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Disasters and accidents. Burning Man 2023, September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods. Heavy flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, United States, kills one person and leaves tens of thousands of people stranded in the Black Rock Desert. Organizers close the festival to vehicles after the death was reported.
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa [ edit ]
2020 ( MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade. The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and ...
Sports. 2023 World Snooker Championship. Luca Brecel wins his first World Snooker Championship title, defeating Mark Selby by a score of 18–15 in the final at The Crucible in Sheffield, England. Brecel becomes the first player from continental Europe to win the tournament. (BBC Sport) May 2, 2023 (Tuesday) edit.
After several unsuccessful predictions in 1994 and 1995, Camping predicted that the rapture and devastating earthquakes would occur on 21 May 2011, with God taking approximately 3% of the world's population into Heaven, and that the end of the world would occur five months later on October 21. [180] 29 Sep 2011.
The 2023 League of Legends World Championship was an esports tournament for the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends. It was the thirteenth iteration of the League of Legends World Championship, an annual international tournament organized by the game's developer, Riot Games. The tournament began in South Korea on ...
The 2023 World Athletics Championships ( Hungarian: 2023-as atlétikai világbajnokság ), the nineteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships, were held from 19 to 27 August 2023 at the National Athletics Centre, in Budapest, Hungary. [2] The tournament returned to its usual two-year cycle after the previous event in Eugene, Oregon ...
The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2023. The year saw a transitruion from La Niña to El Niño, with record high global average surface temperatures. The several weather events which had a significant impact were blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and tropical ...