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2026 Salsa on St. Clair festival shooting

Mass shooting at the Salsa on St. Clair Latin street festival in Toronto on July 11, 2026: Shaquan Quashie and Cesar Vernaza killed, five wounded, two 18-year-olds later arrested on 37 charges.

2026 Shreveport shooting

April 19, 2026 Cedar Grove mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana: Shamar Elkins, 31, killed eight children aged 3-11, seven his own, wounded two women, fled to Bossier City, and died in a police shootout. Deadliest U.S. mass shooting since January 2024.

2026 Starobilsk strike

2026 Starobilsk strike: Ukrainian overnight drone attack of May 21–22, 2026 on college buildings in Russian-occupied Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, which Russia called a strike on a student dormitory killing 21 and used to justify retaliatory strikes on Kyiv; Ukraine said it hit a Rubikon drone unit headquarters.

2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign

The 2026 Strait of Hormuz campaign: Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz after the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli attack on Iran, the US naval blockade, the June 17 MOU, toll regimes, mining, and efforts to reopen the waterway through October 2026.

2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis

The 2026 Strait of Hormuz crisis: Iran's closure of the strait after the February 28, 2026 US-Israeli war on Iran, the June MOU and July collapse, the US blockade, and October 2026 tanker attacks.

2026 strikes on Akrotiri and Dhekelia

2026 strikes on Akrotiri and Dhekelia: Iranian-linked Shahed drone attacks on the British Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus, 1-2 March 2026, during the US-Israeli war with Iran; RAF Akrotiri hangar hit, no casualties, first attack on a British Cyprus base since 1986.

2026 Tacloban school shooting

2026 Tacloban school shooting: on June 22, 2026, two students aged 14 and 15 opened fire at San Jose National High School, Tacloban City, killing three students and wounding about 20, prompting a Senate probe, a Gorebox block, and school-safety measures.

2026 Temple Israel attack

The 2026 Temple Israel attack was a vehicle-ramming and shooting incident in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on March 12, 2026. The FBI assessed the act as Hizballah-inspired terrorism.

2026 Teotihuacan shooting

The 2026 Teotihuacan shooting was an attack on 20 April 2026 at the Pyramid of the Moon, Mexico, by Julio César Jasso Ramírez, 27, a Columbine-admiring copycat who killed a Canadian tourist, wounded 13, and killed himself.

2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash

The 2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash, or Tomblaine skydiving crash, killed all eleven people on board when a parachute-drop aircraft crashed after takeoff near Nancy, France, on 28 June 2026.

2026 Tuapse oil terminal attack

2026 Tuapse oil terminal attack: series of Ukrainian drone strikes from April 2026 on Rosneft's Tuapse refinery and Black Sea export terminal in Krasnodar Krai, destroying storage tanks, halting its 12-million-ton refining unit, and causing black rain and coastal oil pollution.

2026 Twin Falls shooting

2026 Twin Falls shooting, also called the Idaho In-N-Out shooting: Chad Williams, 24, killed 3 and wounded 7 at a Twin Falls, Idaho In-N-Out on Aug 1, 2026, then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an off-duty trooper and a civilian returned fire; motive undetermined.

2026 Ukrainian counteroffensive

The 2026 Ukrainian counteroffensive: limited ground drives on the Oleksandrivka axis and Operation Vivaldi near Lyman, plus middle-strike drone campaigns including Operation Logistics Lockdown against Crimea, coinciding with slowing Russian advances.

2026 Ukrainian drone incursions into the Baltic states and Finland

2026 Ukrainian drone incursions into the Baltic states and Finland: stray Ukrainian long-range drones, diverted by Russian electronic warfare during strikes on Russian Baltic oil ports, entered Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Finnish airspace from March 2026, causing shelter alerts, Latvia's government collapse, and NATO shootdowns.

2026 United States Air Force Boeing B-52 crash

June 15, 2026 crash of a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress (tail 60-0061) shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base, California, during a radar modernization test flight, killing all eight aboard; cause undetermined, six-month Air Force investigation.

2026 United States F-15E rescue operation in Iran

The 2026 US F-15E rescue operation in Iran (Dude 44) recovered a Strike Eagle crew downed over southwestern Iran during Operation Epic Fury: pilot Alpha in a 6-hour daylight raid, WSO Bravo after ~50 hours of evasion, with 176 aircraft and two MC-130Js destroyed.

2026 United States fuel blockade on Cuba

The 2026 US fuel blockade on Cuba: an oil-denial campaign begun with the January cutoff of Venezuelan crude and Executive Order 14380's tariffs on oil suppliers, causing blackouts, fuel exhaustion, and UN condemnation.

2026 United States intervention in Venezuela

The 2026 US intervention in Venezuela was a January 3 military raid capturing President Nicolás Maduro, leading to his US trial, Delcy Rodríguez's interim government, and an August 2026 oil deal, following Operation Southern Spear.

2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East

The 2026 United States military buildup in the Middle East was a December 2025 to February 2026 surge of two carrier strike groups and over 120 aircraft near Iran, the largest U.S. regional deployment since 2003, which preceded the February 28, 2026 strikes opening Operation Epic Fury.

2026 United States naval blockade of Iran

The 2026 United States naval blockade of Iran was a CENTCOM maritime blockade of Iranian ports imposed April 13, 2026, lifted June 18 under a US-Iran MoU, and reimposed July 14, costing Iran $25 billion in lost oil revenue.

2026 United States-led conflict with pro-Iranian Iraqi militias

2026 United States-led conflict with pro-Iranian Iraqi militias: attacks and counterstrikes between US, Israeli, and Saudi forces and Iran-aligned Iraqi Shia groups (Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq) within Operation Epic Fury, begun February 28, 2026.

2026 US Border Patrol shooting in Portland, Oregon

January 8, 2026 Border Patrol shooting in Portland, Oregon: six agents in unmarked cars shot Venezuelan couple Luis Nino-Moncada and Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras during a targeted vehicle stop at an Adventist Health clinic; no video was found.

2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting: April 25, 2026 attempted assassination at the Washington Hilton by Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, who charged a checkpoint; a Secret Service officer was shot but saved by a vest; Trump was evacuated and Allen charged with attempted assassination.

2026 Winterthur stabbing attack

2026 Winterthur stabbing attack: knife attack of 28 May 2026 at Winterthur station, Switzerland, by a 31-year-old Swiss-Turkish dual national shouting "Allahu Akbar"; three men injured, attacker arrested within five minutes, treated by authorities as a terrorist act.

2026 Zamboanga City school shooting

2026 Zamboanga City school shooting: 18 August 2026 attack at Ateneo de Zamboanga University Junior High School, Barangay Tumaga, in which Grade 9 student Mohammad Mael Jalani livestreamed killing a schoolmate before dying; second fatal Philippine school shooting of 2026.

26 Baku Commissars

The 26 Baku Commissars were the leaders of the Baku Commune, the Soviet government that ruled Baku in 1918, headed by Stepan Shaumyan and Alexei Japaridze.

26th of July Movement

The 26th of July Movement (Movimiento 26 de Julio, M-26-7) was Fidel Castro's insurgent organization, named for the failed 1953 Moncada barracks attack, that overthrew Batista on January 1, 1959 through guerrilla war and urban sabotage, then merged into Cuba's Communist Party in 1961.

27 July 1996 incident

The 27 July 1996 incident, known in Indonesia as the Kudatuli riot or "Sabtu Kelabu", was a government-backed raid on the PDI headquarters in Jakarta, followed by two days of rioting.

28th Virginia battle flag

28th Virginia battle flag: Confederate Army of Northern Virginia regimental color captured at Gettysburg in 1863 by Private Marshall Sherman of the 1st Minnesota, who received the Medal of Honor; Minnesota has refused Virginia's return requests and holds it today.

30 September Movement

The 30 September Movement (Gerakan 30 September, G30S, also Gestapu/Gestok) was an abortive Indonesian coup of 30 September to 1 October 1965 led by Lt. Col. Untung that killed six army generals; its suppression by Suharto triggered the 1965-66 massacres and the New Order.