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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989.
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. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Gregory Jack Biffle (December 23, 1969 – December 18, 2025), nicknamed "the Biff", was an American professional stock car racing driver. He most notably raced from 2001 to 2022 in the NASCAR Cup Series, most notably driving the No. 16 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing from 2001 to 2016 and last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No.
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Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was launched in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android, where it is currently the default browser.
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Robert Norman Reiner (; March 6, 1947 – December 14, 2025) was an American filmmaker and actor. He directed a series of acclaimed American studio films across multiple genres. He received numerous accolades, including winning two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Hugo Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and nine Golden Globe Awards.
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Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua, billed as Judgment Day, is an upcoming heavyweight professional boxing match contested between YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. The bout is scheduled to take place on December 19, 2025, at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.
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Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted child sex offender. He began his professional career as a teacher at the Dalton School. After his dismissal from the school in 1976, he entered the banking and finance sector, working at Bear Stearns in various roles, before starting his own firm.
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Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua (born 15 October 1989) is a British professional boxer. He is a former two time heavyweight champion having held the unified world heavyweight championship twice between 2017 to 2019 and 2019 to 2021. At regional level, he held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles from 2015 to 2016.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2025. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
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The Epstein files are a body of documents detailing the criminal activities of American financier and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his affiliates. The Epstein list is a purported document within this body that contains the names of high-profile clients to whom Epstein trafficked young girls.
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2025 Brown University shooting
On December 13, 2025, a spree shooting began at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., during the second day of final examination week for the fall semester. A gunman entered the School of Engineering and killed two students and wounded nine other students as they attended a review session in preparation for final exams.
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Bruce Lee (born Lee Jun-fan; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong-American martial artist, actor, and filmmaker. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy, which was formed from Lee's experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense—as well as eclectic, Zen Buddhist and Taoist philosophies—as a new school of martial arts thought.
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Wake Up Dead Man (marketed as Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) is a 2025 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is a standalone sequel to Glass Onion (2022) and the third installment overall in the Knives Out film series. It stars Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc.
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On 14 December 2025, a terrorist mass shooting occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, in the afternoon during a Hanukkah celebration attended by approximately one thousand people. Two gunmen killed 15 people, including a child. Police and Australian intelligence agencies declared it an Islamic State–linked terrorist incident.
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2026 PDC World Darts Championship
The 2026 PDC World Darts Championship (known for sponsorship reasons as the 2025/26 Paddy Power World Darts Championship) is an ongoing professional darts tournament that is being held from 11 December 2025 to 3 January 2026 in Alexandra Palace in London, England.
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The 2025 SEA Games (Thai: กีฬาซีเกมส์ 2025, RTGS: Kila Sikem 2025, pronounced [kīː. lāː sīː. kēːm sɔ̌ːŋ. pʰān. jîː. sìp̚. hâː]), officially called the 33rd SEA Games (Thai: กีฬาซีเกมส์ ครั้งที่ 33, RTGS: Kila Sikem Khrangthi 33, pronounced [kīː. lāː sīː. kēːm kʰráŋ. tîː sǎːm. sìp̚ sǎːm]) is an ongoing international multi-sport event sanctioned by the Southeast Asian Games Federation (SEAGF).
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Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver from a story the trio wrote with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno. Distributed by 20th Century Studios, it is the sequel to Avatar (2009) and the second installment in the Avatar franchise.
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Jake Joseph Paul (born January 17, 1997) is an American professional boxer, influencer, actor and co-founder of boxing promotion Most Valuable Promotions, alongside adviser Nakisa Bidarian. He began his career posting videos on Vine in September 2013 and had amassed 5. 3 million followers and 2 billion views before the app was discontinued.
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Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin (born Macaulay Carson Culkin; August 26, 1980 (1980-08-26)) is an American actor and musician. Considered one of the most successful child actors of the 1990s, Culkin has received a Golden Globe Award nomination and other accolades. In 2005, he was ranked second on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid-Stars".
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It: Welcome to Derry is an American supernatural horror television series based on Stephen King's 1986 novel It. Serving as a prequel to the films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), the series was developed by Andy Muschietti, Barbara Muschietti and Jason Fuchs, all of whom were involved in the It films.
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Disclosure Day is an upcoming American science fiction film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp based on a story by Spielberg. The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. Disclosure Day is scheduled to be released in the United States by Universal Pictures on June 12, 2026.
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Abdul Rehman Baloch (Urdu: عبدالرحمن بلوچ, 1980 – 9 August 2009), known by the alias Rehman Dakait (Urdu: رحمان ڈکیت), was a Pakistani gangster based in Karachi's Lyari neighbourhood who formed the Peoples' Aman Committee which was affiliated with the Pakistan People's Party. The Government of Sindh had set a reward of Rs. 5 million on his head.
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Myrrh (; from an unidentified ancient Semitic language, מוֹר /mor/; from Hebrew, see § Etymology) is a gum-resin extracted from a few small, thorny tree species of the Commiphora genus, belonging to the Burseraceae family. Myrrh resin has been used throughout history in medicine, perfumery, and incenses. In perfume compositions, myrrh is most often considered a base note.
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2025 North Carolina Cessna Citation II crash
On December 18, 2025, a Cessna 550 business jet crashed in Statesville, North Carolina. The crash occurred between 10:15 and 10:20 am local time. Officials said that at least seven people were killed in the crash, including former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife and his two children.
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Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film produced and directed by Josh Safdie, who co-wrote the script with Ronald Bronstein, loosely inspired by American table tennis player Marty Reisman. Starring and co-produced by Timothée Chalamet, the film also features Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher in supporting roles.
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List of highest-grossing Indian films
This ranking lists the highest-grossing Indian films produced by Indian cinema, based on conservative global box office estimates as reported by organisations classified as green by Wikipedia. The figures are not adjusted for inflation. However, there is no official tracking of figures and sources publishing data are frequently pressured to increase their estimates.
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Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science.
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Elizabeth Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1939) is an American actress. For her role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.
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Joshua Mathias O'Connor (born 20 May 1990) is an English actor. From 2016 to 2019 he had a major role portraying Larry Durrell in ITV's The Durrells. He had his breakthrough playing the lead role of a closeted sheep farmer in Francis Lee's romantic drama God's Own Country (2017), for which he won the BIFA Award for Best Actor.
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YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google.
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David Edward Williams (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams (), is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality. He is best known for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly With Me (2010–2011). He is also a writer of children's books, having sold more than 50 million copies worldwide.
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Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix. Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019, respectively, and the fourth season was released in two parts in May and July 2022.
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James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker and deep-sea explorer. A major figure in the post-New Hollywood era, his films combine cutting-edge film technology with classical filmmaking techniques and have grossed over $8 billion worldwide, making him the second-highest-grossing film director of all time.
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Jessie Buckley (born 28 December 1989) is an Irish actress and singer. Her accolades include a Laurence Olivier Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards. Buckley began her career in 2008 as a contestant on the BBC TV talent show I'd Do Anything, in which she came second.
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Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, the series is set two centuries after the Great War of 2077, in which society has collapsed following a nuclear holocaust.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in New York City, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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Timothée Hal Chalamet (born December 27, 1995) is an American and French actor. His accolades include a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and a Grammy Award. Chalamet began his career in television, appearing in the drama series Homeland.
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Instagram is an American photo and short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.
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Beau Greaves (born 9 January 2004) is an English professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events and previously competed in World Darts Federation (WDF) and British Darts Organisation (BDO) events. She is a three-time women's world champion, having won three consecutive WDF World Darts Championship titles.
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William Lawrence Muschamp (born August 3, 1971) is an American football coach and former player who is the current defensive coordinator at The University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as head football coach at the University of Florida from 2011 to 2014 and at the University of South Carolina from 2016 to 2020.
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List of highest-grossing films
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising.
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Carl Reiner (; March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020) was an American actor, author, comedian, director and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), known professionally as Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy), is an American former rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem, Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Records, in 1993.
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The fifth and final season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 5, was released on the streaming service Netflix. The season, which will consist of eight episodes, is being released in three parts. The first volume premiered on November 26, 2025, with the second slated for December 25 and the finale scheduled for December 31.
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Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by the Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. In the game, players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, receiving feedback through colored tiles that indicate correct letters and their placement. A single puzzle is released daily, with all players attempting to solve the same word.
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Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet".
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Avengers: Doomsday is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and AGBO, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the fifth installment in the Avengers film series following Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the 39th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
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Cooper Douglas Kupp (born June 15, 1993) is an American professional football wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Eastern Washington Eagles, winning the Walter Payton Award as a junior. He was selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft.
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Aditya Dhar (born 12 March 1983) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and lyricist who works in Hindi films. In 2019, he made his directorial debut with the war film Uri: The Surgical Strike; which became the fourth highest grossing Indian film of the year, and earned him the National Film Award for Best Direction.
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Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell (born 25 December 1961) is a British former socialite and convicted child sex offender. In 2021 she was found guilty of child sex trafficking and other offences in connection with the deceased financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The following year, she was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment in the United States.
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Emily in Paris is an American romantic comedy drama television series created by Darren Star for Netflix. The series stars Lily Collins as aspiring marketing executive Emily Cooper, an American who moves to Paris to provide an American point of view to a French marketing firm. In Paris, she tries to overcome challenges in her work, love life, and friendships.
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Michael Macdonald (born June 26, 1987) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served as the defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens from 2022 to 2023. Macdonald attended the University of Georgia, where he began his coaching career as a graduate assistant in 2010.
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Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018) was an American actress, film director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Laverne DeFazio on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983), receiving three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for her portrayal.
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Akshaye Khanna (born 28 March 1975) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi films. Known for his acting versatility and strong portrayals, Khanna is a recipient of numerous accolades including two Filmfare Awards. Born to actor Vinod Khanna, he made his acting debut with Himalay Putra (1997).
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Elise Marie Stefanik ( stə-FAH-nik; born July 2, 1984) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015. As chair of the House Republican Conference from 2021 to 2025, she was the fourth-ranking House Republican. Stefanik was elected as a moderate Republican.
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Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress. Born in Carmichael, California, Song began her career at the age of six, working as a child model. She made her screen debut with a guest appearance on the sitcom Thunder Alley (1995), and went on to roles such as the children's television series Fudge (1995) and the Nickelodeon series 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd (1999).
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.
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Song Sung Blue is a 2025 American biographical musical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Craig Brewer. It is based on the 2008 documentary film of the same name by Greg Kohs. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as Mike and Claire Sardina, who performed as the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning & Thunder.
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The Odyssey is an upcoming epic action fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic the Odyssey, the film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, the Greek king of Ithaca, and chronicles his long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War as he attempts to reunite with his wife, Penelope.
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Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. According to Forbes, as of May 2025, Bezos's estimated net worth exceeded $220 billion, making him the third richest person in the world.
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Major Mohit Sharma (13 January 1978 – 21 March 2009) was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF. On 21 March 2009, he engaged in an encounter with militants in the Hafruda forest of the Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
