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- More than a hundred Afghan National Security Forces members are killed in an attack on a military compound in Maidan Shar.
- Ten Chadian United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an attack by al-Qaeda in Mali in apparent retaliation for the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Chad and Israel.
- In Burkina Faso, Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba (pictured) and all members of his cabinet resign from office after a series of terrorist attacks.
- More than ninety people are killed and dozens of others are injured in an explosion at an oil pipeline near Tlahuelilpan, Mexico.
January 23, 2019 (Wednesday)
Law and crime
- 2019 Indigenous Peoples March Incident
- Covington Catholic High School, a Catholic boys school criticized after a confrontation with Native Americans at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., reopens under the watch of law enforcement in Kentucky, after having closed on Tuesday due to threats made against it. (Washington Times) (Courier Journal)
- Three Michigan citizens, Mohamud Muse, Muse Muse and Mohamed Haji, are arrested at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States for conspiring to support the Islamic State. (ABC News)
Politics and elections
- 2019 Venezuelan protests, 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is sworn in as President of Venezuela, with de facto President Nicolas Maduro not recognizing this. (CNN)
- U.S. President Donald Trump recognises the opposition leader Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela. (CNN)
- Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro says Caracas is breaking off diplomatic relations with the United States, giving American diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, after Donald Trump recognized the opposition leader as interim head. (RT)
January 22, 2019 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- A Hamas militant is killed and two others are injured when an Israeli tank fires into the Gaza Strip after a protest turned violent. The Israel Defense Forces action is retaliation for a shooting which lightly injured an officer, and for the brief incursion of two Palestinians into Israel. (Reuters)
- 2019 Venezuelan protests
- A 16-year-old boy is shot and killed at around midnight on Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning during protests in the Venezuelan capital Caracas. Three others are killed in overnight protests in Estado Bolívar. (The Washington Post), (Business Standard)
Arts and culture
- The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards, honoring the best in cinema in 2018 are announced, with Roma and The Favourite leading with 10 nominations each. (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance
- In the Channel Islands, a multinational search and rescue operation for a missing aircraft carrying Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala resumes, after fading light and deteriorating weather conditions caused the search to be called off the previous day. (BBC)
- Five foreign demining experts, identified as two South Africans, one Croatian, one Bosnian and one Kosovar, are killed in an accidental explosion in Yemen. (BBC)
- A Tupolev Tu-22M3 supersonic strike bomber crashes in Russia's northwestern Murmansk region while attempting landing during a storm. 3 of its 4 crewmen are killed. (Reuters)
International relations
- Kuril Islands dispute, Japan–Russia relations
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Moscow to discuss a peace treaty and the Kuril Islands dispute. (TASS) (Al Jazeera)
- An Israeli spokesman says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled Wednesday's Qatari aid of $15 million to Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- American singer Chris Brown and two associates are briefly detained in Paris after being accused of aggravated rape and drug offenses. (NBC News)
- Transgender personnel in the United States military
- The U.S. Supreme Court allows, by a 5–4 vote, the Trump administration to begin implementing the policy that prohibits transgender persons who require or have undergone gender transition from serving. Unresolved challenges remain in lower courts. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election
- North Carolina Superior Court judge Paul Ridgeway rejects the bid to certify Republican Mark Harris as the winner of the country's last undecided congressional race until there's a final decision in the investigation into possible illegal tactics. (Reuters) (WSOC-TV)
Sports
- 2019 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
- The National Baseball Hall of Fame announces the results of voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) to determine players to be formally inducted in July 2019. Roy Halladay, Edgar Martínez, Mike Mussina, and Mariano Rivera are elected and will join Harold Baines and Lee Smith, elected by a Hall committee in December 2018, at the induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York. Rivera is the first player ever to be elected unanimously by the BBWAA. (ESPN)
January 21, 2019 (Monday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Dissident Irish Republican campaign
- In two incidents in Derry, a truck is hijacked and abandoned in the city center, and a Royal Mail van is hijacked at gunpoint and later abandoned. Authorities blame the New IRA. (Belfast Telegraph)
- War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Maidan Shar attack
- A Taliban attack on a National Directorate of Security compound in the central Maidan Wardak Province, kills 126 security personnel, according to local officials. (The Guardian)
- Maidan Shar attack
- Syrian Civil War
- A suicide car bomb attack kills five members of the Syrian Democratic Forces while they were out on a patrol with U.S. troops in northeastern Syria. (Telegraph)
- The Israeli military says it had attacked Iranian military targets in Damascus including the city's international airport in response to a missile attack. (CNN)
- Crisis in Venezuela
- A mutiny by members of the Venezuelan National Guard who oppose the government is quashed. The Venezuelan Military in a statement says they were involved in "treasonous" acts motivated by "obscure interests tied to the far right." (Time)
Business and economy
- Germany revokes the license of Iranian airline Mahan Air, citing the airline's involvement in Syria and other security concerns. (Reuters)
- The Israel Airports Authority formally opens Ramon Airport in the Timna Valley near Eilat. The new international airport replaces Eilat Airport, which will cease operations on January 22. (Channel NewsAsia)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 Piper PA-46 Malibu disappearance
- A Piper Malibu light aircraft, carrying two people on a flight from Nantes to Cardiff, goes missing off the coast of Alderney in the Channel Islands. A major search and rescue operation is underway. Cardiff City F.C. footballer Emiliano Sala is confirmed to have been on board the missing aircraft. (BBC), (Sky)
- At least 11 crew members are killed after two ships caught fire, as one vessel was transferring fuel to the other, in the Kerch Strait near Crimea. (BNO) (BBC)
- Two men are killed in separate avalanches at U.S. ski resorts, one near Aspen, Colorado, and another in Kachina Peak at Taos Ski Valley, approximately 125 miles (201 km) northeast of Albuquerque, New Mexico. (NBC News)
Law and crime
- LGBT rights in Egypt
- Egyptian TV presenter Mohamed al-Ghiety is sentenced to one year of hard labor and fined 3,000 Egyptian pounds ($167; £130) for "promoting homosexuality" by interviewing a gay man on the privately-owned LTC Egypt TV channel last year. (BBC)
Politics and elections
- 2020 United States presidential election, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
- Democratic U.S. Senator Kamala Harris from California announces she will run for President in 2020. (NPR)
- Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, is reported to be exploring an independent candidacy for President of the United States in 2020. (CNN)
- Brexit
- The Labour Party proposes an amendment to the Brexit deal which would require a second referendum before the United Kingdom fully exits the European Union. (The Guardian)
Science and technology
- Lulu and Nana controversy
- China confirms the 2018 birth of the world's first genetically edited babies, Lulu and Nana, saying He Jiankui forged ethical review papers and organised a project team with foreign staff, which intentionally avoided surveillance, and that He and his staff will be punished according to laws and regulations. The Guangdong government will keep the twins under medical observation with the support of the national departments. (South China Morning Post)
- A total lunar eclipse occurs, popularly dubbed a Super Blood Wolf Moon, due to the timing and orbital perigee, and a meteor impact is observed during the event. (Space.com)
January 20, 2019 (Sunday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Northern Mali conflict
- At least ten United Nations peacekeepers are killed and several others injured in a Islamist militant attack on their base in Mali's northern Kidal Region. (Al Jazeera)
Disasters and accidents
- Two people died and 25 more were injured, four seriously, in a fire at the ski resort of Courchevel in the French Alps. (RTE)
International relations
- Chad–Israel relations
- Chad and Israel restore diplomatic relations with each other after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Chadian President Idriss Déby in N'Djamena. Chad severed ties with Israel in 1972. (i24 News)
January 19, 2019 (Saturday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Dissident Irish Republican campaign
- A car bomb explodes outside a courthouse in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The bomb exploded as the area was being evacuated, and there were no injuries. Investigations currently point responsibility for the attack towards the New IRA dissident organisation. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- American singer R. Kelly is dropped by RCA Records following the release of Surviving R. Kelly, a Lifetime documentary detailing alleged sexual assaults committed by him. (Variety)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018–19 North American winter
- A state of emergency is declared in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as a large winter storm makes its way to the northeastern United States. Three people have already been killed due to it. (AccuWeather) (The Weather Channel)
- List of earthquakes in 2019
- A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Coquimbo, Chile. Light damage is reported and thousands of homes lose power. (Devdiscourse)
Law and crime
- Covington Catholic High School faces backlash after a video of students were seen mocking a Native American elder at the Indigenous Peoples' March in Washington DC. (USA Today) (Cincinnati Enquirer) (WDRB)
Politics and elections
- President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré announces in a televised statement that Prime Minister Paul Kaba Thieba and the cabinet have resigned from their positions effective immediately. No reason is given. (BBC)
- 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
- The Constitutional Court of DR Congo rejects an appeal for a vote recount of the 30 December 2018 election by second-place candidate Martin Fayulu, upholding Félix Tshisekedi as the winner. (France24)
- Martin Fayulu claims to be the "legitimate president" and calls on the international community to not recognize the result. (Deutsche Welle)
January 18, 2019 (Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Syrian Civil War
- A massive explosion targetting a Tahrir al-Sham base in Idlib kills 15 people and wounds 20 others. A car bomb is reported to have been used in the attack. (AMN)
- Internal conflict in Myanmar
- Myanmar's military announces that it has killed 13 Arakan Army fighters in a series of eight armed clashes in Rakhine State, spanning from January 5 to 13. In the same press conference, a military spokesman states that the Arakan Army had been newly classified as a terrorist organization. (ABC News) (Reuters via VOA)
- Somali Civil War (2009–present)
- Al Shabaab claims they killed over 57 Ethiopian troops in an ambush in Somalia. Ethiopian troops rejects that claim. (SITE) (Toronto Star)
- South Thailand insurgency
- Colombian armed conflict
- Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez unilaterally blames the National Liberation Army for the 2019 Bogotá car bombing, and suspends ongoing peace talks with the group, requesting that the Cuban government arrest the ten guerrilla group members leading the negotiations in Havana. (El Tiempo) (The New York Times)
Disasters and accidents
- 2019 Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion
- An illicitly tapped fuel pipeline explodes in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico, killing at least 95 people and wounding 46 others. It is believed the explosion occurred after the line was ruptured by suspected fuel thieves. (Milenio)
Politics and elections
- 2018 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election
- The Congolese government rejects a request by the African Union to delay the announcement of the final result of the 30 December 2018 general election, which is being appealed in the country's Constitutional Court amidst accusations of election fraud. (Al Jazeera)
January 17, 2019 (Thursday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2019 Bogotá car bombing
- A suicide car-bomb attack at the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá, Colombia, kills at least 20 people and injures more than 50 others. (The Guardian)
Disasters and accidents
- In France, a fire at the University Lyon 1 injures three people. Investigators say that it is a result of an accidental gas bottle explosion. (Euronews)
Law and crime
- Gunmen on motorbikes shoot Ghanaian investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale to death in Accra. Ahmed was a member of the Tiger Eye Private Investigations team that exposed high-level corruption in the Ghana Football Association. (Reuters)
Politics and elections
- United States federal government shutdown of 2018–2019
- U.S. President Donald Trump postpones House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming diplomatic trip to Europe, Afghanistan and Egypt after she urged the President to postpone his upcoming State of the Union Address over the ongoing government shutdown. (BBC)
Science and technology
- Facebook removes alleged Russia-based accounts and pages as a part of a crackdown on misuse of its service. (The Wall Street Journal)
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January 2019
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- 19: Nathan Glazer
- 19: Tony Mendez
- 18: Boo
- 17: Windsor Davies
- 17: Mary Oliver
- 16: John C. Bogle
- 15: Carol Channing
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- 5: Bernice Sandler
- 4: Harold Brown
- 4: John Thornett
- 3: Sylvia Chase
- 3: Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari
- 3: Herb Kelleher
- 3: Michael Yeung
- 2: Daryl Dragon
- 2: Bob Einstein
- 2: Gene Okerlund
- 1: Ed Corney
- 1: Pegi Young
December 2018
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