Protests and public outrage spark across the U.S. after the release of multiple videos by the Memphis Police Department showing officers punching, kicking, and pepper spraying Tyre Nichols as a result of running away from a traffic stop, which resulted him dying in the hospital three days later after the incident.

A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.

Rojava conflict: The Kobanî Canton declares its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic.

Two hundred and forty-two people die in a nightclub fire in the Brazilian city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul.

Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sanaa.

Within Ursa Minor, H1504+65, a white dwarf with the hottest known surface temperature in the universe at 200,000 K, was documented.