CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList[1][2] News reports the Crunchyroll Industry Panel at Anime Expo 2024 announced the anime on Saturday, July 6, 2024.
Crunchyroll's industry panel at Anime Expo 2024 announced a TV anime of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the Korean apocalypse web novel and webtoon hit, co-produced by Crunchyroll and Aniplex.
ELA-4 Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French GuianaArianespace
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEArianespace's newsroom and Wikipedia's[2][3] Ariane flight VA262 article confirm Ariane 6's maiden flight lifted off from Kourou on 9 July 2024.
Europe's new heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6, built by ArianeGroup, flew for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre. The inaugural flight met its main objectives despite an anomaly in an upper-stage auxiliary unit late in the mission.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE61%26 episodes plannedRelease date of the first episode confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.
Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.
The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.
Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: the GSA released its final environmental review, "ultimately choosing to reuse the vacant buildings rather than demolish them," reported August 2, 2024.
The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.
The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEWikipedia[3] and MyAnimeList's[1][2] news report both date the season-two announcement to the Otakon 2024 stage on August 3, 2024.
A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE78%14 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.
British Columbia Aviation Museum, Sidney, British Columbia, CanadaCoulson Aviation
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCEThe Aviationist[4] and Skies Mag[3] reported that Hawaii Mars made its final retirement flight to the British Columbia Aviation Museum on August 11, 2024.
On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.
CONFIRMED93% CONFIDENCENIST's[1][2] own announcement is dated 13 August 2024, the day the three standards were finalised and published.
NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE71%26 episodesPremiere date confirmed on both MyAnimeList[1] and AniList's listings.
Cloud Art adapts the wuxia-flavored web novel Jian Lai, following an ordinary boy whose single sword strike is powerful enough to split the sky, as he works his way up from nobody to legendary swordsman by taking on increasingly formidable opponents. The 26-episode donghua run established enough of a following to earn a second season the following year.
The Clippers' new $2BN Intuit Dome arena opened in Inglewood on August 15, 2024, giving the team its first standalone home after decades sharing a venue with the Lakers.
Victoria Cross, Lower North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaSydney Metro
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Sydney Metro[3] City officially opened on Monday, 19 August 2024."
Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.
Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.
Queens Wharf Road, Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".
The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCEDefence trade press dates the Czech-Swedish joint declaration on extending the Gripen lease beyond 2027 to 31 August 2024. The binding contract, for 12 jets to 2035, was still under evaluation in April 2025, so this date is the declaration and not the lease contract.[1]
Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.
1914, Mulberry Street, Oak Park, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, 36106, United StatesPerennial
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2024, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Pro-H bought the site at 842 Sixth Avenue from Developer Robert Chun for $30 million."
Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.