to History.com, Largest cosmic explosion ever recorded, size of the solar system with a brightness 2trillion x the sun’s, thought to be large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million lights years away

2019

According to The Fact Site, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is overthrown and arrested by the army in Khartoum after 29 years in power following massive street protests

2015

According to History.com, Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the first meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution

2012

According to The Fact Site, Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer

2006

According to The Fact Site, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium

1984

According to On this Day, General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko named President of the Soviet Union

1981

According to On this Day, Ronald Reagan arrives home from hospital after Hinkley shot him

1979

According to History.com, Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya