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From UFOs and flying snakes to smoke from Canadian wildfires bathing U.S. cities in a postapocalyptic glow, 2023 had more than its share of weird news.Here are just some of the strange things that ...
A year of weird and record-breaking weather: 5 things to know. Saul Elbein. August 23, 2024 at 5:30 AM. Vanishing glaciers. Newly ice-free stretches in the Arctic. Record droughts punctuated by ...
The death of Aeschylus, killed by a turtle dropped onto his head by a falcon, illustrated in the 15th-century Florentine Picture-Chronicle by Baccio Baldini [1]. This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources.
2023-01-28 to 2023-02-13 List of high-altitude object events in 2023 • IC, United States, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela: Multiple airborne objects, sometimes reported as UFOs, were observed and shot down by military aircraft. Many of the objects were identified as meteorology or espionage balloons. [210] [211] [212]
May 17: 2023 Ecuadorian political crisis. June 2: 2023 Odisha train collision. June 12: Kwara boat disaster. July 14: 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. July 26: 2023 Nigerien coup d'état. August 23: ISRO's Chandrayaan 3 lands on the lunar south pole making India the 4th nation to successfully soft land on the Moon. August 30: 2023 Gabonese coup d'état.
Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts ...
The United States wins the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League final after defeating Canada 2–0. [225] June 20 – Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty to federal tax and firearms charges. [226] June 20–26 – A series of tornado outbreaks across the United States kills eight people and injures over 126 others.
An estimated 134.3 million births and 60.8 million deaths were expected to take place in 2023. [294][295] The average global life expectancy was 73.16 years, [296] an increase of 0.18 years from 2022. [296] The rate of child mortality was by the end of the year, expected to have decreased from 2022.