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December. December 19 - The 2021 Hong Kong legislative election, originally scheduled for 6 September 2020 but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was held. [21] December 29 - The Hong Kong Police arrested Stand News senior staff. Stand News officially announced shut down after senior staff being arrested.
Creation Stories is a 2021 British biographical film about Alan McGee and Creation Records, directed by Nick Moran. [3] [4] [5] The film was adapted from McGee's 2013 autobiography of the same name, by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh .
10–13 May – The Indian National Congress won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election by getting 135 out of 224 seats. 19 May – Reserve Bank of India announced that it will withdraw all 2000-rupee note in circulation by September 2023. 28 May The New Parliament House in New Delhi is inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
10 January – Protestors in Northern Ireland defied police orders to abandon a planned march. 27 January – Ian Paisley was jailed for three months for illegal assembly in Northern Ireland. 4 March – The Lichfield Report was issued. It proposed the creation of a "University of Limerick" which would be "orientated towards technological ...
Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
Brad Gibson is a retired Australian-Canadian astrophysicist.He is known for identifying the regions of the Galaxy most likely to harbor complex biological life, designing and constructing the first operational liquid mirror telescope observatory, and using supernovae as cosmological probes, the latter for which led to the 2009 Gruber Prize in Cosmology.
Hotstar. Hotstar (now Disney+ Hotstar) is the most subscribed–to OTT platform in India, owned by Star India as of July 2020, with around 300 million active users and over 350 million downloads. [4] According to Hotstar's India Watch Report 2018, 96% of watch time on Hotstar comes from videos longer than 20 minutes, while one–third of ...
22 November – Bertie Ahern celebrated ten years as leader of the Fianna Fáil party. 15 December – The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 was enacted. Inter alia, this provided that children born of most foreign national parents on the island of Ireland were no longer automatically entitled to Irish citizenship.