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Pakistani protests: Riots broke out following the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.- 2023The May 9 riots following the arrest of Imran Khan in Pakistan.
- 2022Russo-Ukrainian war: United States President Joe Biden signs the 2022 Lend-Lease Act into law, a rebooted World War II-era policy attempting to expedite American equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.
- 2020The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.