2024 WNBA Finals In basketball, the New York Liberty defeat the Minnesota Lynx in 5 games to win their first WNBA championship.
Inauguration of Prabowo Subianto Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka are inaugurated as the 8th president and 14th vice president of Indonesia, respectively.
2024 Moldovan presidential election The European Union referendum is narrowly approved by voters, with president Maia Sandu alleging foreign electoral intervention from Russia.
The presidential election goes to a second-round between current president Maia Sandu and politician Alexandr Stoianoglo of the pro-Russian Party of Socialists.
Moldovans vote for a president and also vote in a referendum that would amend the constitution to include a commitment for Moldova to join the European Union.
Helicopter Four people are killed when a helicopter crashes into a radio tower in Houston, Texas, United States.
Flash flood At least two people are killed and 309 others are rescued in flash flooding in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
2024 Atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in Cuba amid a national electrical blackout.
Sudanese Civil War The "Sudan Tribune" reports disease outbreaks and starvation in Khartoum North, Sudan, as a military offensive and fighting continues in the city.
Israel–Hezbollah conflict Israeli troops open fire on a truck belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces near Hanine, killing three soldiers. Israel later issues a formal apology for the attack, stating that its forces mistakenly believed they were targeting a vehicle used by Hezbollah to transport rockets.
2024 Iran–Israel conflict Two confidential U.S. intelligence documents are leaked to a pro-Iranian Telegram channel. The documents contain military assessments describing the detailed preparation of Israel's retaliatory attacks against Iran for striking Israel.
Israel–Hamas war The Israel Defense Forces announce that Colonel Ehsan Daxa, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, was killed by an IED in Jabalia in northern Gaza, becoming one of the most senior officers to have been killed in the fighting in Gaza.
Hamas reports that the number of dead and missing following an Israeli bombardment of residential areas in northern Gaza yesterday increases to 87, becoming among the highest single-incident death tolls in the past few months and also prompting condemnation from the United Nations.