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Satellite composite animation of the Hunga Tonga eruption

Hunga Tonga eruption

• The Hunga Tonga volcano erupts (satellite animation shown), causing damage in Tonga and tsunamis across the Pacific Ocean.
• An apartment fire in the Bronx, New York City, kills 17 people.
• A rockfall at Furnas Lake in Capitólio, Brazil, kills 10 people.
• Sidney Poitier, the first black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, dies at the age of 94.

Ongoing:

• COVID-19 pandemic

Recent deaths:

• Ernest Shonekan
• Jim Fahy
• Charles McGee
• Marlon Bundo
• Ronnie Spector
• Alexa McDonough

Documentation

See also

• Wikipedia:How the Current events page works