| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2004 | Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa. |
| 2010 | Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, will have a street named after him in Cape Town. |
| 2011 | Brazil overtakes the United Kingdom as the world's sixth largest economy. |
| 2011 | Drew Brees, quarterback for the New Orleans Saints, sets a new National Football League record for yards passing in a season. |
| 2012 | A law banning Americans from adopting Russian children is approved by Russia's parliament; the action is a response to the U.S. Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act. |
| 2012 | Severe weather hits the U.S. on Christmas Day; more than 30 tornadoes are reported in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. |
| 2013 | Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan visits the Yasukuni Shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo; the shrine commemorates those who died while in the service of the Empire of Japan during the Meiji Restoration, which stored imperial rule to Japan in 1868. |
| 2013 | A winter storm earlier in the week leaves thousands without power in Southern Ontario, Maine, Michigan and Vermont; below-freezing temperatures sent many to shelters for warmth. |
| 2014 | Ukraine exchanges 222 rebel prisoners for 150 Ukrainian soldiers held by separatist forces; for security reasons, the nation also blockades Crimea, the region annexed by Russia, by stopping bus and train service to and from the area. |
| 2014 | Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, a key member of the military arm of the al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabab, surrenders to police; the group seeks to take over the U.N.-supported Somali government. |
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