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2026 Purdue Boilermakers football team
2026 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Purdue University's Big Ten FBS squad in its 139th season under Barry Odom; 3-3, 2-1 Big Ten through six games, with wins over Indiana State, Illinois, and Minnesota.
2026 PWHL Draft
2026 PWHL Draft: fourth Professional Women's Hockey League entry draft, June 17, 2026, Fox Theatre, Detroit. 72 players in six rounds; Caroline "KK" Harvey first overall to Vancouver Goldeneyes via Gold Plan standings.
2026 Queen's Club Championships
2026 Queen's Club Championships (HSBC Championships), combined ATP 500/WTA 500 grass event in London, 6–21 June 2026. Cerundolo beat Paul for his first ATP 500 title; Vekic beat Raducanu; Serena Williams returned in doubles.
2026 Quetta train bombing
2026 Quetta train bombing: 24 May 2026 BLA suicide car bomb on a military shuttle train near Chaman Phatak, Quetta, Pakistan; over 30 killed, Majeed Brigade claimed, coincided with Sharif's China visit.
2026 Rajya Sabha elections
The 2026 Rajya Sabha elections were biennial and bye-elections to India's Council of States, chosen by state legislators, with 27 seats contested in June 2026 and 11 more in October.
2026 Rally Chile
2026 Rally Chile (WRC Rally Chile Biobío), round 12 of the 2026 WRC, 10–13 September, Concepción. Oliver Solberg won; Toyota clinched a record-equalling 10th manufacturers' title; Evans punctured to fifth.
2026 Rally del Paraguay
2026 Rally del Paraguay, round 11 of the 2026 WRC, held 27–30 August in Encarnación, Itapúa; second edition on red-earth gravel; won by Sami Pajari; USD 209.9 million economic impact.
2026 Rasht massacre
2026 Rasht massacre: killing of anti-government protesters by Iranian security forces in Rasht, Gilan province, on 8–9 January 2026, centered on the Grand Bazaar fire, with witness, hospital, and UN documentation.
2026 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup
2026 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup, twentieth season of the Red Bull Rookies Cup junior series; spec KTM Moto3 250 GPR bikes, riders aged 14-18, Jerez opener, Red Bull Ring finale, Beñat Fernandez the 20th champion.
2026 Republic of the Congo presidential election
2026 Republic of the Congo presidential election, held 12 and 15 March 2026; Denis Sassou-N'Guesso re-elected to a fifth term with 94.90% of the vote confirmed by the Constitutional Court on 28 March 2026, turnout 84.65%, six opposition candidates.
2026 Republican National Convention
The 2026 Republican National Convention, the party's first-ever midterm-year national convention, was held September 9–10, 2026, at American Airlines Center in Dallas, with no delegates, nomination, or platform votes, Trump keynoting and promising a $5,000 dividend, and dozens of Republicans skipping.
2026 Republika Srpska general election
Entity-level races of Bosnia's 4 October 2026 general elections in Republika Srpska: SNSD wins for Cvijanović (Presidency) and Minić (president) despite Dodik's ballot ban; first electronic voting.
2026 RFL Championship
2026 RFL Championship (Betfred Championship): the 2026 second-tier British rugby league season, a merged 21-club Championship and League One, with a 10-team play-off and a London Broncos v Doncaster Grand Final on 4 October 2026.
2026 RFL Women's Super League
2026 RFL Women's Super League: the 2026 season of England's top women's rugby league competition (Betfred-sponsored, RFL-run), eight clubs, split-season Super 4's/Shield format; York Valkyrie won the Grand Final, distinct from the football WSL.
2026 Rhode Island Attorney General election
2026 Rhode Island attorney general election: open-seat race held November 3, 2026, after term-limited Peter Neronha's departure; Democrat Kimberly Ahern won the September 9 primary over Hoffmann, Knight, and Solomon and faces Republican Alan Gordon.
2026 Rhode Island elections
2026 Rhode Island elections: state primary September 9, general November 3. Helena Foulkes unseated Governor Dan McKee in the Democratic primary; statewide offices and two U.S. House seats on the ballot.
2026 Rhode Island lieutenant gubernatorial election
2026 Rhode Island lieutenant gubernatorial election: incumbent Democrat Sabina Matos, appointed in 2021, won the September 9 five-way primary and faced Republican John Loughlin in the November 3, 2026 general election.
2026 Rhode Island Rams football team
2026 Rhode Island Rams football: URI's CAA FCS team under Jim Fleming, playing home games at Centreville Bank Stadium, Pawtucket, during Meade Stadium renovations; unanimous preseason CAA favorite, 3-3 through Oct. 3, 2026.
2026 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships
42nd FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, Frankfurt am Main, 12-16 August 2026, Festhalle; first LA 2028 Olympic qualifier; Spain won group all-around gold, Brazil took both group apparatus titles.
2026 Rice Owls football team
2026 Rice Owls football team, Rice University's American Conference FBS squad in its 115th season under second-year coach Scott Abell. UCF transfer quarterback Jacurri Brown leads a team that opened 1-5, 0-2 in conference, after a 31-3 win over Houston Christian and a 0-52 loss at Notre Dame.
2026 Rio de Janeiro general election
2026 Rio de Janeiro general election: state-level races of Brazil's October 4, 2026 general election. After Cláudio Castro's ineligibility and an indirect stopgap mandate, Bolsonarista police officer Douglas Ruas was declared governor-elect following Garotinho's annulled candidacy.
2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision
2026 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision: Bell 206B PP-MAC and AS350B2 PR-DJJ collided 14 June 2026 over Recreio dos Bandeirantes on REH Grota route; six killed including Oliver Tree and Gaspi; CENIPA investigating.
2026 Rose Bowl
2026 Rose Bowl: 112th Rose Bowl Game, a CFP quarterfinal on January 1, 2026 in Pasadena; top-seeded Indiana beat Alabama 38-3 for its first Rose Bowl win, advancing to the Peach Bowl semifinal.
2026 Rubaya mines collapses
Series of landslides at the artisanal coltan mines of Rubaya, Masisi territory, North Kivu, DRC, in January-March 2026, killing hundreds under M23 control; also called the Luwowo mine collapse of 28 January 2026.
2026 Ruidoso Beechcraft King Air crash
2026 Ruidoso Beechcraft King Air crash: a Generations Jets Beech C90 King Air (N249CP) air ambulance that hit the Capitan Mountains near Ruidoso, New Mexico, on May 14, 2026, killing four, during US military GPS jamming from White Sands Missile Range.
2026 Russian elections
The 2026 Russian elections, held 18–20 September, elected the 450-seat State Duma; United Russia won 349 seats on about 58% of the vote amid no OSCE observers, a barred anti-war party, and disputed turnout.
2026 Russian Figure Skating Championships
2026 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Чемпионат России 2026), national title held 17–22 December 2025 in St. Petersburg; Gumennik, Petrosian, and Stepanova/Bukin won, with neutral-status context after the Russian ban.
2026 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team
The 2026 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represents Rutgers University in its 157th season and 13th in the Big Ten, led by 18th-year head coach Greg Schiano.
2026 SA20
2026 SA20: fourth season of South Africa's Betway SA20 T20 league (26 Dec 2025 to 25 Jan 2026). Sunrisers Eastern Cape beat Pretoria Capitals by six wickets in the Newlands final for a third title; Season 5 auction held 7 October 2026.
2026 Sacramento State Hornets football team
2026 Sacramento State Hornets football: first FBS season, joined the Mid-American Conference as football-only member July 1, 2026, first West Coast FCS-to-FBS move in 57 years, bowl eligible after NCAA rule change.