istoryworld
All Events
On the evening before the US government reaches its debt ceiling, Congress passes a bill allowing the ceiling to be raised but only until February 7
Relations between the USA and Germany are severely strained by the revelation in leaked documents that NSA has for years tapped Angela Merkel's cellphone
The renewed peace talks between Israel and Palestine are jeopardized by an announcement that Israel will build 1500 homes for Jews in East Jerusalem
State media in China announce a new plan to modify the country's rigid one-child policy dating from the late 1970s
An insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that has cost millions of lives, ends when the M23 rebels lay down their arms
Saudi Arabia starts deporting thousands of Ethiopian migrant workers, eventually about 150,000, causing great public anger and a major refugee problem
Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi appears in court charged with inciting the murder of protesters
A US drone strike kills Hakimullah Meysud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan, complicating the Pakistani government's attempt to negotiate
Bill de Blasio wins the New York mayoral election, becoming the city's first Democratic mayor in 20 years
A forensic report by Swiss scientists suggests that Yasser Arafat was poisened by radioactive polonium-210
Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, causes vast devastation and thousands of deaths in the islands of the central Philippines
A stash of more than 1500 looted modernist works of art is found in the Munich flat of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of a Nazi art dealer
Francis Bacon's Three Studies of Lucian Freud sells for $142.4 million, a world record for a work of art sold at auction
American Airlines and US Airways are granted permission to merge, creating the world's largest airline
JPMorgan agrees to pay $13 billion dollars, the largest fine ever imposed, for questionable mortgage practices before 2008
People gather in Kiev's main square chanting 'Ukraine is Europe' to protest against President Yanukovych's attempts to align the country with Russia rather than the European Union
In a major diplomatic breakthrough, Iran agrees to restrict its nuclear activities in return for relief from certain important economic sanctions
China announces a new air defense zone over disputed islands in the East China sea, a measure immmediately challenged by Japan and the USA
A court in Alexandria sentences women to eleven years in gaol for taking part in a demonstration in support of Mohammed Morsi
The Italian Senate expels Silvio Berlusconi because of his conviction for tax fraud
DNA sequencing dates a thigh bone from a Spanish cave as 400,000 years old, and reveals an unexpected genetic link with a Denisovan human species in Siberia
Nelson Mandela dies in Johannesburg, triggering a flood of admiring and affectionate tributes all round the world
After international outrage the 11-year sentences on female protesters in Alexandria are reduced to one year, suspended
After years of trying, the World Trade Organization achieves an international agreement to loosen global trade barriers
Jang Sung-taek, uncle and mentor of the young North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, is executed after public humiliation
