Federal Communications Commission The U.S. Federal Communications Commission designates 988 as the new phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
2019 Chilean protests The impeachment process against President Sebastián Piñera is defeated by 79 votes against 73 in the Chamber of Deputies. The impeachment process was initiated after several human rights violations have been reported against protestors.
Knesset The Israeli parliament votes to dissolve itself and schedules an unprecedented third election in a year for 2 March 2020.
2019 Algerian protests Thousands of protesters flood the streets of Algiers to protest the presidential election currently underway. As all five candidates have ties to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, protesters call the election a sham and demand that the military withdraw its influence from political life.
UK parliamentary election last year The parliamentary leader of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Nigel Dodds loses his seat in Belfast North as Nationalist MPs overtake Unionists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson loses her seat in East Dunbartonshire to the Scottish National Party.
Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn announces he will step down as party leader following the party's defeat in the general election.
The exit poll forecasts a Conservative landslide victory with major gains in Northern England. Boris Johnson was returned as Prime Minister and formed a majority government.
United Kingdom Voters in the United Kingdom go to the polls to elect members to the House of Commons in the general election.
Indian Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 As anger over the new citizenship law grows in the Indian states of Assam and Tripura, the government calls in the Army to restore peace. Prime Minister Narendra Modi appeals for calm.
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting A trial date has been set for September 2021, after families of the victims sue Remington for the "company’s reckless marketing of the Bushmaster AR-15", the gun used by the perpetrator in the rampage.
President Former President of Bolivia Evo Morales lands in Argentina after being granted asylum. Foreign Minister of Argentina Felipe Solá says Morales will receive refugee status.
Russia Russia's only aircraft carrier, the "Admiral Kuznetsov", catches fire while docked in Murmansk.
Suicide bomber A suicide bomber kills seven paramilitary soldiers and wounds three others near Samarra, Iraq.
2019 Jersey City shooting The attack on a kosher grocery in Jersey City is officially labeled an act of domestic terrorism and antisemitism.