Songkran
Thailand's New Year water festival. Three days of citywide water fights, temple visits, and reunions. Bangkok essentially shuts down. UNESCO intangible heritage since 2023.
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War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb used in combat.- 2025Rory McIlroy wins the Masters Tournament, becoming just the sixth person to complete the Grand Slam in golf.
- 2024Six people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia.
- 2023The house of Jack Teixeira is raided in an investigation into leaked Pentagon documents; he is arrested on the same day.