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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

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully impacts Dimorphos at 23:16 UTC, becoming the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid.
2022-09-26

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

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, is believed to have died in a suicide bombing after U.S.-led coalition special forces raid targeted positions belonging to Huras al-Din in Syria's rebel-held Idlib Governorate. U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement at 9:00 AM EDT (1300 UTC) asserting his death.
2019-10-27

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

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

The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins at 22:09 UTC on June 5, and ends at 04:49 UTC on June 6.
2012-06-5

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