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War in Somalia: Transitional Federal Government forces attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic Courts Union in the town of Jilib.- 2020The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.
- 2019The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2018Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.