Historical Events in 2022 (Part 4)

September 25, 2024

2022 Calendar

Events 601 - 800 of 839

Music Concert

Sep 27 American band "Foo Fighters" and friends hold tribute concert for drummer Taylor Hawkins at Kia Forum, Los Angeles, California; performers include: Joan Jett; Stewart Copland; Rush; Alanis Morissette; Def Leppard with Miley Cyrus; Wolfgang Van Halen; and Queen

Assassination

Sep 27 Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe receives a state funeral at Nippon Budokan Arena, Tokyo, after he was assassinated in July [1]

Sep 27 Hurricane Ian crosses western Cuba as a category 3 storm, wrecking the country's national grid and leaving the country without power, with three people killed
Sep 28 Bank of England forced to step in to calm markets after mini-budget with tax-cuts by Kwasi Kwarteng drives the pound to its lowest level against the US dollar (close to $1.03) [1]
Sep 28 Hurricane Ian makes landfall as a high-end category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with winds at 150mph (National Hurricane Center), will go on to kill at least 148 people in FloridaS

Aaron Judge Ties HR Record

Sep 28 New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hits his 61st home run of the season, tying Roger Maris's AL record from 1961 in an 8-3 win over Blue Jays in Toronto

Sep 30 Hurricane Ian makes another landfall, just south of Georgetown, South Carolina

Russia's Illegal Annexation

Sep 30 In defiance of international law Vladimir Putin announces Russia's illegal annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. Despite Russia occupying only part of each region. [1]

Music History

Oct 1 Ringo Starr postpones two dates of his All-Starr Band tour due to illness

Oct 1 Stampede at Indonesian soccer stadium kills 131 people in Malang city, East Java, started after police fire teargas at rioters in the crowd [1]
Oct 1 Ukrainian forces enter the strategic town of Lyman in Donetsk province defeating Russian forces and forcing them to retreat to Kremina, barely a day after Vladimir Putin announced Russia's illegal annexation of Donetsk

Sports History

Oct 3 Kawhi Leonard returns from injury in a preseason win over the Portland Trail Blazers

Oct 3 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine awarded to Svante Pääbo for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution" (including sequencing genome of the Neanderthal) [1]
Oct 3 Ringo Starr postpones five dates of his All-Starr Band tour in Canada due to his testing positive for COVID-19
Oct 4 Noble Prize for Physics won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states [1]
Oct 4 NY Yankees slugger Aaron Judge breaks Roger Maris's AL single season HR record when he slams his 62nd homer in a 3-2 loss against the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas

Contract of Interest

Oct 5 Duhan van der Merwe returns to Edinburgh on a long-term deal after Worcester Warriors contract termination

Oct 5 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless (his 2nd) for their work on Click Chemistry
Oct 5 Worcester Warriors players have their contracts terminated as the club enters administration
Oct 6 Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks day care center, killing at least 37, including 23 children with gun and knife, in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
Oct 6 French writer Annie Ernaux is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature [1]
Oct 7 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties [1]
Oct 8 Landslide caused by unusually heavy rain kills at least 50 in Las Tejerias, Venezuela [1]
Oct 8 The Kerch bridge built by Russia to link Crimea to Russia and symbol of Russia's illegal occupation of Ukraine is partly blown up, allowing only light traffic to cross [1]
Oct 9 American runner Emily Sisson runs US record 2:18:29 in Chicago Marathon, finishing 2nd by 4:11 to repeat winner Ruth Chepngetich of Kenya
Oct 9 Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen - a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event [1]
Oct 9 Brock Purdy makes his regular-season debut in the NFL

Sports History

Oct 9 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen secures his second consecutive World F1 Drivers C'ship after finishing in front of Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc in the Japanese GP at Suzuka

Nobel Prize for Economics

Oct 10 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for discoveries which improved how society deals with financial crises [1]

Oct 11 Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour with a show in Seattle, Washington after his testing positive for COVID-19

Film & TV History

Oct 12 American conspiracy theorist, radio host, and provocateur Alex Jones ordered by a Connecticut defamation trial jury to pay $965 million to families of those killed in 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School for falsely and repeatedly claiming on his broadcasts that none of the 20 children and six adults killed had actually died and that their relatives were crisis actors [1]

Oct 12 Lebanon reports its first death from Cholera since 1993, spreading from neighbouring Syria [1]
Oct 12 UN General Assembly passes a resolution condemning Russia's attempted annexation of Ukrainian territory [1]
Oct 13 Jury recommends sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooter who pled guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018
Oct 13 Ringo Starr cancels five remaining scheduled All-Starr Band tour concert dates in California and Mexico, after getting rebound COVID-19 infection
Oct 14 Coal mine explosion in Amasra, northern Turkey, kills 41 and injures 11 [1]
Oct 14 Psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Oct 16 More than 600 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade, displacing more than 1.3 million people according to a government minister [1]

Oct 17 FIFA Ballon d'Or: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema wins his first award; Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas claims women's award for a second-straight season

Music History

Oct 17 K-pop band BTS announces that all seven members will be serving in the South Korean military for the required 18 month minimum

Oct 17 Shehan Karunatilka is the second Sri Lankan author to win the Booker Prize with his novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" [1]
Oct 18 American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize
Oct 18 Evidence found of lost star catalog by 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus (earliest known attempt to record celestial objects' coordinates with naked eye) found in palimpsest manuscript published by scholars [1]

Event of Interest

Oct 18 The Girl Scouts of the USA announces receipt of donations totaling $84.5 million from American philanthropist MacKenzie Scott

Oct 19 Massachusetts names Podokesaurus holyokensis ("swift-footed lizard of Holyoke") as official state dinosaur [1]
Oct 19 Philadelphia Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola faces his brother San Diego Padres catcher Austin Nola in first MLB playoff sibling pitcher-batter battle; Austin goes 1-2, with rally starting RBI in 8-5 win at Petco Park, San Diego

Event of Interest

Oct 20 UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announces her intention to resign, after 44 days in office, making her term shortest in country's history [1]

Sports History

Oct 22 Ai Mori wins gold in bouldering and lead climbing at the IFSC World Cup in Morioka, Japan

Oct 22 Italy forms new coalition government, choosing far-right Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d'Italia - FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni as Prime Minister, the 1st female to hold the office [1]
Oct 23 Brock Purdy plays against the Kansas City Chiefs, throwing for 66 yards and an interception

Event of Interest

Oct 23 Xi Jinping secures record third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party with a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, at the 20th National Party Congress in Beijing [1]

Oct 24 China continues its Covid-zero policy with 28 cities and 207 million people affected by some form of lockdown, including Wuhan [1]
Oct 24 Five-month-old bar-tailed godwit becomes a world record holder by flying 8,425 miles non-stop from Alaska to Australia in 11 days; bird departed Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska, US, on October 13 and touched down in Ansons Bay in Tasmania, Australia
Oct 24 UK's ruling Conservative party appoints Rishi Sunak as their next leader and Prime Minister, replacing Liz Truss after six weeks; Sunak is the first PM of color in the country's history [1]
Oct 24 US Mint issues first US currency featuring an Asian-American - silent film actress Anna May Wong; coin is part of American Women Quarters Program celebrates female trailblazers [1] [2]
Oct 25 German sportswear manufacturer Adidas cuts ties with American rapper and fashion designer Kenye West over anti-Semitic remarks he made in interviews and on his social media [1]
Oct 25 New Zealand Parliament membership becomes majority female for 1st time [1]

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Oct 26 "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" has its world premiere in Hollywood starring Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira

Oct 26 European Union's tallest building completed - the Varso Tower, a supertall skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, at 310 metres high [1]
Oct 26 Thousands of protesters in Saqez, Iran defy security forces to mark 40-day Arba'een (period of mourning) for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in police custody for not wearing a hijab properly [1]

Event of Interest

Oct 27 Elon Musk takes ownership and control of Twitter, immediately fires 4 executives [1]

Event of Interest

Oct 28 Hammer-wielding intruder attacks Paul Pelosi, 82-year old husband of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their California home

Oct 28 Swedish engineers in Linköping produce the world's first female crash dummy (previous female dummies just a scaled down version of the male figure) [1]
Oct 28 Tropical storm Nalgae stikes makes landfall in Virac, the Philippines, will go on to kill 112 people in the country [1]
Oct 29 Crowd surge at Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea, leaves 155 people dead [1]
Oct 29 Misuzulu ka Zwelithini crowned Zulu King in Duban, South Africa in the first coronation since 1994 democratic elections [1]
Oct 29 Twin car bombs by a jihadist group in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill 120 people
Oct 30 Dutch Red Bull driver Max Verstappen wins the Mexican F1 Grand Prix in Mexico City for his record breaking 14th GP win of the season; surpasses Michael Schumacher and fellow German Sebastian Vettel (13)
Oct 30 Indonesian medical tragedy as 157 children have now died from kidney injuries this year due to contaminated medicines according to authorities [1]

Oct 30 Pedestrian suspension bridge in India collapses into the River Macchu in Morbi town, Gujarat, killing 135 people [1]

Coup d'état

Oct 30 Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers march to slain Italian dictator BenIto Mussolini's’s crypt in Predappio, Italy, commemorating 100th anniversary of his bloodless coup

Music History

Oct 31 Taylor Swift becomes the first artist in history to claim all top 10 slots on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, all tracks from her album "Midnights" [1]

Election of Interest

Nov 1 Fifth Israeli election held in under four years won by Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party, defeating sitting Prime Minister Yair Lapid [1]

Nov 2 Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan authorities reach an agreement end fighting after two years at peace talks in South Africa [1]
Nov 2 US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates for a fourth straight time to range of between 3.75% and 4.00%, its highest since 2008 in an effort to fight ongoing inflation [1]
Nov 3 A Swiss gruyère by Vorderfultigen and Gourmino wins best cheese at the World Cheese Awards in Newport, Wales [1]

Assassination Attempt

Nov 3 Former Prime Minister Imran Khan survives an assassination attempt after being shot in the leg at a rally in Wazirabad, Pakistan [1]

Nov 3 Oregon approves drug-policy reform ballot legalizing psilocybin (magic) mushrooms for use in therapy, along with decriminalizes possession of small amounts of drugs [1]
Nov 4 Astronomers announce discovery of closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away, 10x more massive that our sun [1]

Live at the Bon Soir

Nov 4 Columbia Records releases album "Barbra Streisand - Live At The Bon Soir", recorded in an NYC nightclub in November 1962

NHL Record

Nov 5 Alex Ovechkin scores 787th career goal for the Washington Capitals surpassing Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, for all-time NHL record for most goals scored for a single team, in 3-2 loss to Arizona Coyotes

Nov 5 Iranian government acknowledges sending a limited number of military drones to Russia in the months before the invasion of Ukraine [1]
Nov 6 Plane crashes into Tanzania's Lake Victoria killing 19 people on board, with 24 survivors [1]
Nov 6 US Powerball jackpot rises to a world record of $1.9bn after no winners for more than three months [1]
Nov 7 French tennis star Caroline Garcia scores the biggest title win of her career beating Aryna Sabalenka 7–6, 6–4 in the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas

Sexiest Man Alive

Nov 8 Actor Chris Evans named People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, says “My mom will be so happy” [1]

Nov 8 Archaeologists announce the most significant find of Etruscan and Roman bronze statues for 50 years excavating an ancient spa in San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy [1]

1st Elected Female Governor of NY

Nov 8 Kathy Hochul becomes the first elected female Governor of New York, continuing in the role she held since replacing Andrew Cuomo mid-term

Nov 8 Uganda extends its three week Ebola lockdown for another two weeks, closing schools, after the death toll reaches 53, with 135 infected [1]
Nov 9 Archaeologists announce discovery of oldest decipherable sentence on an ivory comb “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” in 1,700 B.C Canaanite script from Tel Lachish, Israel [1]

Sports History

Nov 9 Caitlin Clark makes her sophomore season debut with 26 points, eight rebounds, and six assists for Iowa against New Hampshire

Nov 9 Ukrainian army says it has made major gains towards taking back the city of Kherson from Russian control [1]
Nov 10 Afghanistan's ruling Taliban ban women from using public parks and funfairs [1]
Nov 10 Hurricane Nicole makes landfall near Vero Beach, Florida as a category 1 hurricane, causing widespread destruction and at least two deaths [1]

Largest Art Auction

Nov 10 Largest art auction in history belonging to late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen achieves sales of $1.5b, to be donated to charity [1]

Winter Dance Party Poster

Nov 11 Advertisement poster for ill-fated "Winter Dance Party" concert featuring Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959 - the day they died in a plane crash - sells at auction for $447K [1]

Only The Strong Survive

Nov 11 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 21st studio album "Only The Strong Survive", his covers of American 60s and 70s R&B and soul songs

Nov 11 Cypto currency FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried files for bankruptcy, amid accusations of financial mismanagement and criminal misconduct [1]
Nov 12 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces his 3rd 'Courage and Civility Award' of $100M to country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton to distribute to charities of her choice
Nov 12 New Zealand's Black Ferns win Women's World Rugby Championship defeating England 34-31 at Eden Park in Auckland in front of a capacity crowd [1]
Nov 12 Two vintage aircraft crash in midair at the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow, killing all six people [1]
Nov 12 US Mid-term elections: Democrats retain control of the Senate with Catherine Cortez Masto's victory in Nevada 50-49, with run-off in Georgia still to be decided [1]
Nov 13 Billie Jean King Cup Women's Tennis, Glasgow, Scotland: Belinda Bencic & Jill Teichmann score singles victories to lead Switzerland to a 2-0 win over Australia; first BJKC title for Switzerland
Nov 13 Bombing on Istiklal Avenue, central Istanbul, Turkey, labelled a terrorist attack, killing six people and injuring 81 [1]
Nov 13 Four Idaho university students stabbed and killed in their home in Moscow, Idaho. Suspect Bryan Kohberger arrested seven weeks later. [1]
Nov 13 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Melbourne: England beats Pakistan by 5 wickets to win their WC second title; Player of the match & series: England fast bowler Sam Curran; crowd 80,462
Nov 13 Joel Embiid scores a career-high 59 points in a victory over the Utah Jazz
Nov 13 The Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, built in 1957 and host to JFK, The Beatles, and Frank Sinatra is imploded; closed in 2017 after an electrical fire
Nov 14 Australian town of Eugowra experiences extreme flash flooding, with 2 deaths and 150 air-lifted to safety amid one-in-5,000-year flood event [1]
Nov 14 Earliest evidence of fire being used to cook by humans found in study of fish remains 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel [1]

Roberta Flack

Nov 14 Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack reveals she is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and is no longer able to sing

Nov 14 US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in person for the first time as national leaders at a G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia [1]

Event of Interest

Nov 15 Brooklyn Public Library celebrates its 125th anniversary and announces Maurice Sendak's 1963 title "Where the Wild Things Are" is its most borrowed book

Trump Announces Candidacy

Nov 15 Former US President Donald Trump announces he is running for President in 2024, despite many candidates he promoted failing to win election in US midterms [1]

Nov 15 Ticketmaster sells more than 2 million tickets for Taylor Swift's The Eras tour, the most tickets ever sold in a single day for an artist, amid hours-long wait times for fans [1]
Nov 15 World's population reaches 8 billion, just 11 years after passing 7 billion, though now slowing down (9 billion expected in about 2037), according to the UN [1]
Nov 16 Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass is the first woman elected mayor of the city of Los Angeles, defeating Rick Caruso [1]
Nov 16 NASA's Artemis I mission carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test mission around the Moon and back launches from Florida [1]
Nov 16 U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval on lab-grown meat, chicken grown from animal cells made by Upside Foods [1]

Republicans Retake the House

Nov 16 US Republican party regains control of the House of Representatives by a narrow margin, with Kevin McCarthy as Leader of the House [1]

Nov 17 Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the US House of Represetnatives and one of its most influential in recent times, announces she will step down [1]
Nov 18 International Bureau of Weights and Measures votes to abandon the leap second (to take effect 2035). Originally inserted in 1972 to reconcile atomic and astronomical time scales [1]
Nov 19 General elections in Malaysia produce the country's first ever hung parliament with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim securing the most seats [1]
Nov 19 Gunman opens fire at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, killing five people and injuring 19 in an apparent hate crime [1]

Iger Returns

Nov 20 Disney announces Bob Iger's return as chief executive less than a year after he retired from the company [1]

Nov 20 Dutch driver Max Verstappen retains Formula 1 Drivers' C'ship for Red Bull with a win in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP; Verstappen's 3rd straight Abu Dhabi win, record 15th of the season, record 454 points for season

Elton John

Nov 20 Elton John completes the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California

Nov 20 New York state activates the National Guard to assist with historic snow event around Buffalo, with Orchard Park receiving almost 6 1/5 ft [1]

Đoković's Record ATP

Nov 20 Serbian tennis star Novak Đoković wins record equalling sixth ATP World Tour Finals beating Casper Ruud of Norway 7-5, 6-3 in Turin, Italy

Nov 20 UN COP27 summit agrees to establish fund to help poor and vulnerable countries with climate change, with committee to be made up of representatives from 24 countries [1]

Biden Turns 80

Nov 20 US President Joe Biden turns 80 years old, becoming first octogenarian to serve in country's highest office

Nov 20 World's longest-serving president, authoritarian leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, 80, wins re-election in Equatorial Guinea, extending his 43-year rule [1]
Nov 21 China reports new COVID-19 outbreaks, with 28,127 new cases, with half in Guangzhou and the municipality of Chongqing and public venues closed in Beijing and Shanghai [1]
Nov 21 Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes near the city of Cianjur, on the Indonesian island of Java, killing at least 268 people, with over 1000 injured [1]
Nov 22 An out-of-control rebellion by terrorist groups in West Africa’s Sahel area is threatening the entire region, warns Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo at a security conference in Accra [1]
Nov 22 UK faces a bigger hit to its economy from the global energy crisis than any other advanced economy according to the OECD, projected to shrink by 0.4% [1]

Charles III Hosts Ramaphosa

Nov 22 UK's King Charles hosts his first state visit - welcoming South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at Buckingham Palace [1]

Nov 23 European Space Agency is the first to announce the inclusion of a disabled person amongst their new class of astronauts - Britain's John McFall [1]
Nov 23 Russia steps up airstrike campaign on Ukraine, with widespread power blacks across the country and Moldova, Kyiv 80% without power or water [1]

Nov 24 Anwar Ibrahim is sworn in Prime Minister of Malaysia appointed by King Al-Sultan Abdullah at the head of a coalition government [1]
Nov 24 British born Flossie aged almost 27 crowned the world's oldest cat by the Guinness Book of Records [1]
Nov 26 2,500 people pose naked for photographer Spencer Tunick on Australia's Bondi Beach to raise awareness of skin cancer [1]
Nov 26 Large mudslide after intense rain tears across Italian island of Ischia, killing at least eight people, on an island where 50% of the houses were illegally built [1]
Nov 26 Rare public protests held in various Chinese cities over the governments restrictive COVID-19 policies, after 10 people die in an apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang [1]

Dua Lipa Gets Citizenship

Nov 27 Albanian President Bajram Begaj grants citizenship to pop star Dua Lipa for promoting the country through her international fame and her musical talents [1]

Nov 27 Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, erupts for he first time in nearly 40 years on Hawaii island [1]
Nov 28 50 million birds killed in record-breaking outbreak of avian flu across the US according to Department of Agriculture, amid similar outbreaks elsewhere around the world [1]
Nov 28 Canadian scientists announce discovery of two new minerals elaliite and elkinstantonite, never seen on earth before from 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia [1]
Nov 28 Cocaine “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of European trade broken up in 'Operation Desert Light' by Europol, with 30 tones of the drug seized and 49 people arrested [1]
Nov 28 London's Horniman Museum, becomes first UK museum to return items, including Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, originally looted from Benin City by British troops in 1897 [1]
Nov 28 Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'gaslighting' while Collins' is 'permacrisis' [1]
Nov 28 Qatar Football World Cup Chief Hassan Al-Thawadi confirms 400-5000 immigrant workers died during the building of world cup venues [1]
Nov 28 Recent protests in Iran have killed 451 protesters and 60 security forces according to Human Rights Activist in Iran group, with 18,000 detained. Iranian government says number killed is 300. [1]
Nov 29 For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census [1]
Nov 29 Malawi begins historic campaign against malaria by vaccinating children under five using the RTS,S vaccine (thought to provide 30% protection) [1]
Nov 29 Singapore's parliament repeals British-era Section 377A decriminalising gay sex, but introduces amendments to protect current definition of marriage [1]
Nov 29 Three stowaways rescued by Spanish coastguard after 11 days at sea balancing on a ships' rudder from Nigeria to the Canary islands [1]
Nov 30 Artificial intelligence Chatbot ChatGPT prototype released by A.I. lab OpenAI, able to answer complex questions, write poetry and mimic some human emotions [1]
Nov 30 Chinese authorities ease some COVID-19 restrictions in cities including Guangzhou after days of protests [1]

Spotify Most Streamed

Nov 30 Harry Styles single "As It Was" is the most streamed song globally for Spotify in 2022 with Bad Bunny their most listened-to artist [1]

Nov 30 UK Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Katherine arrive in Boston for a US royal visit the same day a former lady-in-waiting resigns in a racism row [1]
Nov 30 UNESCO announces new additions to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, including the French Baguette, oral traditions of calling camels in the Middle East, and tea practices in China [1] [2]
Nov 30 US House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as the first Black House Minority leader, replacing Nancy Pelosi [1]

Dec 3 FBI investigate a targeted attack on two electricity substations in North Carolina which closes schools and leaves around 40,000 without power for days [1]
Dec 3 Former US President Donald Trump calls in a Truth Social post for the "termination" of all rules, including the US Constitution, to overturn the 2020 election, which he again falsely claims that he won. [1]
Dec 3 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: two-time defending champions Team Europe dominate US, 11-7; MVP: Joshua Filler (Germany)

A Beautiful Noise

Dec 4 "A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical" opens at Broadhurst Theatre, NYC

Dec 4 At least 27 people killed after a bus is buried in a landslide in Risaralda province, western Colombia [1]

Kennedy Center Honors

Dec 4 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for singers Gladys Knight and Amy Grant, actor George Clooney, rock band U2, and composer Tania León, in Washington D.C.

Dec 4 Mt Semeru, Indonesia’s highest volcano, erupts releasing gas clouds and rivers of lava on the island of Java [1]
Dec 5 Construction begins on world's biggest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in South Africa and Australia with collection area of nearly 500,000 square meters. Built to test Einstein's theories and search for extraterrestrial life [1]
Dec 5 Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) opens in Montreal, Canada
Dec 5 Iranian senior official confirms the country's Morality Police has been shut down in a concession to three months of nationwide protests, though may take on a different form [1]
Dec 6 Argentine Vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner found guilty of fraud, sentenced to six years in prison and banned from holding office [1]
Dec 6 Donald Trump's real estate company Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in New York [1]
Dec 6 Indonesia passes a new criminal code outlawing sex outside marriage, even for foreigners [1]

Dec 6 The 1,574th - and last - Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off of production line in Everett, Washington [1]
Dec 7 After widespread public protests China announces a major loosening of COVID-19 restrictions for the whole country, allowing home quarantine and scrapping QR codes, effectively ending China's zero-COVID policy [1]
Dec 7 Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock wins re-election over Republican Herschel Walker in run-off for the Georgia Senate seat, taking the US Senate to a clearer 51-49 Democratic majority [1]
Dec 7 Peruvian president Pedro Castillo ousted from office after trying to dissolve Congress, who were about to impeach him on corruption charges. Vice president, Dina Boluarte sworn in as country's first woman president. [1]
Dec 7 Twenty-five right-wing extremists arrested in Germany suspected of organizing a coup to overthrow the government and install a monarchy, including prince Heinrich XIII and army officers [1]
Dec 8 American basketball star Brittany Griner is released by Russian authorities in a prisoner exchange for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; Griner detained on drug smuggling charges since February 2022

Celine Dion Reveals Diagnosis

Dec 8 Canadian pop singer Celine Dion reveals via Instagram that she has been diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS), a rare neurological disorder

Dec 8 Iran announces first known execution of a protester from recent anti-government unrest, after convicting a man in a revolutionary court of "moharebeh" (enmity against God) [1]

Trevor Noah's Final Show

Dec 8 Trevor Noah hosts his final episode of late-night talk and satirical news television program "The Daily Show"

Dec 8 UN investigation in DR Congo finds 131 people were massacred in November by M23 rebel group in Kishishe and Bambo villages, in east of the country [1]
Dec 9 Dark fantasy game "Elden Ring", created by Hidetaka Miyazaki and George RR Martin, awarded Game of the Year at the Game Awards [1]

Darwin Papers Record Price

Dec 9 Sheet of paper on which scientist Charles Darwin defended his theory of evolution in 1865 sells for a record $882,000 at Sotheby's [1]

Dec 10 88th Heisman Trophy Award: Caleb Williams, USC (QB)

Event of Interest

Dec 10 Tens of thousands of people protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, against the government demanding resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and new elections amid cost of living crisis [1]

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