2024 Damascus falls to rebels after Syrian troops withdraw and president Bashar al-Assad leaves the country as his government collapses. Israel as a result invaded into the buffer zone between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
2019 First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.
2013 Riots break out in Singapore, after a fatal accident in Little India.
2013 Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first musical act to perform on all seven continents.
2010 With the second launch of the Falcon 9, and the first launch of the Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
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