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May 31: World No Tobacco Day

Bessarion

• 455 – Petronius Maximus, ruler of the Western Roman Empire, was stoned to death by a mob as he fled Rome ahead of the arrival of a Vandal force that sacked the city.
• 1223 – Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus': Mongol forces defeated a Kievan Rus' army at the Kalka River in present-day Ukraine.
• 1468 – Cardinal Bessarion (pictured) announced his donation of 746 Greek and Latin codices to the Republic of Venice, forming the Biblioteca Marciana.
• 1935 – An earthquake registering 7.7 M_w struck Balochistan in British India, now part of Pakistan, killing between 30,000 and 60,000 people.
• 2013 – A tornado struck Central Oklahoma, killing 8 people and injuring more than 150.

• Albertino Mussato (d. 1329)
• Joseph Grimaldi (d. 1837)
• Dina Boluarte (b. 1962)
• Mbaye Diagne (d. 1994)

More anniversaries:

• May 30
• May 31
• June 1

News

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May 31, 2024 (2024-05-31) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least three people are killed and 16 others are injured when Russian missiles hit civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Sanaa strikes
    • The toll from yesterday airstrikes in Yemen launched by the United States Navy and the Royal Navy increases to 16 people killed and 35 more injured. (AP)
    • The Houthi Supreme Political Council states it launched an attack on the USS Dwight D Eisenhower, though American officials deny this. (Independent)
• Israel–Hezbollah conflict
  • A medic is killed and another injured during an Israeli airstrike against an ambulance in Naqoura, Lebanon. (Al Jazeera)

May 30, 2024 (2024-05-30) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • 2024 Kharkiv offensive
      • The United States gives Ukraine permission to strike Russian territory near Kharkiv Oblast with U.S.-supplied weapons, but not with long-range missiles. (Politico) (CNN)
• Israel–Hamas War
  • Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • The Israeli military lifts a ban on the sale of food to the Gaza Strip from Israel and the West Bank. (Reuters)
  • Rafah offensive, Siege of Gaza City
    • Israeli airstrikes kill twelve Palestinian civilians in Rafah and one at the al-Shati camp near Gaza City. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • 2024 Sanaa strikes
    • The United States Navy and the Royal Navy strike thirteen Houthi locations across Yemen, damaging underground facilities and vessels, killing at least two people and wounding ten. (NPR)
• North Korea and weapons of mass destruction
  • North Korea launches a series of short-range ballistic missiles from Pyongyang toward the Sea of Japan. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• A bus falls into a gorge in Jammu division, India, killing 21 people travelling to a pilgrimage site in Reasi district. (ABC News)
• A person is killed after falling into a running aircraft engine of a departing plane at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• 2020–2024 H5N1 outbreak
  • The third human case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States is found in a dairy worker in Michigan. (NPR)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine
  • Slovenia's ruling cabinet approves a motion to recognize Palestine as an independent nation and sends the motion to the National Assembly for adoption. (AP)

Law and crime

• Catalan independence movement
  • The Spanish parliament votes to pass a bill granting amnesty to hundreds of Catalan secessionists involved in the Catalan declaration of independence from 2011 to 2017. (Al Jazeera)
• Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York
  • Former President of the United States Donald Trump is found guilty by a jury on all 34 felony counts relating to falsifying business records, becoming the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. (CNN)
• Hong Kong convicts fourteen activists and politicians guilty of subversion under its national security law. (Al Jazeera)
• The United States Department of Labor files a lawsuit against Hyundai Motors over illegal use of child labor at the company's automobile factory in Montgomery, Alabama, amid a nationwide increase in child labor in the U.S. (Reuters)
• Three people, including a police officer, are killed in a mass shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (WCCO-TV)
• Footballer Gerard Piqué is placed under official investigation for his alleged involvement in illegal payments in the relocation of the Supercopa de España from Spain to Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests
  • 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses
    • Police dismantle and remove the student pro-Palestinian encampment at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (The Detroit News) (AP)

Science and technology

• OpenAI removes online influence operations based in Russia, China, Iran, and Israel, due to the usage of AI by these operations to generate propaganda and fake content. (NPR)

May 29, 2024 (2024-05-29) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia–NATO relations, Ukraine–NATO relations
    • Sweden announces a package of $1.23 billion in military aid to Ukraine, the largest given by Sweden so far. (AP)
    • France and Germany announce that French and German weapons sent to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, are permitted to target bases inside Russia. (CNN)
• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive
    • Israel says that it has taken full control of the Egypt–Gaza border after capturing the Philadelphi Corridor. (Reuters) (DW)
  • Two Israeli soldiers who were seriously wounded by a vehicle-ramming attack the day before succumb to their injuries. (Times of Israel)

Disasters and accidents

• 2023–2024 Sundhnúkur eruptions
  • The town of Grindavík, Iceland, and the nearby Blue Lagoon are evacuated due to volcanic activity. (BBC News)
• At least 28 people are killed when a bus falls into a ravine in Washuk District, Balochistan, Pakistan. (Al Jazeera)

Health and environment

• The India Meteorological Department records a record-high temperature of 52.9 °C (127.2 °F) in Delhi, resulting in one death. (CBS News) (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Brazil–Israel relations
  • Brazil recalls its ambassador to Israel amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Amnesty International says that the number of executions recorded globally in 2023 was the highest since 2015 and up more than 30% from 2022, with Iran carrying out 74% of the global total. The figures exclude China, which is thought to execute thousands of people each year. (BBC News)
• Four people are injured by a mass shooting in Dalston, London, UK. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Malagasy parliamentary election
  • Citizens of Madagascar vote for members of the National Assembly. (Africanews)
• 2024 South African general election
  • South Africans vote for members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Vanuatuan constitutional referendum
  • Vanuatuans hold the first national constitutional referendum to vote on amendments related to party switching. (Radio Free Asia)

Sports

• 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
  • In association football, Olympiacos win their first UEFA Europa Conference League title after defeating Fiorentina by a score of 1–0 in the final, becoming the first Greek team to win a major European club trophy. (AP)

May 28, 2024 (2024-05-28) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive, Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
    • Al-Mawasi refugee camp attack
      • At least 21 people are killed and 64 others are injured in a Israeli attack on a tent camp in al-Mawasi, Rafah Governorate. (Al Jazeera)
    • Israeli tanks reach central Rafah for the first time with heavy clashes being reported. (Reuters)
  • Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • The U.S. removes the Gaza floating pier from the Gaza Strip for repair after its flotilla was damaged in bad weather. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian guided bombs hit a block of apartments in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, killing at least two civilians and injuring six others. (Reuters)
• Red Sea crisis
  • A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier takes on water after being hit by three missiles off the coast of Yemen. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• Cyclone Remal
  • Seventeen people are killed and six others are missing after a stone quarry collapses due to strong winds in Aizawl, Mizoram, India. (The Hindu)
• One person is killed and seven others are injured in a natural gas explosion at an apartment building in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. (AP)

International relations

• International recognition of the State of Palestine
  • Norway–Palestine relations, Ireland–Palestine relations, Palestine–Spain relations
    • The governments of Norway, Ireland, and Spain officially recognise the State of Palestine, after declaring their intention to do so on May 22. (The Journal) (Euronews) (AP)
  • Denmark–Palestine relations
    • The Parliament of Denmark rejects a proposal to recognise a Palestinian state. (Reuters)
• International reactions to the Israel–Hamas war
  • Israel–Hamas war protests
    • Pro-Palestinian protestors in Mexico set fire to the Israeli embassy in Mexico City. (The Jewish Chronicle) (Proceso)

Law and crime

• Animal rights in Colombia
  • The Senate of Colombia approves a resolution banning Spanish-style bullfighting in the country. (La FM)
• Bankruptcy of FTX
  • Former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame is sentenced to more than seven years in prison and fined more than $11 million for fraud and criminal conspiracy. (Reuters)
• Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • A Polish Border Guard soldier is seriously injured in an incident among a surge in migrants trying to cross the EU border from Belarus. (Polskie Radio)
• South Africa's genocide case against Israel
  • Mexico announces it will intervene in support of South Africa in South Africa's genocide case against Israel. (Middle East Eye)

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Georgian protests
  • The Georgian parliament overrides a presidential veto of the foreign agents law, thereby requiring president Salome Zourabichvili to endorse the bill within five days. (DW)
• 2024 Taiwanese legislative reform protests
  • The Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party pass amendments granting the Legislative Yuan greater powers to oversee the executive and to question officials and citizens, despite claims that these amendments violate civil liberties and could reduce the powers of president Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party. (The Guardian)
• Haitian crisis
  • Garry Conille is named the new Prime Minister of Haiti by the Transitional Presidential Council. (AP)

May 27, 2024 (2024-05-27) (Monday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Military aid to Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War
    • Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez signs a bilateral security pact with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledges €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) of military aid to Ukraine. (Al Jazeera)
  • Russia captures the villages of Netailove in Donetsk Oblast and Ivanivka in Kharkiv Oblast. (Arab News)
• Israel–Hamas War
  • Rafah offensive
    • An Egyptian border guard is killed in a shootout at the Rafah Border Crossing. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Twenty-three gunmen and seven soldiers are killed during three shootouts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Red Sea crisis
  • Yemen's Houthi militia says that they attacked three merchant ships and two destroyers from the United States Navy. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Enga landslide
  • Papua New Guinea asks for international help following the landslide in Enga Province three days ago, and reports that more than 2,000 people were buried alive and are now presumed deceased. (AP)
• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024
  • The death toll from a tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arkansas on Saturday and Sunday increases to 21. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• A teenager is killed and six other people are injured in a shooting in downtown Lansing, Michigan, United States. (USA Today)

May 26, 2024 (2024-05-26) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Rafah offensive, Refugee camp airstrikes in the Israel–Hamas war
    • Tel al-Sultan massacre
      • Between 47 and 52 people are killed in an Israeli airstrike and subsequent fire in a tent camp for displaced civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. (AP) (Reuters)
  • Insurgency in the North Gaza Strip
    • A spokesperson for Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades claim that they captured IDF soldiers in Jabalia yesterday. However, the IDF denies this claim. (Reuters)
  • The Al-Qassam Brigades fire rockets towards Tel Aviv, Israel, for the first time in four months. (BBC News) (El Confidencial)
• Mali War
  • More than twenty civilians are killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in a village in Mopti region, Mali. (Reuters)
• Yemeni civil war
  • The Houthis, with assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross, free more than 100 detainees in Sana'a, Yemen, in a "unilateral humanitarian initiative" to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Armenia–Georgia floods
  • At least three people have been confirmed dead in Armenia following flooding on the Armenia–Georgia border, with several bridges collapsing as a result of the flooding. (Reuters)
• 2024 Enga landslide
  • The International Organization for Migration estimates that more than 670 people were killed in the landslide in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, on Friday. (AP)
• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024
  • The death toll from an overnight tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas increases to 15. (The Virginian-Pilot) (AP)
• Ten people are killed and 39 others are injured in a collision between a bus and three other vehicles on a highway near Mersin, Turkey. (Reuters)

International relations

• France–Germany relations, List of international presidential trips made by Emmanuel Macron
  • Emmanuel Macron makes the first state visit by a President of France to Germany in 24 years. (AP)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Comorian presidential election
  • Incumbent president Azali Assoumani is sworn in for his fourth term in office. (Reuters)
• 2024 Lithuanian presidential election
  • Gitanas Nausėda wins the Lithuanian presidential run-off with 75.57% of the vote. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2024 IIHF World Championship
  • Hosts Czechia wins the title for the seventh time after beating Switzerland 2–0 in the final. Czechia ends their 14-year gold drought by winning it for the first time since 2010. (TSN)
• 2024 Indianapolis 500
  • In auto racing, Josef Newgarden wins the Indianapolis 500 for the second consecutive year, becoming the first driver to do so since Hélio Castroneves in 2002. (Barron's)
• 2024 Indian Premier League
  • In cricket, the Kolkata Knight Riders defeat the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final of the Indian Premier League to win their third IPL title. (The Hindustan Times)

May 25, 2024 (2024-05-25) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • Israeli allegations against UNRWA
      • Italy restores €35 million (US$38 million) of funding for UNRWA several months after it suspended the aid due to allegations linking UN staff to the October 7 attacks. (Al Jazeera)
    • Four U.S. Army vessels connected to a floating pier off the Gaza Strip become disconnected and wash up on beaches, two in Israel and two in the Gaza Strip. (NPR)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia captures the village of Arkhanhelske in Donetsk Oblast. (The Moscow Times)
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • At least fourteen people are killed and 58 others are injured in Russian strikes on a hardware store and residential area in Kharkiv, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent) (Reuters)

Arts and culture

• 2024 Cannes Film Festival
  • Anora, directed by Sean Baker, wins the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. (Reuters)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Rajkot gaming zone fire
  • At least 27 people, including many children, are killed in a building fire at a family entertainment venue in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. (NDTV)
• Tornado outbreak sequence of May 19–26, 2024
  • At least five people are killed after a tornado strikes the cities of Pilot Point and Valley View in Texas, United States. (NBC Dallas-Fort Worth)

Politics and elections

• 2024 United Kingdom general election
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces plans to conscript young persons with an option for alternative civilian service if the Conservative Party wins the upcoming election. (BBC News)

Sports

• 2023–24 AFC Champions League
  • Al Ain win their second Champions League title after beating the Yokohama F. Marinos by an aggregate score of 6–3 over a two-legged final. (Reuters)
• 2023–24 DFB-Pokal
  • Bayer Leverkusen win their second DFB-Pokal title after beating 1. FC Kaiserslautern by a score of 1–0 in the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany, completing the first unbeaten double-winning season in German football. (The New York Times)
• 2023–24 FA Cup
  • Manchester United win their 13th FA Cup title after beating the defending champions, Manchester City, by a score of 2–1 in the final at Wembley Stadium in London, England. (The Guardian)
• 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League
  • Barcelona win their third Women's Champions League title after defeating Olympique Lyonnais 2–0 in the final. (BBC Sport)

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