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A small 1.5 m asteroid, 2024 RW, is predicted to fall harmlessly as a fireball over the island of Luzon in the Philippines at approximately 16:40 UTC (00:40 local time), the ninth asteroid to be successfully discovered before impacting Earth.
2024-09-4

The General Conference on Weights and Measures votes to stop synchronizing UTC to the standard mean solar time measurement UT1 by 2035.
2022-11-18

The Kyiv city government and Kyiv Oblast administration impose a 35-hour curfew starting at 20:00 local time (18:00 UTC).
2022-03-15

Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account.
2020-12-14

New Zealander Scott Donaldson becomes the first solo kayaker to successfully cross the Tasman Sea. After 62 days at sea, he landed in Ngāmotu Beach, New Plymouth, at 8.44 p.m. local time (08:44 UTC).
2018-07-2

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes Osaka, Japan, at 7:58 a.m. local time (22:58 UTC, June 17). At least five people have been killed and several are transported to hospitals with injuries. Electrical services are disrupted citywide, affecting 170,000 buildings.
2018-06-18

North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time 8.5 hours ahead of UTC in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Korean peninsula.
2015-08-15

A leap second is added to the clock for the first time in 3 years.
2015-06-30

A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft ever to dock with the International Space Station, completing docking at 12:02 pm EDT (16:02 UTC).
2012-05-25

A decision by the International Telecommunication Union on whether to abolish the leap second is postponed until 2015 pending the results of further studies.
2012-01-19