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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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Final Destination Bloodlines is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor, based on a story developed by them and Jon Watts. It is the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series following Final Destination 5 (2011).
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Crystal Palace Football Club, commonly referred to as Crystal Palace or simply Palace, is a professional football club based in Selhurst, South London, England, which competes in the Premier League, the top-tier of English football. The club was formally created as a professional outfit in 1905 at the Crystal Palace exhibition building, but its origins can be traced back to 1861.
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Casandra Elizabeth Ventura (born August 26, 1986), known mononymously as Cassie, is an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. Born in New London, Connecticut, she began her musical career after meeting producer Ryan Leslie in late 2004, who signed her to his record label, NextSelection Lifestyle Group.
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Mission: Impossible โ The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible โ The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. The direct sequel to Mission: Impossible โ Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), it is the eighth and final installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.
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Michelle Yvonne Hunziker (Swiss Standard German: [miหสษl หhสntsษชkษr], Italian: [miสหสษl ห(h)untsiker]; born 24 January 1977) is a Swiss and Italian television presenter and former model. She hosted the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland alongside Hazel Brugger and Sandra Studer.
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List of Eurovision Song Contest winners
72 songs written by 149 songwriters have won the Eurovision Song Contest, an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest, which has been broadcast every year since its debut in 1956, is one of the longest-running television programmes in the world.
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Final Destination is an American horror franchise that includes six films, ten novels, and two comic books. It is based on an unproduced spec script by Jeffrey Reddick, originally written for The X-Files television series and was distributed by New Line Cinema. The films revolve around a group of people who cheat death after a visionary predicts they will die in a disaster.
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Mission: Impossible (film series)
Mission: Impossible is a series of American action spy films, based on the 1966 TV series created by Bruce Geller. The series is mainly produced by Tom Cruise, who plays Ethan Hunt, an agent of the Impossible Mission Force (IMF). The films have been directed, written, and scored by various filmmakers and crew, while incorporating musical themes from the original series by Lalo Schifrin.
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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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Rosemary Pauline West (nรฉe Letts; born 29 November 1953) is an English serial killer who collaborated with her husband, Fred West, in the torture and murder of ten young women between 1973 and 1987; she also murdered her eight-year-old stepdaughter Charmaine in 1971. The majority of these murders took place at the West residence in Gloucester, England.
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Andor, also known as Star Wars: Andor and Andor: A Star Wars Story for its second season, is an American science fiction political spy thriller drama television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and a prequel to the film Rogue One (2016), which itself is a prequel to the original Star Wars film (1977).
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Diddy, and formerly Puff Daddy and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Born in Harlem and raised in Mount Vernon, Combs worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Records in 1993.
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Jalen Marquis Brunson (born August 31, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Brunson Burner", he was drafted with the 33rd overall selection of the 2018 NBA draft by the Dallas Mavericks and played his first four seasons in the NBA with them.
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Oliver Glasner (born 28 August 1974) is an Austrian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace. A defender by trade, he spent almost all of his professional career with Austrian Bundesliga club SV Ried, winning the Austrian Cup in 1998 and 2011.
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Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost on September 14, 1955) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected in the 2025 papal conclave as the successor to Pope Francis. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in a nearby suburb, Prevost became a friar of the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained as a priest in 1982.
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The Rani is a fictional character in the British BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, portrayed by Kate O'Mara, Anita Dobson and Archie Panjabi. She is a renegade Time Lord, and a nemesis of the series' title character, a Time Lord known as the Doctor. The Rani is an amoral biochemist who experiments on humans and other species, and considers everything secondary to her research.
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Irrรฉversible (French: [iสevษสsibl]) is a 2002 French art thriller film written and directed by Gaspar Noรฉ. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel, the plot depicts the events of a tragic night in Paris as two men attempt to avenge the brutal rape and beating of the woman they love. The film is made up of a title sequence followed by 14 segments made to look like long takes.
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Eberechi Oluchi Eze ( ษ-BAIR-ษ-tchee EZ-ษ; born 29 June 1998) is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the England national team. A product of numerous English academies, Eze began his senior career with Queens Park Rangers in 2016.
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Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Austria won the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Wasted Love", written by Johannes Pietsch, Teodora ล piriฤ, and Thomas Thurner, and performed by Pietsch himself under his stage name JJ. The Austrian participating broadcaster, รsterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), internally selected its entry for the contest, which ultimately won the contest.
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Ryan Thomas Gosling ( GOSS-ling; born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. His work includes both independent films and major studio features, and his accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two British Academy Film Awards.
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Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 โ 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born militant-terrorist leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars.
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Eighty-six or 86 is American English slang. In the hospitality industry, it is used to indicate that an item is no longer available, traditionally from a food or drinks establishment, or referring to a person or people who are not welcome on the premises. Its etymology is unknown, but the term seems to have been coined in the 1920s or 1930s.
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Eric Daniel Brunson (born June 14, 1972) is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played nine seasons in the NBA and has also worked as an assistant coach for several teams. Brunson played college basketball for the Temple Owls.
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Scott Alexander Scheffler (born June 21, 1996) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has held that position for over 100 weeks. He has won two major championships, both the 2022 and 2024 Masters Tournament.
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Nemo Mettler (Swiss Standard German: [หneหmo หmษtlษr]; born 3 August 1999), known mononymously as Nemo, is a Swiss musician and singer-rapper who plays the violin, piano and drums. They were the first openly non-binary act to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest, and later won the 2024 contest with the song "The Code".
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Remember Monday are a British country pop girl group consisting of Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele. The group first gained prominence after appearing on The Voice UK in 2019. They represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "What the Hell Just Happened"? , where they placed 19th.
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Jeffrey Cobb (ใธใงใใชใผใปใณใ, Jefurฤซ Kobu, born July 11, 1982) is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler. As of May 2025, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name JC Mateo. He is best known for his tenure in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he was a member of United Empire.
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Eddington is a 2025 American contemporary Western film written and directed by Ari Aster, and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O'Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone. It follows the political and social turmoil in the fictional city of Eddington, New Mexico, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mission: Impossible โ Dead Reckoning Part One
Mission: Impossible โ Dead Reckoning Part One is a 2023 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible โ Fallout (2018) and the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series.
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XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is a 2002 American action film directed by Rob Cohen, produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes. The first installment in the xXx film series, the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage, a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast, stuntman, and rebellious athlete-turned-reluctant spy for the National Security Agency.
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The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout competition in English football, organised by and named after The Football Association (the FA), the governing body of the sport in England. It is the oldest existing football competition in the world, having commenced in the 1871โ72 season.
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the American company OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is based on large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o. ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language.
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and film producer. Regarded as a Hollywood icon, he has received various accolades, including an Honorary Palme d'Or and three Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. His films have grossed over $12 billion worldwide, placing him among the highest-grossing actors of all time.
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Justyna Maria Steczkowska (Polish pronunciation: [juหstษจna stษtอกสหkษfska]; born 2 August 1972) is a Polish singer, songwriter, photographer, and actress. She represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song "Sama", finishing in 18th place, representing the country again in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Gaja", finishing in 14th place.
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The New York Knickerbockers, shortened and more commonly referred to as the New York Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The Knicks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.
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Timothรฉe Hal Chalamet (English: TIM-ษth-ee SHAL-ษ-may; 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, four British Academy Film Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. Chalamet began his career in television, appearing in the drama series Homeland in 2012.
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Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 โ 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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Vรฆb (stylised in all caps; pronounced [หvai:p], 'vibe') is an Icelandic electronic music duo consisting of brothers Hรกlfdรกn Helgi Matthรญasson (born 4 June 2003) and Matthรญas Davรญรฐ Matthรญasson (born 7 December 2004). They represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Rรณa".
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The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual knockout football competition in domestic English football. First played during the 1871โ72 season, it is the oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after the Football Association (the FA).
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A Minecraft Movie is a 2025 American fantasy adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios. It was directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, from a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer. The film stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers, and Sebastian Hansen.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinฤ Greek: ฮฮปฮตฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฮฑ ฮฮตฮฌ ฮฆฮนฮปฮฟฯฮฌฯฯฯ, lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC โ 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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Anthony Tiran Todd (December 4, 1954 โ November 6, 2024) was an American actor known for his distinctly deep and gravelly voice. He is best known for playing the title character in the Candyman film series (1992โ2021) and William Bludworth in the Final Destination franchise (2000โ2025). For the former, he was nominated at the Critics' Choice and Fangoria Chainsaw Awards.
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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 the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
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TRAPPIST-1 is an ultra-cool red dwarf star with seven known exoplanets. It lies in the constellation Aquarius approximately 40. 66 light-years away from Earth, and has a surface temperature of about 2,566 K (2,290 ยฐC; 4,160 ยฐF). Its radius is slightly larger than Jupiter's and it has a mass of about 9% of the Sun.
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"Heil Hitler", also known by the alternative version title "Nigga Heil Hitler" or the initials "HH", is a song by American rapper Kanye West. It was independently released on May 8, 2025, as the third single from his upcoming twelfth studio album, Cuck. Titled after the exclamation said when doing the Nazi salute, the song features additional vocals from West's group the Hooligans.
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Jhonattan Luis Vegas (born 19 August 1984) is a Venezuelan professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and is a two-time Olympian. He is the only Venezuelan to earn a PGA tour card or win a PGA tour event, and the only one to represent his country in the Presidents Cup or the Olympics. Vegas was born in Maturรญn, Venezuela.
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Final Destination is a 2000 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong, with a screenplay written by Wong, Glen Morgan, and Jeffrey Reddick, based on a story by Reddick. It stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Tony Todd. Sawa portrays a teenager who saves the lives of his classmates after having a premonition of a plane crash.
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Josรฉ Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoหse หpeรฐษพo ฮฒalmaหseรฐa pasหkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014).
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Sandra Studer (born 10 February 1969 in Zรผrich) is a Swiss TV presenter and singer. Studer represented Switzerland in Eurovision Song Contest 1991, which was held in Rome, Italy. Performing with the stage name Sandra Simรณ, she came fifth with the song "Canzone per te" ("A song for you"), which she sang in Italian.
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Tomas Tammemets (born 18 November 1991), known professionally as Tommy Cash (stylised as TOMMยฅ โฌA$H), is an Estonian rapper, singer, dancer, and visual artist. He usually performs in English with a distinct non-native accent, and is known for sexually explicit lyrical themes and provocative music videos.
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Italian brainrot is a series of surrealist internet memes that emerged in early 2025, characterized by absurd photos of AI-generated creatures with pseudo-Italian names. The phenomenon quickly spread across social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, thanks to its combination of synthesized "Italian" voiceovers, grotesque, funny visuals, and nonsensical narrative.
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Scott Francis Selwood (born 27 March 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays for the Ivanhoe Football Club in the Northern Football Netball League (NFNL). He previously played professionally for the West Coast Eagles and Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
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Saturday Night's Main Event is a series of American professional wrestling television specials produced by WWE (originally the World Wrestling Federation or WWF). It was originally broadcast by NBC from 1985 to 1992, replacing Saturday Night Live in its late night timeslot on an occasional basis throughout the year.
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The Diplomat is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Shivam Nair and written by Ritesh Shah. The film, starring John Abraham and Sadia Khateeb, is set against the backdrop of IndiaโPakistan relations, exploring themes of diplomacy and the personal conflicts faced by diplomats.
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List of sundown towns in the United States
A sundown town is a municipality or neighborhood within the United States that practices or once practiced a form of racial segregation characterized by intimidation, hostility, or violence among White people directed toward non-Whites, especially against African Americans.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a 2025 turn-based role-playing video game developed by French studio Sandfall Interactive and published by Kepler Interactive. Taking place in a dark fantasy Belle รpoque setting, the game follows the volunteers of Expedition 33 as they set out to destroy the Paintress, a being causing the yearly Gommage, which erases those at or above an ever-decreasing age.
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Joel Anthony Selwood (born 26 May 1988) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a four-time premiership player (including one time as captain), a six-time All-Australian, and a three-time captain of the All-Australian team.
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The Accountant 2 (stylized as The Accountant2) is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. It is the sequel to The Accountant (2016). Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and J. K. Simmons reprise their roles from the previous film, with Daniella Pineda joining the cast.
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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 Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. Known for his passing, dribbling and chance-creating abilities, he is regarded as one of the best players in the world and is often praised as one of the greatest teenage footballers of all time.
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Queer is an umbrella term for people who are non-heterosexual or non-cisgender. Originally meaning 'strange' or 'peculiar', queer came to be used pejoratively against LGBTQ people in the late 19th century. From the late 1980s, queer activists began to reclaim the word as a neutral or positive self-description.
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Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest
The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest is determined by a positional voting system. The most recent version of the system was implemented in the 2023 contest. Each participating country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8โ1 points, based on their ten favourite songs from other countries.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards, from a screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, inspired by a story idea from John Knoll and developed by Gary Whitta. The film was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
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Utrecht ( YOO-trekt; Dutch: [หytrษxt] ; Utrecht dialect: Ut(e)reg [หyt(ษ)สษฯ]) is the fourth-largest city of the Netherlands, as well as the capital and the most populous city of the province of Utrecht. The municipality of Utrecht is located in the eastern part of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Netherlands, and includes Haarzuilens, Vleuten and De Meern.
