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2024 Jaffa shooting. Two Palestinian gunmen open fire on pedestrians in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 17 others. The gunmen are subsequently shot and killed by armed civilians and police. (Times of Israel) Business and economy. 2024 United States port strike
2024 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
1930 – Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician (d. 2024) 1930 – James Scott Douglas, English-born Scottish race car driver and 6th Baronet Douglas (d. 1969) 1930 – Ahmad Shah of Pahang (d. 2019) 1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian-German pianist and composer; 1931 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backward to the dates preceding its official introduction in 1582. In nations that adopted the Gregorian calendar after its official and first introduction, dates occurring in the interim period of 15 October 1582 (the first date of use of Gregorian calendrical dates, being dated 5 October 1582 in the preceding ...
The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States.. With the dominant political story of this year being the 2024 presidential election, most American-focused media outlets routinely have been covering the nominees, with Donald Trump becoming the second president in American history to win two non-consecutive terms, defeating Democratic vice president Kamala Harris who ...
The year 2024 is notable for the large number of elections that were held worldwide: 64 countries from around the world, [2] home to nearly half of the global population, [3] voted, including eight of the world's 10 most populous nations – Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States; in addition, the ...
Armed conflicts and attacks. Arab–Israeli conflict. 2024 Tel Aviv truck attack. A man is killed and thirty others are injured in a vehicle-ramming attack when an Arab Israeli man rams his truck into a bus stop north of Tel Aviv, Israel, before being fatally shot by an armed civilian.
2024 Majiya fuel tanker explosion. At least 180 people are killed and dozens of others are injured when a gasoline tanker overturns and explodes in Majiya, Jigawa State, Nigeria. Bodies of five Russian climbers that disappeared on October 6 while summiting Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal are discovered near the peak and retrieved.