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June 10 – A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President of Malawi Saulos Chilima.[142]
June 12 – The United Nations' first inquiry into the October 7 attacks and resulting conflict finds that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes.[143][144]
June 14 – 2024 South African general election: The ANC and other opposition parties agree to form a national unity government, with Cyril Ramaphosa being re-elected President of South Africa.[145][146]
June 14 – July 14 – UEFA Euro 2024 is held in Germany, and is won by Spain.[147]
June 20 – July 14 – The 2024 Copa América is held in the United States, and is won by Argentina.[148]
On the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg announces that his son and heir Guillaume will assume royal duties beginning in October, in preparation for Henri's eventual abdication.[149]
Julian Assange was freed from prison on June 24
2024 Hajj disaster: More than 1,300 people are reported to have died due to extreme heat during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.[150]
2024 Dagestan attacks: Two coordinated attacks occur in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent in the Republic of Dagestan in southern Russia, injuring 46 and killing 28 people.[151]
June 24 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange leaves the United Kingdom after being freed from prison in a plea deal with the United States. He returns to his native Australia two days later.[152]
June 26 – A failed coup d'état attempt in La Paz, Bolivia is led by the former General Commander Juan José Zúñiga.[153]
June 28 – 2024 Mongolian parliamentary election: The Mongolian People's Party wins a reduced majority of seats in the State Great Khural amid gains by the Democratic Party.[154]
2024 Mauritanian presidential election: Incumbent president Mohamed Ould Ghazouani wins re-election to a second term.[155]
2024 Borno State bombings: 30 people are killed and 100 are injured when three separate bomb blasts occur in the town of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria.[156]
The Israel Defense Forces invade southern Lebanon, escalating its conflict against Hezbollah.[216]
The Japanese parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba as the new prime minister of Japan, with members from the Liberal Democratic Party forming the majority.[217][218] Following his appointment, he reveals his cabinet and calls for a snap election on October 27, securing a national mandate.[219]
Iran attacks Israel with ballistic missiles as a response to Israel's assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh.[220]
October 3–20 – The 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates, and is won by New Zealand.[221]
The 2024 Kazakh nuclear power referendum is held and approved.[222]
2024 Tunisian presidential election: Incumbent Kais Saied is reelected for a second term.[223]
Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, was killed on October 16
July 1 – Hurricane Beryl becomes the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record after devastating the island of Carriacou, Grenada.[157]
July 4 – 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer leads the Labour Party to a landslide victory, returning the party to government for the first time in 14 years.[158]
July 5 – 2024 Iranian presidential election: Masoud Pezeshkian is elected president of Iran.[159]
July 7 – 2024 French legislative election: The left-wing New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly, upsetting a first-round victory by the far-right National Rally, but fails to achieve a majority.[160]
July 9–11 – The 33rd NATO summit is held in Washington, D.C.[161]
July 13 – While campaigning for the 2024 United States presidential election, former President Donald Trump is shot in the right ear in an assassination attempt at a rally he held near Butler, Pennsylvania.[162]
July 15 – 2024 Rwandan general election: Incumbent Paul Kagame is reelected for a fourth term.[163]
The Student–People's uprising breaks out in Bangladesh
Global IT outages impact a variety of businesses and organisations across the world.[164]
75 people are killed during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. The government of Bangladesh imposes a curfew.[165]
July 21 – Incumbent United States President Joe Biden ends his candidacy in the 2024 United States presidential election.[166]
July 22 – Landslides kill 257 people and bury two villages in Geze Gofa, Gofa Zuria, Ethiopia.[167]
July 23 – China brokers a unity agreement between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas to form a single government.[168]
July 26 – August 11 – The 2024 Summer Olympics are held in Paris, France.[169] The controversial opening ceremony[170][171] and the boxing match of Luca Hámori and Imane Khelif spark international debate.[172][173]
María Corina Machado and Edmundo González along with his wife, addressing supporters in Caracas following the 2024 presidential election results
July 28 – 2024 Venezuelan presidential election: Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro declares victory against opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia amid alleged irregularities, causing numerous South American states to refuse to acknowledge the results or suspend diplomatic relations with the Maduro government and sparking nationwide protests.[174]
At least 334 people are killed, over 200 injured, and 281 missing following landslides in Wayanad district, Kerala, India.[175][176]
Israel carries out an airstrike in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, killing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, who it accused of ordering the Majdal Shams attack.[177][178]
2024 United Kingdom riots: Far-right riots break out throughout the United Kingdom in response to a mass stabbing in Southport, England.[179][180]
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, is assassinated at his residence in Tehran, Iran.[181]
Moussa Dadis Camara, the former military ruler of Guinea, is found guilty of crimes against humanity in the massacres that occurred in 2009 and is sentenced to twenty years in prison by a Guinean court.[182]
August 1 – 2024 American–Russian prisoner exchange: 26 individuals are released from Ankara Esenboğa Airport in the largest prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia since the Cold War.[183]
August 5 – Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina announces her resignation and flees to India following nationwide protests.[184]
August 6 – Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip, is appointed as the chairman of Hamas' political bureau.[185]
August 7 – The Move Forward Party is dissolved and Pita Limjaroenrat, alongside other senior politicians from the party, are banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Thailand.[186]
August 8 – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus assumes office as Chief Adviser of an interim government formed after Sheikh Hasina's resignation in Bangladesh.[187]
August 9 – Voepass Flight 2283, an ATR 72, crashes near Vinhedo, São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 62 people on board.[188]
Paetongtarn Shinawatra succeeds Srettha Thavisin as Prime Minister of Thailand after the latter's dismissal by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on August 14
August 11 – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announces that the Ukrainian military is conducting a cross-border offensive inside Russia's western Kursk Oblast. Russia says that 76,000 people have been evacuated from the region.[189]
August 14
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries.[190]
The Constitutional Court of Thailand dismisses the Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for illegally appointing a minister to his cabinet who had a prison sentence.[191] Paetongtarn Shinawatra succeeds him as Prime Minister of Thailand.[192]
August 17 – Indonesia's 79th Independence Day celebration is held in Nusantara. The celebration is supposed to inaugurate Nusantara as the new capital of Indonesia, but this does not occur due to delays.[193]
August 23 – In Solingen, Germany, a Syrian immigrant stabs three people to death, which leads to the intensification of the debate on migration in Germany.[194]
August 24 – In Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, 600 civilians are victims of a massacre by Islamists associated with Al-Qaeda.[195]
August 25 – The Israel Defense Forces begin a series of preemptive strikes against targets in the south of Lebanon.[196]
August 28 – September 8 – The 2024 Summer Paralympics are held in Paris, France.[197]
August 31 – A helicopter crashed in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, killing all 22 occupants on board.[198]
September 2 – The Brazilian Supreme Court upholds a decision to block the social media platform X (also known as Twitter) over what the Brazilian government determined to be rampant disinformation and Elon Musk's failure to name a legal representative to the country.[199]
September 7 – 2024 Algerian presidential election: Incumbent Abdelmadjid Tebboune is reelected for a second term.[200]
Weather in Central Europe on 12 September, right before floods
September 12
Heavy rainfall in Central Europe triggers the worst flooding in the region since 2010.[201][202]
The first commercial spacewalk is conducted by entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as part of the Polaris Dawn mission, which also includes the highest altitude orbit by a human crew since the Apollo program.[203]
September 15 – Ryan Wesley Routh is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida. Ryan is later captured and arrested, and a trial date has been set for 2025.[204]
September 17–18 – Thirty-two people are killed and more than 3,200 are injured after pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah militants and medics explode in two massive cyberattacks. Israel is the presumed perpetrator.[205]
September 20 – Israel assassinates Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil and ten other senior leaders in Beirut following an intensification of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in the wake of the pager explosions that occurred earlier in the week.[206]
September 21 – 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected President of Sri Lanka, with a second round of vote counting held for the first time in Sri Lanka's history.[207]
Hurricane Helene made landfall in the United States on September 26
September 23 – The deadliest day of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict since 2006 occurs, with 569 people killed and 1,835 wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.[208]
September 26 – Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing.[209]
September 27 – The Israeli Air Force bombs the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, killing several people, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.[210][211]
September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election: Far-right Freedom Party secures a historical victory, but does not reach a majority in the National Council. The results are deemed the first far-right win since World War II.[212][213]
September 30 – The UK becomes the first G7 country to phase out coal power for electric generation, after 142 years of using the energy source.[214][215]
October 7 – Hurricane Milton becomes the fifth most intense hurricane in the Atlantic Basin, and the second most intense storm in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Rita in 2005. Milton is also the first hurricane to reach a pressure below 900 millibars in nearly 20 years.[224]
October 9 – 2024 Mozambican general election: Daniel Chapo is elected president while the ruling FRELIMO party retains a majority in the Assembly of the Republic.[225]
October 12 – The long-period comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), described as the "comet of the century", makes its closest approach to Earth.[226]
October 13 – SpaceX achieves the first successful return and capture of a Super Heavy booster from Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever to fly.[227][228]
October 14 – The Europa Clipper spacecraft is launched to investigate Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.[229]
October 16 – Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas, is killed in a gunfight with Israeli forces in Rafah.[230]
The 2024 Moldovan European Union membership referendum is held and narrowly approved.[231]
Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the president and vice president of Indonesia. [232]
Duma Boko won the 2024 Botswana general election on October 30
October 21 – The National Assembly of Vietnam elects Lương Cường as the new president of Vietnam. He replaced Tô Lâm, who was formally appointed as the general secretary of the Communist Party.[233]
October 24 – The first case of the 2024 Kwango province disease outbreak is reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[234]
October 26 – 2024 Georgian parliamentary election: Amid suspicions of interference, ruling pro-Russian party Georgian Dream wins a majority.[235]
2024 Japanese general election: The governing LDP loses its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2009, but still wins the most seats. The CDP wins its best result in party history.[236]
October 2024 Bulgarian parliamentary election: Boyko Borsiov's coalition GERB-SDS successfully forms a government after 6 snap elections.[237]
2024 Lithuanian parliamentary election: The leftist opposition Social Democratic Party of Lithuania wins a majority.[238]
2024 Botswana general election: The ruling BDP party is voted out of power, ending 58 years of uninterrupted governance.[16] Duma Boko of the UDC party is elected President of Botswana.[239]
2024 Spanish floods: Spain experiences its worst flooding in half a century, with over 200 killed and many more missing, as a year's worth of rain falls in eight hours.[240][241]
December 1 – 2024 Romanian parliamentary election: The incumbent National Coalition for Romania wins a plurality of votes, with far-right parties making substantial gains.[265]
Speaker of the National Assembly Woo Won-shik signing the article of impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol following the South Korean martial law crisis on December 3
December 3 – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law during a late-night address broadcast live on YTN television, accusing the country's main opposition Democratic Party of sympathizing with North Korea and engaging in anti-state activities.[266]
2024 French political crisis: Michel Barnier becomes the first prime minister of France to lose a motion of no-confidence since Georges Pompidou in 1962.[267]
Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shot and killed by a lone gunman in Midtown Manhattan, sparking debate and criticism of the health insurance industry in the United States.[268]