Cat age chart

There are other cat age charts. The consensus seems to be that cats age a lot in the first two years and then by four every year after that. Under those charts 25 years would be equivalent to 116, but there have been cats who have lived much longer than that. My uncle's second ex-wife says her cat lived to 26. The oldest verified cat was a female named Creme Puff who lived to 38 and possibly a male named Baby as well. The oldest verified person was a French woman named Jeanne Calment who lived to 122. In another example of the Bible providing the truth before it could be verified by science, Genesis 6:3 reads: "Then the Lord said, My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years." If the goal is to compare cats to humans, then it is time for a new chart.

2023: Year in Review

January 1 - The world population was estimated at 7.943 billion people and was expected to increase to 8.119 billion on January 1, 2024. An estimated 134.3 million births and 60.8 million deaths were expected to take place in 2023. The average global life expectancy was 73.16 years, an increase of 0.18 years from 2022. The rate of child mortality was by the end of the year, expected to have decreased from 2022. Less than 23% of people were living in extreme poverty (on or below the international poverty line), a decrease from 2022.
January 1 – Croatia adopts the euro and joins the Schengen Area, becoming the 20th member state of the Eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen Area. This is the first enlargement of the Eurozone since Lithuania's entry in 2015, and the first enlargement of the Schengen Area since Liechtenstein's entry in 2011.
January 1 - Public Domain Day: Books, films, and other works published in 1927 enter the public domain.
January 1 - The FDA designates sesame seeds as one of the major food allergens.
January 1 - Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist and writer of the television series Matador, dies peacefully in her sleep at age 105. The memoir of her childhood, Kun en pige (Only a girl), became a bestseller in 1992 and is considered her masterpiece. The work was adapted into a feature film in 1995. Nørgaard became a journalist for the Politiken newspaper in 1949 where she wrote about household and women's issues. The series Matador focused on typical Danish characters living in the fictional town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947, became the most successful TV program in Danish history. In 1994, Nørgaard was awarded knighthood in the Order of the Dannebrog.
January 1 - Apostolos Pitsos, Greek industrialist and businessman, dies peacefully at home at age 104. He studied at the German School of Athens where in the third grade his classmate was future Prime Minister Georgios Rallis. From a young age, he worked in the family business. After school, in 1937, he went to Aue, Germany, where he studied mechanical engineering. At the beginning of the Greco-Italian War, he returned to Greece and went to the anti-aircraft artillery based in Menidi. He received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021.
January 1 - Fred White, American Hall of Fame drummer for Earth, Wind & Fire, dies at age 67. They are among the best-selling bands of all time, with sales of over 90 million records worldwide.
January 1 – Edwin Chiloba, Kenyan fashion designer and LGBTQ activist, dies at age 25 from asphyxiation. At a very young age, he lost his mother and then he was orphaned when his father died while he was in high school. He was a staunch Catholic growing up, joining the Young Christian Students at Sergoit Primary School. After spending his formative years moving from relative to relative, he eventually enrolled in the education program at Moi University's West Campus to earn his university degree. During his third year of studies at Moi University West Campus, Chiloba began to actively pursue a career in fashion, creating outfits and attending photoshoots and pageants, much to his relatives' disapproval. This impacted the continuation of Edwin's degree where some people believed that he was being influenced by Satan. Chiloba dropped out and moved to Nairobi where he looked to become a fashion designer. It was then that he met Peter and Donna Pfaltzgraff, a missionary couple living and working in Kenya, through Facebook. With support from the Pfaltzgraffs, he moved to Eldoret from Nairobi in 2019 to study a Fashion Design course at the University of Eldoret. In December 2022, he posted on his Instagram page that he was "going to fight for all marginalised people", saying that he had also suffered from marginalization.
January 2 – 2022 NFL season: Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin collapses from cardiac arrest after a tackle, causing the Bills' game against the Cincinnati Bengals to be cancelled and deemed as a no contest. He was released from the hospital nine days later and eventually returned to professional football.
January 2 - Lincoln Almond, American politician and lawyer, governor of Rhode Island (1995–2003), U.S. attorney for the district of Rhode Island (1969–1978, 1981–1993), dies at age 86.
January 2 - Ken Block, American rally driver (Rally America, Global Rallycross) and co-founder of DC Shoes, dies in a snowmobile rollover near his ranch in Wasatch County, Utah, at age 55. As a mark of respect, his car number 43 was retired from the World Rally Championship for the 2023 season in his honor. His 18-year-old daughter Lia is also a racing driver.
January 2 - John Huo Cheng, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Fenyang (since 1991), dies at age 96. After practicing Taoism, he joined the theological seminary and in 1954 was ordained a priest. During the Cultural Revolution, he was detained and sent to a labor camp, where he spent time from 1966 until his release in 1980. He was recognized both by the Holy See and by the Chinese government.
January 2 - Vasil Timkovič, Czechoslovak soldier, dies at age 99. He was a veteran of World War II, who fought for the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in the Soviet Union in the Battle of Kiev and the Battle of the Dukla Pass. He was one of the last living witnesses of the fighting on the Eastern Front. Before joining the army, Timkovič survived a gulag. He was a veteran of the Liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1945. He was buried on January 13, 2023 with military honors in Česká Třebová.
January 3 - The 118th United States Congress convenes following the 2022 midterm elections. For the next four days, fifteen sessions transpire to determine the Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is the first time that a House speaker was not determined by an initial vote in over 99 years.
January 3 - The final of several related shootings which allegedly target Democrats occurs at the home of a Democratic politician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. There are no deaths or injuries.
January 3 - Amber McLaughlin becomes the first transgender death row inmate executed in the United States. His legal name was Scott A. McLaughlin and in 2003 he raped and murdered his ex-girlfriend, Beverly Guenther. He became transgender while incarcerated. McLaughlin was a registered sex offender because of a 1992 conviction for sexual assault against a 14-year-old girl. At his 2006 trial, the jury was deadlocked on the issue of the death penalty. Missouri is one of only two states (the other being Indiana) in which a judge has the discretion to sentence a defendant to death if the jury is deadlocked.
January 3 - Keenan Anderson, American hit-and-run suspect, dies at age 31 from a combination of cocaine, marijuana, an enlarged heart, and complications from tasering. He was driving under the influence following a traffic collision and attempted to get into a car without permission. After initially sitting down, Anderson ran away into traffic, leading to police subduing and tasing him for around 30 seconds and then another five seconds. He was a tenth-grade high school English teacher at the Digital Pioneers Academy in Washington, D.C. Anderson was visiting his family in Los Angeles during the winter break when the incident occurred. He was a father, and he was the cousin of Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded the Black Lives Matter social movement. Protests over Anderson's death were held in Los Angeles in January and February 2023.
January 3 - James D. Brubaker, American film producer (Rocky, Bruce Almighty, Gia), dies at age 85 from multiple strokes. He served in the U.S. Army and began working in the film industry as a driver, transporting horses to sets on Western films. For his work on the television film Gia, he won the 1999 Directors Guild of America Award and was nominated for a 1998 Primetime Emmy Award.
January 3 - Walter Cunningham, American astronaut, dies at age 90 of complications from a fall. He was an author of the 1977 book The All-American Boys. NASA's third civilian astronaut (after Neil Armstrong and Elliot See), he was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968; an eleven-day flight and the first launch of a crewed Apollo mission. Cunningham accumulated more than 4,500 hours of flying time, including more than 3,400 in jet aircraft and 263 hours in space. He was a major contributor to and foreword writer for the 2007 space history book In the Shadow of the Moon by Francis French and Colin Burgess. Cunningham rejected the scientific consensus on climate change. His biography page at the CO2 Coalition said "Since 2000, he has been writing and speaking out on the hoax that humans are controlling the temperature of the earth." In 2010, Cunningham published a short book titled "Global Warming: Facts versus Faith". In an editorial published in the Houston Chronicle on August 15, 2010, Cunningham claimed that the empirical evidence did not support global warming. In 2012, he and other former astronauts and NASA employees sent a critical letter to the agency highlighting what they believed to be "unproven assertions that man-made carbon dioxide was a major factor in global warming." In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Cunningham is portrayed by Fredric Lehne.
January 3 - Ruslan Khasbulatov, Russian economist and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1991–1993), dies at age 80. He played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation. In 1944, he was deported to Central Asia during the Chechen deportations. After the collapse of the USSR, Khasbulatov consolidated his control over the Russian parliament and became the second most powerful man in Russia after Boris Yeltsin. Among other factors, the escalating clash of egos between Khasbulatov and Yeltsin led to the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, in which Khasbulatov (along with Vice-President Alexander Rutskoy) led the Supreme Soviet of Russia in its power struggle with the president, which ended with Yeltsin's violent assault on and subsequent dissolution of the parliament in October 1993. Khasbulatov was arrested along with the other leaders of the parliament. In 1994, the newly elected Duma pardoned him along with other key leaders of the anti-Yeltsin resistance.
January 3 - Joseph Koo, Hong Kong film composer (The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury, A Terra-Cotta Warrior), dies at age 91 from COVID-19. Koo was born in Canton, China and migrated with his family to Hong Kong in 1948. His older sister was a singer and painter.
January 3 - Frederick J. Marshall, justice of the New York Supreme Court (2000–2022), dies at age 71 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Marshall was the son of the late New York State Supreme Court Justice Frederick M. Marshall. His brother Philip M. Marshall served as the Village Justice in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, New York.
January 3 - Seble Desta, Ethiopian princess, dies at age 91. She was a member of the Solomonic dynasty, which ruled Ethiopia until 1974. She was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and was the daughter of Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie and Ras Desta Damtew, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and Empress Menen Asfaw. Princess Seble's paternal grandfather, Fitawrari Damtew Ketema, was martyred during the Ethiopian victory against the Italians at Adwa. During Mussolinis's invasion of Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie, Empress Menen and many members of their family were exiled in Bath, England. Princess Seble's father, Ras Desta, remained in Ethiopia fighting the Italians. In 1937, his location was betrayed and he was captured and killed, against all prisoner of war norms. In 1974, the military junta overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie and imprisoned the Imperial Family, including Princess Tenagnework and her daughters. Princess Seble had recently given birth and was allowed to remain temporarily free. Until her imprisonment, she unsuccessfully sought help for the Emperor and the imprisoned family members from various foreign embassies. In 1975, the junta murdered Emperor Haile Selassie. In this carnage, Princess Seble lost her grandfather, uncles, husband and brother. Three of her children escaped confinement and fled to the West in 1977. The imprisoned Imperial family spent 14 years in jail, initially under house arrest and then under steadily worsening conditions, until they were locked in a 15-foot cell in Alem Bekagn (the end of the world) prison. After many years of campaigning by the British and other governments, human rights groups and especially the Destas' friends from school and college, the Imperial ladies were released in 1988. Princess Seble and Dejazmach Kassa had six grandchildren.
January 3 - Zhou Lingzhao, Chinese painter, dies at age 103. In 1949, he was ordered to paint the portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen Square for the proclamation of the People's Republic of China. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively contributed to the design of the flag of the Communist Youth League of China (1950) and the flag of the Young Pioneers of China (designed by Liu Yiyan in 1950 and modified by Zhou Lingzhao).
January 4 - European Union regulators issue a $414 million fine against Meta Platforms for violating the General Data Protection Regulation on Facebook and Instagram.
January 4 - A mass shooting occurs inside a house in Enoch, Utah. Eight members of a single family, consisting of three adults (including the perpetrator) and five children, are killed, with their bodies being found by police during a welfare check.
January 4 - Elwood Hillis, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1987), dies at age 96. Hillis was a younger brother to renowned choral director Margaret Hillis. Their father, Glen R. Hillis, was the Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana in 1940, losing by less than 4,000 votes. His maternal grandfather and namesake, Elwood Haynes, was an inventor and automobile pioneer. He graduated from Culver Military Academy. Hillis served in the United States Army in the European Theater with the rank of first lieutenant from 1944 to 1946. He retired from the Reserves in 1954 with rank of captain in the infantry.
January 4 - Sim Wong Hoo, Singaporean entrepreneur, founder of Creative Technology, dies at age 67. At age 45, he became the youngest billionaire in Singapore. He was also the first person to be named Singapore's Businessman of the Year twice, in 1992 and 1997. In 2002, he was named Person of the Year by the Singapore Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the IT industry. Sim was considered to be one of the most famous entrepreneurs of Singapore. In 1999, Sim released a book entitled “Chaotic Thoughts From The Old Millennium”, in which he coined and popularized the term "No U-turn syndrome" to describe the stereotypical Singaporean mindset of requiring permission from higher authorities before taking any action.
January 5 – The funeral of Pope Benedict XVI is held at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City. The funeral was attended by an estimated 50,000 people.
January 5 - The South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down the state's six-week abortion ban, ruling it violates the state's constitution.
January 5 - The Idaho Supreme Court upholds the state's ban on abortion in a 3–2 ruling.
January 5 - Dave Schubert, American street photographer, dies at age 49. He was recognized for his photographs of skateboarding and graffiti. Schubert received his first camera when he was six years old, a gift from his father. His father was in the Air Force, resulting in Schubert moving often as a child. As a teen, Schubert started writing graffiti after viewing the 1979 action thriller The Warriors. Inspired by the film, Schubert would skip school to visit New York City, where he started photographing the NYC skate scene at the Brooklyn Banks, under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge. In his late teens and early twenties, Schubert established himself as a skilled skate videographer, capturing a lot of footage of skateboarders throughout the east coast of the United States, primarily in Washington, D.C. Schubert's footage appears in numerous skate videos in the early 90s.
January 5 - Sarah Doherty, American amputee mountaineer, ski racer, and motivational speaker, dies at age 63. She lost her right leg to a drunk driver at age 13. She was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Disabled Ski Team and was the first amputee to reach the summit of Denali in Alaska, without a prosthetic limb and used a crutch instead. She studied Occupational Therapy at Boston University (1977-1982) gaining a BSc Occupational Therapy; and then worked as a pediatric occupational therapist. In 1984 she became the first one-legged woman to summit Mount Rainier in Washington.
January 5 - Martin Fabi, Canadian football player for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes, dies at age 80. He was born in Hungary. After his father was killed in World War II, the family fled to Austria in 1944. In 1953, Fabi and his family immigrated to Ontario, Canada, where they settled in the town of Aylmer. He holds the league records for most punting yards and most punts in a game. His records are 18 punts totaling 814 yards at Calgary on September 14, 1963. His son, Randy Fabi, also played in the CFL for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
January 5 - Mike Hill, American film editor, dies at age 73 of cryptogenic organizing pneumonia. He and his editing partner Dan Hanley had a longstanding, notable collaboration with director Ron Howard, having cut all of Howard's films from Night Shift (1982) to In the Heart of the Sea (2015). They won an Academy Award for the film Apollo 13 (1995), and the BAFTA Award for the film Rush (2013). Hill was a member of the American Cinema Editors (ACE). Hill was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, and received a criminal justice degree at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1972. His first job was as a guard at Chino prison in California. He then entered the film editing profession, and worked on several television programs and on two feature films before starting his association with Hanley and Howard on Night Shift (1982). After many years in California, Hill moved back to Nebraska after meeting and marrying his wife, LeAnne. They had one daughter together born in the late 1980s. In addition to his work on major studio films with Howard, Hill had edited independent films produced in Nebraska such as Full Ride (2001). Apollo 13 was listed as the 48th best-edited film of all time in a 2012 survey of members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild. In addition to Apollo 13, Hanley and Hill were nominated for Academy Awards for A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), and Frost/Nixon (2008). Hanley and Hill's longstanding partnership, which includes 21 films, may be unique among major film editors.
January 5 - Giorgio Otranto, Italian historian, dies at age 82 of a cerebral hemorrhage. He specialized in the history of early Christianity, particularly in central and southern Italy up to the time of Pope Gregory I (590-604).
January 5 - Russell Pearce, American politician, member (2006–2011) and president (2011) of the Arizona Senate, dies at age 75. He rose to national prominence as the primary sponsor of Arizona SB1070, a controversial anti-illegal immigrant measure that was signed into law in 2010. The law was amended by Arizona House Bill 2162 within a week of its signing, with the goal of addressing some of the concerns. In June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-3 (with Kagan’s recusal) on the case Arizona v. United States, upholding the provision requiring immigration status checks during law enforcement stops but striking down three other provisions as violations of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. Pearce was elected President of the Arizona Senate when the Senate began its January 2011 term but then suffered a dramatic reversal of fortune when he was ousted in a November 2011 recall election, the first legislator in Arizona history to be so removed from office. He served as Vice-Chair of the Arizona GOP, but he resigned the position in September 2014 after controversy over a eugenicist comment about forced sterilization of poor women on Medicaid. His politics were widely described as far-right. Prior to his election to the Arizona Senate in 2008, Pearce served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, and worked in law enforcement for more than twenty years. Pearce's nephew Talmage attended the 2016 Republican Convention as an anti-Trump delegate from Arizona's 5th District.
January 6 – A sixteen-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocks a federal ban on bump stocks. In 2018 President Trump issued an executive order for the U.S. Department of Justice to reclassify bump stocks as "machine guns" under existing federal law, effectively banning them nationwide. Only two states had banned bump stocks prior to the Las Vegas mass shooting.
January 6 - Benjamin Bederson, American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, dies at age 101. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Kyiv, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus. He sold the Communist "Daily Worker" newspaper on Coney Island as a young teenager. After spending a year in the Soviet Union in 1934, he became entirely committed to U.S. democracy. After Ben graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1939, he went on to study Physics at the City College of New York, but joined the army before graduating where he received further training in electrical engineering. Despite skipping basic military training, and never handling a gun during his four years in the army, he was recruited to serve at Los Alamos (NM) and later in Tinian (Pacific Mariana Islands), for the Manhattan project. As one of the youngest members of the scientific team, called the "Special Engineering Detachment", and as described in a 2015 New York Times article, he contributed significantly to the development of "Fat Man", the Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki on 8/9/1945, that led to the end of World War II. After the war, he graduated with a Masters in Physics from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from NYU in 1950. Throughout his years at NYU and the American Physical Society, he was an impassioned advocate for scientist "refuseniks" in the Soviet Union and helped many publish their work and emigrate to the U.S. Ben loved music and listening to WGBH host Robert J. Lurtsema's classical music radio show Morning Pro Musica. He particularly enjoyed Tom Lehrer, Bach, and Mahler. He also loved old Hollywood movies and knew all of the great one-liners from them. He had four children and four grandchildren.
January 6 - Peter Hoffmann, German-Canadian historian, dies at age 92. His principal area of research dealt with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg (who tried to assassinate Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair). Hoffmann lived in Canada and in Germany. Hoffmann was born in Dresden and grew up in Stuttgart. Under the pretext of business trips to Switzerland, his father Wilhelm Hoffmann worked as a courier for the resistance against the Nazi dictatorship. Eugen Gerstenmaier initiated Wilhelm into the planning of the assassination attempt on Hitler on July 20, 1944.
January 6 - Theodore R. Newman Jr., American jurist, judge (1976–2016) and chief judge (1976–1984) of the D.C. Court of Appeals, and judge of the Superior Court of D.C. (1970–1976), dies at age 88. He served as the first black chief judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Newman was born in Birmingham and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, where his father was a Methodist minister and his mother was a schoolteacher. After law school he spent three years as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force stationed in France. Newman's first term as chief judge expired in 1980, and his attempt to be redesignated for a second term was controversial. The more conservative wing of the court, led by Judge Frank Q. Nebeker, opposed Newman's reappointment, arguing that his behavior at oral argument, at meetings, and outside of court was unbecoming of a judge. In the end Newman was reappointed by the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission for a second four-year term and did not seek reappointment in 1984.
January 6 - Nguyễn Thọ Chân, Vietnamese politician and minister of labor (1974–1981), dies at age 100. He was a member of the Communist Party, and died in Ho Chi Minh City.
January 6 - Sigifredo Ochoa, Salvadoran military officer and politician and deputy (2012–2015), dies at age 80 in a traffic collision. He commanded Death Squads during the Salvadoran Civil War, which lasted for 12 years. He was a colonel in the Salvadoran Army. According to declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Ochoa allegedly was a commanding officer of the El Calabozo massacre which killed over 200 people in 1982. He was also accused of leading the 8-day Santa Cruz massacre the year prior, that killed dozens of civilians. In June 2022, he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment for misappropriating $41,040 while being an ambassador to Honduras.
January 6 - Owen Roizman, American cinematographer who worked on The Exorcist, Network, The French Connection, Tootsie, Wyatt Earp, and The Addams Family, dies at age 86 under hospice care at his home. Roizman was raised in Brooklyn, and as a child, he wanted to be a baseball player, physicist, or mathematician. He had a tryout with the New York Yankees but contracted polio as a teenager. His father, Sol, was a cameraman for Movietone News, and upon hearing about the film industry's possible wages, Roizman decided, "I'm going for the money!" He began working during summer breaks at a camera rental store in New York City and later was an assistant to cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld at MPO Videotronics. Roizman was known for collaborating with film directors William Friedkin, Sydney Pollack, and Lawrence Kasdan. He lived in the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles with his wife, Mona. They had a son, Eric, who became a camera operator.
January 7 - Five black police officers of the Memphis Police Department, severely beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, during a traffic stop. Nichols dies due to his injuries on January 10, and his death causes outrage and protests across the country.
January 7 - Karon Blake, American child, dies at age 13 after being shot in Washington, D.C. Jason Lewis, a black 41-year-old father of four and longtime DC Parks and Recreation employee, had stepped onto his patio to investigate a possible home invasion at around 3AM when he saw Blake and two others breaking into parked vehicles along his street. In the seconds following a brief confrontation with the group, Lewis opened fire, fatally wounding Blake. After several weeks of investigation, Lewis was arrested and charged with murder in second degree while armed. He has entered a plea of not guilty and was held in home confinement while awaiting trial in August 2024. He was convicted of manslaughter that month. One person, whom he identified as Blake, ran towards him as he stood in the courtyard of his home and he opened fire, shooting twice. Lewis' girlfriend called 9-1-1 while Lewis began administering CPR after Blake collapsed. A nearby camera captured much of the incident on video. Blake, along with two other juvenile males, arrived on the scene in a stolen Kia, which police referred to as a getaway vehicle, and began tampering with parked vehicles in the area. Lewis, armed, stepped onto his front patio and fired a shot at the parked car, which contained the other two juvenile males. Police said that when initially questioned, Lewis never mentioned firing at the car. After the Lewis' initial shot, Karon, the only male not in the car, began running in the direction of Lewis' home, though police said he never stepped onto Lewis' property. Lewis fired three shots. Blake can be heard saying "I'm only 12," and apologizing to Lewis for his actions. Police chief Robert Contee expressed sympathy for the other two males involved, who were seen on video fleeing the scene, who remain unidentified. On January 10th, Blake's mother, Londen Blake, created a fundraiser on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to help cover the cost of Blake's funeral and burial expenses. The fundraiser raised $35,879. On January 14th, a vigil was held in Blake's honor. On January 23rd, a funeral service for Blake was held at Israel Baptist Church. News outlets reported hundreds of mourners, including local politicians and elected officials, were in attendance. On January 31st, U. S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves announced that a warrant had been issued for Jason Michael Lewis. On March 9th, Judge Anthony Epstein of the DC Superior Court ordered that Lewis be released while awaiting trial, saying there was insufficient evidence that he was a danger to the community. While Lewis may argue he acted in self-defense, the District of Columbia does not have a stand-your-ground law and case law allows for a jury to consider an individual's failure to retreat when determining whether or not their use of force is justifiable. Jason Lewis's sentencing is scheduled for October 25, 2024. Lewis is facing a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter while armed against a minor.
January 7 - Marcelle Engelen Faber, French resistance fighter, dies at age 99. She was known for being the last surviving member of the Équipe Pur Sang (“Thoroughbred Team”), which helped transfer prisoners out of the Gau Baden and into Vichy France during World War II. Engelen was born in Strasbourg into a religious family of five children and a father who worked as a jeweler. At a young age, she joined the Guides de France (the largest Scouting and Guiding association in France), where she would eventually become a senior guide. Engelen joined the French Resistance at the age of 17 with six young women from the Guides de France. Initially, the group aided Alsatian prisoners of war, providing food, clothing, and mail transportation from the autumn of 1940 to February 1942. The women took shifts each evening at approximately 6:00 or 7:00 at the Église Saint-Jean de Strasbourg, where the password for assistance was "Pierre". In January 1942, Engelen appeared before the Reich Labour Service and was sent to the occupied zone. In the autumn of 1944, she interrupted her studies to serve in the women's branch of the Free French Forces. After World War II, Engelen married geologist Jean Faber, with whom she had four children. She did not maintain good relations with the other members of the Équipe Pur Sang due to her escape from arrest. She left Alsace clandestinely in 1942 to avoid being requisitioned from the Compulsory Work Service. She eventually outlived every other member of the group.
January 7 - Joseph A. Hardy III, American lumber industry executive, founder of 84 Lumber, dies on his 100th birthday. He also founded Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. During the 1970s, 84 Lumber’s business grew and opened 229 stores. In 1984, the company undertook an expansion plan to open at least 30 new stores. Along with grand openings, stores were remodeled and renovated from no-frills lumber yards to new and improved building materials stores. In 1987, as the improvement plan generated success, the business opened their strict policy of cash-and-carry to options of using credit. Because of his successful management of the company and his guidance to his daughter, Maggie, 84 Lumber is now the leading privately held building materials supplier to professional contractors and build-it-yourselfers in the United States. Hardy finished first in vote-getting in the 2007 primary for Fayette County commissioner, but decided not to run in the general election. Hardy served in World War II in the US Army Air Corps as a communications officer in the South Pacific. He earned a degree in industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Engineering in 1948 and worked at his uncle’s downtown Pittsburgh jewelry store before striking out into the building materials supply field at the age of 31. With his first wife (of 50 years), Dorothy Pierce, he had five children, the youngest of whom, Maggie, is now president of 84 Lumber. With his second wife, Debra Maley, he had two daughters, Taylor, and Paige. At the age of 85, Hardy married Kristin Georgi, a 22-year-old salon employee at Nemacoln Woodlands Resort. Having agreed to a pre-nuptial and wedding contract, the wedding took place on May 5, 2007, in Las Vegas, Nevada. On August 20, 2007, Hardy filed for divorce, with the petition citing "irreconcilable differences". Hardy's fourth wife was 51-year-old Rebecca Davis, whom he married in December 2009. On November 21, 2014, 91-year-old Hardy married Jodi Santella Williams. They had one son together, named JJ Alexander Hardy. Hardy was quoted as saying, "I want to die broke. For the remainder of my life, I want to enjoy and participate in the giving of money to help improve people's lives.” His daughter Maggie Knox is worth $4.1 billion.
January 7 - Mohammad Hosseini, Iranian dissident, is executed by hanging at the age of 39. He participated in the Mahsa Amini protests in reaction to the death of a 22-year-old woman by police brutality. He was found guilty of Fisad-e-filarz (an Arabic term translating to "corruption on Earth") for his alleged involvement in the murder of a Basij militiaman during demonstrations in Karaj during the 40th-day memorial of Hadis Najafi. Hosseini was hanged with Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a 21-year-old sportsman who was also convicted of Fisad-e-filarz for his alleged role in the same killing. Hosseini maintained his innocence throughout his detention and trial. Hosseini was an Iranian martial arts athlete and Kickboxing champion in 2003. People who knew him well said the swords and knives discovered in his house were his martial arts equipment. He himself stated in both the short film of "Court" and "Reconstruction of the site of Ajmian's murder" released by the state media that that equipment was "for exercising." He used to coach teenagers in martial arts for free. Every Thursday, Hosseini would pay his respects at his parents' graves. He was detained on Hadis Najafi's 40th memorial day, while on his way to pay his respects at his parents' graves, who are buried in the same cemetery as Hadis Najafi.
January 7 - Mohammad Mehdi Karami, Iranian dissident, is executed by hanging at age 21 for his involvement in the Mahsa Amini protests. He was convicted of Fisad-e-filarz (an Arabic term translating to "corruption on Earth") for allegedly being involved in the killing of a Basij militiaman during protests in Karaj commemorating the 40-day anniversary of Hadis Najafi's death. Karami was executed alongside 39-year-old volunteer children's coach Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, another man who was also convicted of Fisad-e-filarz for his alleged involvement in the same killing. Both Karami and Hosseini asserted their innocence, and human rights organizations have accused Iranian authorities of using "shoddy evidence" to convict them.
January 7 - Sufia Khatun, Bangladeshi author and social activist, dies at age 100.
January 7 - Naomi Replansky, American poet, dies at age 104. She was born to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants in the Bronx. Replansky lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco for much of her adult life. Attempts to move to Paris in the 1950s were unsuccessful, as her passport was revoked during that time, apparently in reaction to her left-wing political beliefs. A documentary film Naomi Replansky at 100 by Megan Rossman, won several honors. An oil on linen portrait of Replansky by the artist Joseph Solman is in the permanent collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
January 7 - Adam Rich, American actor, dies of an accidental fentanyl overdose at age 54. He was best known for his portrayal of Nicholas Bradford, the youngest son on the television series Eight Is Enough, which ran for five seasons (1977–1981). Known for his pageboy haircut, Rich's character on the show led him to be known as "America's little brother". His family was Jewish. At age 14, he tried smoking marijuana, and at 17, in 1986, he dropped out of high school. He almost died of a valium overdose in 1989. In 1991, he was arrested after a shoplifting spree at a pharmacy and a Bullock’s department store in Northridge, Los Angeles. He was released on bail, with his television father Dick Van Patten paying his bail. In 1996, there was a media hoax that Rich had been murdered; the story was published in the San Francisco-based magazine Might, with Rich's consent. In 2002, Rich was arrested for driving under the influence. Rich had publicly discussed his experiences with depression and substance abuse in the months before he died and had a history of many drug rehabilitation stints and several overdoses. He tweeted in October 2022 that he had been sober for seven years after arrests. He urged his followers never to give up. He also did voice work on the cartoon series Dungeons & Dragons, along with Eight Is Enough co-star Willie Aames. Rich appeared in television commercials for Betty Crocker Snackin' Cake and Nabisco's Wheatsworth crackers.
January 8 - Following the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.
January 8 - Immigration policy of the Joe Biden administration: President Biden visits the Mexico–United States border for the first time during his presidency.
January 8 – Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse resigns to become the president-designate of the University of Florida. He was replaced by former governor Pete Ricketts who was appointed by his gubernatorial successor, Jim Pillen, to fill the vacancy.
January 8 - Lynnette Hardaway, American conservative activist (Diamond and Silk), dies at age 51 from heart disease. In 2018, at Congressman Steve King's invitation, they testified in front of Congress about their removal from Facebook. Subsequently, Republican members of Congress brought up the two women's censorship claims at Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress. In April 2020, the two were terminated from Fox News for questioning the legitimacy of COVID-19 data. Silk has continued her political commentary under the "Diamond and Silk" name despite Diamond's death. Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson were sisters. Their parents were Freeman and Betty Willis Hardaway, televangelical pastors based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Freeman and Betty Hardaway sold purported weight-loss cures and wreaths to ward off witchcraft. For a fee of $50, Betty wrote the names of customers in a Bible, telling customers that this would make God answer their prayers. Hardaway and Richardson were registered as Democrats as of 2012. Their first YouTube videos were a montage about police brutality, titled "Black Lives Matter" (which received 17,000 views), and a video about Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail (it received 32,000 views). After the pair began to make pro-Trump videos, their YouTube channel started to grow considerably. Hardaway was notably more talkative during their appearances, while Richardson often just expressed agreement. A documentary film by Hardaway and Richardson titled Dummycrats premiered in October 2018 at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. Diamond and Silk wrote Uprising: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? — The Awakening of Diamond and Silk, published in 2020 by Regnery. The book was on Publishers Weekly Hardcover Frontlist Non-Fiction Bestsellers ranked at No. 17 as of August 28, 2020.
January 8 - Jack W. Hayford, American Pentecostal minister and hymn writer, founder of The King's University in Texas, dies at age 88. He was widely known for his involvement in the Promise Keepers movement and for being a prolific author and songwriter, with over 600 hymns and choruses in his catalog. He is the author of the popular 1978 hymn "Majesty", which is rated as one of the top 100 contemporary hymns and performed and sung in churches worldwide. Hayford was born with a muscular condition in his neck, which improved later. Although Hayford's parents did not always attend church, he has credited them with providing him with a Christian upbringing. He had four children, 11 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
January 8 - Bernard Kalb, American journalist (Reliable Sources, The New York Times) and civil servant, assistant secretary of state for public affairs (1985–1986), dies at age 100 after complications from a fall. His father was a Polish Jewish immigrant and his mother was a Ukrainian Jew. Bernard Kalb and his younger brother, journalist Marvin Kalb, traveled extensively with Henry Kissinger on diplomatic missions and they later wrote a biography titled Kissinger. He was the first journalist who covered the State Department that had been named as its spokesperson. Kalb quit this post two years later to protest what he called "the reported disinformation program" conducted by the Reagan Administration against the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi. Kalb and his wife, Phyllis Bernstein, had four daughters. He was roughly 4 weeks away from his 101st birthday.
January 9 – Juliaca massacre: At least 18 people are killed and over 100 others are injured when the Peruvian National Police fire upon demonstrations in Juliaca.
January 9 - William Consovoy, American attorney, dies at age 48 of brain cancer. He was known for his advocacy for conservative causes. His family was involved in Republican Party politics: his grandfather, George Consovoy, was a mayor in central New Jersey, while his father, Andrew Consovoy, was a campaign aide to Thomas H. Kean and was appointed to the state's parole board after Kean was elected governor in 1981. In 2009, Consovoy returned to Wiley Rein, where he worked with Bert Rein (the founder of the firm) and Edward Blum (a conservative activist) on Supreme Court cases such as Fisher v. University of Texas, involving affirmative action, and Shelby County v. Holder, the case which effectively invalidated elements of the Voting Rights Act. He and Tom McCarthy, another George Mason alumnus, then started their own law firm, Consovoy McCarthy; the firm worked with Blum to sue Harvard University and the University of North Carolina over their affirmative action policies. A 2020 New York Times article described the firm's "sprawling menu of wedge-issue litigation", which included defending Georgia's heartbeat law, representing Kansas in its efforts to deprive Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funding, and supporting an Alabama attempt to prevent the revival of the Equal Rights Amendment. Consovoy represented President Donald Trump in his efforts to shield his tax returns from Congressional committees and in lawsuits involving the Emoluments Clause. In one tax-returns case, he argued that while in office, Trump could not be prosecuted even if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue. In 2020, his firm fought against California's efforts to send all voters absentee ballots, extensions to Wisconsin's mail-in voting deadline, and felon re-enfranchisement in Florida. The New York Times described Consovoy as "a Trump lawyer who mixes Jersey guy affability with an affinity for some of the most divisive culture-wars legal disputes"; The Washington Post called him "[a]n outside-the-box thinker with a big imagination". Neal Katyal, who served as acting solicitor general during the Obama administration, described him as "one of the greatest lawyers of our generation". Consovoy was a member of the Federalist Society. Tom McCarthy told CNN in October 2022 that Consovoy was being treated for brain cancer, with which he had been diagnosed about two years earlier, and that he would not be participating in that month's Supreme Court arguments involving Harvard's and the University of North Carolina's affirmative action policies.
January 9 - Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson, Russian-American pianist and Holocaust survivor, dies at age 95. She was a faculty member of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Bloomington). Dawson came to national prominence in 2009 after her son, journalist Greg Dawson published a book, “Hiding in the Spotlight”, chronicling her escape from the Holocaust. A middle-grade book, “Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis”, by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson was published in 2022 and is narrated by Zhanna's granddaughter Aimée Dawson. Janna Arshanskaya was born in Berdyansk, Ukraine on April 1, 1927. She was the daughter of Sara and Dmitri Arshansky, a Jewish candy maker and amateur violinist from Berdyansk, a town in southeastern Ukraine. Her father bought her a German piano and enrolled her in piano lessons at age five. At six years old she made her performance debut, playing J.S. Bach's Two-Part Invention No. 1 on the radio. When Zhanna was eight her father's business failed and the family moved to the larger city of Kharkov. Both sisters were offered scholarships at the Moscow State Conservatory, St. Petersburg Conservatory and Kharkiv National University of Arts where they studied under Regina Horowitz, sister of famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz. In 1941, Dawson and her family were living in Kharkov when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union and began to strategically and brutally kill Jews. All the Jews in Kharkov who had not left, more than 16,000, were grouped together by the Nazis and sent on a long forced march to be killed and buried in the ravine Drobitsky Yar near Kharkov. A mile from the ravine, her father bribed one of the guards by giving him a gold watch, so that he would allow Zhanna to escape. Zhanna hid among the crowd that had gathered to watch. She was later reunited with her sister Frina at the home of the Bogancha family in Kharkov (Frina has to date never revealed how she too escaped). The two concealed their Jewish identity by inventing a cover story on how their parents were killed, calling themselves Anna and Marina Morozova. They made their way to an orphanage in Kremenchuk, Ukraine to get official papers to certify their aliases where a piano technician noticed their talent, and introduced them to a theater director who was in charge of entertaining the Nazis. Thereafter, the sisters performed piano for Germans (who never knew they were Jews) throughout the war. Though several people accused them of not being who they said they were, they were never caught.
January 9 - Melinda Dillon, American actress (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Absence of Malice, A Christmas Story, Harry and the Hendersons), dies at age 83. Dillon was born as Melinda Ruth Clardy on October 13, 1939, in Hope, Arkansas, but raised in Cullman, Alabama. Dillon married actor Richard Libertini, with whom she had a son, in 1963. They divorced in 1978. Dillon was a Methodist. She was a staffer on Democrat Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign. McCarthy won the primary, but Hubert Humphrey won the convention after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
January 9 - Adolfo Kaminsky, Argentine-born French forger and resistant, dies at age 97. During World War II, he forged papers that saved the lives of more than 14,000 Jews. He later assisted Jewish immigration to the British Mandate for Palestine and then forged identity documents for the Algerian National Liberation Front and French draft dodgers during the Algerian War (1954–62). He forged papers for thirty years for different activist groups, mainly national liberation fronts, without ever requiring payment. Kaminsky was born in Argentina to a Jewish Russian family, the son of Anna (Kinoël) and Salomon Kaminsky. In 1932, when Kaminsky was seven years old, he moved with his family to Paris, where his father worked as a tailor. From Paris, the family moved in 1938 to Vire, Calvados, where his uncle was established. Adolfo worked in a dye shop and became fascinated by the chemistry of colorants. At that time, he bought a treatise by chemist Marcellin Berthelot at a flea market. He later created his own laboratory in his uncle's house and worked in a butter factory as an assistant to a chemist who taught him the basics. His mother was killed by the Nazis in 1941. Aged 17, Adolfo Kaminsky entered the Resistance. In 1943 his family was interned in the camp of Drancy, as a prelude to deportation. Thanks to support from the Consul of Argentina, which had broken diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany under pressure from the United States, they were freed on December 22, 1943, and moved on to Paris. Kaminsky used to say: "Stay awake. As long as possible. Struggle against sleep. The calculation is easy. In one hour, I make 30 false papers. If I sleep one hour, 30 people will die." Kaminsky subsequently lived for ten years in Algiers, married a Tuareg woman, and had five children, including hip-hop singer Rocé. In 1982, he moved to France with a temporary residence permit. All his family was naturalized French in 1992. Adolfo's daughter Sarah, born in 1979, is an actress and writer who wrote a biography of her father, which has been translated into Spanish and German, and also into English in 2016 as Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life.
January 10 - Allen Weisselberg is sentenced to five months in jail for a decade-long tax fraud scheme involving the Trump Organization.
January 10 - Recreational cannabis sales begin in Connecticut.
January 10 - Constantine II, Greek monarch and sailor, king (1964–1973) and Olympic champion (1960), dies at age 82 from a stroke. He was the last King of Greece, reigning from 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy in 1973. Constantine was born in Athens as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica of Greece. Being of Danish descent, he was also born as a prince of Denmark. As his family was forced into exile during the Second World War, he spent the first years of his childhood in Egypt and South Africa. He returned to Greece with his family in 1946 during the Greek Civil War. After Constantine's uncle George II died in 1947, Paul became the new king and Constantine the crown prince. As a young man, Constantine was a competitive sailor and Olympian, winning a gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympics in the Dragon class along with Odysseus Eskitzoglou and George Zaimis in the yacht Nireus. From 1964, he served on the International Olympic Committee. He married Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, with whom he had five children. His reign saw political instability that culminated in the Colonels' Coup of 1967. The coup left Constantine, as head of state, with little room to maneuver since he had no loyal military forces on which to rely. He thus reluctantly agreed to inaugurate the junta, on the condition that it be made up largely of civilian ministers. On December 13, 1967, Constantine was forced to flee the country, following an unsuccessful countercoup against the junta. Constantine formally remained Greece's head of state in exile until the junta abolished the monarchy in June 1973, a decision ratified via a referendum in July, which was contested by Constantine. After the restoration of democracy a year later, another referendum was called for December 1974, but Constantine was not allowed to return to Greece to campaign. The referendum confirmed by a majority of almost 70% the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic. Constantine accepted the verdict of the 1974 vote. From 1975 until 1978 he was involved in conspiracies to overthrow the government via a coup, which eventually did not materialize. After living for several decades in London, Constantine moved back to Athens in 2013.
January 10 - Blake Hounshell, American journalist for The New York Times, Politico, and Foreign Policy, dies at age 44 from suicide by jumping from the Taft Bridge in Washington, DC. He had clinical depression. A graduate of Yale University, he was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Award. The same year, Time magazine identified him as operating one of the best Twitter accounts. After graduation, Hounshell moved to Egypt to study, and learn Arabic. In Cairo, Hounshell worked at the human-rights focused Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies think tank founded by Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Foreign Policy won the Media Industry Newsletter's Best of the Web award in 2008, under his leadership. Hounshell co-edited Ricardo Lagos's 2012 memoir Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future. He was married and had two children.
January 10 - Irenaios, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (2001–2005), dies at age 83 after a long illness. He was born on the Greek island of Samos as Emmanouil Skopelitis in 1939 and moved to Jerusalem in 1953. In early 2005, almost four years into his term as patriarch, Irenaios was accused of selling three properties of the Greek Church in the Old City of Jerusalem to Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish organization whose declared aim is that of establishing a Jewish majority in Jerusalem's Old City and in Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. As most of the Orthodox Christians in the area are Palestinian, and the land was in an Arab-populated area that most Palestinians hoped would become a part of a future Palestinian capital, these accusations caused a great deal of concern among Church members. On May 6, 2005, with a voting that required a two-thirds majority, the Holy Synod of Jerusalem (the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem) deposed Irenaios as patriarch. Irenaios, nevertheless, refused to accept his deposition. The Jordanian king and the Palestinian Authority immediately recognized Irenaios's dismissal, while Israel continued to recognize Irenaios as the Orthodox patriarch for over two years, and continued to invite him to official government functions. In December 2007, Israel finally joined the Jordanian and Palestinian governments in recognizing Theophilos III as the new Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem. From February 2008 until 2015, Irenaios did not leave his apartment, receiving food from his supporters via a basket tied to a rope lowered down to the surrounding streets, and claiming he was imprisoned there by Theophilos III, while the Greek Patriarchate claimed that Irenaios had voluntarily imprisoned himself, and was free to leave his apartment, but preferred to remain locked up inside in protest for not accepting his legal deposition. In 2011, Irenaios confirmed in an interview given to Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he was not prevented from leaving the building, but didn't do so out of fear he might not be able to return. He was buried in his birthplace of Samos as Patriarch Theophilos III refused to allow Irenaios to be buried in Jerusalem.
January 10 - Tyre Nichols, American motorist, dies at age 29 three days after being severely beaten by police officers. Medics on the scene failed to administer care for 16 minutes after arriving. Nichols was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. The officers reported that they stopped Nichols for reckless driving. The Memphis Police Department released four edited video clips from police body cameras and a nearby pole-mounted camera. MPD Police Chief Cerelyn J. Davis later stated that the department had reviewed camera footage and could not find any evidence of probable cause for the traffic stop. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of Justice both opened investigations into the incident. The autopsy determined the cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head and liver failure, with the manner of death as homicide. The MPD has disciplined, relieved of duty, dismissed, or arrested thirteen officers regarding their conduct. Memphis Fire Services terminated three employees for their failure to evaluate or assist Nichols. After the release of the videos, widespread protests began on January 27. According to his family's attorney, Nichols was "almost impossibly slim" due to Crohn's disease, and weighed 145 pounds at a height of 6 feet 3 inches. Four out of the five officers had prior disciplinary actions by MPD for various offences. All five were members of an MPD 30-person specialized hot spot policing unit known as SCORPION (Street Crimes Operation to Restore Peace In Our Neighborhoods). The unit was disbanded on January 28.
January 10–17 – A cold snap in Afghanistan kills 166 people and nearly 80,000 livestock. Temperatures reached as low as −27 °F and snowfall was as high as 12 inches in more mountainous regions.
January 11 – 2023 FAA system outage: For the first time since 9/11, the Federal Aviation Administration issues a nationwide ground stop following the failure of the FAA's NOTAM system.
January 11 - Agnes Flight, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, is euthanized at age 25 after he could no longer stand. He was sired by Sunday Silence covering Agnes Flora, and is therefore full-brother to Agnes Tachyon. As a three-year-old, Agnes Flight, ridden by Hiroshi Kawachi, won the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby). Overall, he started 14 times during his career, won four times, and came second twice.
January 12 – Joe Biden classified documents incident: Attorney general Merrick Garland appoints Robert Hur to investigate mishandling of classified documents by President Biden.
January 12 - Harold Brown, American Air Force officer, dies at age 98. He served during World War II as a combat fighter pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group, best known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Brown's P-51C aircraft was shot down in the European Theatre of World War II and he became a prisoner of war. In his autobiography Keep your Airspeed Up Brown says he developed a passion for flying as a teen. Brown claims to have read everything he could at the local library, about airplanes. He claims that two major influences on his passion for flying were the book The Life of an Army Corps Cadet: Randolph field, west Point of the Air, and a 1938 movie called The Dawn Patrol. He saved up $35 for flying lessons in a Piper J-3 Cub and at $7 a lesson he ran out of money before completing the program. After graduating from high school, he applied to the military to become a pilot. He was underweight so he was instructed to gain weight. After gaining weight to reach the 128.75 pound threshold he was accepted to the Tuskegee Institute for flight training. While he had experienced some racial discrimination in Minnesota, Brown was upset by having to abide by Jim Crow segregation practices when off-base in Alabama. He limited his exposure to racism by spending most of his time in local black communities. At 19 years old, on May 23, 1944, Brown graduated from flight school as a 2nd Lieutenant. During a strafing mission over Germany, he encountered a German Messerschmitt Me 262 and pursued it, attempting to shoot it down. In 1945, Brown was flying a P-51C east of Bruck, Austria. His flight path took him over anti-aircraft emplacements, where he crashed after shrapnel from a destroyed German cargo train hit his plane. He was surrounded by Austrian and German citizens who then attempted to lynch him, before a German constable intervened and took him to a prisoner of war camp for two months. He was one of 32 of the Tuskegee Airmen to be captured during the war. During the Korean War he was stationed at Tachikawa Air Base, Tokyo. Brown flew missions in South Korea from Taegu Air Base, Pusan Air Base and Seoul Air Base. Brown retired from the Air Force in 1965 at the rank of lieutenant colonel. The Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to the Tuskegee Airmen in 2006. In 2020, the Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame inducted Brown into its ranks. The Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame also awarded Brown and his wife the "Writers of the Year" award for their book.
January 12 - Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1983–1984), dies at age 67 from lung cancer. He was the first African in history to ever fight for, and win, a world heavyweight championship. He held notable knockout wins against WBA world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes and undisputed world heavyweight champion Leon Spinks, as well as a draw with future WBC world heavyweight champion Pinklon Thomas and wins over top contenders Ron Stander, Scott LeDoux and James Tillis. One of Coetzee's nicknames, "The Bionic Hand", came about because of persistent troubles with his right hand, which required the insertion of several corrective items during three surgeries. His Afrikaans nickname was "Seer Handjies", or "Sore Little Hands", named so by fellow South African boxing great Kallie Knoetze.
January 12 - Frene Ginwala, South African politician and academic administrator, speaker of the National Assembly (1994–2004), chancellor of the UKZN (2005–2007), dies at age 90 of complications from a stroke. She was influential in the writing of the Constitution of South Africa and an important figure in establishing democracy in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg, Ginwala was an Indian South African from the Parsi-Indian community of western India. Ginwala has written a number of books dealing with various aspects of the struggle against injustice. For her efforts, she has been honored by international and local institutions and governments. Using her anonymity, she played a tremendous role in establishing underground escape routes for ANC (African National Congress) members in the period following the Sharpeville massacre and the declaration of the State of Emergency (SOE) in 1960. She organized safe houses for those who had to remain in the country. Ginwala also chauffeured NIC (Natal Indian Congress) leaders Monty Naicker and J. N. Singh, who were operating from the underground after managing to dodge the police swoop. Their instructions were to travel around the province and raise money from secret donors in order to support the families left destitute through the arrest of their breadwinners under the SOE which hung over the country for five months. Eventually she had to leave South Africa in the latter part of 1960 and together with Tambo, and Dadoo, they established an exile ANC office in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika which was still under British Colonial Administration until December 9, 1961. She also wrote for a number of the established media outlets in the UK and elsewhere including the BBC. Ginwala was instrumental in establishing a communications system in the newly established United Republic of Tanzania. At the request of President Julius Nyerere, she became the managing editor of the English-speaking daily newspaper Standard, and Sunday News. During the entire period of her exile (she returned to South Africa in 1991) she traversed the world preaching the horrors of apartheid and the fight against it. Ginwala was appointed the first chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in April 2005. At the time, she was one of only four female university chancellors in South Africa.
January 12 - Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, and A History of Christianity), dies at age 94. Although associated with the political left in his early career, he became a popular conservative historian. After graduating with a second-class honours degree, Johnson performed his national service in the Army, joining the King's Royal Rifle Corps and then the Royal Army Educational Corps, where he was commissioned as a captain (acting) based mainly in Gibraltar. Here he saw the "grim misery and cruelty of the Franco regime". Johnson's military record helped the Paris periodical Réalités hire him, where he was assistant editor from 1952 to 1955. Johnson adopted a left-wing political outlook during this period as he witnessed in May 1952 the police response to a riot in Paris (Communists were rioting over the visit of American general, Matthew Ridgway, who commanded the US Eighth Army during the Korean War; he had just been appointed NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe), the "ferocity [of which] I would not have believed had I not seen it with my own eyes." Then he served as the New Statesman's Paris correspondent. For a time, he was a convinced Bevanite and an associate of Aneurin Bevan himself. In 1958 he attacked Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Dr No, and in 1964 he warned of "The Menace of Beatlism". There was some resistance to Johnson's appointment as New Statesman editor, not least from the writer Leonard Woolf, who objected to a Catholic filling the position, and Johnson was placed on six months' probation. During the late 1970s, Johnson began writing articles in the New Statesman attacking trade unions in particular, and leftism in general. In his journalism, Johnson generally dealt with issues and events which he saw as indicative of a general social decline, whether in art, education, religious observance or personal conduct. He continued to contribute to the magazine, although less frequently than before. During the same period, he contributed a column to the Daily Mail until 2001. In a Daily Telegraph interview in November 2003, he criticized the Mail for having a pernicious impact: "I came to the conclusion that that kind of journalism is bad for the country, bad for society, bad for the newspaper." Johnson was a critic of modernity because of what he saw as its moral relativism, and he objected to those who use Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to justify their atheism, such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, or use it to promote biotechnological experimentation. As a conservative Catholic, Johnson regarded liberation theology as a heresy and defended clerical celibacy, but departed from others in seeing many good reasons for ordination of women as priests. Admired by conservatives in the United States and elsewhere, he was strongly anticommunist. Johnson defended Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, finding his cover-up considerably less heinous than Bill Clinton's perjury and Oliver North's involvement in the Iran–Contra affair. In his Spectator column, Johnson defended his friend Jonathan Aitken and expressed admiration for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and limited admiration for Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco. Johnson was active in the campaign, led by Norman Lamont, to prevent Pinochet's extradition to Spain after his 1998 arrest in London. "There have been countless attempts to link him to human rights atrocities, but nobody has provided a single scrap of evidence", Johnson was reported as saying in 1999. In Heroes (2008), Johnson returned to his longstanding claim that criticism of Pinochet's dictatorship on human rights grounds came from "the Soviet Union, whose propaganda machine successfully demonised [Pinochet] among the chattering classes all over the world. It was the last triumph of the KGB before it vanished into history's dustbin." Johnson described France as "a republic run by bureaucratic and party elites, whose errors are dealt with by strikes, street riots and blockades" rather than a democracy. He married Marigold Hunt (daughter of physician to Winston Churchill) and they had three sons and a daughter. Marigold's sister, Sarah, married the journalist, former diplomat, and politician George Walden; their daughter, Celia Walden, is married to television presenter and former newspaper editor Piers Morgan. In 1998, it was revealed Johnson had an affair lasting eleven years with Gloria Stewart, a freelance journalist, who recorded them together in his study "at the behest of a British tabloid"; she first claimed to have made the affair public because she objected to Johnson's hypocrisy about religion and family values, but later acknowledged that their affair had ended when Johnson "found another girlfriend". Johnson was an avid watercolorist. He was also a friend of playwright Tom Stoppard, who dedicated his 1978 play Night and Day to him. In 2006, Johnson was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President George W. Bush.
January 12 - Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter ("Lights Out" and "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"), dies at age 54 from a small bowel obstruction. She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father's estate after her grandfather and her great-grandmother died. Her musical career consisted of three studio albums. Presley also released non-album singles, including duets with her father using archival recordings. Her memoir, titled From Here to the Great Unknown, was released posthumously in October 2024. She was born nine months to the day after her parents' wedding. Presley's parents separated when she was four years old and her father died when she was nine-years-old. Through her grandfather Vernon Presley, Lisa Marie was a descendant of the Harrison family of Virginia. Their other descendants include a Founding Father of the United States, Benjamin Harrison V, and three U. S. presidents: William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. On her 25th birthday in 1993, Lisa Marie inherited the estate, which had grown to an estimated $100 million. She sold 85 percent of Elvis Presley Enterprises in 2004. In the late 1970s, a year or two after her father's death, she attended her first rock concert when she saw Queen at The Forum in Inglewood, California. She gave Freddie Mercury a scarf of her father's after the show, and expressed her love of theatrics. Presley made a video of "Don't Cry Daddy" as a posthumous duet with her father in 1997. This video was presented on August 16, 1997, at the tribute concert that marked the 20th anniversary of Elvis' death. The video contains Elvis' original vocal to which new instrumentation and Lisa Marie's vocals were added. She had four children, including actress Riley Keough.
January 15 – Yeti Airlines Flight 691 crashes during final approach into Pokhara, Nepal, killing all 72 people on board.
January 16 – Tigray War: Amharan Special Forces withdraw from the Tigray Region in line with an African Union-backed peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
January 16 – A baby, a teenager, and four others are killed in a mass shooting at a home in Goshen, California, by alleged cartel members.
January 18 – A helicopter crashes into a kindergarten in Brovary near Kyiv, Ukraine killing 14 people including Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky and injuring 25 more people.
January 18 – The US Virgin Islands legalizes marijuana, becoming the third US territory and 25th US jurisdiction overall to do so.
January 19 – Trade union membership hits an all-time low in US dropping from 10.3% to 10.1%.
January 21 - Burkina Faso requests French forces to withdraw from its territory after suspending a military accord that allowed the presence of French troops in the country.
January 21 - Tigray War: Eritrean forces withdraw from Shire and other major towns in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
January 21 – A mass shooting occurs at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, after a Lunar New Year celebration. Eleven people are killed, and nine more are injured; the perpetrator commits suicide the following day.
January 23 - Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack: Four Oath Keepers in addition to the person who laid his feet on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk are convicted.
January 23 - A spree of mass shootings in Half Moon Bay, California kills seven farmworkers and critically injured an eighth person.
January 24 – Classified documents are revealed to be found at the home of former Vice President Mike Pence.
January 27 – Widespread unrest erupts in Israel following an Israeli military raid in Jenin the previous day which killed nine Palestinians. Incendiary air balloons are launched into Israeli-populated areas following it. Israel responds with targeted airstrikes. Later the same day, seven Jewish civilians are killed in a synagogue in Neve Yaakov in a terrorist attack.
January 27 – Protests begin after the Memphis Police Department releases a footage of officers beating Tyre Nichols to death. Following the release of the footage, the department disbands its SCORPION unit while the Memphis Fire Services dismisses three personnel for failing to render aid.
January 30 - A Jamaat-ul-Ahrar suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, kills 84 people and injures over 220 others.
January 30 - Prime Minister of Fiji Sitiveni Rabuka confirms that Kiribati will rejoin the Pacific Islands Forum after leaving the organization the previous year.
January 31–February 2 – A massive ice storm over the Southern United States kills 10 people.

February 1 – Lebanese liquidity crisis: The central bank of Lebanon devalues the Lebanese pound by 90% amid an ongoing financial crisis.
February 1 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady announces his retirement from the NFL.
February 1 - Joe Biden classified documents incident: The FBI conducts a planned search of President Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
February 1 - The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 percent from 4.5 percent to 4.75 percent.
February 2 - Israel and Sudan announce the finalization of an agreement to normalize relations between the two countries.
February 2 - The European Central Bank and Bank of England raise their interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to combat inflation, one day after the US Federal Reserve raises its federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points.
February 2 - In a party-line vote, the House of Representatives ousts Representative Ilhan Omar from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs due to remarks that she had previously made regarding Israeli policy that many deemed as antisemitic.
February 2 - In United States v. Rahimi, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that a federal law which criminalizes the possession of a firearm by an individual who is subject to a restraining order for domestic violence is unconstitutional.
February 2 - 2023 Chinese balloon incident: Defense officials announce that a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon is being tracked over the western United States. One balloon drifts from Yukon to South Carolina before being shot down the next day, and a second hovers over Colombia and Brazil. This event is followed by subsequent detections and shootdowns of high-altitude objects elsewhere. The US later announced that the balloons did not collect any information.
February 3 - A Norfolk Southern train carrying hazardous materials derails in East Palestine, Ohio. Multiple train cars burn for more than two days, followed by emergency crews conducting a controlled burn of several additional cars, releasing hydrogen chloride and phosgene into the atmosphere.
February 3 - Recreational cannabis sales begin in Missouri.
February 4 - Cyclone Freddy forms in the Indian Ocean. It would become the longest lasting tropical cyclone in history and cause over 1,400 deaths and countless injuries and property damage across southeastern Africa.
February 4 - February 2023 North American cold wave: Mount Washington, New Hampshire sets a record low wind chill temperature in the country at −108 °F.
February 6 – A 7.8 Mww earthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 Mww aftershock on the same day, causing widespread damage and at more than 59,000 fatalities and 121,000 injured.
February 7 - President Biden gives his second official State of the Union Address to Congress.
February 7 - LeBron James breaks the all-time NBA scoring record, scoring 38,388 points. The record was previously held by Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
February 9 – Former Vice President Mike Pence is subpoenaed by a special counsel leading investigations into former President Donald Trump.
February 10 - The United States military shoots down a high-altitude object over Alaska into the Beaufort Sea. The Department of Defense said it was the size of a small car and flying northeast at approximately 40,000 feet, posing a risk to civilian flight. On February 16, President Joe Biden stated that the downed object was probably a civilian-owned balloon and "most likely tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions". An attempt was made to recover the debris. However, on February 18, it was reported that the search had been abandoned.
February 10 – Mike Pence classified documents incident: The FBI conducts a search of Pence's home and finds an additional classified document.
February 11 – The United States military, under orders of President Biden, shoots down a high-altitude object over Yukon, Canada. After snowfall in the area made the debris difficult to find, the search was called off on February 17. Amateur radio enthusiasts speculated that the object may have been an amateur radio pico balloon with callsign K9YO, from the fact that the balloon's last reported contact was immediately before it drifted over the Yukon, at around the same place and time where the shootdown was reported. The balloon had been airborne for 124 days and circumnavigated the globe 7 times before being reported missing. High-altitude, circumnavigational pico balloons cost between $12 and $180, weigh less than 6 pounds and are filled with helium or hydrogen gas. Hobbyists have been using them for a decade. Pico balloons are small enough they are not considered a hazard to aircraft.
February 12 - The United States military shoots down an unidentified object over Lake Huron, the third in less than a week. On February 16, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that the search for the object had been suspended due to deteriorating weather and low chance of recovery. The object was unmanned and was reportedly octagonal in shape. The object reportedly had strings hanging off it.
February 12 - 2022 NFL season: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles by a score of 38–35 to win Super Bowl LVII. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes wins Super Bowl MVP.
February 13 - Georgia judge Robert C.I. McBurney approves the release of parts of a grand jury inquiry investigating former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
February 13 - A mass shooting is carried out at Michigan State University. Three students were killed in the attack and five others injured. The shooter committed suicide as he was being approached by police.
February 14 – The European Parliament approves a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles in the European Union from 2035, citing the need to combat climate change in Europe and promote electric vehicles.
February 14 – Nikki Haley announces her 2024 presidential campaign.
February 15 - Raquel Welch, American actress (One Million Years B.C., The Three Musketeers, Fantastic Voyage), dies at age 82 of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in “One Million Years B.C.”, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. Welch posed for Playboy in 1979, but she never did a fully nude shoot. In 2014, during an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Welch described herself as being on the conservative side, attributing it to her upbringing and mother's Midwestern values. In 2015 Welch attended a gathering for the Republican Jewish Coalition in Beverly Hills. Welch supported the Vietnam War, appearing at United Service Organizations (USO) shows, often with Bob Hope. She had four divorces and two children.
February 16 – Lawmakers in the Russian State Duma vote to withdraw Russia from 21 conventions of the Council of Europe; an international organization with the goal of upholding human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.
February 17 – The South African Navy hosts a ten-day joint military exercise in the Indian Ocean with Russia and China.
February 17 – A shooting spree takes place in Arkabutla, Mississippi, killing six people and injuring one other person. The suspect is later arrested.
February 19 – Libyan Crisis: The African Union announces the organization of a peace conference to address the instability in Libya.
February 21 – Vladimir Putin announces that Russia is suspending its participation in New START, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the US. It was signed in 2010 in Prague during the Obama administration.
February 21– A special election was held to fill the vacancy in Virginia's 4th congressional district left by Democrat Donald McEachin, who died on November 28, 2022. Democrat Jennifer McClellan wins the election to serve out the remainder of McEachin's term. He died of colorectal cancer a few weeks after his reelection to a fourth term in the 2022 elections.
February 21 – Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announces his candidacy for president in the 2024 election.
February 21–24 – A massive winter storm causes extreme wind and rain on the West Coast of the United States, while bringing extreme blizzard conditions to the Midwest and Northeast. In Utah, at least 110-120 crashes were reported, including on I-15, and I-84.
February 23 – Oman opens its airspace to Israeli airlines for the first time, in an upgrade of bilateral relations.
February 23 – The syndicated Dilbert comic strip is dropped by many newspapers, most notably the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today, after creator Scott Adams posts a video in which he characterized black people as a "hate group".
February 27 – The United Kingdom and the European Union reach an agreement surrounding modifications to the Northern Ireland Protocol.
February 28 – A train crash in Thessaly, Greece, kills 57 people and injures dozens. The crash leads to nationwide protests and strikes against the condition of Greek railways and their mismanagement.

March 2 - Trial of Alex Murdaugh: Alex Murdaugh is convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison without parole the next day for the murders of both his wife and son as well as two gun charges.
March 2 - Tennessee governor Bill Lee signs the Tennessee Adult Entertainment Act into law, controversial legislation which bans drag performances towards minors in the state.
March 2 - Businessman Perry Johnson announces his 2024 presidential campaign.
March 3 – Walgreens announces that it will not sell abortion pills in states where Republican officials threaten to take legal action.
March 4 - UN member states agree on a legal framework for the High Seas Treaty, which aims to protect 30% of the world's oceans by 2030.
March 4 - Kivu conflict: Burundi deploys 100 troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help fight insurgencies by militias, including M23.
March 4 – Marianne Williamson announces her 2024 presidential campaign.
March 5 – The 2023 Estonian parliamentary election is held, with two center-right liberal parties gaining an absolute majority for the first time.
March 6 – State representative and former Baptist pastor Bryan Slaton introduces the Texas Independence Referendum Act which, if passed, would call for a state referendum on the secession of Texas from the United States. The bill would later fail to get out of committee before the end of the regular session.
March 7 – Oklahoma voters rejected State Question 820, which if passed, would have legalized recreational cannabis for adults 21 and over, given a 15% excise tax on cannabis sales. The margin against State Question 820 was an overwhelming 62% against.
March 8 – Allied Democratic Forces jihadist insurgents use machetes to kill about 35 people in the village of Mukondi, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
March 8 - Transgender issues in the United States: Minnesota governor Tim Walz signs an executive order to protect gender altering treatments. It instructs state agencies to protect access to these services and unless compelled by court order, they are to not comply with investigations in other states where surgeries or treatments are banned or seriously limited.
March 8 - March 2023 United States bank failures: Silvergate Bank, a California bank that dealt mostly in cryptocurrency, announces its plan to liquidate and effectively ceases operations after it failed to remain solvent due to a tumultuous cryptocurrency market.
March 10 - The 2023 Chinese presidential election is held with the National People's Congress unanimously re-electing Xi Jinping as the President of the People's Republic of China to an unprecedented third term.
March 10 - Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume diplomatic relations which were severed in 2016, at talks mediated by China.
March 10 - Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the United States, fails, creating then the largest bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis, affecting companies around the world.
March 10 - Kivu conflict: Angola announces the deployment of troops to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, following the failure of a ceasefire between government forces and M23 rebels in North Kivu.
March 12 - The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once lead the nominations with eleven. The film wins seven of those awards, including Best Picture. The telecast, not counting streaming views, garnered 18.7 million views, a slight increase from the previous ceremony.
March 12 - Signature Bank, headquartered in New York City, collapses and becomes the third bank in five days to fail. With $110 billion in assets, it is the fourth largest bank failure in American history.
March 13 – The Alaska Willow project, which calls for oil extraction in the northern region of the state, is approved. The project was and remains subject to substantial controversy and protest, especially on social media.
March 14 – OpenAI launches GPT-4, a large language model for ChatGPT, which can respond to images and can process up to 25,000 words.
March 14 – The March 2023 nor'easter causes widespread damage and knocks out power for 250,000 people in New York and New England.
March 15 – Federal regulators approve the merger of major railroads Kansas City Southern and Canadian Pacific.
March 17 – The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Russian president Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russian Commissioner for Children's Rights, marking the first arrest warrant against a leader of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
March 17 - Lance Reddick, American actor (The Wire, Fringe, John Wick) and musician, dies at age 60 from heart disease. He portrayed Zeus in the Disney series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” (2024), which was released posthumously. He was married twice and had two children.
March 18 – Wyoming becomes the first US state to ban the Mifepristone pill for medical abortion.
March 19 – In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, investment bank UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion in an all-stock deal.
March 20 - The Idaho state legislature passes a bill that brings in execution by firing squad. If signed by the governor, Idaho would become the fifth state to use this method.
March 20 - President Biden issues his first veto to block a federal rule by the Department of Labor to weigh the long-term impacts of social factors and climate change on investments.
March 22 – The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 percent from 4.75 percent to 5 percent.
March 23 – World Athletics, the global governing body for athletics, bans trans women who have gone through male puberty from competing in female events.
March 24 – 2023 Pennsylvania chocolate factory explosion: An explosion at an R.M. Palmer Company chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania kills seven and injures eight others. The cause of the explosion has been determined to be a natural-gas fueled explosion and fire.
March 24–27 – A tornado outbreak kills at least 26 people in Mississippi and Alabama. This includes a violent tornado which devastated the city of Rolling Fork and the town of Silver City in Mississippi, killing 16 people and injuring 165 others.
March 26 - Honduras switches its formal diplomatic recognition of "China" from the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the People's Republic of China.
March 26 - 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests: Large-scale spontaneous protests erupt across Israel in the wake of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firing his defense minister who criticized the government's judicial overhaul plan.
March 27 - Six victims as well as the transgender perpetrator are killed in a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
March 27 - President Biden invokes the Defense Production Act to spend $50 million on the production of printed circuit boards.
March 28 – The United States announces that it will stop sharing information about its nuclear arsenal with Russia over the latter's withdrawal from the New START nuclear arms treaty.
March 29 - Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary.
March 29 - Burkina Faso formally resumes diplomatic relations with North Korea after suspending them in 2017.
March 29 – In basketball, the Sacramento Kings make the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2006, ending their record 17-year playoff drought.
March 30 – The International Court of Justice rules that the United States violated its Treaty of Amity with Iran when it allowed its domestic courts to freeze assets held by Iranian companies.
March 30 - Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal: Trump is indicted over his hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, making him the first former president to be charged with a crime.
March 31 – Kentucky governor Andy Beshear signs a bill legalizing medical cannabis in the state.
March 31 – April 1 – A historic and widespread tornado outbreak occurs in the United States, killing 33 people, injuring more than 218 others, and caused over $5.4 billion in damage. This tornado outbreak produced 147 tornadoes, making it the third largest tornado outbreak in history.

April 1 – Federal judge Robert L. Pitman orders that twelve books containing LGBT and racial content which were banned by Llano County, Texas school officials must be returned to school shelves.
April 2 - The 2023 Finnish parliamentary election is held, with the center-right National Coalition led by Petteri Orpo receiving the most votes.
April 2 - Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson announces his 2024 presidential campaign.
April 2 - LSU's women's basketball team defeats Iowa's by a score of 102-85 to win the 2023 running of women's March Madness. The Lady Tigers score their first national title, and the game scores the highest TV ratings in tournament history.
April 3 - World Wrestling Entertainment is sold to Endeavor, the parent company of the mixed martial arts promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship. WWE and UFC are set to merge and form a new company, with the merger to be finalized by the second half of the year.
April 3 - NASA announces the crew of Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon and beyond Low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 back in 1972.
April 4 – Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO, doubling the alliance's border with Russia.
April 4 - 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Progressive candidate Janet Protasiewicz defeats conservative candidate Daniel Kelly, providing progressives with control of the state's highest court for the first time in fifteen years.
April 4 – Indictment of Donald Trump: The former president pleads not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records related to the scandal involving Stormy Daniels.
April 5 – Clashes between Palestinians and the Israeli police happen at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
April 5 – Attorney and author Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces his presidential campaign, challenging Biden in the 2024 Democratic primaries.
April 6 - 2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions: The Republican-dominated Tennessee House of Representatives expels two Democrats who protested in favor of gun control reform; a vote to expel a third one failed.
April 6 - ProPublica publishes a report which details that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has repeatedly failed to disclose luxury trips with Republican megadonor Harlan Crow over the past twenty years.
April 10 – Two document leaks from the Pentagon detailing foreign military aid relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are leaked onto the Internet.
April 10 - Five people are killed and eight others are injured in a mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky. The perpetrator is also killed.
April 10 - 2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions: The Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County unanimously votes to reinstate Representative Justin Jones to his seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
April 11 – Myanmar civil war: In the village of Pazigyi, at least 165 people are killed by the Myanmar Air Force during the opening celebrations of a People's Defence Force administration office.
April 11 – In ice hockey, the Boston Bruins break the NHL record for the most points scored in a single season with 133 points. This comes two days after surpassing the 2018–19 Tampa Bay Lightning and 1995–96 Detroit Red Wings for the most wins in a regular season with their 63rd win.
April 12 - The Arizona Supreme Court rules that the Latter-day Saints Church can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a confessional setting.
April 12 - 2023 Tennessee House of Representatives expulsions: The Shelby County Commission votes to re-instate Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives.
April 13 - 2022–2023 Pentagon document leaks: The FBI arrests Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, who allegedly leaked classified United States Department of Defense documents on his Discord server. On the following day, he is charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
April 13 - Florida enacts legislation which bans most abortions after six weeks.
April 14 – Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Jovian system, with an expected arrival date of 2031.
April 14 – Montana becomes the first state to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices from operating within state lines and barring app stores from offering TikTok for downloads.
April 15 - Nuclear power in Germany ends after 50 years, with the closure of the final power plants.
April 15 - Fighting breaks out across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The RSF captures Khartoum International Airport, and the presidential palace in Khartoum.
April 15 – 2023 Dadeville mass shooting: Four people are killed, and 32 injured, at a birthday celebration in Dadeville, Alabama.
April 18 - Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reach a $787.5 million settlement in the latter's defamation lawsuit against the news network.
April 18 – A mass shooting occurs in Bowdoin and Yarmouth, Maine, killing four and injuring three.
April 19 – At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.
April 20 – SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time in a test flight from Texas. It explodes four minutes after launch.
April 20 - Larry Elder announces his campaign for president on an episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. The next day Fox News runs Carlson’s final show before firing him.
April 21 – The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, representing a majority of the global Anglican population, reject the leadership of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as the head of global Anglicanism over his support for same-sex marriage.
April 22 – The Supreme Court rules that pending trial, mifepristone can remain on US markets. The decision is seen as a victory for the national abortion-rights movement.
April 23 - Delaware legalizes recreational marijuana.
April 23 - Bed Bath & Beyond files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
April 23 - NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is fired over an inappropriate relationship with an employee.
April 24 - Within minutes of each other, Fox News and CNN fire Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon respectively. Carlson's firing was a result of the Dominion lawsuit settlement, while Lemon's was because of numerous misogynistic comments made in the past.
April 25 – A mass cult suicide is uncovered in Shakahola forest in Kenya. 429 followers of the Good News International Ministries are found in shallow graves throughout the forest, with over 613 people missing.
April 25 – President Biden formally announces his campaign for reelection in 2024.
April 25 - Harry Belafonte, American Hall of Fame musician ("The Banana Boat Song", "Jump in the Line"), actor (Odds Against Tomorrow), and civil rights activist, dies at age 96 of heart failure. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. He was also a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush and Donald Trump administrations. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. He won the Oscar in a non-competitive category. He is one of the few performers to have received all four awards (known as EGOT). Upon returning to New York City, he dropped out of George Washington High School, after which he joined the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. In the 1940s, he worked as a janitor's assistant, during which a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and befriended Sidney Poitier, who was also financially struggling. They regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play. Belafonte refused to perform in the American South from 1954 until 1961. He was married three times and had four children, five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
April 26 – Disney and Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act: Disney files suit against Ron DeSantis over "a targeted campaign of government retaliation".
April 27 - Jerry Springer, British-born American television host (Jerry Springer, America's Got Talent) and politician, dies at age 79 from pancreatic cancer. Born in London during World War II to Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust, Springer was raised in Queens, New York City. He attended Northwestern University School of Law, qualified as a lawyer, and first became actively involved in politics working for the campaign of Robert Kennedy in 1968. A Cincinnati City Council member, Springer served as the 56th Mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978. He then worked as a local news anchor in Cincinnati where he won ten Regional Emmy Awards for commentary. From 2005 to 2006, Springer hosted Springer on the Radio, a liberal talk show on Cincinnati's WCKY-AM. His maternal grandmother, Marie Kallmann, was killed in the gas vans of Chełmno extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. His paternal grandmother, Selma Springer (née Elkeles), died at the hospital in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Selma Springer's brother, Hermann Elkeles, was a renowned Berlin doctor who also died at Theresienstadt concentration camp. In January 1949, when Springer was five, his family emigrated to the United States. One of his earliest memories about current events was when he was 12 and watching the 1956 Democratic National Convention on television where he saw and was impressed by then-Senator John F. Kennedy. In 1970, Springer ran for the House of Representatives. He failed to unseat incumbent Republican Donald D. Clancy, but took 45% of the vote in a traditionally Republican district. He had previously spearheaded the effort to lower the voting age, including testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of ratification of the 26th Amendment. Three days after announcing his candidacy, Springer, who was also an Army reservist at the time, was called to active duty and stationed at Fort Knox. He resumed his campaign after he was discharged. Springer was elected to the Cincinnati City Council in 1971. In 1974, Springer resigned from the council after admitting to soliciting a prostitute. He ran for the office in 1975, winning by a landslide. He was reelected in 1977 and 1979. Springer was considered a "gonzo" type politician with stunts such as staying a night in jail and commandeering a bus after the city took over bus service. In 1977, Springer was chosen by the Cincinnati City Council to serve for one year as mayor.  In the late 1980s, he played a major role in saving the historic Cincinnati Union Terminal. In 2016, Springer voiced support for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. Springer married Micki Velton in 1973; though it is sometimes reported they divorced in 1994, a spokesperson said they were still married at the time of his death. The couple had a daughter, Katie, in 1976. She was born without nasal passages, for which she required immediate surgery after birth, and is blind, as well as deaf in one ear. In a 2006 interview, Katie stated that her parents were always supportive despite her health complications and that they raised her as normally as possible. In 2006, Springer donated $230,000 to Park School in Evanston, where his daughter worked as an assistant teacher, to help construct a high-tech facility called "Katie's Corner" for students with disabilities.
April 28 – A mass shooting occurs in Cleveland, Texas killing five, and the suspect is caught after four days.
April 30 - The 2023 Paraguayan general election is held, with the conservative Colorado Party candidate Santiago Peña being the president-elect of Paraguay, winning in a plurality.
April 30 - India surpasses China as the most populated country in the world.

May 1 – 2023 banking crisis: San Francisco-based First Republic Bank fails and is auctioned off by the US FDIC to JPMorgan Chase for $10.7 billion. The collapse surpasses March's collapse of Silicon Valley Bank to become the second largest in US history.
May 1 - Ron DeSantis signs a bill authorizing the use of the death penalty for convicted child rapists. The legislation is likely to be challenged for violating Supreme Court precedent. The United States Supreme Court ruled in the 1977 case Coker v. Georgia that a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman that does not result in her death is an unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the 8th Amendment.
May 1 - A mass shooting takes place in Henryetta, Oklahoma, killing six after the suspect was supposed to stand for a jury trial regarding an accusation of sexting a minor.
May 1 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Sundown", "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", "If You Could Read My Mind"), dies at age 84 of natural causes. Credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s, he has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter, having several gold and multi-platinum albums and songs covered by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Lightfoot was a featured musical performer at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Alberta and received numerous honors and awards. A formative influence on his music as a youth was 19th-century master American songwriter Stephen Foster. He was also an accomplished high school track-and-field competitor, setting school records for shot-put and pole vault. In February 2010, Lightfoot was the victim of a death hoax originating from Twitter, when then-CTV journalist David Akin posted on Twitter and Facebook that Lightfoot had died. Lightfoot was at a dental appointment at the time the rumors spread and found out when listening to the radio on his drive home. Lightfoot dispelled those rumors by phoning Charles Adler of CJOB, the DJ and radio station he heard reporting his demise, and did an interview expressing that he was alive and well. Lightfoot was married three times and had six children.
May 2 – The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike begins due to unsuccessful pay raise negotiations. The strike halts the production of most movies and TV shows.
May 3 – A school shooting occurs in Belgrade, Serbia. A second mass murder occurs the next day near Mladenovac and Smederevo. These events leave 19 people dead, causing the government to increase regulations on gun ownership and mass anti-government protests to begin.
May 3 - The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 percent from 5 percent to 5.25 percent.
May 3 - New York bans gas stoves and propane heating in new residential constructions. The bans take effect in 2026 for smaller residential buildings and 2029 for larger residential buildings.
May 3 - Former Minneapolis Police officer Tou Thao is found guilty of second-degree manslaughter in the murder of George Floyd.
May 3 - A shooting takes place at a hospital in Midtown Atlanta killing one and injuring four. The perpetrator is caught after eight hours.
May 4 – A series of floods and landslides strikes villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in over 400 deaths.
May 4 - Criminal proceedings in the January 6 United States Capitol attack: Four members of the Proud Boys who were at the January 6 attack, including founder Enrique Tarrio, are found guilty of several felony charges including seditious conspiracy.
May 4 - A New York-based federal jury rules that Ed Sheeran did not steal parts of Marvin Gaye's song "Let's Get It On" and use it in his song "Thinking Out Loud".
May 5 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of COVID-19 being a global health emergency, but continues to refer to it as a pandemic.
May 6 – The coronation of Charles III and Camilla as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms is held in Westminster Abbey, London.
May 6 – Nine people are killed, including the perpetrator, after a mass shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas.
May 7 – Syria is readmitted into the Arab League after being suspended since 2011.
May 7 – Eight people are killed after a vehicle drives into pedestrians outside a migrant center in Brownsville, Texas.
May 9 – Cyclone Mocha forms in the Indian Ocean, killing over 400 people and injuring over 700 as it strikes Myanmar and Bangladesh.
May 9 - A Manhattan-based federal civil jury finds that Trump sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll in 1996, awarding her $5 million in damages.
May 9 - U.S. Representative George Santos is indicted by federal prosecutors and charged with multiple counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of private funds.
May 11 – The World Health Organization ends its declaration of monkeypox being a global health emergency.
May 11 – U.S. President Biden formally ends the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic in the country as a public health emergency.
May 12 – The Title 42 expulsion policy expires at midnight, creating a question about whether a new immigration policy would be formed as a replacement. This comes as a surge of migrants gather at the U.S southern border.
May 14 - The 2023 Thai general election is held, with pro-democratic parties such as the Move Forward and Pheu Thai parties gaining a majority of seats in the House of Representatives while pro-military parties such as Palang Pracharat lost seats.
May 15 - The National Institutes of Health begins a Phase 1 trial of an mRNA-based universal influenza vaccine.
May 15 - Three are killed at a shooting in Farmington, New Mexico. Six others are wounded.
May 16 – North Carolina's state legislature bans nearly all abortions after twelve weeks, overriding a veto by governor Roy Cooper.
May 19 - 2024 United States presidential election: Senator Tim Scott from South Carolina files to run in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.
May 19 - United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachael Rollins resigns after an ethics probe finds that she had grossly violated multiple policies and lied under oath.
May 21 - The May 2023 Greek legislative election is held; the ruling center right New Democracy wins a plurality of seats in the Hellenic Parliament. Just days later, incumbent prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for another snap election to be held in June.
May 22 – Applied Materials announced plans to invest up to $4 billion in a semiconductor project in Sunnyvale, California.
May 24 – Canada and Saudi Arabia agree to restore full diplomatic relations after a breakdown in relations in 2018 over the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi.
May 24 – Florida governor Ron DeSantis launches his campaign to run for President of the United States.
May 24 - Tina Turner, American-born Swiss Hall of Fame singer ("River Deep – Mountain High", "What's Love Got to Do with It") and actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), eight-time Grammy winner, dies at age 83 following years of illness. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history". Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. She embarked on the Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–1988), which became the top-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). In 1986, she published her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, which was adapted for the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. In 2018, she was the subject of Tina, a jukebox musical. Turner sold more than 100 million records worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. She was the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. That magazine also ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Women of the Year award. She believed she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry until she participated in the PBS series African American Lives 2 with Henry Louis Gates Jr. who shared her genealogical DNA test estimates and traced her family timeline. Turner had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, a songwriter. She was the first cousin once removed of bluesman Eugene Bridges. As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II. Turner went to stay with her strict, religious paternal grandparents, Alex and Roxanna Bullock, who were deacon and deaconess at the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church. After the war, the sisters reunited with their parents.
May 25 – Russia and Belarus sign an agreement in Minsk allowing the stationing of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory.
May 27 – 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis: House Republicans and the White House reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling and prevent the United States from defaulting.
May 28 – The second round of the 2023 Turkish presidential election is held; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan defeats Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with 52.18% of the vote to win a third term as president.
May 30 – Nvidia becomes the first chipmaker valued at over $1 trillion, amid the ongoing AI boom.

June 2 – A train collision in Odisha, India results in at least 296 deaths and more than 1,200 others injured.
June 2 - Mike Pence classified documents incident: The Department of Justice notified Pence that its investigation had ended and that the Department of Justice had decided not to charge him.
June 2 - Fort Bragg in North Carolina, originally named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg, is renamed Fort Liberty.
June 3 – 2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis: Biden signs the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 into law in an effort to prevent the United States from entering a debt ceiling default.
June 4 – A privately operated Cessna 560 Citation V carrying three passengers and a pilot crashed near the George Washington National Forest, Virginia killing everyone on board. The plane had strayed into restricted airspace and F16 jets were sent to intercept it. The pilots of the jets could see that the pilot of the plane was passed out.
June 5 - Oklahoma approves the first ever religious charter school in the United States.
June 5 - Apple unveils a mixed-reality headset called the Vision Pro, its first new product category since the Apple Watch in 2015. The device is noted for its expected retail price of $3,499 that is considerably higher than other VR and AR headsets on the market.
June 6 - Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Nova Kakhovka dam in the Russian-controlled region of Kherson is destroyed, threatening the region with devastating floodwaters. Many experts have concluded that Russian forces likely blew up a segment of the dam to hinder the planned Ukrainian counter-offensive. Russian authorities have denied the accusation.
June 6 - Due to smoke from wildfires in Canada, New York City is declared to have the worst air quality out of any city in the world. Millions of Americans and Canadians are advised to wear N95 masks.
June 6 - Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie announces his 2024 presidential campaign.
June 7 - Mike Pence announces his candidacy for President in the 2024 election.
June 7 - North Dakota governor Doug Burgum announces his candidacy for President in the 2024 election.
June 7 - CNN CEO Chris Licht departs the network after a 15,000-word profile disgracing Licht was published in The Atlantic.
June 8 - The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 decision that Alabama must redraw its congressional map as it violates section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in racially discriminating against African-Americans in the state.
June 8 - Trump reveals on Truth Social that he has been indicted by Jack Smith's special counsel over mishandling of classified documents found at the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The following Tuesday, he pleaded not guilty before the court.
June 9 – Lionel Messi announces he will join Major League Soccer's Inter Miami CF, turning down offers to stay at FC Barcelona and to join the Saudi Professional League. Debuting with and scoring for the team on July 21, the deal is seen as a blow to Saudi Arabia's sports ambitions, but a major boost to soccer in the United States ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
June 11 – Honduras opens its first embassy in Beijing, China, after breaking off relations with Taiwan in March.
June 12 – Eritrea rejoins the Intergovernmental Authority on Development trade bloc after suspending its membership in 2007.
June 12 - The FTC files to block the proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft.
June 12 - Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries acquire all rights and assets relating to the Golden Globe Awards. As a result, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and its membership will be shuttered at a later date.
June 12 - In basketball, the Denver Nuggets win the 2023 NBA Finals, their first NBA championship, in five games against the Miami Heat. Nikola Jokic wins NBA Finals MVP.
June 13 – At least 106 people are killed when a wedding boat capsizes on the Niger River in Kwara State, Nigeria.
June 13 – A shooting in Denver injures 10 people celebrating the Nuggets championship.
June 13 - The City Council of Hamtramck, Michigan introduced a resolution prohibiting the display of all flags but the American flag and “nations’ flags that represent the international character of [the] City,” which many interpreted as an indirectly targeted ban of the gay pride flag on city property and sidewalks, which had previously been the source of controversy among some residents. Following three hours of public comment, the Council passed the resolution unanimously.
June 14 - Scientists report the creation of the first synthetic human embryo from stem cells, without the need for sperm or egg cells.
June 14 - At least 82 people die and 500 are reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsizes off the coast of Peloponnese, Greece.
June 15 – Chad Doerman kills three of his children but his wife and stepdaughter manage to escape. He was arrested later that day.
June 18 – Titan submersible implosion: All five crew members of Titan, a deep-sea submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic, are killed following a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.
June 18 - A shooting takes place in Willowbrook, Illinois, during a Juneteenth celebration, killing one and injuring twenty-two.
June 19 - The United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the High Seas Treaty, the first treaty aimed towards marine conservation in international waters.
June 19 - Qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations after relations were suspended during the Qatar diplomatic crisis.
June 20 – At least 46 people are killed after a riot between MS-13 and Barrio 18 gang members at a women's prison near Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
June 20 – Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty to federal tax and firearms charges.
June 20–26 – A series of tornado outbreaks across the United States kills eight people and injures over 126 others. This included a historic tornado outbreak on June 21 in Colorado.
June 22 – Former U.S. representative from Texas Will Hurd launches his presidential campaign.
June 23 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Wagner Group, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, begins an armed conflict with the Russian military, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and portions of the Voronezh Oblast before withdrawing the next day, after a peace agreement brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
June 24 – A freight train carrying hazardous materials derails, causing several cars to fall into the Yellowstone River.
June 25 – The June 2023 Greek legislative election is held; Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes prime minister after his center-right party, New Democracy, wins a majority of seats in the Greek parliament.
June 27 - The Supreme Court rules in a 6–3 decision against the implementation of the independent state legislature theory.
June 27 - The Supreme Court rules in a 7–2 decision that prosecutors must prove true threats be either reckless or made with subjective intention in order to convict.
June 27 - Radio host Ryan Seacrest is announced to be the successor of Pat Sajak on Wheel of Fortune, approximately two weeks after Sajak announced his retirement effective in 2024.
June 29 - The Supreme Court rules that affirmative action in university admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment. The court rules 6-3 in both Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard.
June 29 – Former Vice President Mike Pence makes a surprise visit to Ukraine, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and touring both Kyiv and Iprin.
June 30 – The United Nations Security Council votes unanimously to end MINUSMA, its peacekeeping mission in Mali.
June 30 - The Supreme Court rules in a 6–3 decision that the HEROES Act does not grant the president the right to forgive student debts.
June 30 - The Supreme Court rules in a 6–3 decision that the First Amendment prohibits states from forcing website designers to create designs they disagree with. The decision is seen as a victory for religious conservatives and free speech advocates but a setback for the LGBT community.
June 30 - The Skyline light rail formally opens in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is the first major metro system in the United States that has platform screen doors built into its stations for passenger safety.
June 30 - Apple Inc. closes with a market capitalization above $3 trillion for the first time, becoming the only public company to do so as of yet. Apple previously hit a $3 trillion market cap in January 2022, though this lasted only in intra-day trading.

July 1 – Question 4 takes effect in Maryland, legalizing cannabis for recreational use in the state; the first licensed sales take place the same day. In 2022, 67% of voters chose to amend the state constitution.
July 2 – A shooting takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, killing two and injuring twenty-eight.
July 2 - A small bag of cocaine is discovered in the West Wing of the White House, leading to a Secret Service investigation. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly noted that the cocaine was found in a highly trafficked area of the White House and that the Biden family "were at Camp David. They were not here Friday", a claim contradicted by a Politico reporter who observed the Biden family depart the White House Friday evening.
July 3 - Indian oil refiners start payments for Russian oil imports in Chinese yuan as an alternative to the US dollar due to increasing sanctions against Russia.
July 3 - In the largest incursion by Israel into the West Bank since the Second Intifada, the Israeli military deploys ground forces and armed drones into the Jenin camp, killing 13 and injuring more than 100. An attack claimed by Hamas as retaliation for the incursion, occurs in Tel Aviv the following day, injuring nine.
July 3 - July 3 – A mass shooting takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, killing five and injuring two. The suspect was arrested later that day.
July 4 – Iran joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, becoming the organization's ninth member.
July 5 - Meta Platforms launches Threads as a direct competitor to Twitter.
July 5 - Stop the Steal lawyer L. Lin Wood announces that he will relinquish his law license in Georgia in an effort to avoid disbarment.
July 6–9 – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen visits Beijing with the intent to reduce tensions in Chinese American relations.
July 7 - Patrick Crusius, the man who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 is sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences, the second longest prison sentence in American history and trailing only Oklahoma City Bombing accomplice Terry Nichols.
July 7 - A state judge in Oklahoma dismisses a lawsuit by the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre for reparations.
July 9 - New Zealand signs a free trade agreement with the European Union, increasing bilateral trade.
July 9–11 – A series of destructive floods strike the Northeast after a heavy rainstorm.
July 10 - China and the Solomon Islands sign a cooperation agreement between the People's Police and the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force in an upgrade of bilateral relations.
July 10 - The European Commission and the U.S. government sign a new data communication agreement aimed at resolving legal uncertainties that European and American companies face when transferring personal data.
July 11 – Bank of America is ordered by the CFPB to pay $253.4 million, including a $150 million fine, for deceptive practices and misuse of overdraft fees.
July 13 – The FDA announces that the birth control pill Norgestrel, also known as Opill, will be available without a prescription.
July 14 – SAG-AFTRA announces it will begin a strike against the major film and TV studios in protest of low compensation, ownership of work, and generative AI, bringing Hollywood to a standstill for the first time since 1960.
July 14 - New York authorities announce that a suspect has been arrested and charged with three murders in connection with the ongoing Gilgo Beach serial killings case from 2010.
July 14 - Four people, including three police officers are shot in Fargo, North Dakota, killing one of the officers and wounding the others. The suspect was shot dead in a shootout.
July 17 – The FDA approves the drug Nirsevimab, also known as Beyfortus, which treats RSV in infants.
July 18 – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announces charges against 16 pro-Trump "fake electors" who attempted to overturn Biden’s victory in the state during the 2020 election.
July 19 – Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia.
July 20 – Bolivia and Iran sign a memorandum of understanding, in an upgrade of bilateral relations, expanding cooperation in the security and defense sectors.
July 21 – The films Barbie and Oppenheimer open, while being paired as a major internet and cultural event, Barbenheimer. Moviegoers were encouraged to see both films as a double feature. The two movies end up being the highest and third highest grossing movies of the year, respectively.
July 23 - 2023 Greece wildfires: Tens of thousands of tourists flee Rhodes, Greece, amid wildfires and a major heatwave, in what officials say is the largest evacuation in the country's history.
July 23 - The 2023 Spanish general election is held, with the conservative People's Party becoming the largest party in the Congress of Deputies.
July 26 – President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger is toppled in a coup d'état after members of his presidential guard and the armed forces seize control of the country and install General Abdourahamane Tchiani as leader of a military junta.
July 26 - In response to many automakers adopting Tesla's North American Charging Standard, a consortium composing of Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, General Motors, BMW and Stellantis announce the formation of their own charging network which will feature Tesla and CCS plugs.
July 26 - The Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.25 percent to their highest levels since 2001.
July 27 – Federal prosecution of Donald Trump: Special counsel Jack Smith charges Mar-a-Lago maintenance chief Carlos de Oliveira and levies additional charges against Walt Nauta and Trump.
July 30 – 63 people are killed and over 200 are injured after a suicide bombing occurs in Khar, Pakistan; the Islamic State – Khorasan Province claims responsibility for the attack.
July 31 – The Vogtle Electric Generating Plant begins operations at its unit 3 reactor, America's first new nuclear reactor in seven years.

August 1 – Global warming: The world's oceans reach a new record high temperature of 69.73 °F, exceeding the previous record in 2016. July is also the hottest month on record for globally averaged surface air temperatures by a considerable margin (32.5 °F).
August 1 - Donald Trump is indicted for a third time by a grand jury for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the subsequent January 6 attack.
August 1 - Fitch Ratings downgrades its US debt rating from AAA to AA+, citing "deteriorating standard of governance".
August 1 - Cannabis legalization takes effect in Minnesota; Minnesota becomes the 23rd state and 27th U.S. jurisdiction overall to legalize cannabis for recreational use.
August 3 – Pittsburgh synagogue shooting: Perpetrator Robert Gregory Bowers is sentenced to the death penalty.
August 4 – Riots break out in New York City's Union Square during a PS5 giveaway hosted by internet streamer Kai Cenat. Dozens of people are arrested, including Cenat himself, and several police officers are injured.
August 5 – A large brawl occurs on Montgomery's Riverfront dock in Alabama.
August 6 – At the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, the United States loses in the Round of 16 to Sweden 5–4 in penalties after tying 0–0, making it the first time in the Women's World Cup that the United States failed to reach either the quarterfinals or the semifinals.
August 7 – Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao is sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for his actions in the murder of George Floyd.
August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 102 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii. The wildfires were caused by high winds from Hurricane Dora and almost completely destroy the town of Lahaina. 2,207 buildings were destroyed. It marks the deadliest wildfire in the last 100 years.
August 8 – Ohioans voted to reject Issue 1 by a margin of 57% against to 43% in favor. If passed, the ballot measure would have required future constitutional amendments to be passed by a 60% margin among other changes, as opposed to the existing 50% margin for approval. The ballot measure was widely seen as a litmus test for a November vote to codify abortion rights in the Republican-led state.
August 9 – Taylor Swift completes the first U.S. leg of The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, which has had a wide impact on the United States economy and culture.
August 10 – Tapestry, the holding company of Coach New York and Kate Spade, announces it will acquire Michael Kors' Capri Holdings, which also owns Versace and Jimmy Choo for $8.5 billion in cash.
August 11 – The United States reports it recorded its highest number of suicides in 2022, with 49,449 people taking their own lives, making it the deadliest suicide rate in the country since World War II.
August 14 – Trump is indicted in Atlanta on 13 counts including racketeering for his attempts to overturn President Biden's victory in Georgia during the 2020 election. Indictments are also announced against 18 Trump associates.
August 16–21 – Hurricane Hilary, a Category 4 Pacific Hurricane, strikes the Baja California peninsula and later causes record flooding in Southern California.
August 18 – American–Japanese–Korean trilateral pact: The United States, Japan, and South Korea agree to sign a trilateral pact at Camp David, Maryland.
August 20 – Hurricane Hilary makes landfall in Southern California causing widespread flooding and thousands of power outages, making it the first major tropical storm to impact the region and the first to strike California since 1939.
August 21 - 2023 Canadian wildfires: 68% of the Northwest Territories are forced to evacuate to other parts of the country due to wildfires.
August 21 - Saudi Arabia is accused of mass killing hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with Yemen.
August 23 - India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first spacecraft to land near the south pole of the Moon, carrying a lunar lander named Vikram and a lunar rover named Pragyan.
August 23 - Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder Dmitry Utkin and eight others are killed when their plane crashes in Russia.
August 23 - South Carolina's Supreme Court reverses its earlier prohibition on a six-week abortion ban, and allows the ban to come into effect.
August 23 – A mass shooting occurs at the historic biker bar Cook's Corner in Trabuco Canyon, California, leaving four dead, including the suspect, and six others injured.
August 23 - 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries – The Republican National Committee holds the first primary debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott all qualified for the first debate. Donald Trump gave an interview with Tucker Carlson during the same time slot.
August 24 - Four tornadoes touch down in Southern Michigan, killing five people.
August 24 - The mug shot of Donald Trump is taken at Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Trump is the first former United States president to have a mug shot.
August 26 – 2023 Jacksonville shooting: A man killed three people before committing suicide at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida. The motive is believed to be racial hatred; the perpetrator was white and all three victims were black.
August 28 - Zijie Yan, a 38-year-old professor at UNC Chapel Hill is murdered by one of his graduate students.
August 28 - Google announced plans to invest $1.7 billion into its current and future Ohio data centers.
August 30 – Following the announcement of incumbent president Ali Bongo Ondimba's reelection as President of Gabon after the 2023 presidential election, the military launches a successful coup d'état and creates the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions to govern the country, ending the rule of the Bongo family after 56 years in power.
August 30 – Hurricane Idalia makes landfall at 7:45am EDT with 125 mph winds near Keaton Beach, Florida. It is the first major hurricane on record to impact the Big Bend of Florida. Idalia caused significant damage to thousands of homes, businesses, and other infrastructure along its inland path, primarily in Florida, where winds and the resulting floodwaters were highest. Its storm surge was record-breaking from the Big Bend region south to Tampa Bay. The system also spawned a tornado outbreak with around 12 confirmed tornadoes. There were 12 fatalities (8 direct and 4 indirect).
August 31 – 2023 Johannesburg building fire: 77 people are killed and more than 85 are injured in a fire in a building that had been taken over by gangs who rented it out to squatters.
August 31 – Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs is sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for his actions in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

September 1 – Two more Proud Boys, leader Ethan Nordean and member Dominic Pezzola, are sentenced to 18 and 10 years respectively for their actions in the January 6 Capitol attack.
September 2 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1, India's first solar observation mission.
September 5 - New York City Local Law 18 comes into effect, which effectively bans Airbnb from doing business within city limits.
September 5 - Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison for his part in the January 6 Capitol attack.
September 6 – Geologists report the discovery of what may be the largest known deposit of lithium, located in the crater of a dormant volcano along the Nevada–Oregon border, and estimated to contain 20 to 40 million tons of the metal. Most lithium is used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric cars and mobile devices. Lithium Americas Corporation expects to begin mining in 2026. The Paiute tribe claims that on September 12, 1865, 31 men, women, and children were massacred by government soldiers on Thacker Pass in Nevada and oppose mining for lithium in the area.
September 7 - Former Trump administration economic adviser Peter Navarro is found guilty of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena issued by the January 6 committee related to the attack on the Capitol.
September 8 – 2023 Marrakesh–Safi earthquake: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Marrakesh–Safi province in western Morocco, killing at least 2,960 people and damaging historic buildings.
September 8 – Gotion High-tech Co. announced plans to set up a $2 billion electric vehicle (EV) lithium battery manufacturing plant in Illinois.
September 9 – At the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi, the African Union is announced as the 21st permanent member of the G20.
September 9 – Coco Gauff, 19, wins the women's singles in the US Open, making her the youngest player to win the title since Serena Williams in 1999.
September 10 – Storm Daniel, a Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, kills at least 5,000 people, with a further 10,000 to 100,000 reported missing. In the city of Derna in Libya, two dams collapse, resulting in a quarter of the city being destroyed.
September 11 – Hostess Brands announces it will be bought by The J.M. Smucker Company in a $5.6 billion cash and stock deal.
September 14 – The European Central Bank (ECB) raises eurozone interest rates to an all-time high of 4%, amid ongoing inflationary pressures across the continent.
September 14 - Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts announce their computer systems have been hacked by the group Scattered Spider.
September 14 - Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, is indicted on federal gun charges.
September 15 – The United Auto Workers begin a strike against the big three American automakers of Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis.
September 18 – The Linac Coherent Light Source at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is upgraded to LCLS-II and successfully demonstrates its first X-rays, which are 10,000 times brighter than the previous version.
September 19 – Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: Azerbaijan launches a military offensive against the Armenia-backed Republic of Artsakh, which ends with a swift Azerbaijani victory. Protests erupt in Armenia, Artsakh announces the dissolution of government institutions, and over 100,000 ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh.
September 19 – Instacart makes a highly-watched initial public offering on the Nasdaq, with the new stock ticker CART. One of the biggest IPOs of the past two years, the company falls below its IPO price of $30 per share the day after it opens.
September 20 – Archaeologists in Zambia find the world's oldest wooden structure, dating back 476,000 years, consisting of two interlocking wooden logs connected by a notch securing one perpendicular to the other.
September 20 - The national debt rises to $33 trillion.
September 20 - The Senate confirms Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, overcoming a protest set by Alabama GOP senator Tommy Tuberville.
September 21 – Rupert Murdoch announces his retirement and passes his businesses on to his son Lachlan. Murdoch led News Corp and Fox, and formerly Sky Group.
September 22 - The Canadian parliament gives two standing ovations to Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka who fought against the Allied Soviet Union.
September 22 - Senator Bob Menendez from New Jersey is indicted on federal corruption charges.
September 24 – 2023 Nigerien crisis: French President Emmanuel Macron announces that France will end its military presence in Niger and will recall its ambassador from the country.
September 25 – An estimated 170 people are killed and over 300 are injured during an explosion at a gas station in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh., Azerbaijan.
September 25 - The Biden administration recognizes the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states, establishing formal relations between both Pacific Island countries.
September 25 - Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announces a $1.4 billion investment in the nation's railroad network to improve safety and capacity, mostly funded by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in 2021.
September 26 - The FTC and 17 states file an antitrust suit against Amazon for monopolistic practices.
September 26 - New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization - New York judge Arthur Engoron rules that Trump and his organization persistently committed fraud and inflated his wealth to achieve favorable loans and devalued the worth of his assets to pay lower taxes to the IRS.
September 26 – Amazon Web Services announced plans for additional data centers in New Albany, Ohio and a $3.5 billion investment by 2030.
September 27 - The second Republican presidential primary debate takes place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Seven candidates were invited to the second debate: Burgum, Christie, DeSantis, Haley, Pence, Ramaswamy, and Scott.
September 27 – The Writers Guild of America Strike comes to an end at 12:01 AM PDT after a tentative agreement is reached three days earlier.
September 29 - Floods across the New York metropolitan area occur with more than 6 inches of rain in less than 12 hours.
September 29 - Sixty-year-old Duane Davis, a former gang leader, is arrested and charged with the 1996 murder of famed rapper Tupac Shakur.

October 1 – California Governor Gavin Newsom appoints Laphonza Butler to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Dianne Feinstein. Soon after taking office, she announced she would not run for a full term or to finish the final two months of Feinstein's unexpired term in the 2024 election. Butler was selected despite not being a resident of California, as she had moved to Maryland in 2021. The United States Constitution requires only that senators be "inhabitants" of the state they represent. Newsom's office said that Butler would re-register to vote in California before taking office as a senator. Shortly before nominating Butler, Newsom announced that his nominee would be free to run in 2024, a departure from his previous position. Butler made her first floor speech on January 17, 2024. She often reads from banned books during her Senate floor speeches to raise awareness. In January 2024, Butler voted for a resolution, proposed by Bernie Sanders, to apply the human rights provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act to U.S. aid to Israel's military. The proposal was defeated, 72 to 11.
October 3 - Elected on January 8, Kevin McCarthy is removed as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, with Mike Johnson being elected new Speaker on October 25. This marked the first removal of a speaker by a vote in the House. Eight Republicans, led by Matt Gaetz, join all present Democrats voting to remove in a 216–210 vote.
October 3 - Sam Bankman-Fried, an American entrepreneur and founder of cryptocurrency exchange company FTX, is put on trial and later convicted on seven charges of fraud and conspiracy. His sentencing is scheduled for March 28, 2024.
October 4 – LG Energy Solution announced a $3 billion investment in its Michigan battery manufacturing plant, part of a new lithium battery supply deal with Toyota.
October 7 - Israel–Hamas war: Hamas launches an incursion into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and taking about 240 hostages, prompting a military response from the Israel Defense Forces. Israel launches numerous air strikes on Lebanon after rockets are fired by Hezbollah and further attempts are made to penetrate Israel.
October 7 - A series of earthquakes occur in Herat Province in Afghanistan, killing over 1,000 people and injuring nearly 2,000, with tremors felt in Iran and Turkmenistan. The earthquakes are the deadliest in the country since 1998.
October 8 – Israel's Security Cabinet formally declares war for the first time since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
October 9 – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin orders the deployment of a carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to the Eastern Mediterranean in response to terror attacks on civilians in Israel by Hamas. The group also includes the cruiser USS Normandy and the destroyers USS Thomas Hudner, USS Ramage, USS Carney, and USS Roosevelt.
October 11 – ExxonMobil announces it will acquire Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion, the first of two major energy industry acquisitions of the month. This deal is the largest in the energy industry in nearly two decades. The second occurs less than two weeks later on October 23, where Hess announces it will be acquired by Chevron for $50 billion.
October 13 – After British regulators' approval, Microsoft closes its $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
October 13 – NASA launches its Psyche mission to visit the large metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, with an expected arrival in 2029. The asteroid was discovered by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis in 1852 and named after the Greek goddess Psyche. The prefix "16" signifies that it was the sixteenth minor planet in order of discovery. It is the largest and most massive of the M-type asteroids, and one of the dozen most massive asteroids. It has a mean diameter of approximately 140 miles and contains about one percent of the cumulative mass of the whole asteroid belt. Psyche will mark the first time a manmade object will journey to a metallic asteroid.
October 14 - 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum: A majority of Australians vote against establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the constitution.
October 14 - 2023 New Zealand general election: The center right National Party wins a plurality of seats under leader Christopher Luxon, while the Labour Party suffers the worst result for an incumbent ruling party in modern New Zealand history.
October 14 – 2023 Louisiana gubernatorial election: Republican Jeff Landry is elected Governor of Louisiana, defeating Democratic front-runner Shawn Wilson and several other candidates in a jungle primary.
October 14 – An annular solar eclipse takes place across the Southwestern United States.
October 15 - 2023 Polish parliamentary election: The conservative Law and Justice party wins the most seats, but loses its majority, with its incumbent president Mateusz Morawiecki being succeeded by the Civic Platform party's Donald Tusk on December 13.
October 15 - Rite Aid files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after losing $3.45 billion attributed to lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic.
October 15 - A man kills a six-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy and seriously injures his mother in Plainfield Township, Illinois. The perpetrator, who was the victims' landlord, states he was motivated by the ongoing Israel–Gaza war.
October 15 - Twenty-one species are declared extinct by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. These are one mammal, ten birds, two fish, and eight mussels.
October 17 – An explosion occurs at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where displaced Palestinians are taking refuge. Many fatalities are reported, but estimates vary significantly, from 100 to as many as 471, depending on the source. Israel, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada said that their intelligence sources indicate the cause of the explosion was a failed rocket launch from within Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The hospital is managed by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. Founded in 1882, it is one of the oldest hospitals in the city and the only Christian hospital in Gaza. In July 2024, the hospital was forcibly closed and evacuated, leading to condemnation by the Archbishop of Canterbury, who stated, "In the face of intense Israeli bombardment, this closure puts injured and sick people in even greater danger".
October 17 – Detroit casino workers call the first strike in their history after failing to reach a deal with MGM Resorts and Penn Entertainment.
October 18 - A driver is arrested after crashing into a group of Pepperdine University students walking in Malibu, California, killing four and injuring two others.
October 18 - The U.S. Treasury Department announces an ease of certain oil, gas, and gold sanctions on Venezuela following the Venezuelan government and opposition's agreement to conduct elections.
October 18 - Dutch murderer Joran van der Sloot confesses in a U.S. federal court that he killed Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005.
October 19 - Part of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza City, was damaged during an Israeli airstrike, killing at least 18 Palestinian civilians during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. Some of them were relatives of Michigan Representative Justin Amash. Over 450 Christian and Muslim Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering there. The church was attacked again in July 2024. Its water tanks were destroyed in a July 2014 bombing campaign.
October 19 – 2020 Georgia election investigation: Attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in the Georgia election racketeering prosecution for her role in attempting to overturn the results; she is joined by fellow attorneys Kenneth Chesebro the following day, and by attorney Jenna Ellis on October 24.
October 20 - October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election: Jim Jordan withdraws his nomination to become the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives after a third vote fails to elevate him to the position.
October 20 - Federal bankruptcy judge Christopher Lopez rules that Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to avoid paying roughly $1.1 billion in damages resulting from the lawsuits over his conspiracy theories and lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
October 22 – 2023 Swiss federal election: The conservative Swiss People's Party retains its majority in the National Council.
October 23 – Horizon Air Flight 2059: An off-duty pilot reportedly attempts to hijack and crash a passenger plane traveling from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco, California.
October 24 - The Georgia Supreme Court upholds the state's six-week abortion ban.
October 24 - October Speaker of the House election: The GOP choose Tom Emmer as their nominee for Speaker of the House, only for Emmer to drop out of the race mere hours after nomination. The party reconvenes later that evening and nominates Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who wins the office the next day.
October 24 - Meta Platforms is sued by 41 states' attorneys general and DC accusing the social media giant of harming children's health, 33 of which under a joint lawsuit in California and the remaining eight states and DC in their own jurisdictions.
October 25 – Hurricane Otis, an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Mexico near Acapulco, leaving at least 80 dead. It is the most powerful Eastern Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico, with the highest winds reaching 165 mph, surpassing Hurricane Patricia's landfall in 2015.
October 25 - A mass shooting occurs in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 and injuring a further 13 in the deadliest mass shooting of the year so far. The suspect is found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound two days later.
October 25 - Hyundai and LG Energy Solution announced plans to invest $7.6 billion in a new factory in the US.
October 26 – QTS announced plans to invest $1.5 billion in New Albany, Ohio, constructing four new data centers.
October 27 – A retired Colombian army officer who participated in the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse is sentenced by a court to life imprisonment in Miami.
October 28 – Mike Pence suspends his campaign for the Republican Party presidential nomination for the upcoming 2024 election.
October 29 – 2023 Ybor City shootings: Two people are killed and 16 others are injured in a shooting in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida at the popular tourist area of 7th Ave, after a fight broke out between two groups around 3 am. Three suspects were arrested.
October 30 - 2023 United Auto Workers strike: The UAW reaches a tentative deal with General Motors after making tentative agreements with Stellantis and Ford, officially ending the strike.
October 30 - Walmart announced a $9 billion investment over the next two years to upgrade and modernize more than 1,400 of its stores.
October 31 – Israel intercepted a Yemeni Houthi ballistic missile with its Arrow 2 missile defense system. The interception occurred above Earth's atmosphere above the Negev Desert, making it the first instance of space combat in history.

November 1 – The first AI Safety Summit takes place in the United Kingdom, with 28 countries signing a "world first agreement" on how to manage the riskiest forms of artificial intelligence. The Bletchley Declaration affirms that AI should be designed, developed, deployed, and used in a manner that is safe, human-centric, trustworthy and responsible.
November 1 – 2023 Major League Baseball season – The Texas Rangers win their first World Series after defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks in five games.
November 1 - DC Blox announced plans to build a data center campus in Douglasville, Georgia, with an investment exceeding $1.2 billion.
November 2 – The Beatles release "Now and Then", the band's last ever song, featuring restored vocals by John Lennon (1940–1980), as well as guitar tracks by George Harrison (1943–2001).
November 2 - Six Flags and Cedar Fair, two of the largest amusement park companies in the United States, announce that they are planning to merge. The future new company will be called Six Flags; however, it will be publicly traded under Cedar Fair's current ticker symbol, FUN.
November 2 - United States v. Bankman-Fried – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is convicted by a jury on all seven fraud-related counts.
November 2 – President Biden calls for a "pause" in the Israel–Hamas war to allow for hostages to get out and humanitarian aid to get in.
November 4 – 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States – The National March on Washington: Free Palestine takes place at the National Mall and attracts between 100,000 to 300,000 participants with the goal of reaching a ceasefire in Gaza amid the ongoing conflict.
November 5 – Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war – Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, is fatally injured during a confrontation between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Thousand Oaks, California. Local authorities are considering the case as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
November 6 – Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 10,000. United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calls for a humanitarian ceasefire to increase the flow of aid to civilians.
November 6 – WeWork, once the most valuable U.S. startup, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with liabilities of up to $50 billion.
November 7 - 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election – Democratic Governor Andy Beshear is re-elected, defeating Republican state Attorney General Daniel Cameron.
November 7 - 2023 Mississippi gubernatorial election – Republican Governor Tate Reeves is re-elected, defeating Democratic Mississippi Public Service Commission member Brandon Presley, a second cousin of Elvis.
November 7 - Ohio voters approve proposals to codify abortion rights (56.8%) in the state's constitution and legalize marijuana (57.2%) for recreational use.
November 7 - A massive fire breaks out in Hangar No. 1 at the former Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in Tustin, California.
November 7 - Toyota announced it would invest an additional $8 billion in its first North American electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility, as announced by the Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina, adding another 3,000 jobs.
November 9 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's first whole eye transplant.
November 9 - SAG-AFTRA ends its strike at 12:01 a.m. PDT following a tentative deal reached the day prior.
November 10 – In the Falepili Union treaty, Australia grants "special" freedom of movement and defense rights to Tuvaluans for residence and employment for climate reasons.
November 10 – The Big Ten Conference suspends Michigan Wolverines football head coach Jim Harbaugh from the team's final three regular season games due to a sign stealing scandal.
November 12 – Senator Tim Scott suspends his campaign for president.
November 14 – 2023 Israel–Hamas war protests in the United States – The March for Israel rally takes place at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to support Israel amid its war against Hamas, to call for the release of hostages held by Hamas, and to combat rising antisemitism. The rally attracts 290,000 people in person and 250,000 people through livestream.
November 14–17 – President Biden hosts the APEC summit in San Francisco, which Chinese president Xi Jinping attends. Both countries, at the conclusion of the summit, agree to re-open suspended channels of military communications and to cooperate in their fight against climate change. It marks the first time since 2017 that Xi has set foot in the United States.
November 16 – George Santos says he will not seek re-election after the House Ethics Committee issued a scathing report against him, which led to him being charged with several counts of fraud.
November 17 – The global average temperature temporarily exceeds 2 °C above the pre-industrial average for the first time in recorded history.
November 17 – Ford announced plans to invest nearly $2 billion in its Louisville plants as part of a UAW labor deal.
November 17 – Sam Altman, the founder and CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, is fired by OpenAI's board for reportedly lying to its board of directors, though reinstated five days later after OpenAI investor Microsoft announces its intention to hire Altman as well as OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman after the latter's resignation in protest of the board.
November 19 – 2023 Argentine presidential election: Following the first round on October 22, Javier Milei wins in the second round of the election, assuming office on December 10 with Victoria Villarruel as his vice president.
November 20 – A Boeing P-8A Poseidon operated by the United States Navy overshot the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Kaneohe, Hawaii. No one died.
November 21 - Israel and Hamas agree to a four-day ceasefire, the first pause in fighting since October 7, during which many Israeli hostages will be released, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
November 22 - 2023 Dutch general election: Far-right Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) wins the most seats.
November 22 - The FTC proposes a ban on cord-cutting fees instated by cable companies as part of Biden's ongoing campaign against junk fees.
November 22 - 2023 Rainbow Bridge explosion – A car crashes into a border checkpoint structure and explodes on the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, New York, killing both occupants and injuring a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer.
November 23 – Pro–Palestinian protesters disrupt the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in three locations by wearing white jumpsuits covered in fake blood and gluing themselves to the parade route.
November 24 – Somalia is admitted as the eighth member of the East African Community, having applied for membership in 2012.
November 25 – Anti-Palestinianism during the Israel–Hamas war – Three Palestinian students are shot and injured in Burlington, Vermont while on Thanksgiving break after the suspect harasses them for speaking Arabic and wearing keffiyehs to show solidarity with Palestine amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
November 27 – After forming a coalition Government with the right-wing ACT and New Zealand First parties, Christopher Luxon is sworn in as the 42nd Prime Minister of New Zealand. The new administration opposes policies promoting Māori culture and addressing inequity between Māori and non-Māori, which leads to allegations of inflaming racial tensions.
November 28 - A tribute service for Rosalynn Carter, who passed away nine days earlier, is held, attended by all living former First Ladies, President and First Lady Biden, Vice President Harris, Second Gentleman Emhoff, and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Her official funeral was held one day later at the Carter's home church in Plains, Georgia.
November 28 - Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban announces his intention to sell his stake in the team to Miriam Adelson for $3.5 billion, who is selling roughly ten percent of her stake in her late husband Sheldon's company Las Vegas Sands to finance part of her purchase.
November 28 - Mayo Clinic announced a $5 billion expansion of its Minnesota campus.
November 29 – The US alleges a plot by the Indian government to assassinate the New York-based Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a spokesperson for the pro-Khalistan group Sikhs for Justice. An Indian government employee is the target of an indictment in New York for their alleged role in the assassination plot.
November 30 – Brazil announces it will join OPEC+ at a meeting of the organization to discuss oil output strategy in 2024. Brazil is the largest oil producer in South America, producing 4.6 million barrels per day of oil and gas.
November 30 – Amkor Technology announced plans to build a $2 billion semiconductor advanced packaging facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The project is expected to generate up to 2,000 jobs.

December 1 – The House votes 311–114 to expel George Santos on fraud and corruption allegations, the first congressional expulsion since James Traficant in 2002.
December 3 – 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis: Venezuela votes in a symbolic referendum on whether voters agreed with creating a subdivision in the disputed territory of Guayana Esequiba currently under the control of neighboring Guyana. Analysts say the referendum's practical implications are likely to be minimal.
December 3 – Alaska Airlines announces it has agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion, a deal yet to be approved by regulators.
December 4 – North Dakota governor Doug Burgum suspends his 2024 campaign for president.
December 5 - 2023 United States Congress hearing on antisemitism: The United States House Committee on Education held a hearing on antisemitism, in which the presidents of three major universities, Claudine Gay of Harvard University, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were called to testify.
December 5 - 2023 Austin shootings: A man is arrested for six counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder after a shooting spree which began in Austin, Texas and continued in Bexar County.
December 6 – Google DeepMind releases the Gemini Language Model. Gemini will act as a foundational model integrated into Google's existing tools, including Search and Bard.
December 6 – 2023 UNLV shooting: A suspect kills three people and injures one other in a shooting spree before dying in a shootout with police.
December 7 - The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council gives final approval to a new offshore wind farm near Rhode Island.
December 7 - 2023–24 NHL season: The Los Angeles Kings set a new record for opening road wins at 11 following their 4–0 victory against the Montreal Canadiens.
December 8 - Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour becomes the first tour to gross over one billion dollars, making it the highest-grossing tour and Swift the first artist to reach the one billion mark.
December 8 - Ethan Crumbley, the perpetrator of the 2021 Oxford High School shooting that killed four and injured seven, is sentenced to life without parole.
December 8 - The FDA approves the two gene therapies for sickle cell disease.
December 9 - In baseball, Japanese pitcher and designated hitter Shohei Ohtani announces on Instagram that he has signed a 10-year, $700 million deal with the MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers after spending the first six seasons with the Los Angeles Angels.
December 9 - 2023–24 NBA season: The Los Angeles Lakers win the first NBA In-Season Tournament, defeating the Indiana Pacers 123–109.
December 9 - A tornado outbreak in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi leaves seven dead, 71 injured, and 35,000 without electricity.
December 9 - Liz Magill resigns as the president of the University of Pennsylvania due to backlash towards her testimony about antisemitism at the institution during a House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing.
December 10–12 – 2023 Egyptian presidential election: Incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi wins a third term with 89.6 percent of the vote in the election.
December 12 – At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, a consensus is reached for countries to "transition away" from fossil fuels, the first such agreement in the conference's 30-year history. The transition is specifically for energy systems, excluding plastics, transport or agriculture.
December 12 – New York state governor Kathy Hochul announced plans for a $10 billion chip research center involving IBM, Micron, and other partners.
December 15 – Rudy Giuliani is ordered to pay over $148 million in a defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers, relating to statements that he made during the 2020 election.
December 16 – Emir of Kuwait Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah dies at the age of 86 and is succeeded by his half-brother Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
December 18 – A number of shipping companies announce a temporary suspension of their operations in the Red Sea due to continued attacks on vessels by Houthi rebels. Operation Prosperity Guardian is launched by the United States alongside the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles, and Spain to protect and escort ships from the attacks.
December 18 - Nippon Steel announces its agreement (pending regulatory and shareholder approval) to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.1 billion. The company will retain its name and maintain its headquarters in Pittsburgh. It was opposed by the United Steelworkers, the Trump campaign, and the Biden administration, even though Japan is an ally.
December 19 - The Colorado Supreme Court removes Trump from the state's 2024 Republican primary due to the Fourteenth Amendment's ban on candidates who engage in insurrections. One week later, the Colorado Republican Party appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States.
December 19 - The Missouri Supreme Court strikes down a state law which criminalizes homeless residence on state land as well as unanimously striking down another state law which bans COVID-19 vaccine mandates for public workers.
December 21 - The deadliest mass shooting in the Czech Republic's history occurs at a Prague university, with 15 killed and 25 others wounded.
December 21 – India’s Waaree Energies announced plans to invest up to $1 billion over the next four years to scale its Houston, Texas facility for a solar cell.
December 22 – Israel–Hamas war: The death toll in Gaza is reported to have passed 20,000, almost 1 percent of its population and surpassing the casualties in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
December 24 – 2023 NFL season: The Detroit Lions win their first divisional title in 30 years.
December 26 – 2023–24 NBA season: The Detroit Pistons break the single-season record for the greatest number of losses in a National Basketball Association regular season with 27 consecutive losses, surpassing the 26 loss records set by the 2010–11 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2013–14 Philadelphia 76ers. The Pistons 28th loss in a row happened on December 30th against the Toronto Raptors. The Philadelphia 76ers have also lost 28 games in a row, but those were split between two seasons, 2014-15 and 2015-16.
December 28 – Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows blocks Trump from running in the state's 2024 Republican primary due to the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause.
December 29 - Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia launches the largest wave of drones and missiles on Ukrainian cities since the start of the war in an overnight assault, killing at least 39 people and injuring at least 160 others. Ukraine launches a drone assault the following day, killing at least 21 people, including three children, and injuring 110 others, including 17 children.
December 29 - A genocide case against Israel is brought towards the International Court of Justice by South Africa for Israel's invasion and subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and its role in the subsequent humanitarian crisis.
December 31 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark announces her abdication effective January 14, 2024, after 52 years on the throne.

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