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Events edit

January 2 - A 13 year old boy named Oliver Stephens is stabbed to death in Emmer Green.
January 6 - The United States Capitol is stormed by right-wing extremists in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results and allow Donald Trump to remain in office. As a result, 5 people (4 protesters and 1 police officer) are killed.
January 7 - Carlos Alarcón is found guilty of the murder of Camilo Catrillanca and of the attempted murder of a teenager nicknamed "M.A.P.C.".
January 8 - La Vega raid: members of the Special Action Forces, the National Police and the National Guard take over the parish of La Vega in Caracas and begin to arrest and execute civilians. 23 people die.
January 13 - Donald Trump became the first and only president to be impeached for the second time by the House of Reprenstatives.
January 20 - Donald Trump's term as President of the United States officially ends.
January 21 - The 2021 Baghdad bombings are carried out when two ISIS suicide bombers attack an open-air market in central Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and injuring another 110.
February 1 - Aung San Suu Kyi is deposed as State Councilor of Myanmar in a coup lead by Min Aung Hlaing. The State Administration Council is subsequently established as the country’s executive body.
February 1 - American rapper Silentó is arrested in DeKalb County, Georgia and charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin, Frederick Rooks.
February 2 - Lord's Resistance Army member Dominic Ongwen is convicted on 61 counts of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
February 21 - The Three Percenters are dissolved.
February 22 - Claire Miller kills her disabled sister Helen Miller.
February 24 - Former Navy veteran Angelo Quinto is killed by three officers in an act of police brutality.
February 24 - Christopher Cantwell is found guilty of extortion and threatening to injure property or reputation, and is sentenced to 41 months in prison, as well as two years of supervised release following completion of the prison sentence.
March 1 - Nicolas Sarkozy is sentenced to one year in prison for corruption.
March 4 - The Loyalist Communities Council, an organization representing the Ulster Defence Association and other proscribed loyalist paramilitaries, withdraws from the Good Friday Agreement.
March 15 - Dylan Pountney is arrested for the murder of Jennifer Winkler.
March 16 - 2021 Atlanta spa shootings
April 2 - April 2021 US Capitol attack.
April 7 - 2021 Rock Hill shooting
April 9 - Cameron Herrin is sentenced to 24 years in prison.
April 15 - Indianapolis FedEx shooting
April 16 - Mikayla Miller, a black LGBT teen, is killed by a group of teens appearing to be motivated by homophobia and racism.
April 19 - Raúl Castro steps down as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, handing power to Miguel Díaz-Canel. This marks the end of the Castro regime in Cuba, which had been in power since 1959.
April 20 - Idriss Déby, President of Chad, is killed in combat while commanding army forces against the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT). His son, Mahamat Déby Itno, is appointed chairman of a Transitional Military Council.
April 23 - Bryant Moreland's YouTube channel (EDP445) is terminated.
May 1 - The Taliban begins a critical offensive in Afghanistan as US coalition forces withdraw from the country.
May 2-4 - Raymond Donini creates a plant capable of shooting out poison, and plans on having it kill Americans and Africans.
May 6 to 21 - Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launch a series of coordinated rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza in protest of the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem. 122 Palestinians, including 31 children, are killed, while seven Israelis, including one child, are killed.
May 6 - Rigby Middle School Shooting
May 9 - Aiden Fucci murders and possibly rapes Tristyn Bailey.
May 11 - Kazan school shooting
May 26 - 2021 San Jose shooting
June 6 - Nathaniel Veltman rammed into Muslim Pakistani-Canadian family with a pick-up truck in London Ontario, killing 4 and injuring 1
June 13 - Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted as Prime Minister of Israel after opposition leaders in the Knesset agree to form a coalition government. Naftali Bennett subsequently becomes Prime Minister.
June 25 - Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all three charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and manslaughter, in relation to the death of George Floyd. He is sentenced to 270 months (22.5 years) in prison.
June 30 - Bill Cosby's rape conviction is vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court due to violation of his 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment rights, and he is released from prison after serving only three years of his sentence.
July 6 - Haitian president Jovenel Moise is assassinated in a night-time attack by "unidentified Spanish-speaking individuals".
July 6 - Leneal Frazier was killed by Brian Cummings.
July 8 - Six of Jovenal Moise's assassins are killed or arrested by Haitian police.
July 9 to 17 - Triggered by arrest of Jacob Zuma widespread riots and lootings have been taken place in South Africa that destroyed businesses especially pharmacies and caused COVID-19 vaccination crisis in the country.
July 18 - Lewis Hamilton attempts to murder his main rival, Max Verstappen by ramming into his car during the race. He gets away with it.
July 19 - Paul Allard Hodgkins becomes the first participant in the Capitol storming to be sentenced as he receives eight months in prison.
August 10 - Andrew Cuomo announces his resignation as Governor of New York in the wake of various sex scandals.
August 12 - Jake Davison goes on a shooting rampage in Plymouth, England, killing five people and himself.
August 15 - Taliban forces capture Kabul, Afghanistan, restoring the country as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and ending the 20-year War in Afghanistan.
August 16 - Muhyiddin Yassin resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
August 23 - Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to five months in federal prison for destruction of property and weapons charges.
August 24 - Hissène Habré dies in prison.
August 26 - The 2021 Kabul airport attack: militants from The Islamic State's Khorasan Province perpetrate a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing approximately 182 people, including 169 Afghan civilians, 13 United States military personnel and 2 British civilians.
September 3 - Jake Angeli pleads guilty to obstruction of Congress.
September 5 - Alpha Condé is overthrown as President of Guinea by the Guinean Armed Forces.
September 12 - Francesco Bagnaia, a self-proclaimed "Italian Nazi", wins his first race in MotoGP.
September 17 - Robert Durst is convicted of the 2000 murder of Susan Berman.
September 20 - Perm State University shooting
October 20 - Mauro Carlesse is suspended from his position as governor of Tocantins for corruption cases.
October 23 - Colombia's most wanted drug lord, Dario Antonio Úsuga, is captured by Colombia's armed forces.
November 21 - Waukesha parade attack
November 26 - Abigail Paez And Magdalena Esposito Valenti Murders their 5 year old child Lucio Dupuy
November 30 - Oxford High School Shooting
December - Mauricio Paredes Bugueño is released from jail.
December 23 - Kimberly Potter is convicted of fatally shooting Daunte Wright.
December 27 - Lyndon McLeod goes on a shooting spree in Colorado, killing 5 people, before being killed by a police officer.

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

January 2 - Michael McKevitt
January 6 - Ashli Babbitt & Roseanne Boyland

January 13 - Lisa Montgomery
January 14 - Corey Johnson
January 16 - Dustin Higgs & Phil Spector
January 21 - Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukayev
January 29 - Lai Xiaomin
February 8 - Anthony Sowell
February 14 - Carlos Menem
February 28 - Roger Kibbe
March 12 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr.
March 17 - John Magufuli
March 28 - Joseph E. Duncan III
March 30 - G. Gordon Liddy
April 2 - Noah Green
April 8 - Phillip Adams
April 14 - Bernie Madoff
April 15 - Brandon Scott Hole
April 20 - Idriss Déby
April 21 - Ma'Khia Bryant
May 3 - Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.
May 5 - Ray Teret
May 11 - Lance Lowe
May 12 - Fernando Torres Silva
May 14 - William Lothian
May 17 - Jesús Santrich
May 19 - Abubakar Shekau
May 26 - Samuel Cassidy
June 28 - Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa
June 30 - John Hummel and Jesse Lee Cooks
July 24 - Rodney Alcala
July 26 - Fernando Karadima
August 12 - Jake Davison
August 24 - Hissène Habré
September 4 - Miguel Estay Reyno
September 11 - Abimael Guzmán
September 13 - Brian Laundrie
September 18 - Ali Kalora & Jaka Ramadan
September 20 - Helmut Oberlander
September 25 - Théoneste Bagosora
September 29 - François Vérove
October 15 - Masten Wanjala
October 28 - John Marion Grant
November 23 - Chun Doo-hwan
December 5 - Hernán Darío Velásquez
December 27 - Lyndon McLeod

Victim deaths edit

January 1 - Christine Dacera
January 2 - Oliver Stephens
January 7 - Brian D. Sicknick
February 22 - Helen Miller
February 24 - Angelo Quinto
March 3 - Sarah Everard
March 16 - Victims of the Atlanta Spa Shooting:
- Suncha Kim
- Daoyou Feng
- Delaina Yau
- Xiaojie Tan
- Paul Michels
- Hyun Jung Grant
- Soon Chung Kim
- Yong Ae Yue
March 29 - Adam Toledo
April 2 - William Evans
April 11 - Daunte Wright
April 15 - Victims of the Indianapolis FedEx Shooting:
- Samaria Blackwell
- Karli Smith
- Matthew Alexander
- Amarjit Sekhon
- Jasvinder Kaur
- Amarjeet Johal
- Jaswinder Singh
- John Weisert
April 16 - Mikayla Miller
May 9 - Tristyn Bailey
May 11 - Jimmy Inn
May 26 - Victims of the San Jose VTA Shooting:
- Adrian Balleza
- Jose Hernandez
- Taptejdeep Singh
- Michael Rudometkin
- Paul Megia
- Timothy Romo
- Alex Fritch
- Abdi Alaghmandan
- Lars Lane
June 6 - Kieth and Nolven Absalon
June 6 - Salman Afzaal, Madiha Afzaal, Yumna Afzaal, Fayez Afzaal & Jovenel Moïse
July 6 - Leneal Frazier
July 15 - Peter R. de Vries
July 30 - Logan Mwangi
August - Gabby Petito
August 13 - Sebastian Kalinowski
August 19 - Haji Mullah Achakzai
September 17 - Sabina Nessa
October 15 - David Amess
October 28 - Amaresh Tesfamariam
November 21 - Victims of the Waukesha Parade Attack
- Jackson Sparks
- Tamara Durand
- LeAnna Owen
- Jane Kulich
- Virginia Sorensen
- Wilhelm Hospel
November 26 - Lucio Dupuy
November 30 - Victims of the Oxford High School Shooting:
- Hana St. Juliana
- Tate Myre
- Madisyn Baldwin
- Justin Shilling
December 27 - Victims of Lyndon McLeod's shooting spree:
- Alicia Cardenas
- Alyssa Maldonado
- Michael Swinyard
- Danny Schofield
- Sarah Steck

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 *February 2 - [[Lord's Resistance Army]] member [[Dominic Ongwen]] is convicted on 61 counts of [[war crimes]] by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
 *February 21 - The [[Three Percenters]] are dissolved.
+*February 22 - [[Claire Miller]] kills her disabled sister Helen Miller.
 *February 24 - Former Navy veteran Angelo Quinto is killed by three officers in an act of [[police brutality]].
 *February 24 - [[Christopher Cantwell]] is found guilty of extortion and threatening to injure property or reputation, and is sentenced to 41 months in prison, as well as two years of supervised release following completion of the prison sentence.
@@ Line 20: / Line 21: @@
 *March 16 - [[Robert Aaron Long|2021 Atlanta spa shootings]]
 *April 2 - [[Noah Green|April 2021 US Capitol attack]].
+*April 7 - [[Phillip Adams|2021 Rock Hill shooting]]
 *April 9 - [[Cameron Herrin]] is sentenced to 24 years in prison.
 *April 15 - [[Brandon Scott Hole|Indianapolis FedEx shooting]]
@@ Line 27: / Line 29: @@
 *April 23 - [[Bryant Moreland]]'s YouTube channel (EDP445) is terminated.
 *May 1 - The [[Taliban]] begins a critical offensive in Afghanistan as US coalition forces withdraw from the country.
+*May 2-4 - [[Raymond Donini]] creates a plant capable of shooting out poison, and plans on having it kill Americans and Africans.
 *May 6 to 21 - [[Hamas]] and [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] launch a series of coordinated rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza in protest of the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem. 122 Palestinians, including 31 children, are killed, while seven Israelis, including one child, are killed.
+*May 6 - [[Rigby Middle School Shooter|Rigby Middle School Shooting]]
 *May 9 - [[Aiden Fucci]] murders and possibly rapes Tristyn Bailey.
+*May 11 - [[Ilnaz Galyaviev|Kazan school shooting]]
 *May 26 - [[Samuel Cassidy|2021 San Jose shooting]]
 *June 6 - [[Nathaniel Veltman]] rammed into Muslim Pakistani-Canadian family with a pick-up truck in London Ontario, killing 4 and injuring 1
-*June 13 - [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is ousted as Prime Minister of Israel after opposition leaders in the Knesset agree to form a coalition government.
+*June 13 - [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is ousted as Prime Minister of Israel after opposition leaders in the Knesset agree to form a coalition government. [[Naftali Bennett]] subsequently becomes Prime Minister.
 *June 25 - [[Derek Chauvin]] is found guilty of all three charges of second-degree [[murder]], third-degree murder, and manslaughter, in relation to the death of George Floyd. He is sentenced to 270 months (22.5 years) in prison.
 *June 30 - [[Bill Cosby]]'s rape conviction is vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court due to violation of his 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment rights, and he is released from prison after serving only three years of his sentence.
 *July 6 - Haitian president Jovenel Moise is assassinated in a night-time attack by "unidentified Spanish-speaking individuals".
-*July 8 - Six of Jovenal Moise's assassins are killed or arrested by Haitian police.
+*July 6 - Leneal Frazier was killed by [[Brian Cummings]].
-*July 9 to 17 - Triggered by arrest of [[Jacob Zuma]] widespread riots and [[looting]]s have been taken place in South Africa that destroyed businesses especially pharmacies and caused COVID-19 vaccination crisis in the country.
+*July 8 - Six of Jovenal Moise's assassins are killed or arrested by Haitian police.
-*July 18: Lewis Hamilton attempts to murder his main rival, Max Verstappen by ramming into his car during the race. He gets away with it.
+*July 9 to 17 - Triggered by arrest of [[Jacob Zuma]] widespread riots and [[looting]]s have been taken place in South Africa that destroyed businesses especially pharmacies and caused COVID-19 vaccination crisis in the country.
+*July 18 - Lewis Hamilton attempts to murder his main rival, Max Verstappen by ramming into his car during the race. He gets away with it.
 *July 19 - [[Paul Allard Hodgkins]] becomes the first participant in the Capitol storming to be sentenced as he receives eight months in prison.
 *August 10 - [[Andrew Cuomo]] announces his resignation as Governor of New York in the wake of various sex scandals.
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 *September 5 - [[Alpha Condé]] is overthrown as President of Guinea by the Guinean Armed Forces.
 *September 12 - [[Francesco Bagnaia]], a self-proclaimed "Italian Nazi", wins his first race in MotoGP.
-*September 17 - [[Robert Durst]] is convicted of the 2000 murder of Susan Berman.
+* September 17 - [[Robert Durst]] is convicted of the 2000 murder of Susan Berman.
+*September 20 - [[Timur Bekmansurov|Perm State University shooting]]
 *October 20 - [[Mauro Carlesse]] is suspended from his position as governor of Tocantins for corruption cases.
 *October 23 - Colombia's most wanted drug lord, [[Dario Antonio Úsuga]], is captured by Colombia's armed forces.
-*November 21 - Waukesha parade attack
+* November 21 - Waukesha parade attack
 *November 26 - [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Abigail Paez]] And [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Magdalena Esposito Valenti]] Murders their 5 year old child Lucio Dupuy
 *November 30 - [[Ethan Crumbley|Oxford High School Shooting]]
+*December - [[Mauricio Paredes Bugueño]] is released from jail.
 *December 23 - [[Kimberly Potter]] is convicted of fatally shooting Daunte Wright.
+*December 27 - [[Lyndon McLeod]] goes on a shooting spree in Colorado, killing 5 people, before being killed by a police officer.
-== Deaths ==
+==Deaths==
-=== Villain deaths ===
+===Villain deaths===
 *January 2 - [[Michael McKevitt]]
-*January 6 - [[Ashli Babbitt]]
+*January 6 - [[Ashli Babbitt]] & [[Roseanne Boyland]]
 *January 13 - [[Lisa Montgomery]]
 *January 14 - [[Corey Johnson]]
 *January 16 - [[Dustin Higgs]] & [[Phil Spector]]
 *January 21 - [[Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukayev]]
-*January 29 - [[Lai Xiaomin]]
+* January 29 - [[Lai Xiaomin]]
 *February 8 - [[Anthony Sowell]]
 *February 14 - [[Carlos Menem]]
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 *March 17 - [[John Magufuli]]
 *March 28 - [[Joseph E. Duncan III]]
-*March 30 - [[G. Gordon Liddy]]
+* March 30 - [[G. Gordon Liddy]]
 *April 2 - [[Noah Green]]
+*April 8 - [[Phillip Adams]]
 *April 14 - [[Bernie Madoff]]
 *April 15 - [[Brandon Scott Hole]]
@@ Line 80: / Line 91: @@
 *April 21 - [[Ma'Khia Bryant]]
 *May 3 - [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.]]
+*May 5 - [[Ray Teret]]
 *May 11 - [[Lance Lowe]]
 *May 12 - [[Fernando Torres Silva]]
@@ Line 86: / Line 98: @@
 *May 19 - [[Abubakar Shekau]]
 *May 26 - [[Samuel Cassidy]]
-*June 30 - [[John Hummel]]
+*June 28 - [[Lázaro Barbosa de Sousa]]
+*June 30 - [[John Hummel]] and [[Jesse Lee Cooks]]
 *July 24 - [[Rodney Alcala]]
 *July 26 - [[Fernando Karadima]]
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 *September 25 - [[Théoneste Bagosora]]
 *September 29 - [[François Vérove]]
+* October 15 - [[Masten Wanjala]]
 *October 28 - [[John Marion Grant]]
 *November 23 - [[Chun Doo-hwan]]
 *December 5 - [[Hernán Darío Velásquez]]
+*December 27 - [[Lyndon McLeod]]
-=== Victim deaths ===
+===Victim deaths===
 *January 1 - Christine Dacera
 *January 2 - Oliver Stephens
 *January 7 - Brian D. Sicknick
+*February 22 - Helen Miller
 *February 24 - Angelo Quinto
 *March 3 - [[Wayne Couzens|Sarah Everard]]
-*March 16 - Victims of the [[Robert Aaron Long|Atlanta Spa Shooting]]:
+* March 16 - Victims of the [[Robert Aaron Long|Atlanta Spa Shooting]]:
 **Suncha Kim
 **Daoyou Feng
-**Delaina Yau
+** Delaina Yau
-**Xiaojie Tan
+** Xiaojie Tan
 **Paul Michels
 **Hyun Jung Grant
 **Soon Chung Kim
-**Yong Ae Yue
+** Yong Ae Yue
-*March 29 - Adam Toledo
+* March 29 - Adam Toledo
 *April 2 - [[Noah Green|William Evans]]
 *April 11 - [[Kimberly Potter|Daunte Wright]]
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 **Matthew Alexander
 **Amarjit Sekhon
-**Jasvinder Kaur
+** Jasvinder Kaur
 **Amarjeet Johal
 **Jaswinder Singh
@@ Line 139: / Line 155: @@
 **Paul Megia
 **Timothy Romo
-**Alex Fritch
+** Alex Fritch
 **Abdi Alaghmandan
 **Lars Lane
 *June 6 - Kieth and Nolven Absalon
 *June 6 - Salman Afzaal, Madiha Afzaal, Yumna Afzaal, Fayez Afzaal & Jovenel Moïse
-*July 15 - Peter R. de Vries
+*July 6 - Leneal Frazier
+* July 15 - Peter R. de Vries
 *July 30 - [[Angharad Williamson and John Cole|Logan Mwangi]]
 *August - [[Brian Laundrie|Gabby Petito]]
+* August 13 - [[Agnieszka Kalinowska and Andrzej Latoszewski|Sebastian Kalinowski]]
 *August 19 - Haji Mullah Achakzai
 *September 17 - [[Koci Selamaj|Sabina Nessa]]
 *October 15 - [[Ali Harbi Ali|David Amess]]
+*October 28 - Amaresh Tesfamariam
+*November 21 - Victims of the Waukesha Parade Attack
+**Jackson Sparks
+**Tamara Durand
+**LeAnna Owen
+**Jane Kulich
+**Virginia Sorensen
+**Wilhelm Hospel
 *November 26 - [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Lucio Dupuy]]
 *November 30 - Victims of the [[Ethan Crumbley|Oxford High School Shooting]]:
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 **Madisyn Baldwin
 **Justin Shilling
+*December 27 - Victims of [[Lyndon McLeod]]'s shooting spree:
+**Alicia Cardenas
+**Alyssa Maldonado
+**Michael Swinyard
+**Danny Schofield
+**Sarah Steck