2018

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Events edit

January 11 - Laurie Tackett is released from prison.
February 14 - Nikolas Cruz perpetrates the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people and injuring another 17.
February 14 - Jacob Zuma resigns as President of South Africa.
February 17 - Chan Tong-kai kills Poon Hiu-wing over a couple dispute.
March 2 - The Palang Pracharath Party is founded by Prawit Wongsuwan.
March 2 to 21 - Austin serial bombings
March 21 - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is arrested and charged with bribery and corruption.
March 26 - Jennifer and Sarah Hart crashed their SUV killing both them and their six children, Devonte's fate remains unknown.
March 27 - Mauro Carlesse becomes governor of Tocantins.
March 30 - Gao Chengyong is sentenced to death for 11 charges of murder.
March 31 - Yihong Peng kills his mother and injures his father after a heated argument.
April 3 - Nasim Najafi Aghdam perpetrates a mass shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring 4 people before committing suicide.
April 19 - King Mswati III of Swaziland changes the name of the country to Eswatini.
April 23 - Alek Minassian drives a van into a crowd of people in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 16.
April 23 - Jennair Gerardot kills her husband's mitress, Meredith Chapman, then herself.
May 4 - Michael Skakel's murder conviction in relation to the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley is vacated.
May 8 - Eric Schneiderman resigns as Attorney General of New York in the wake of several sex scandals.
May 10 - Mahathir Mohamad is elected Prime Minister of Malaysia for the second time, succeeding Najib Razak.
May 14 - Murder of Ana Kriegel
May 18 - Dimitrios Pagourtzis kills 8 students and 2 teachers and injures 13 others as part of the Santa Fe High School Shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.
May 23 - Jessica and Lilia Raubenolt are killed and ran over by Cameron Herrin.
May 25 - Noblesville West Middle School Shooting
June 12 - U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un meet with each other at a summit at the Capella Hotel in Setosa, Singapore, to try and normalize relations. It is the first ever meeting between leaders of North Korea and the United States.
June 18 - XXXTentacion is shot to death after a group of four people mugged him. The four people in question are Dedrick Williams, Michael Boatwright, Robert Allen, and Trayvon Newsome.
July 2 - Filipino mayor Antonio Halili is assassinated by unknown perpetrators.
August 13 - Christopher Watts kills his pregnant wife, and his daughters
August 26 - David Katz commits the Jacksonville Landing shooting during a Madden NFL tournament, killing 2 people and injuring 10 others. Kirill Volsky kills and dismembers Kristina Khamrayeva.
September 1 - Suge Knight is sentenced to 28 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter in regard to a 2015 hit-and-run attack.
September 6 - Amber Guyger murders African-American man Botham Jean when she accidently walks into his apartment, mistaking it for her own and believing him to be an intruder.
September 7 - Joe Exotic is indicted on eight counts of violating the Lacey Act by falsifying wildlife records, and on nine counts of violating the Endangered Species Act by killing five tigers and for selling tigers across state lines, as well as one count of conspiracy and one count of attempted murder as part of a plot to kill his rival Carole Baskin.
September 25 - Bill Cosby is sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison for sexual assault.
October 2 - Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey by a death squad known as "Tiger Squad", allegedly on the direct orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
October 15 - 13-year old Jayme Closs is kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin by 20-year old Jake Patterson, who also murders her parents, James and Denise Closs.
October 17 - Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
October 27 - Robert Bowers kills 11 and injures 6 in a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
October - Kirill Volsky confesses to killing Kristina Krimrayeva.
November 2 - 2018 Tallahassee shooting
November 7 - Thousand Oaks shooting
November 14 - Camilo Catrillanca is assassinated b Carlos Alarcón.
November 18 - Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine and five other alleged members of the gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsters are arrested by ATF agents in New York City on charges of racketeering, weapon possession, and conspiracy to commit murder.
December 19 - Beginning of the Sudanese Revolution.

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 18 - Anthony Allen Shore
February 1 - John Battaglia
February 15 - Theresa White
March 15 - Carlton Gary
March 21 - Mark Anthony Conditt
March 24 - James Wickstrom
March 26 - Jennifer and Sarah Hart
April 1 - Efraín Ríos Montt
April 3 - Nasim Najafi Aghdam
April 19 - Saleh Ali al-Sammad
April 23 - Jennair Gerardot
April 29 - Luis García Meza
May 3 - Afonso Dhlakama
May 8 - Ernest Medina
May 23 - Luis Posada Carriles
May 24 - Gudrun Burwitz
June 16 - Jordan Alyse Gary
June 27 - Joe Jackson
July 6 - Shoko Asahara
July 23 - Steven Powell
August 9 - Billy Ray Irick
August 23 - Trevor Heitmann
August 26 - David Katz
August 31 - Alexander Zakharchenko
September 19 - Jon Burge
October 1 - Do Muoi
October 17 - Vladislav Roslyakov
October 30 - Whitey Bulger
November 2 - Scott Beierle
November 7 - Ian David Long
December 15 - Simon Bikindi

Victim deaths edit

January 10 - Blaze Bernstein
February 14 - Alyssa Alhadef, Scott Beigel, Martin Duque , Nicholas Dworet, Aaron Feis, Jamie Guttenberg, Chris Haxon, Luke Hoyer, Cara Loughran, Gina Montalto, Joaquin Oliver, Alaina Petty, Meadow Pollack, Helena Ramsay, Alex Schachter, Carmen Schentrup , and Peter Wang
February 17 - Poon Hiu-wing
February 27 - Gabriel Cruz
May 23 - Jessica and Lilia Raubenolt
March 8 - LaTania Carwell
March 26 - Hannah, Markis, Jeremiah, Abigail, and Ciera Hart, Devonte Hart (declared dead)
March 31 - Wei Ping Shen
April 18 - Alvaro Conrado
April 23 - Meredith Chapman, Beutis Renuka Amarasinghe, Andrea Bradden, Geraldine Brady, So He Chung, Anne Marie D'Amico, Mary Elizabeth Forsyth, Chul Min Kang, Jin Hun Kim, Munir Naijar and Dorothy Sewell
May 14 - Ana Kriegel
June 18 - Jahseh "XXXTentacion" Onfroy
July 2 - Antonio Halili
July 2 - Alesha MacPhail
July 18 - Mollie Tibbetts
July 22 - Nia Wilson
August 13 - Shanann, Bella, Celeste, and Nico Watts
August 23 - Aileen and Aryana Pizarro
August 26 - Kristina Khamrayeva
September 6 - Botham Jean
October 2 - Jamal Khashoggi
October 15 - James and Denise Closs
November 7 - Ron Helus, Noel Sparks, Dan Manrique, Justin Meek, Cody Coffman , Alaina Housley, Telemachus Orfanos, Sean Adler, Mark Meza Jr, Blake Dingman, Jacob Dunham and Kristina Morisette
November 14 - Camilo Catrillanca, Nawaf al-Attar
November 27 - Hania Aguilar
December 4 - Ivan Krapivin