{"slug": "world-war-ii", "label": "World War II", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362", "qid": "Q362", "description": "1939–1945 global conflict", "entries": 54, "years": 37, "span": [652, 2025], "span_label": ["652 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 15}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 7}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 5}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Second World War", "WW II", "WW2", "WWII", "World War 2", "World War Two"], "related": [{"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "prime-minister-of-the-united-kingdom", "label": "Prime Minister of the United Kingdom", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wehrmacht", "label": "Wehrmacht", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "allies-of-world-war-ii", "label": "Allies of World War II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-korea", "label": "North Korea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oregon", "label": "Oregon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benito-mussolini", "label": "Benito Mussolini", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 652, "year_label": "652 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The registers of population are prepared in Japan. Fifty houses are made a township, and for each township there is appointed an elder. The houses are all associated in groups of five for mutual protection, with one elder to supervise them one with another. This system prevails until the era of World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635695#Asia", "title": "652", "revid": 1367635695, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1161, "year_label": "1161 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Cross of Saint Euphrosyne, commissioned by Euphrosyne of Polotsk in Belarus, is created by craftsman Lazar Bohsha. (It goes missing during World War II, and is not recovered subsequently).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300116018#Religion", "title": "1161", "revid": 1300116018, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – The Holy Roman Empire, ruled by Leopold I, repurchases the territory of the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz (Oppeln und Ratibor), which it had ceded to Poland in 1645, for the sum of 120,000 guldens and consolidates it with Upper Silesia. The territory will be ceded from Germany to Poland in 1945 at the end of World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#April–June", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 20", "text": "20 May – Alexander Löhr, General Commander in the South East of the Wehrmacht in World War II (died 1947).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360620141#Births", "title": "1885 in Romania", "revid": 1360620141, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 - Tomoyuki Yamashita (d. 1946), World War II general", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345111137#Births", "title": "1885 in Japan", "revid": 1345111137, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 1", "text": "1 June – HNoMS Storm is launched, one of the oldest ships still in front line service in the Second World War", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1273791371#Events", "title": "1898 in Norway", "revid": 1273791371, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1903, "year_label": "1903 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373319317#May", "title": "1903", "revid": 1373319317, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power. Italy begins a period of dictatorship that lasts until the end of the Second World War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#October", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted by the United States. Its broad discrimination against Asia is seen as the spark that spurred Japan down the path against their former allies into World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366308141#Events", "title": "1924 in Japan", "revid": 1366308141, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – The Asian Exclusion Act is enacted, banning all Asian immigration to the United States. It was a slap in the face to Japan after their participation as a principal ally in WWI, and is seen as the spark that spurred Japan's alliance with Germany and down the path to World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373776343#April–June", "title": "1924 in the United States", "revid": 1373776343, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring \"living space\" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#November", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – Opening shots of World War II and invasion of Poland: At 4:45 Central European Time, under cover of darkness, the German WWI-era battleship Schleswig-Holstein quietly slips her moorings at her wharf in Danzig Harbor, drifts into the center of the channel, and commences firing on a Polish military installation on Westerplatte at the northeastern mouth of the port of the internationalized Free City of Danzig, beginning the Battle of Westerplatte and Battle of Danzig Bay. Polish soldiers defend there for 7 days. Five minutes previously, the bombing of Wieluń in the western part of Poland had commenced, beginning the Battle of the Border. Shock-troops of the German Wehrmacht begin crossing the border into Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#September", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 10", "text": "10 June – Count Ciano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, relays Italy's declaration of war to André François-Poncet, the French Ambassador to Italy, declaring war on both the United Kingdom and France. This begins Italy's participation in World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311086890#Events", "title": "1940 in Italy", "revid": 1311086890, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – WWII: Assets of all foreign nationals from France and Monaco are frozen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370132277#April–June", "title": "1940 in the United States", "revid": 1370132277, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 5", "text": "5 May – Belfast suffers its third bombing raid during World War II. The Dublin government authorises its emergency services to assist again.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286174033#Events", "title": "1941 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1286174033, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "8 December – El Salvador declared war on the Axis powers in World War II following the Bombing of Pearl Harbor and joined the Allied Powers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322051133#December", "title": "1941 in El Salvador", "revid": 1322051133, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372648625#Ongoing", "title": "1942 in Argentina", "revid": 1372648625, "section": "Events › Ongoing"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373245618#February", "title": "1942 in the United States", "revid": 1373245618, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Argentina keeps a neutral stance in World War II, amid foreign pressure to join the war", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371341334#Ongoing", "title": "1943 in Argentina", "revid": 1371341334, "section": "Events › Ongoing"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 — World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka, part of the Battle of Kursk", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366122992#July", "title": "1943 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1366122992, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372287894#August", "title": "1943 in the United States", "revid": 1372287894, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 — World War II: The Moscow Declaration is signed by the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union during the Moscow Conference.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366122992#October", "title": "1943 in the Soviet Union", "revid": 1366122992, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372287894#December", "title": "1943 in the United States", "revid": 1372287894, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 2", "text": "2 July - Second World War: The first five thousand Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers, the 6th RCT, leave Brazil for Europe aboard the USNS General Mann.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292702500#Events", "title": "1944 in Brazil", "revid": 1292702500, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "World War II aftermaths: 282,000 dead people (about 1/4 of population of Estonia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320466300#Events", "title": "1945 in Estonia", "revid": 1320466300, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "1944–1945: World War II: Japan's Special Balloon Regiment launched 9,000 Fu-Go balloon bombs towards the Pacific Northwest, intended to cause panic, by starting forest fires. Six casualties, a woman and her five children in American state of Oregon, were reported. The ten metre-wide balloons contained 540 cubic metres of hydrogen and reached as far inland as Manitoba. The Japanese project was declared a failure and abandoned, after six months.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365170686#Events", "title": "1945 in Canada", "revid": 1365170686, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 15", "text": "15 August – Japan surrenders to the Allies, ending World War II. The day is known as V-P Day (Victory in the Pacific).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355800985#Events", "title": "1945 in Australia", "revid": 1355800985, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 - Two Canadian National Railways (CNR) passenger trains collide head-on at Dugald, Manitoba, resulting in 31 people dead and 85 people injured. The disaster is exacerbated by the CNR's use of wooden passenger coaches, as strict rationing of steel during the Second World War impeded the shift to steel coaches.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362861028#Events", "title": "1947 in Canada", "revid": 1362861028, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "August 1945 – 1948 – Due to Korea being under Japanese rule during World War II, Korea was considered an Axis belligerent against the Allies. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea into southern and northern occupation zones. The southern being administered by the United States and the area north of the 38th parallel being administered by the Soviet Union. The division was to be temporary and was meant to return a unified Korea back to its people after the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and China could implement a single government for Korea. Due to differing opinions between the two parties on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea, two separate governments were established in 1948 with two opposing ideologies; the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the First Republic of Korea – both claiming to be the legitimate government of the entire Korean peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369125888#Events", "title": "1948 in South Korea", "revid": 1369125888, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – Chinese liner SS Kiangya sinks after an explosion occurs at the stern, which is thought to have been caused by a Japanese mine from World War 2, killing up to 3920 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#December", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – Notorious World War II veteran Edwin Alonzo Boyd commits his first career bank robbery, in Toronto.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#September", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 8", "text": "8 February – Petrol rationing ends, nearly ten years after it was introduced during World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336518117#Events", "title": "1950 in Australia", "revid": 1336518117, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Marshal Philippe Pétain, former Prime Minister and Head of State of France, Chief of State of Vichy France during World War II, hero commander of World War I who led the French Army to victory at the nine-month-long Battle of Verdun, for which he was called \"the Lion of Verdun\", dies while serving a sentence of life-imprisonment on the island of Île-d'Yeu at 95 years old.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#July", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Heinz Guderian, German World War II general (b. 1888)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#May", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Deaths › May"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – Food rationing in Great Britain ends, with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II, and nearly a decade after the war's end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#July", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 4", "text": "4 July – Fourteen years of rationing in the UK during and following World War II comes to an end, when meat officially comes off ration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362261067#Events", "title": "1954 in Scotland", "revid": 1362261067, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1959, "year_label": "1959 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – The Soviet Union conducts its first census after World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370221732#January", "title": "1959", "revid": 1370221732, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Sir Winston Churchill, British politician and statesman, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II leader, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1874)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#January", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Deaths › January"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Pakistani Forces achieve a decisive victory at the Battle of Chawinda, ultimately halting the Indian advance and successfully stabilizing the Sialkot Front; it is the world's largest tank battle since the Battle of Kursk in the Second World War between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 31", "text": "31 January – Arthur E. Percival, known for surrendering to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 during World War II (b. 1887).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327041623#Deaths", "title": "1966 in Singapore", "revid": 1327041623, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#January", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as the \"fourth man\" of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom; she gives further details on November 21.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#November", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – Omar Bradley, 88, American military officer,in 1950, Bradley was serving as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early phase of the Korean War, he had to deploy a force that was a shadow of its World War II counterpart, in his second memoir, Bradley stated that not arguing more forcefully in 1948 and 1949 for a sufficient defense budget \"was a mistake... perhaps the greatest mistake I made in my postwar years in Washington.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347440329", "title": "Deaths in April 1981", "revid": 1347440329, "section": "Deaths › April"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – Joe Louis, 66, American professional boxer, he was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 until 1949, he was a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with the German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938, cardiac arrest", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347440329", "title": "Deaths in April 1981", "revid": 1347440329, "section": "Deaths › April"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February 29", "text": "February 29 – A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in World War II deportations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#February", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – The Poole explosion of 1988 caused 3,500 people to be evacuated out of the town centre in the biggest peacetime evacuation the United Kingdom had seen since the World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#June", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – The two remaining constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – Serbia and Montenegro – form a new state, named the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (which in 2003 becomes Serbia and Montenegro), bringing to an end the official state union of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, Bosniaks and Macedonians that has existed since 1918 (with the exception of a brief occupation period during World War II).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#April", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – Following the 6 May United Kingdom general election, the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties agree to form a coalition government, the UK's first since the Second World War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#May", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July", "text": "21–22 July – New Zealand Prime Minister John Key visits Washington, D.C. in the United States to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. During their meeting at the White House, Prime Minister John Key and U.S. President Obama send their condolences to the people of Norway following the tragic terrorist attacks in Oslo, and are a reminder that the entire world must work together to prevent future attacks since World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1328114167#July", "title": "2011 in New Zealand", "revid": 1328114167, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – The International Court of Justice finds Ratko Mladić guilty of genocide committed in Srebrenica during the 1990s Bosnian War, the worst massacre in Europe since World War II. He is sentenced to life in prison.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#November", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – 36 people are killed and more than 30 others injured after an arson attack at an animation company in Kyoto, Japan. It is one of the deadliest massacres in the country's history since the end of World War II and the deadliest building fire in the country in 18 years, since the Myojo 56 building fire in 2001.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#July", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 14", "text": "April 14 – 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Russian flagship Moskva becomes the largest warship to be sunk in action since World War II. Ukraine claims to have struck it with Neptune anti-ship missiles, while Russia claims it sank during stormy weather after an onboard fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#April", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2024, "year_label": "2024 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 29", "text": "September 29 – 2024 Austrian legislative election: Far-right Freedom Party secures a historical victory, but does not reach a majority in the National Council. The results are deemed the first far-right win since World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371869228#September", "title": "2024", "revid": 1371869228, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – 2025 German federal election: Friedrich Merz is elected Chancellor of Germany in the second round of parliamentary voting, hours after being defeated in the first round, a first in post-WWII German history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#May", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › May"}}]}