2019: Year in Review

2019 was designated as International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements by the United Nations General Assembly given that it coincides with the 150th anniversary of its creation by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869.
January 1 - All works published in 1923 except sound recordings enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
January 1 - Jair Bolsonaro begins his four-year term as President of Brazil.
January 1 - Unmanned space probe New Horizons makes a close approach of the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 486958 Arrokoth at 05:33 UTC.
January 1 - Qatar withdraws from OPEC.
January 1 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Austria.
January 2 – Great Belt Bridge rail accident: A DSB express passenger train is hit by a semi-trailer from a passing cargo train on the western bridge of the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark, killing eight people and making it the deadliest rail accident in the country since 1988.
January 2 - Bob Einstein, American actor and comedian known for Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny & Chery Comedy Hour, dies at age 76 from cancer.
January 2 - Gene Okerlund, American wrestling announcer better known by his ring name "Mean" Gene Okerlund, dies at age 76 from complications from a fall.  He was best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. Okerlund was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 by Hulk Hogan.
January 3 – Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first human-made object to land on the far side of the Moon.
January 3 – Herb Kelleher, American businessman who was the co-founder, later CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines, dies at age 87.
January 5 – Bartholomew I of Constantinople issues a formal decree granting independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Orthodox Church.
January 5 - Bernice Sandler, American women's rights activist best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, dies at age 90.  Sandler wrote extensively about sexual and peer harassment towards women on campus, coining the terms "gang rape" and "the chilly campus climate".  In 1952, Resnick married Jerrold Sandler and had two children with him, Deborah Jo in 1954 and Emily Maud in 1956.  The two later divorced, in 1978.
January 6 – Muhammad V of Kelantan abdicates the federal throne as the 15th monarch of Malaysia, making him the first Malaysian monarch to do so.
January 6 – José Ramón Fernández, Cuban revolution leader, dies at age 95.
January 7 – A faction of the Armed Forces of Gabon announces a coup d'état. Gabon's government later declares that it has reasserted control.
January 9 – Verna Bloom, American actress known for High Plains Drifter, Where Have All The People Gone?, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Animal House, dies at age 80 of complications of dementia.
January 10 – Venezuela enters a constitutional crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro "illegitimate" and start the process of attempting to remove him.
January 15 – Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack: A terrorist attack at an upscale hotel and office complex in Nairobi, Kenya, kills 21 people (including 5 attackers) and injures 28 more.
January 15 – Carol Channing, American actress known for Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, Hello, Dolly!, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Squares, Alice in Wonderland, dies at age 97 of natural causes at her home in Rancho Mirage, California, only 16 days before her 98th birthday.
January 17 – A vehicle-bound suicide bomb attack in Bogotá, Colombia, kills 22 people and injures 68 others, making it the deadliest attack on the Colombian capital since 2003.
January 17 - Mary Oliver, American poet who won the National Book Award in 1992 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, dies at age 83 from lymphoma.  In 2007 The New York Times described her as "far and away, this country's best-selling poet."
January 18 – Fuel thieves rupture a pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, and a subsequent explosion kills at least 137 people and injures dozens more.
January 19 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, causing two deaths and as many as 200,000 people left without power.  Despite its moderate magnitude, since it was an intraplate earthquake, it caused some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities.
January 19 - Nathan Glazer, American sociologist, dies at age 95.  Known for books such as Beyond the Melting Pot, which deal with race and ethnicity, Glazer was critical of some of the Great Society programs of the mid-1960s. He was often considered neoconservative in his thinking on domestic policy, but remained a Democrat.  He described himself as "indifferent" to the neoconservative label with which he is most associated and remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing.
January 19 - Henry Sy, Chinese-Filipino business magnate and philanthropist known for his involvement in the Philippines' retail industry, dies at age 94 in his sleep.  For eleven straight years, Sy was named by Forbes as the richest person in the Philippines.  Upon his death, his estimated net worth amounted to $19 billion, making him the 53rd-richest person in the world.
January 20 - Tibor Baranski, Hungarian-American educator credited with saving more than 3,000 Hungarian Jewish women, men and children from the Nazis during the Holocaust, dies at age 96. When he was 22, he was forced by the advancing Soviets to leave his seminary studies and return to Budapest.  On January 11, 1979, Baránszki was recognized as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.  He was a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council.
January 21 – Piper PA-46 Malibu crash: An aircraft carrying new Cardiff City F.C. soccer player Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson en route from Nantes, France, to Cardiff, Wales, goes missing over the English Channel. Sala's body is recovered on February 7.  He was 28.
January 21 - Henri, Count of Paris, Head of the House of Orléans, dies at age 85.  He was a descendant of Louis-Philippe I d'Orléans, who reigned as King of the French from 1830 to 1848. Henri was a retired military officer as well as an author and painter.
January 23 – Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with the United States.
January 25 – A mine tailings dam breaks in the Brazilian city of Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais. At least 248 people are killed, with 22 missing.
January 27 – Two bombs at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Jolo, Philippines, kill at least 20 people and leave more than 100 others injured.
January 28 – The U.S. Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.–China tensions.
January 30 – Dick Miller, American actor, dies at age 90 of natural causes.   Miller's main roles have been in films such as Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Explorers, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Terminator, and Small Soldiers.
February 1 – U.S. President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987, citing Russian non-compliance.  The next day, Russia follows suit with suspension of its obligations to the treaty.
February 3 – Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
February 3 - Julie Adams, American actress known for Creature from the Black Lagoon and Murder, She Wrote, dies at age 92.
February 3 - Kristoff St. John, American actor known for The Young and the Restless, dies at age 52 from hypertrophic heart failure.  St. John was a vegan and animal rights advocate; he appeared in two PETA ad campaigns.
February 4 - Matti Nykänen, Finnish Olympic-winning ski jumper and singer widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, dies at age 55 from pancreatitis and pneumonia.  He was sentenced to 26 months in prison following a stabbing incident in 2004, and again for 16 months following an aggravated assault on his wife in 2009.
February 5 – The Taliban kills at least 47 people in attacks while Afghan–Taliban peace talks are taking place in Moscow. 12 others are injured.
February 6 – The Freedom House organization states that Hungary was no longer a free country, making it the first country in the European Union to be labelled as "partly free".  It also stated that neighboring Serbia was no longer a free country as well.
February 6 - Rosamunde Pilcher, British author of romance novels, mainstream women's fiction, and short stories, dies at age 94 following a stroke.  Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldwide.  Her son Robin is also a writer and his books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
February 7 – Haitian protests: Anti-government protests demanding the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse begin in several cities across the country.
February 7 - Albert Finney, English actor, dies at age 82 from a chest infection.  He is known for Scrooge, Murder on the Orient Express, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Annie, Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Big Fish, Ocean's Twelve, Corpse Bride, Amazing Grace, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, and Skyfall.
February 7 - Frank Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager, dies at age 83 of bone cancer.  The only player to be named Most Valuable Player of both the National League and the American League.  In 1966 with the Baltimore Orioles, Robinson‘s 49 home runs tied for the most by any AL player between 1962 and 1989, and stood as a franchise record for 30 years. He helped lead the Orioles to the first two World Series titles in franchise history in 1966 and 1970, and was named the Series MVP in 1966 after leading the Orioles to a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. In 1975, Robinson became the first black manager in big league history, as the Cleveland Indians’ player-manager.
February 8 – Walter Munk, Austrian-American oceanographer, dies at age 101 of pneumonia.  During World War II, Munk and his doctoral advisor Harald Sverdrup developed methods for predicting surf conditions on beaches, saving countless lives during allied landings in North Africa, the Pacific, and Northern Europe. After the war, Scripps grew from a small biological station to a major research institution. Munk and his wife Judy were active in developing the Scripps campus and integrating it with the new University of California, San Diego.
February 9 - Shelley Lubben, American author, activist, singer, and pornographic actress, dies at age 50.  As a performer in the adult film industry, she was known professionally as Roxy.  After she left the sex industry, Lubben became a born-again Christian and anti-pornography activist.  From 2008 to 2016, she was the Executive Director of the Pink Cross Foundation, which reaches out to women and men in pornography and speaks in public forums, sharing about the hazardous working conditions that she experienced in the porn industry.  In January 2016, she closed the Pink Cross Foundation.  During her time in the sex industry, she contracted herpes and HPV, which led to cervical cancer, and resulted in the removal of half her cervix.  During and after her life in the sex industry, she battled alcohol and drug addictions.  During her pornographic career, which lasted from 1993–1994, Lubben appeared in about 15 hardcore movies. Lubben stated that the sex acts that women perform on film sets are physically harmful and psychologically traumatizing.
February 9 - Tomi Ungerer, French illustrator and writer, dies at age 87.  He published over 140 books ranging from children's books to adult works and from the fantastic to the autobiographical. He was known for sharp social satire and witty aphorisms. Ungerer is also famous as a cartoonist and designer of political posters and film posters.  Ungerer received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1998 for his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator.
February 12 – The Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, officially ending a decades-old dispute with Greece and paving the way for the former's integration into NATO and the European Union.
February 12 - Betty Ballantine, British-born American book publisher, dies at age 99.  She was born during the Raj to a British colonial family. After her marriage to Ian Ballantine in 1939, she moved to New York where they created Bantam Books in 1945 and established Ballantine Books in 1952.  They became freelance publishers in the 1970s.  Their son, Richard, was an author and journalist specializing in cycling topics.
February 12 - Pedro Morales, Puerto Rican professional wrestler, dies at age 76.  He is best known for his appearances in the United States with Worldwide Wrestling Associates (WWA) and the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).  The first Latino to hold a world heavyweight championship, his combined reign as WWWF Heavyweight Champion remains among the longest in history.  He also holds the record for most days as Intercontinental Champion. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame in 1995, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2015 and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2017.
February 13 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle kills at least 27 Revolutionary Guards in southeastern Iran.  It is one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Iran in years.
February 14 – A suicide bomb attack on a vehicle convoy in Indian-administered Kashmir kills at least 40 Indian security personnel, making it the deadliest attack on India's security personnel in Kashmir in three decades.
February 15 – Lee Radziwill, American socialite, dies at age 85.  She was the younger sister of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.  Her second marriage, on March 19, 1959, was to the Polish aristocrat Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwill.  Upon her marriage she became Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline Radziwill.  They had two children, Anthony (1959–1999) and Christina.  Their marriage ended in divorce in 1974.
February 16 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor, dies at age 77.  Ganz received renewed international acclaim for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the Oscar-nominated film Downfall (2004).  He also had a role in The Manchurian Candidate.
February 16 - Li Rui, Chinese politician, historian and dissident, dies at age 101 of organ failure.   He joined the Communist Party in 1937 and became the personal secretary to mass murderer Mao Zedong on industrial affairs.  After retiring from political life, Li became a writer and a vocal advocate of democratic reform in China.  His daughter Li Nanyang rejected him as an enemy of the party during his fall from power in the 1950s. Through her efforts in the late 1970s, he was returned from exile and restored to his former rank and the two were reconciled.
February 18 - Wallace Smith Broecker, American geophysicist, dies at age 87 of congestive heart failure.  He developed the idea of a global "conveyor belt" linking the circulation of the global ocean and made major contributions to the science of the carbon cycle and the use of chemical tracers and isotope dating in oceanography. Broecker popularized the term "global warming".
February 19 – Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer, dies at age 85 from complications of pancreatic cancer.  He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 until his death, and was also creative director of the Italian fur and leather goods fashion house Fendi, and of his own eponymous fashion label. He collaborated on a variety of fashion and art-related projects. Lagerfeld was recognized for his signature white hair, black sunglasses, fingerless gloves, and high, starched, detachable collars.
February 20 – A major fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh kills at least 78 people.
February 21 – SpaceIL launches the Beresheet probe, the world's first privately financed mission to the Moon.  The name is Hebrew for "In the beginning" (from the Book of Genesis).  The lander's gyroscopes failed on April 11, 2019 causing the main engine to shut off, which caused the lander to crash on the Moon.
February 21 - Peter Tork, American musician and actor, dies at age 77 from adenoid cystic carcinoma.  He was best known as the keyboardist and bass guitarist of The Monkees.
February 22 - Morgan Woodward, American actor, dies at age 93.  He was known for Dallas, Cool Hand Luke, and Gunsmoke.
February 23 - Venezuelan presidential crisis: President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with Colombia as humanitarian aid attempts to enter the country across the border.
February 23 – Katherine Helmond, American actress, dies at age 89 from complications of Alzheimer's disease.  She was known for Who's the Boss?, Coach, Everybody Loves Raymond, Overboard, and Cars.
February 26–27 – The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan; according to Indian claims, "a very large number of ... terrorists, trainers, senior commanders and groups of jihadis" were killed, although Pakistan denied the claims and a number of neutral sources suggest that this was not the case.  The following day, Pakistan retaliated, leading to the shooting down of an Indian MiG-21 fighter, whose pilot was repatriated on March 1.  The incidents led to the 2019 India–Pakistan standoff.
February 27 – Ramses Station rail disaster: A train smashes into a barrier inside Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, causing an explosion and a fire, killing 25 people and injuring 40 others.
February 27–28 – The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.
February 28 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor and composer, dies at age 89.  Starting by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Previn was involved in the music for over 50 films over his entire career. He won four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings (and one more for his Lifetime Achievement). He was also the music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Oslo Philharmonic, as well as the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
March 1 - Kevin Roche, Irish-born American architect, dies at age 96.  He has been responsible for the design/master planning for over 200 built projects in both the U.S. and abroad. These projects include eight museums, 38 corporate headquarters, seven research facilities, performing arts centers, theaters, and campus buildings for six universities. In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and henceforth designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections including the recently reopened American and Islamic wings.
March 3 - An unmanned demonstration flight of the new crew capable version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, intended to carry American astronauts into space, achieves successful autonomous docking with the International Space Station.
March 4 - King Kong Bundy, American professional wrestler, dies at age 63 of complications from diabetes.   He appeared in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the mid-1980s and mid-1990s and wrestled in the main event of WrestleMania 2 in 1986, facing Hulk Hogan in a steel cage match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship.
March 4 - Juan Corona, Mexican serial killer, dies at age 85.  He was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California, in 1971. At the time, the crimes were characterized as among the most notorious in U.S. history. The exact victim total remains unknown and may be significantly higher, according to local authorities.  Corona was convicted of 25 counts of first-degree murder in 1973. An Appeals Court overturned the conviction in 1978 on the basis of incompetent legal representation and granted him a new trial. In 1982, he was again found guilty of all 25 homicides. He served out a life sentence in California State Prison, Corcoran.
March 4 - Ted Lindsay, Canadian professional ice hockey player, died at age 93.  He played as a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindsay scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times. Often referred to as "Terrible Ted", Lindsay helped to organize the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) labor union in the late 1950s, an action which led to his trade to Chicago. In 2017, Lindsay was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
March 4 - Luke Perry, American actor, dies at age 52 from a massive ischemic stroke.  He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000. He had guest roles on notable shows such as Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Simpsons, and Will & Grace, and also starred in several films, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), The Fifth Element (1997), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), his final feature performance.
March 5 – A second case of sustained remission from HIV is reported, ten years after the Berlin Patient.
March 6 - José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, Spanish politician and diplomat, dies at age 78.  He was also one of the Fathers of the 1978 Constitution and played a key role in the country's transition to democracy.
March 6 - Carolee Schneemann, American visual artist, dies at age 79.  Her work is primarily characterized by research into visual traditions, taboos, and the body of the individual in relation to social bodies. Her works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the London National Film Theatre, and many other venues. Schneemann taught at several universities, including the California Institute of the Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Hunter College, and Rutgers University.
March 10 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bound for Nairobi, crashes shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa killing all 157 people on board.  All Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are subsequently grounded worldwide.  Two of the victims included: Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer Pius Adesanmi, and Italian archaeologist and politician Sebastiano Tusa.
March 11 – Hal Blaine, American drummer, dies at age 90 of natural causes.  He is estimated to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the history of the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. His drumming is featured on 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which went to number one, as well as many film and television soundtracks.
March 12 – Cargo ship Grande America sinks after it caught fire on March 10 in the Bay of Biscay, approximately 120 miles west of France, causing a 2,200-tonne oil spill.
March 13 - North American blizzard: A winter storm completes its explosive intensification over the Southern Rocky Mountains region, which began the day before, becoming a powerful "bomb cyclone" and triggering severe blizzard conditions across much of the Southwestern and Central United States.
March 13 – Andrea Pollack, German swimmer, dies at age 57.  She won two gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at age fifteen.   In 1978 she twice broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly. In 1998, several former East German swimmers, including Pollack, went public with accusations against their coaches and physicians that they were systematically doped.  Pollack married Norbert Pinske who competed in cycling.  Their son, Michael Pinske, went to the 2008 Summer Olympics as a judoka.
March 15 - 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand: Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre, both of which were the target of shootings by Australia-born Brenton Harrison Tarrant. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand's history and described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as "one of New Zealand's darkest days".  Subsequently, Facebook announced they had disabled 1.5 million videos of the gunman's rampage.
March 15 - Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as causing mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.
March 19 - American Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for outstanding contributions to mathematics.
March 20 - Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.
March 20 - Disney acquires the rights to 21st Century Fox leaving out a few assets to be spun-off to the newly formed Fox Corporation.
March 21 – A major explosion at a chemical plant in Xiangshui, Jiangsu, China, kills at least 78 people and injures more than 600 others. Its powerful impact registered as an artificial earthquake.
March 23 - The final territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, located in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, Syria, is liberated.
March 23 - An estimated 400,000 people march in central London in protest against Brexit.
March 23 - Rafi Eitan, Israeli intelligence officer and politician, dies at age 92.  He was in charge of the Mossad operation that led to the arrest of Adolf Eichmann.
March 24 - A four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign is published by the U.S. Attorney General William Barr. It concludes that there was no collusion with Russia – the basis of the investigation – but on the issue of obstruction of justice states: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him".
March 24 - Fred Malek, American business executive, political advisor and philanthropist, dies at age 82 following complications from hip surgery.  He was a President of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines and an assistant to United States Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush. Active in politics for more than fifty years, Malek also served as a National Finance Committee Chair of Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, as well as the finance chair for the Republican Governors Association, and played various roles in the campaign of every Republican nominee for president, with the exception of Donald Trump, over the past four decades.  Malek also served as the Chair of the Board of Visitors of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and was active in philanthropic efforts to support the Academy. In 2011, in recognition of his commitment to free enterprise and community service, he received the Horatio Alger Award.
March 26 – The European Parliament votes by 348 to 278 in favor of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which expands legal liability for websites and includes the controversial Article 13.
March 27 - Valery Bykovsky, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut dies at age 84.  He flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31.
March 31 – Taiwan scrambles its fighter aircraft after two Chinese jets crossed a maritime border between the two nations. Just the day before, Japan had similarly scrambled its jets when the Chinese flew between two Japanese islands, Miyako and Okinawa.
March 31 – Nipsey Hussle, American rapper, dies at age 33 from a gunshot wound.
April 4 – Second Libyan Civil War: The Libyan National Army (LNA) launches a surprise offensive in western Libya, moving units towards the Government of National Accord-held capital Tripoli and capturing Gharyan. The LNA says that the operation, ordered by General Khalifa Haftar, is aimed at "cleansing the western zone from terrorist groups".
April 7 - Seymour Cassel, American actor, dies at age 84 of Alzheimer's disease.  He was known for The Nutty Professor, Star Trek The Next Generation, Dick Tracy, Indecent Proposal, It Could Happen To You, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Stealing Harvard, Stuck on You, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Lonesome Jim, and Flight Of The Conchords.
April 7 - Cho Yang-ho, South Korean businessman, dies at age 70.  He was the chairman and chief executive officer of Korean Air, chairman of the Hanjin Group, and a founding member of SkyTeam alliance.
April 9 - Charles Van Doren, American writer and editor, dies at age 93.  He was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty-One. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982.
April 10 - Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, located in the center of the M87 galaxy.
April 10 - Fossil fragments found in the Callao Cave in the Philippines reveal the existence of the Homo luzonensis species of humans. The species is named after the island where it was discovered, Luzon.
April 11 - WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador's embassy in London.
April 11 - Amid mass protests, Omar al-Bashir is deposed as President of Sudan in a coup d'état, after nearly 30 years in office.  His 30-year dictatorship was marked by oppression, genocide, and human rights abuses.
April 12 - Georgia Engel, American actress, dies at age 70.  She is known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Everybody Loves Raymond.
April 13 - Neus Català, Spanish political activist and Holocaust survivor, dies at age 103.  She was the only survivor of the Catalans who were interred in the concentration camp of Ravensbrück.
April 13 - Yvette Williams, New Zealand track-and-field athlete, dies at age 89.  She was the first woman from her country to win an Olympic gold medal and to hold the world record in the women's long jump. Williams was named "Athlete of the Century" on the 100th anniversary of Athletics New Zealand, in 1987.
April 14 - Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress, dies at age 83.  She was best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
April 14 - Mirjana Marković, Serbian politician and First Lady of Yugoslavia, dies at age 76.  She was the wife of Yugoslav and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević.  She was reported to have huge influence over her husband and was increasingly seen as the power behind the throne.  Among her opponents, she was known as The Red Witch and the Lady Macbeth of Belgrade.
April 15 – During Holy Week, a major fire engulfs Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, resulting in the roof and main spire collapsing.
April 16 – The Howse Peak avalanche kills three noted mountaineers: Austrians Hansjörg Auer and David Lama, and Canadian Jess Roskelley.
April 16 – Fay McKenzie, American actress and singer, dies at age 101 of natural causes.  She starred in silent films as a child, and then sound films as an adult, but perhaps she is best known for her leading roles opposite Gene Autry in the early 1940s in five horse opera features.  She also appeared on Broadway, radio and television, having appeared on screen at ten weeks old in 1918. She was still appearing on screen at the time of her death, with her latest project opposite her son Tom Waldman Jr. in the comedy Kill a Better Mousetrap, based on a play by Scott K. Ratner, filmed in the summer of 2018 and not yet released at the time of her death.
April 17 - At least 29 people are killed in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
April 18 - The full 448-page report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States Presidential Election (the Mueller Report) is released in redacted form.
April 18 - NepaliSat-1 is launched. It is Nepal's first ever research satellite to be sent into space.
April 19 – Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist, dies at age 74.  On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world titles in the sprint, in 1963, 1967 and 1969. On the road, he earned the green jersey in the 1974 Tour de France. Sercu is the record holder for the number of six-day track race victories, having won 88 events out of 223 starts between 1961 and 1983; several of these wins were with cycling great Eddy Merckx.  He also won six stages at the Tour de France and eleven stages at the Giro d'Italia.
April 21 - A series of bomb attacks occur at eight locations in Sri Lanka, including three churches, four hotels and one housing complex in Colombo, on Easter Sunday, leaving 259 people dead and over 500 injured.  This is the first major terrorist attack in the country since the Sri Lankan Civil War ended in 2009.
April 21 - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is elected President of Ukraine in a runoff election. Zelensky previously portrayed a fictional Ukrainian president in the television series Servant of the People.
April 23 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, dies at age 98 after he had been hospitalized for a pulmonary infection.  He had become the world's oldest living monarch by the time of his death.  Jean was the eldest son of Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix.  While Luxembourg was occupied by Germans during the Second World War, the grand ducal family was abroad in exile.  Jean later volunteered to join the British army's Irish Guards in 1942, and after graduating from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, received his commission in 1943. He participated in the Normandy landings and the Battle for Caen, and joined the Allied forces in the liberation of Luxembourg. From 1984 until 2000, he was colonel of the Irish Guards.
April 23 - David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer, and director, dies at age 80 from congestive heart failure.  He was known for West Side Story, A Star Is Born, Star Wars Holiday Special, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
April 25 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits Russia to hold a series of summits with Russian leaders, including President Vladimir Putin.
April 25 – John Havlicek, American basketball player, dies at age 79 from Parkinson's disease.  He played for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA championships, four of them coming in his first four seasons with the team.  Havlicek is widely considered to have been one of the greatest players in the history of the game and was inducted as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984.  Havlicek is the Celtics' all-time leader in points, scoring 26,395 points (20.8 points per game, 16th all-time in points scored in the NBA), and playing in 1,270 games (30th all-time).  He became the first player to score 1,000 points in 16 consecutive seasons, with his best season coming during the 1970–71 season when he averaged 28.9 points per game.
April 26 – Avengers: Endgame is released in theaters, breaking many box-office records, including becoming the highest grossing movie of all time.
April 28 - Victor Vescovo achieves the deepest dive of any human in history, as he reaches Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 35,853 feet.
April 28 – John Singleton, American film director, screenwriter and producer, dies at age 51 from a stroke.  He was known for Boyz n the Hood, Poetic Justice, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Beverly Hills Cop III.  He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming, at age 24, the first African American and youngest person to have ever been nominated for that award.
April 30 - Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicates from his throne, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the Heisei era of Japan and ushers in the Reiwa era with new emperor Naruhito ascending the throne on May 1.
April 30 - Venezuelan presidential crisis: Venezuelan opposition leader and disputed interim President Juan Guaidó lead an attempted uprising against President Nicolás Maduro.
April 30 - Peter Mayhew, English-American actor, dies at age 74 of a heart attack.  He is best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's The Force Awakens before his retirement from the role.
May 1 - King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand marries his personal bodyguard Suthida Tidjai – a commoner – in a surprise ceremony, making her queen consort of Thailand.
May 1 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signs into law a controversial "sovereign internet" bill that allows Russian authorities to better monitor internet routing and to steer Russian internet traffic away from foreign servers. Proponents of the bill say it ensures Russian internet security and decreases dependence on foreign servers while critics argue it gives new censorship powers to the government and is a part of a global trend of cyber-balkanization.
May 2 - Red Kelly, Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, dies at age 91.  He was also a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto-area riding of York West from 1962 to 1965, during which time he also won the Stanley Cup—twice—while actively playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Kelly played on more Stanley Cup-winning teams (eight) than any other player who never played for the Montreal Canadiens.  In 2017, Kelly was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.  Kelly's son Leonard Patrick Kelly Jr. represented Canada in the Albertville and Lillehammer Olympics in Long Track Speed Skating. Kelly was the granduncle of hockey player Mark Jankowski of the Calgary Flames and a cousin to Jack Riley.
May 3 – The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola outbreak exceeds 1,000. It is the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, only surpassed by the West African Ebola virus epidemic of 2013–2016.
May 3 – Goro Shimura, Japanese mathematician, dies at age 89.  He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles.
May 3–6 – Gaza–Israel clashes: The Gaza–Israel conflict escalates after the Israeli military launches airstrikes into Gaza killing more than 20 Palestinians including a pregnant woman and a toddler following the injury of two soldiers from Gazan sniper fire.
May 5 – Aeroflot Flight 1492 crash-lands and bursts into flames at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, killing 41 of the 78 people on board.
May 6 - In its first report since 2005, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) warns that biodiversity loss is "accelerating", with over a million species now threatened with extinction; the decline of the natural living world is "unprecedented" and largely a result of human actions, according to the report.
May 6 - Syrian Civil War: The Syrian Army launches a major ground offensive against one of the last rebel strongholds in the country.
May 6 – Archie Mountbatten-Windsor is born.  He is the son of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. A great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II, he is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne.
May 8 – A British teenager, Isabelle Holdaway, 17, is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection.
May 9 – Alvin Sargent, American screenwriter, dies at age 92 from natural causes.  He is known for What About Bob?, Unfaithful, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
May 10 – Amid ongoing negotiations, the United States' 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports takes effect, escalating tensions between the two nations in the ongoing China–United States trade war.
May 11 - Silver King, Mexican professional wrestler, dies at age 51 from a heart attack.  He was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (masked wrestler) and actor. He was known best as Silver King, but also had an extensive stint as Black Tiger III, the third incarnation of the Black Tiger character. He was the son of luchador Dr. Wagner and the brother of Dr. Wagner Jr. González worked for many years with El Texano as the tag team "Los Cowboys," winning tag team championships in both Mexico and Japan.
May 12 – Gulf of Oman incident: Four commercial ships, including two Saudi Aramco oil tankers, are damaged near the port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman.  The United Arab Emirates claims the incident was a "sabotage attack", while an early United States assessment reportedly blames Iran for the attack. The incident occurs during a time of regional tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with the U.S. just weeks prior deploying strategic bombers, a carrier strike group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf following intelligence reports of an alleged plot by Iran to attack U.S. forces in the region.
May 12 - Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal and Patriarch, dies at age 98.  He was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. He was also a cardinal. He was elected Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites on April 27, 1986, and his resignation was accepted on February 26, 2011. He was the third Maronite cardinal and the 76th patriarch of the Maronite Church, with the official title of "His Beatitude and Eminence the 76th Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant".
May 13 - Prosecutors in Sweden reopen the rape allegation investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Swedish prosecutors mention their intent to seek extradition of Assange from the United Kingdom after he has served his 50-week prison sentence for skipping bail.
May 13 - Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist, dies at age 86 from heart and lung ailment and complications of dementia.  She was the first African American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi.  Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a founder of the US China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. Barefootin', Blackwell's autobiography, published in 2006, charts her activism.
May 13 - Doris Day, American actress and singer, dies at age 97 after having contracted pneumonia.
May 14 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian, dies at age 85 from normal pressure hydrocephalus.  He is known for The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, Dear God, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Santa Buddies, Saving Santa, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, The Red Skelton Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Merv Griffin Show, ABC Afterschool Special, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and Married... with Children.
May 14 - Grumpy Cat, American Internet celebrity cat, dies at age 7 following complications from a urinary tract infection.  She was known for her permanently "grumpy" facial appearance, which was caused by an underbite and feline dwarfism.  She came to prominence when a photograph of her was posted on September 22, 2012, on social news website Reddit by Bryan Bundesen, the brother of her owner Tabatha Bundesen.  Lolcats and parodies created from the photograph by Reddit users became viral. She was the subject of a popular Internet meme in which negative, cynical images are made from photographs of her.
May 16 - Bob Hawke, 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, dies at age 89 of natural causes.  Hawke remains Labor's longest-serving and Australia's third-longest-serving Prime Minister; he is also the only Prime Minister to be born in South Australia and the only one raised in Western Australia.  The Hawke Government created Medicare and Landcare, brokered the Prices and Incomes Accord, established APEC, floated the Australian dollar, deregulated the financial sector, introduced the Family Assistance Scheme, announced "Advance Australia Fair" as the official national anthem, initiated superannuation pension schemes for all workers and oversaw passage of the Australia Act that removed all remaining jurisdiction by the United Kingdom from Australia.  During his time as Prime Minister, Hawke recorded the highest popularity rating ever measured by an Australian opinion poll, reaching 75% approval in 1984.
May 16 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler, television host and model, dies at age 39 of suicide by hanging.  She was best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and for her appearance on Survivor: China.
May 16 - I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, dies at age 102.  Pei's first major recognition came with the Mesa Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado (designed in 1961, and completed in 1967). His new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts. He went on to design Dallas City Hall and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art.  He returned to China for the first time in 1975 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later.
May 17 - Taiwan's parliament becomes the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage.
May 17 - Ibiza affair: A corruption scandal involving the Vice-Chancellor of Austria Heinz-Christian Strache and deputy leader of the Freedom Party Johann Gudenus offering to fix state contracts with a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch at a 2017 meeting in Spain leads to the collapse of the coalition government and calls for snap elections.
May 18 – Australian federal election: Scott Morrison's Liberal/National Coalition Government is narrowly re-elected, defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Shorten.
May 19 - Eleven people are killed in a shooting at a bar in Belém, Brazil.
May 19 - China–United States trade war: Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the Chinese technology company was blacklisted by the United States.
May 20 – The redefinition of the SI system of measurement adopted by the majority of countries in the world takes effect.
May 20 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver, dies at age 70 from kidney problems.  He was an Austrian Formula One driver, a three-time F1 World Drivers' Champion, winning in 1975, 1977 and 1984, and an aviation entrepreneur. He is the only driver in F1 history to have been champion for both Ferrari and McLaren, the sport's two most successful constructors. He is widely considered one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time.  As an aviation entrepreneur, he founded and ran three airlines: Lauda Air, Niki, and Lauda.  Lauda was seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring during which his Ferrari 312T2 burst into flames, and he came close to death after inhaling hot toxic fumes and suffering severe burns.
May 22 - Judith Kerr, German-born British author and illustrator, dies at age 95 following a short illness.  Her books sold more than 10 million copies around the world.  Born in the Weimar Republic, of Jewish background, she came to Britain with her family in 1933 during the rise of the Nazis.  A week before her death, she was nominated as illustrator of the year at the British Book Awards.
May 22 - Ahmad Shah of Pahang, Malaysian royal, dies at age 88.  His abdication as Sultan was decided by the Royal Council at an extraordinary meeting on January 11, 2019. A special amendment was passed on the state constitution that gave the body more power for this decision, citing the Sultan's incapability to rule due to his failing health.  The abdication announced the next day which was retroactively effective on the day of the Royal Council meeting, paving the way to his son, Abdullah to succeed him as Sultan the immediately, and subsequently be elected as the next Yang di-Pertuan Agong later the same month.
May 23 - Botswana lifts its five-year prohibition on elephant hunting.
May 23–26 – The 2019 European Parliament election takes place. The election has a 51 percent voter turnout, the highest since the first direct elections in 1979.
May 24 - British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Conservative leader, effective June 7, 2019.
May 24 - A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 prisoners dead and 19 guards injured.
May 24 – Murray Gell-Mann, American Nobel physicist, dies at age 89.  Together with author Michael Crichton, he was responsible for defining the theoretical psychological phenomenon called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.  It describes the phenomenon of experts believing news articles on topics outside of their fields of expertise, even after acknowledging that articles written in the same publication that are within the experts' fields of expertise are error-ridden and full of misunderstanding.
May 26 - Bart Starr, American football player and coach, dies at age 85 after a period of failing health due to the stroke he had suffered earlier in 2014.  Starr played college football at the University of Alabama, and was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL draft, where he played for them until 1971. Starr was the only quarterback in NFL history to lead a team to three consecutive league championships (1965–1967). Starr led his team to victories in the first two Super Bowls: I and II.  As the Packers' head coach, he was less successful, compiling a 52–76–3 (.408) record from 1975 through 1983.
May 26 - Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai politician, 16th Prime Minister of Thailand, dies at age 98 of heart failure.  He was credited with ending a communist insurgency and presiding over accelerating economic growth.  Prem was the longest-living Thai Prime Minister.
May 26–27 – Amazonas prison massacres: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in Amazonas, Brazil.
May 27 – U.S. President Donald Trump, during an official state visit to Japan, is the first foreign leader to meet with Japanese emperor Naruhito.
May 27 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player, dies at age 69 of Lewy body dementia.  He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams from 1969 through 1990, including the Chicago Cubs, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Boston Red Sox.  After setting a major league record for first basemen with 159 assists in 1982, Buckner surpassed that total with 161 in 1983 while again leading the NL in doubles, before feuds with team management over a loss of playing time resulted in his being traded to the Red Sox in the middle of the 1984 season.
May 29 - Sinking of Hableány: The Hableány, a sightseeing river cruise ship on the Danube in Budapest, Hungary, collides with another vessel and sinks with two Hungarian crew members and 33 South Korean tourists on board. At least 27 people were killed and one other remains missing.
May 29 - Less than two months after the April 9 Israeli legislative elections, the Israeli Knesset dissolves itself and votes to hold new elections in September 17, after Benjamin Netanyahu failed to assemble a coalition government within the allotted time.
May 30 – South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports that North Korea executed nuclear envoy Kim Hyok-chol and four other diplomats in March after the failed February Hanoi summit with the United States. The newspaper also reports that Kim Yong-chol, a top aide to Kim Jong-un, was sentenced to hard labor during the purge.
June 2 - Nearly five years after abdication, King Juan Carlos I of Spain retires from public life.
June 2 - San Marino referendum: Sammarinese voters vote to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and initiate a popular legislative initiative for the reform of the electoral system.
June 3 – Khartoum massacre: More than 100 people are killed when Sudanese troops and Janjaweed militiamen storm and open fire on a protest camp outside of a military headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan.
June 3 - Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler, dies at age 41 in a motorcycle accident.
June 3–5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the United Kingdom, meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.
June 5–8 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
June 6 - Sudanese protests: The African Union suspends Sudan's membership "with immediate effect" after the Khartoum massacre.
June 6 - Following results from the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election, a new government is formed consisting of 58 percent women.
June 7 – British Prime Minister Theresa May resigns as leader of the Conservative Party.
June 9 - Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Over 1 million people in Hong Kong protest against proposed legislation regarding extradition to China. It is the largest protest in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover.
June 9 - A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia sends a 7,000-meter ash column, generating a pyroclastic flow 3–3.5 kilometers long towards the south and southeast of the mountain.
June 11 – Botswana decriminalizes homosexuality.
June 12 - The Supreme Court of Ecuador rules in favor of same-sex marriage, making it legal throughout the country.
June 12 - Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: The Hong Kong government and police controversially declare that the protest has "turned into a riot".
June 13 – Gulf of Oman incident: Two oil tankers are attacked near the Strait of Hormuz while transiting the Gulf of Oman amid heightened tension between Iran and the United States, with the latter blaming the former for the incident.
June 15 – Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong announces it will indefinitely suspend the controversial extradition bill, but protests continue, this time calling for the total withdrawal of the bill and the resignation of Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
June 15 – Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film director, dies at age 96.  He is known for The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth, Hamlet, and Jane Eyre.
June 16 – A large-scale power outage hits Argentina, Uruguay and parts of Paraguay, affecting nearly 50 million people.
June 17 – A triple suicide blast kills 30 and injures over 40 in Borno, Nigeria, at a hall where people were watching a soccer match.
June 17 - Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt, dies at age 67 from a heart attack.  General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in the coup d'état after the June protests.
June 17 - Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite, dies at age 95 of stomach cancer.  She was the mother of CNN television anchor Anderson Cooper.  She was the only child of railroad heir Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt.  In 1934 there was a custody dispute between her mother and her paternal aunt which was dubbed the trial of the century by the press.
June 18 – The U.S. sends an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East as tensions build with Iran.
June 19 – Four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the airliner shot down while flying over Ukraine in July 2014.
June 19 - Desmond Daniel Amofah (known as Etika), an American YouTuber, streamer and model dies at age 29 from suicide by drowning.
June 20 – Iranian shoot-down of American drone: Iran shoots down a United States RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz after claiming it violated their airspace. The U.S. claims it was shot down in international airspace in an "unprovoked attack".
June 20–21 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to North Korea. It is his first visit to the country as president and the first visit to North Korea by a Chinese leader since Hu Jintao's visit 14 years prior.
June 21 – Demetris Christofias, 6th President of Cyprus, dies at age 72.  He was the European Union's and Cyprus' first — and so far only — communist head of state.  Throughout the election campaign, he pledged to restart talks with Turkish Cypriots in order to find a solution to the Cyprus dispute and reunify the island. He also supported the closure of the British military bases on Cyprus.
June 22 – Amhara Region coup d'état attempt: In the Amhara Region of Ethiopia, regional president Ambachew Mekonnen and national-military chief of staff Se'are Mekonnen are assassinated.
June 27 – Angara Airlines Flight 200 overruns the runway during landing and collides with a building, killing the captain and flight engineer, and injuring a further 22 people. 45 people survive the crash at Nizhneangarsk Airport, Russia.
June 30 – During a trilateral gathering at the Panmunjom Truce Village between South Korean President Moon Jae-in, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un and United States President Donald Trump, Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. president to cross the Korean Demilitarized Zone and enter North Korea. Trump and Kim also agree to restart stalled denuclearization negotiations.
July – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports, on August 15, that July 2019 was the hottest month on record globally, at 1.71°F above the 20th-century average.
July 1 - Japan resumes commercial whaling after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission.
July 1 - Japan announces tightening high-tech exports to South Korea, thus begin the trade dispute between the two countries.
July 1 - The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium.
July 1 - Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: During the annual July 1 protests that mark the anniversary of the British handover of the city to China, a group of a few hundred protesters stormed the Hong Kong legislature, defacing various portraits and destroying furniture before being dispersed by police using tear gas.
July 1 - A fire on the Russian deep-diving submarine Losharik kills 14 crew members. Submarine commander Denis Dolonsky was among those killed.
July 2 – A total solar eclipse occurs over South America. It is the 58th solar eclipse from Saros cycle 127.
July 2 – Lee Iacocca, American automobile executive, dies at age 94 from complications of Parkinson's disease.  He was best known for the development of Ford Mustang and Pinto cars, while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s.  He was president and CEO of Chrysler from 1978 and chairman from 1979, until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the only executives to preside over the operations of two of the Big Three automakers.
July 3 – Tajoura migrant center airstrike: An airstrike by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli, Libya, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injures 130 others.
July 7 – The 2019 Greek legislative election takes place. Leader of the Opposition Kyriakos Mitsotakis, from New Democracy, wins the election and is sworn in Prime Minister as left-wing incumbent Alexis Tsipras falls to second place.
July 9 - Ross Perot, American businessman and politician, dies at age 89 from leukemia.  He ran an independent presidential campaign in 1992 and a third-party campaign in 1996, establishing the Reform Party in the latter election. Both campaigns were among the strongest presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in US history.
July 9 - Rip Torn, American actor, dies at age 88.  He was known for Airplane II: The Sequel, RoboCop 3, Canadian Bacon, Hercules, Men in Black, Freddy Got Fingered, Men in Black II, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, Marie Antoinette, and Bee Movie.
July 10 – The last Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in Puebla, Mexico. The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum.
July 12 – Asasey Hotel attack: A car bomb and a gun attack kill at least 26 people, including two prominent journalists and nine foreigners, in Kismayo, Somalia. Islamist group al-Shabaab claims responsibility.
July 13 – Hurricane Barry strikes the Gulf Coast, killing one and causing over $500 million in damages.
July 14 - Pernell Whitaker, American boxer, dies at age 55 from being struck by a vehicle.  From 1993 to 1997, The Ring ranked him as the best active boxer in the world, pound for pound for over 10 years. He currently holds the longest unified lightweight championship reign in boxing history at six title defenses. Whitaker is generally regarded as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all-time.
July 16 – The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as the new President of the European Commission. Succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker, she will be sworn in on December 1, 2019. She is the first female to be elected to this office in EU history.
July 16 - John Paul Stevens, American judge and lawyer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, dies at age 99 from complications of a stroke.   At the time of his retirement in 2010, he was the second-oldest-serving justice in the history of the court and the third-longest-serving justice.  A registered Republican when appointed who throughout his life identified as a conservative, Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the court at the time of his retirement.  Stevens is the longest-lived Supreme Court justice in United States history.  He was succeeded by Elena Kagan.
July 17 - Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.
July 17 - The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the Kivu Ebola epidemic to be a public health emergency of international concern.
July 18 – 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan.  It is one of the deadliest massacres in the country's history since the end of World War II and the deadliest building fire in the country in 18 years, since the Myojo 56 building fire in 2001.
July 18 - David Hedison, American actor, dies at age 92.  He is known for The Fly, The Son of Robin Hood, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, The Lost World, Marines, Let's Go, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Live and Let Die, Licence to Kill, Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, A.D., and The Young and the Restless.
July 18 - Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat, dies at age 72 from cancer.  He was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (July 2009 – 2019).  Amano previously served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions.  He also spoke English and French.
July 19 – The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.
July 19 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor, dies at age 75 from an illness.  He was known for Rumplestiltskin, Blade Runner, The Osterman Weekend, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Sin City, Batman Begins, Dracula III: Legacy, The Rite, Dracula 3D, The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Samson, The Sisters Brothers, and The 10th Kingdom.
July 19 - César Pelli, Argentine architect, dies at age 92.  He designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.  Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the World Financial Center in New York City.  The American Institute of Architects named him one of the ten most influential living American architects in 1991 and awarded him the AIA Gold Medal in 1995.  In 2008, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presented him with The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award.
July 21 – A mob of over 100 suspected triad members dressed in white and armed with batons attack commuters indiscriminately at MTR Yuen Long station in Hong Kong, injuring 45, including a pro-democracy legislator and a pregnant woman. Hong Kong police have been accused of allowing the violence to happen due to their delayed response and decision to limit emergency services in the area.
July 22 - Christopher C. Kraft Jr., American aerospace engineer, dies at age 95.
July 22 - Li Peng, 4th Premier of the People's Republic of China, dies at age 90.  He was known in Western media as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
July 24 – Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May.
July 26 - Russi Taylor, American voice actress who was the long-time voice of Minnie Mouse, dies at age 75 from colon cancer.
July 30 – India bans triple talaq or instant divorce.  It allowed any Muslim man to legally divorce his wife by uttering the word talaq (the Arabic word for "divorce") three times in oral, written or, more recently, electronic form.
August 1 – Danish polar research institution Polar Portal reports a large spike in Greenland ice loss, with 11 billion tons melted in one day and 197 gigatonnes during the month of July.
August 2 - The United States officially withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty established with Russia in 1987.
August 2 - Japan–South Korea trade dispute: Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on August 28.
August 3 – A mass shooting at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, United States, leaves 22 people dead and 24 others injured.
August 4 - Cairo bombing: A car crashes into three other cars causing an explosion outside the National Cancer Institute Egypt in Cairo, Egypt, killing at least 20 people and injuring 47 others.
August 4 - 2019 Dayton shooting: Ten people, including the perpetrator, are killed and 27 others injured in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, United States, just 13 hours after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
August 4 – Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister of Cambodia, dies at age 93 from sepsis of blood and multiple organs failure.  He was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge.  He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two", as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of the crime of genocide in 2018. He died while serving his sentence.
August 5 - Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir: India revokes the part of its constitution that gives Indian-administered Kashmir special status in an unprecedented move.
August 5 - Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Amid ongoing protests, Hong Kong is hit by the first general strikes of their kind since 1967.
August 5 – Toni Morrison, American Nobel writer, dies at age 88 from complications of pneumonia.  She was known for The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved.  She referred to Bill Clinton as "our first black President", said she felt like an American for the first time when Obama was elected, and claimed that Donald Trump was "endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan".
August 8 – Nyonoksa radiation accident: Reports indicate that there may have been a nuclear explosion at the Nyonoksa weapons-testing site in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. At least five people were killed and three others injured in the blast, with radiation levels in Severodvinsk, 29 miles away from the site, being 20 times above normal levels temporarily.
August 10 - Morogoro tanker explosion: A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.
August 10 - 32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.
August 10 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender, dies at age 66 from suicide by hanging.  He worked at Bear Stearns before forming his own firm.
August 10–25 – Canary Islands wildfires: A number of forest fires break out in the Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Lanzarote. The fires on the island of Gran Canaria were the most severe, resulting in the loss of large areas of the island's forests and leading to the evacuation of thousands of residents from a number of towns and villages.
August 11 – Indian floods: At least 114 people, including 57 in Kerala, 30 in Karnataka and 27 in Maharashtra, are reported to have died in monsoon-related floods in India. At least 227 died across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
August 12 - Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong International Airport is closed due to protests.
August 12 - Japan–South Korea trade dispute: South Korea announces the removal of Japan from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on September 18.
August 12 - The Trump administration announces it will delay its proposal for 10 percent tariffs slated to take effect from September 1 on certain consumer goods from China while exempting other products — less than two weeks after Trump announced the new proposed tariffs.
August 13 – The main yield curve for U.S. Treasury bonds inverts, as the yield rate for 2-year bonds rises higher than the yield rate for 10-year bonds triggering a recession warning.  The last inversion of this part of the yield curve was in December 2005, two years before a recession brought on by the financial crisis hit.
August 14 – The Dow Jones plunges more than 500 points, due to concerns over the yield curve inversion.
August 15 – The European Central Bank shuts down PNB Banka after ruling it had become insolvent; this bank, previously called Norvik Banka, was Latvia's sixth-largest lender, and was a critic of the Baltic country's financial authorities.
August 16 - Princess Christina of the Netherlands dies at age 72 from bone cancer.
August 16 - Peter Fonda, American actor, dies at age 79 from lung cancer.  He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget Fonda. He was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s.  He was known for Easy Rider, Escape from L.A., Ulee's Gold, Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Ocean's Twelve, Ghost Rider, Wild Hogs, 3:10 to Yuma, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The Passion of Ayn Rand, The Laramie Project, Supernova, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
August 16 - José Nápoles, Cuban-born Mexican boxer, dies at age 79 after a long illness.  He is frequently ranked as one of the greatest fighters of all time and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.  His record of the most wins in unified championship bouts in boxing history, shared with Muhammad Ali, was unbeaten for 40 years. After debuting professionally in Cuba, he fought out of Mexico and became a Mexican citizen.
August 18 – 100 activists, officials, and other concerned citizens in Iceland hold a funeral for Okjökull glacier, which has completely melted after once covering six square miles.
August 19 – Papua protests erupt, mainly across Indonesian Papua, in response to an incident in Surabaya where a group of Papuan students were arrested for alleged disrespect of the Indonesian flag. In Jayapura, Sorong, Fakfak, Timika and Manokwari, protests turned violent, with various private buildings and public facilities being damaged or burned. The protests and unrest were described by Reuters as "the most serious civil unrest in years over perceived racial and ethnic discrimination."
August 21 - Amazon rainforest wildfires: Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reports fires burning in the Amazon rainforest at a record rate, with more than 36,000 in the year to date, while smoke reaches São Paulo more than 1,700 miles away.
August 21 - Giuseppe Conte offers his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy in order to avoid a no-confidence motion.  Subsequently, the M5S and the center-left Democratic Party agreed to form a new coalition government with Conte remaining in his position as Prime Minister.  He was reappointed as Prime Minister of his second cabinet on September 5.  Conte became the first person in the history of the Italian Republic to lead governments in the same legislature, both with the right-wing and the left-wing.
August 21 – Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Queen consort of Jordan, dies at age 89.  She was married to King Hussein from 1955 to 1957 and is the mother of Princess Alia bint Hussein.  Her second marriage in 1970 was to a high-ranking official in the Palestine Liberation Organization.  In 1983, Dina negotiated one of the largest prisoner exchanges in history—freeing her husband and 8,000 other prisoners.
August 23 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron describe the widespread Amazon fires as an international emergency, urging the matter to be discussed at the weekend's G7 summit.
August 23 - David Koch, American businessman, philanthropist and political activist, dies at age 79.  He was the 1980 Libertarian candidate for Vice President of the United States and helped finance the campaign, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark.  Koch became a Republican in 1984; in 2012, he spent over $100 million to oppose the re-election of President Barack Obama.  Koch was the fourth-richest person in the United States in 2012 and was the wealthiest resident of New York City in 2013. As of June 2019, Koch was ranked as the 11th-richest person in the world (tied with his brother Charles), with a fortune of $50.5 billion. Known for his philanthropy, Koch contributed to the Lincoln Center, Sloan Kettering, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, and the Dinosaur Wing at the American Museum of Natural History. The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Ballet, was renamed the David H. Koch Theater in 2008 following Koch's gift of $100 million for the renovation of the theater.  In February 1991, Koch was a passenger on board USAir Flight 1493 when it collided with another aircraft on a runway at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 35 people.  Koch survived and said in an interview in 2014 that it helped change his life and prompted him to become "tremendously philanthropic".
August 25 – Beirut drone crash: According to Lebanese officials, two Israeli drones attack Beirut, Lebanon. One crashed into the roof of the Hezbollah Media Center, about 45 minutes before the second exploded in the air and damaged the building.  It was the first such incident between Israel and Lebanon since the 2006 Lebanon War.
August 25 – Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian business executive and engineer, dies at age 82.  He was the chairman of the executive board of Volkswagen Group in 1993–2002 and the chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group in 2002–2015.  A grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, Piëch started his career at Porsche, before leaving for Audi after an agreement that no member of the Porsche or Piëch families should be involved in the day-to-day operations of the Porsche company. Piëch eventually became the head of Audi, where he is credited with evolving and growing Audi into a competitor to equal Mercedes-Benz and BMW thanks in part to innovative designs such as the Quattro and 100.  Educated as an engineer, Piëch influenced the development of numerous significant cars including the Porsche 911, Audi Quattro and notably, the Bugatti Veyron, which as of 2012 was the fastest, most powerful and most expensive road legal automobile ever built.
August 27 - Jessi Combs, American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator, dies at age 39 in a car wreck.  She set a women's land speed class record (four wheels) in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016. She was known as "the fastest woman on four wheels".  She co-hosted the Spike TV show Xtreme 4x4 for more than 90 episodes from 2005 to 2009.
September 1 – Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on The Bahamas, with sustained wind speeds of 185 mph.  43 deaths are reported.
September 2 - Sinking of MV Conception: 34 people are killed following a fire and subsequent sinking of a dive boat near Santa Cruz Island, California, United States.  It is the worst maritime disaster in California in more than 150 years.
September 2 - Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari sets herself on fire after being arrested for attending a soccer game in Iran. She dies a week later.
September 4 – Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announces the official withdrawal of the controversial Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation (Amendment) Bill 2019, and setting up of an independent study to probe social and economic inequality within the territory.
September 6 – Chandrayaan-2, India's second lunar probe, was successful to put the orbit in lunar orbit, but the lander Vikram crashes into the surface of the moon.
September 6 – Robert Mugabe, 1st Prime Minister and 2nd President of Zimbabwe, dies at age 95 from cancer.  Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist and as a socialist after the 1990s.  Frustrated at the slow rate of redistribution, from 2000 he encouraged black Zimbabweans to violently seize white-owned farms.  Food production was severely impacted, leading to famine, economic decline, and Western sanctions.  He was praised as a revolutionary hero of the African liberation struggle who helped free Zimbabwe from British colonialism, imperialism, and white minority rule. Critics accused Mugabe of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption in Zimbabwe, anti-white racism, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity.
September 7 - Afghan peace process: U.S. President Donald Trump announces he "called off" planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David after they claimed responsibility for the September 2 and 5 bombings in Kabul which killed a U.S. soldier, among others.
September 7 - Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and 66 others are released in a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia.
September 8 – Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter, music producer and composer, dies at age 72 from kidney failure.  He sang in two pop bands during the 1960s and won a contest in a Madrid television show. He played a part in the Spanish filming of Shakespeare's Hamlet.  By the time of his death, Sesto had sold over 180 million albums worldwide.
September 11 – Astronomers announce the detection of water in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b, the first such discovery for an exoplanet in the habitable zone around a star.
September 14 – Abqaiq–Khurais attack: Two Saudi Aramco oil refineries in Abqaiq and Khurais, Saudi Arabia, are attacked by drones, resulting in fires. Houthi militants claim responsibility, saying that they used ten drones for the attack. Aramco's oil exports and production are disrupted by five million barrels a day, close to half of the entire Saudi Arabian oil exports.
September 16 – A gas explosion in Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia sets off a fire in a bioweapons plant that houses viruses including smallpox, ebola and anthrax.
September 19 - Barron Hilton, American businessman, philanthropist and sportsman, dies at age 91 of natural causes.  The second son and successor of hotelier Conrad Hilton, he was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation and chairman emeritus of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. Hilton, a notable pilot and outdoorsman, was also a founder of the American Football League as the original owner of the Los Angeles Chargers, and helped forge the merger with the National Football League that created the Super Bowl. Like his father before him, he pledged 97 percent of his wealth to the humanitarian work of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.  At the time, the gift was projected to increase the foundation's endowment from $2.9 billion to $6.3 billion, and will make his estate the organization's most significant donor.
September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.
September 20 – An international strike and protest led by young people and adults is held three days before the latest UN Climate Summit, to demand action be taken to address the climate crisis. The event is one of the largest climate mobilizations in history.
September 21 – U.S. President Donald Trump approves deployment of several hundred troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates following the September 14 attack on Saudi oil refineries.  Both Saudi Arabia and Iran vow to defend themselves.
September 21 - Sid Haig, American actor, dies at age 80 from complications of COPD, Aspergillus pneumonia, a small bowel obstruction, and cardiopulmonary arrest.  He appeared in many television programs, including The Untouchables, Batman, Gunsmoke, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek, Get Smart, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, and MacGyver.
September 21 - Sigmund Jähn, German cosmonaut, dies at age 82.  In 1978 he became the first German to fly into space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.
September 23 - One of the largest and oldest travel firms, Thomas Cook, goes bankrupt as last-minute rescue negotiations fail, stranding 600,000 tourists worldwide.
September 23 - Russia formally adopts the Paris climate agreement.
September 23 – Robert Hunter, American lyricist, poet and musician best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, dies at age 78.  Although an early member of the Church of Scientology, by 1999, Hunter no longer belonged to the organization.
September 24 - The Supreme Court of Spain unanimously rules in favor of the exhumation of the remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from the Valle de los Caídos.  He was finally exhumed on October 24, being re-inhumed in a private crypt with his wife.
September 24 - U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
September 26 - Jacques Chirac, 84th Prime Minister and 22nd President of France, dies at age 86.  Chirac's internal policies initially included lower tax rates, the removal of price controls, strong punishment for crime and terrorism, and business privatization.  After pursuing these policies in his second term as Prime Minister, he changed his views.  He was also known for his stand against the American-led assault on Iraq.
September 26 - Gennadi Manakov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, who commanded two Soyuz flights to the Mir space station, dies at age 69.
September 27 – 500,000 people march in a climate change protest led by activist Greta Thunberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Montreal, Canada.  4,000,000 go on strike around the world.
September 28 - Hurricane Lorenzo becomes the furthest northeast Category 5 hurricane on record.
September 30 – The Republic of Ireland promises to plant 440 million trees in twenty years to combat climate change.
October 1 - 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China: In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the largest-ever military parade and mass pageant in the history of China takes place in Beijing.  It was established in 1949 by Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.  He was the greatest mass murderer in history, with vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 30 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labor and mass executions.
October 1 - Hong Kong protests: A protester is shot in the chest with a live round of ammunition and critically injured.
October 1 - The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others.
October 1 - Karel Gott, Czech singer and painter, dies at age 80 from acute leukaemia.  Over the course of his career he released over 100 albums and 100 compilation albums, and sold an estimated 50–100 million records worldwide, 23 million of them in the German-speaking market, and about 15 million in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
October 2 – 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali.
October 3 - Paris police headquarters stabbing: A man stabs five officers at the central police headquarters in Paris, France, killing four of them. The attacker, shot dead by other officers, was an administrative intelligence employee at the station.
October 3 - The European Court of Justice rules that Facebook must take down a post about Austrian politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek. The post originated in Ireland and the court ruled that the post defamed and insulted the politician and must be removed all over the world.
October 3 - European Commission spokesperson Daniel Rosario threatens retaliatory measures if the United States imposes a US$7.5-billion (approximately €6.8-billion) tariff on products such as olives, whiskey, wine, cheese, yogurt, and airplanes. The tariffs are scheduled to take place on October 18.
October 4 – Hong Kong protests: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and the Chief Executive in Council invokes the Emergency Regulations Ordinance and banning the face mask in public gatherings with immediate effect.
October 4 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer, dies at age 84.  She rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959). In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for an African American woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings.  Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a Black woman in a non-stereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium.  Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In a Television Series in 1968.
October 5 – Iraqi protests: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in Iraq.
October 8 - Ecuadorian protests: The Government of Ecuador, headed by President Lenín Moreno, moves to Guayaquil as the Carondelet Palace in Quito is overtaken by protesters and chaos persists in the capital.
October 8 - About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland.
October 9 - Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey announces a military invasion of north-eastern Syria, targeting the SDF and other Kurdish militias.
October 9 - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the U.N. Human Rights Office issue a report that says that U.S. bombings in Nimroz and Farah Province, Afghanistan, that killed 39 civilians are unlawful. The U.S. said the attacks were against drug labs that fund the Taliban.
October 11 - Robert Forster, American actor, dies at age 78 from brain cancer.  He was known for Jackie Brown, Psycho, Supernova, Me, Myself & Irene, Mulholland Drive, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Lucky Number Slevin, Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, The Case for Christ, Rear Window, The Hunt for the BTK Killer, Heroes, Last Man Standing, and Twin Peaks.
October 11 - Alexei Leonov, Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, dies at age 85 after a long illness.  On March 18, 1965, he became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Soyuz–Apollo mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule.  He was the last living member of the five cosmonauts in the Voskhod programme.
October 12 – Typhoon Hagibis makes landfall in Japan, the biggest storm to hit the region in decades, with over seven million people urged to evacuate.
October 14 - Trial of Catalonia independence leaders: The Supreme Court of Spain sentences nine Catalan independence movement leaders to 9 to 13 years of prison for sedition and misuse of public funds. Three others are disqualified for 1 year and 8 months for disobedience. Violent protests erupt across Catalonia.
October 14 - A New York Times investigation reveals that Russian planes have bombed at least 50 hospitals and clinics in opposition-held Idlib, Syria.
October 14 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic and writer, dies at age 89.  Following the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than fifty books, including twenty books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel.  Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages.  Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literary departments were focusing on what he derided as the "literature of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, neoconservatives, and others).  Bloom provided an analysis of each of Shakespeare's 38 plays, "twenty-four of which are masterpieces."
October 17 – Shootouts erupt in Culiacán, Mexico, after the arrest of El Chapo's son, Ovidio Guzmán López, on an arrest warrant for drug dealing in the United States.  Eight people are killed and 56 convicts escape from prison; 7 are recaptured by October 18. Guzmán López is released in an effort to restore peace and to prevent more bloodshed.
October 17 - Elijah Cummings, American politician and civil rights advocate, dies at age 68 from complications concerning longstanding health challenges.  He served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 until his death.  He previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1983 through 1996.
October 18 - NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch conduct the first all-female spacewalk outside of the International Space Station.
October 18 - Riots in Chilean capital city Santiago erupt as civil unrest escalated as a reaction to a series of economic measures and Government's declarations labeled as abuse by protesters.
October 19 – An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organized by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit.
October 21 – The Canadian federal election takes place, for all 338 seats in the House of Commons of Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party win a narrow victory to form a minority government.
October 23 - The bodies of 39 people are found in a truck container in Essex, England. A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder.
October 23 - Google announces that its 53-qubit "Sycamore" processor has achieved quantum supremacy.  IBM disputes the claim.
October 25 – Tourists visit the summit of Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) for the last time, as a ban on climbing the famous rock in Australia's Northern Territory comes into effect.
October 26 – The Amazon Catholic bishops synod proposes that married men be ordained as priests, which would reverse the Church's centuries-old discipline of celibacy.
October 26 - Enriqueta Basilio, Mexican track and field athlete, dies at age 71 from pneumonia.  She made history by becoming the first woman to light the Olympic Cauldron. She was the last torch-bearer of the 19th Summer Olympics in Mexico City on October 12, 1968.  She studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and became a federal congresswoman for Institutional Revolutionary Party (2000-2003). She became a permanent member of the Mexico Olympic Committee and was part of the 2004 Olympic torch relay when it was passing through Mexico City. In 2014, she was amongst 6,500 people defrauded of their savings in a money-lending business scam.
October 26 - Robert Evans, American film producer and studio executive, dies at age 89.  In 1962, Evans decided to go into film producing using his accumulated wealth from the clothing business, and began a meteoric rise in the industry; he was installed as the head of Paramount Pictures in 1967. While there, he improved the ailing Paramount's fortunes through a string of commercially and critically acclaimed films. In 1974, he stepped down in order to produce films on his own. In 1980, Evans' career, and life, took a downturn after he pleaded guilty to cocaine trafficking; over the next 12 years, he produced only two films, both financial flops.  He is known for The Odd Couple, Rosemary's Baby, The Italian Job, Harold and Maude, The Godfather, The Great Gatsby, Chinatown, Popeye, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
October 27 - U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a U.S. special forces operation. It was reported that al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest after being chased into a tunnel.
October 27 - The 2019 Argentine general election takes place. Peronist candidate Alberto Fernández is elected President getting 48% of the vote, defeating President Mauricio Macri. Former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is elected Vice President.
October 30 - Social media website Twitter bans all political advertising worldwide.
October 30 - An earthquake of 6.6. Mw rocks the Philippine island of Mindanao two days after an earthquake killed eight and left 12,000 people homeless.
October 31 - A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
October 31 - A train catches fire near Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan. The blaze, sparked by gas used by passengers cooking on board, kills at least 74 people.
October 31 - Heavy rain and flooding leave 3 dead and 200,000 people are homeless in Beledweyne, Somalia. Meanwhile, 29 are dead and 29,000 homeless due to flooding in nearby Kenya.
November 2 – Pirates take nine crew members from Norwegian ship MV Bonita, owned by J. J. Ugland, near Cotonou, Benin.
November 2 - Phillip E. Johnson, American lawyer and author, dies at age 79.  He was co-founder of the intelligent design movement, author of the "Wedge strategy" and co-founder of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He described himself as "in a sense the father of the intelligent design movement".  He was a critic of Darwinism, which he described as "fully naturalistic evolution, involving chance mechanisms and natural selection".  The wedge strategy aims to change public opinion and scientific consensus, and seeks to convince the scientific community to allow a role for theism, or causes beyond naturalistic explanation, in scientific discourse.  Johnson argued that scientists accepted the theory of evolution "before it was rigorously tested, and thereafter used all their authority to convince the public that naturalistic processes are sufficient to produce a human from a bacterium, and a bacterium from a mix of chemicals."
November 4 - LeBarón family massacre: Nine Americans are killed when Mexican gang members open fire on their vehicles while driving to a wedding about 70 miles south of the Mexico–United States border.
November 4 - Amnesty International alleges that Bangladesh killed 466 people in 2018 under the guise of an anti-drugs campaign in what appears to be a wave of extrajudicial executions.
November 4 - The United States formally begins process to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
November 5 - 11,000 scientists from around the world publish a study in the journal BioScience, warning "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency".
November 5 - Air pollution in parts of India hits record levels.
November 6 – Fada N'gourma attack: At least 37 people are killed and 60 others injured when gunmen attack a Canadian gold mining company convoy on a road in Burkina Faso.
November 7 – Former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda is sentenced to 30 years in prison for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the longest sentence ever handed down by the International Criminal Court.
November 9 - The Supreme Court of India awards a holy site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. The move is likely to spur sectarian disputes.
November 9 - Cyclone Bulbul kills seven in West Bengal, India and seven in Bangladesh. 2,000,000 people are evacuated.
November 11 - A transit of Mercury occurs.
November 11 - Hong Kong protests: A traffic officer shot a youth in Sai Wan Ho during city-wide strike.  A man was also set on fire by protesters on the same day.
November 13 - Public impeachment hearings against U.S. President Donald Trump begin in the House of Representatives.
November 13 - The Chinese University of Hong Kong officially announces a premature end to the semester as a result of large-scale protests and civil unrest. Besides CUHK, several Hong Kong universities switch to online learning and suspend on-campus class. The Education Bureau in Hong Kong officially announces to close all schools in Hong Kong due to the ongoing protests.
November 14 – Italy declares a state of emergency in Venice following record flooding.
November 14 – Branko Lustig, Croatian film producer, dies at age 87.  He is best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.
November 15 – Harrison Dillard, American track and field athlete, dies at age 96 from stomach cancer.  At the time of his death he was the United States' oldest living Olympic gold medalist.  He is the only male in the history of the Olympic Games to win gold in both the 100 meter (sprints) and the 110 meter hurdles, making him the “World’s Fastest Man” in 1948 and the “World’s Fastest Hurdler” in 1952.
November 17 – Hong Kong protests: Police use tear gas and water cannons against protesters who try to break through cordons and reach The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which is at the center of a week-long standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement. Protesters fight back with Molotov cocktails, arrows, and bricks.
November 19 – Google enters the video game market with the launch of Stadia, a cloud gaming service.
November 21 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
November 23 - An independence referendum begins in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.  Voters overwhelmingly choose independence.
November 23 - The last known Sumatran rhinoceros in Malaysia dies.
November 24 – Busy Bee crash: A plane crashes shortly after takeoff in a densely populated area of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing all 19 people on board and at least 10 more on the ground.
November 25 - The World Meteorological Organization reports that levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached another new record high of 407.8 parts per million, with "no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline."
November 25 - IPv4 address exhaustion: The RIPE NCC, which is the official regional Internet registry (RIR) for Europe, officially announces that it has run out of IPv4 addresses.
November 26 - Albania earthquake: 51 people are killed and around 2,000 others injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake in northwestern Albania.  The earthquake is the strongest to hit Albania in more than 40 years, and the world's deadliest earthquake in 2019.
November 26 - Chilean protests: Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International issue reports on Chile's situation denouncing grave human rights violations, including excessive violence use and detention abuses by police forces.  Among police brutality acts there are records of police agents firing non-lethal ammunition to protesters' faces against provider's regulations, resulting in more than 200 people with severe eye trauma and more than 50 requiring prosthetic eyes.
November 27 – The U.S. Government passes the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.
November 29 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan, dies at age 101.  He was the oldest living former state leader in the world, following the death of Babiker Awadalla on January 17, 2019. Nakasone was the second oldest Prime Minister of Japan by age after Naruhiko Higashikuni, who lived to 102 years.  Nakasone was a member of the House of Representatives for more than 50 years. He was best known for pushing through the privatization of state-owned companies, and for helping to revitalize Japanese nationalism during and after his term as prime minister.
November 30 – 22 people (two civilians, four police officers and 16 drug dealers) are killed in a shootout in Villa Unión, Coahuila, Mexico, the largest such crime in the country's history.
December 2 – Typhoon Kammuri hits the Philippines, causing the evacuation of 200,000 people, but without reports of injuries or serious damage.
December 5 - The Burundi landslide is reported to have caused at least 26 deaths.
December 5 - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi asks the House Judiciary Committee to begin drafting the articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump.
December 8 – A fire at a factory in Delhi, India, kills 43 people and injures at least 50 others.
December 8 - Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer, dies at age 85.  He was most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018.  The Hollywood Reporter reported that Spinney was earning over $300,000 at the time of his retirement.
December 8 - Paul Volcker, American economist, dies at age 92 from prostate cancer.   He was Chairman of the Federal Reserve under U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. He is widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. He was the chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama from February 2009 until January 2011.
December 9 - The World Anti-Doping Agency votes unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offences, meaning it will be excluded from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
December 9 - A volcano erupts on White Island in New Zealand, killing 19 people and injuring 28.
December 9 - Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: A Chilean military transport aircraft crashes while en route to Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva in Antarctica, killing all 38 people onboard.  The crash site was located on December 12.
December 10 - Sanna Marin, at the age of 34, becomes the world's youngest serving prime minister after being selected to lead Finland's Social Democratic Party.
December 10 - Democrats in the United States House of Representatives announce formal charges against President Donald Trump, accusing him of abusing power and "obstructing Congress"; he becomes the fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.
December 10 - The 2019 Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is they as a 3rd-person singular form.
December 11 – The World Trade Organization is left unable to intervene in trade disputes after the U.S. blocks the appointment of new panel members.
December 12 - The United Kingdom general election takes place for all 650 seats in the House of Commons.  The election resulted in a Conservative win with a landslide majority of 80 seats, their largest majority since 1987, with the party making a net gain of 48 seats and winning 43.6% of the vote — the highest percentage by any party since 1979.  Many Conservative gains were made at the expense of the Labour Party.  The result of the election saw the Conservatives strengthening their position on Brexit, with Johnson securing a mandate to ensure the UK's departure from the European Union (EU) on January 31, 2020. Labour's defeat led to Jeremy Corbyn announcing his intention to resign.
December 12 - It is announced that Israel will hold an unprecedented third general election in less than a year, due to the apparent inability of any of the major parties to be able to form a decisive governing coalition. The election will take place on March 2, 2020.
December 12 - Peter Snell, New Zealand athlete, dies at age 80 from heart failure.  He won three Olympic gold medals, and is the only male since 1920 to have won the 800 and 1500 meters at the same Olympics, in 1964.
December 16 – Pope Francis abolishes pontifical secrecy in sex abuse cases; the move follows the Vatican's Meeting on the Protection of Minors in the Church months prior.  The Pope also raises the definition of "child pornography" from 14 to 18 years old.
December 17 – Shandong, China's first fully domestically built aircraft carrier, enters naval service.
December 18 - The CHEOPS European space telescope, whose mission is to study the formation of extrasolar planets and determine their precise radius, likely density and internal structure, is launched.
December 18 - The U.S. House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Trump, making him the third president to be impeached in the nation's history.
December 19 - Libya's Government of National Accord activates a cooperation accord with Turkey, allowing for a potential Turkish military intervention in the Second Libyan Civil War.
December 19 - A locust plague devastates 173,000 acres (70,000 hectares) of crop and grazing land in Ethiopia and Somalia.
December 19 - A court in the Philippines convicts Andal Ampatuan Jr., his brother Zaldy Ampatuan and 31 others including three members of the Ampatuan clan, of 57 counts of murder and sentences them to life imprisonment without parole for their role in the Maguindanao massacre.  The 58 victims were on their way to file a certificate of candidacy for Esmael Mangudadatu, vice mayor of Buluan, when they were kidnapped and later killed.  The body of Reynaldo Momay, the 58th victim, was never found.
December 20 - The United States founds the United States Space Force, a branch of the United States Armed Forces dedicated to space warfare.
December 20 - The Dutch Supreme Court affirms that the Dutch government is responsible for management of carbon dioxide emissions for the country and is bound to protect human rights.  The ruling reiterated from the Court of Appeals is that "every country is responsible for its share" of emissions.
December 20 - Roland Matthes, German swimmer, dies at age 69.  He is the most successful backstroke swimmer of all time. Between April 1967 and August 1974 he won all backstroke competitions he entered. He won four European championships and three world championships in a row, and swam 19 world and 21 European records in various backstroke, butterfly, freestyle and medley events.  The issue of doping in East Germany brought into questioning most achievements of East German athletes. However, Matthes denied any involvement in doping, claiming that his swimming club was too small to be part of the government system.
December 23 - Five men are sentenced to death and another three face 24 years in prison for their roles in the murder of dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
December 23 - 28 people are killed and 13 others injured after a bus plunges into a ravine on a winding road in South Sumatra.
December 24 – Thousands of Muslims protest the December 20 burning of four mosques in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia.
December 24 – Allee Willis, American songwriter, artist and art director, dies at age 72 from cardiac arrest.  Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for "I'll Be There For You", which was used as the theme song for the sitcom Friends, and won two Grammy Awards for Beverly Hills Cop and The Color Purple, the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award. Her compositions sold over 60 million records and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.
December 25 – 20 people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.
December 26 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from South Asia. This was a part of Saros 132.
December 27 - Corporate defaults on corporate bonds in China reach a new record.
December 27 - At least 12 die in a plane crash in Kazakhstan.
December 27 – Don Imus, American radio personality, television show host, and author, dies at age 79 of complications from lung disease.  His radio show Imus in the Morning aired on various stations and digital platforms nationwide until 2018.  Throughout his later career, Imus was labeled a "shock jock".  He was fired by CBS Radio in April 2007 after describing the Rutgers University women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hoes".  In January 2018, Cumulus Media, in the middle of a bankruptcy process, told Imus they were going to stop paying him, and as a result, Imus ended his show.  His final show was on March 29, 2018.  Imus was instrumental in raising over $60 million for the Center for the Intrepid, a Texas rehabilitation facility for soldiers wounded in the Iraq War.  The largest technological center of its kind in the country, it is designed to treat disabled veterans and help them with their transition back into the community.
December 28 – A truck bomb attributed to al-Shabaab kills at least 78 and wounds 125 in Mogadishu, Somalia.
December 29 - A report by the Multi-Sector Epidemic Response Committee (CMRE) indicates that 2,231 people have died so far in the 2018–19 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
December 29 - The Taliban's ruling council agrees to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, opening a door to a peace agreement with the United States.
December 30 – Chinese authorities announce that He Jiankui, who claimed to have created the world's first genetically edited human babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 3 million yuan (US$430,000) for his genetic research efforts.
December 30 - Syd Mead, American concept artist, dies at age 86 from lymphoma.  He is widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the future" and "one of the most influential concept artists and industrial designers of our time."
December 31 – Iraqi militiamen and protesters breach the front gate checkpoint of the United States embassy in Baghdad following a U.S. military operation that targeted an Iraqi militia on December 29.

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