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Pro-Palestinian protests in the United States stop traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and disrupt traffic to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport.
2024-04-15

The U.S.-led Artemis Accords are signed by the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Luxembourg, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United Arab Emirates. According to NASA, the Accords aim to establish norms of behavior between countries regarding lunar resource extraction and exploration, outline "safety zones" on the lunar surface where other countries should not interfere, and protect heritage sites on the lunar surface such as the Apollo landing sites. Successive signatories since then have been announced.
2020-10-13

SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, to supersynchronous orbit an Airbus-built communications satellite SES-11 for Luxembourg-based SES, and EchoStar 105 for U.S.-headquartered EchoStar. It's the third time when a Falcon 9 first stage is re-used.
2017-10-11

Record snowfall occurs over the United States killing at least eleven and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
2013-12-6

Xavier Bettel becomes the first openly gay prime minister in Luxembourg and the third openly gay prime minister in Europe as the country's first government without participation of the Christian Social People's Party since 1979 takes office; Bettel's deputy, Étienne Schneider, is also openly gay, making Luxembourg the first country in the world with the two highest-ranking leaders of government being openly gay.
2013-12-4

The United States' two acting unions, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, agree to merge forming the SAG-AFTRA.
2012-03-31

An employee in the United States embassy in Islamabad is detained in the Pakistani city of Peshawar after bullets are found in his luggage.
2012-02-14

U.S. soul singer Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam's Airport Schiphol.
2010-10-10

At least 12 people die in Pakistan's North Waziristan province as United States drone attacks continue for a second day.
2010-09-15

The United States and United Kingdom close their embassies in Yemen, citing threats from Al-Qaeda.
2010-01-3