Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Levi Strauss & Co. closed the sale of its Dockers khaki-pants brand to brand-management firm Authentic Brands Group, a deal first agreed in May 2025 for $311 million with a potential earnout to $391 million, as Levi's narrowed its focus to its core denim business.

BLACKPINK's first release in three years and five months sold 1,461,785 copies on its first day on Hanteo, the most ever for a K-pop girl group, beating aespa's My World.

Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.

The United States (Operation Epic Fury) and Israel (Operation Roaring Lion) opened a joint air and missile campaign against Iran; President Trump said Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, and Iran answered with missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases across the Gulf.

In the first year of a multi-year deal, Lululemon dressed the tournament's staff, officials and ball crew, ran an 8,000 sq ft pop-up, and Frances Tiafoe debuted its first sweat-concealing ShowZero fabric on court.

Debris from two intercepted drones, launched as Iran struck its Gulf neighbours, started a fire at Saudi Arabia's largest domestic refinery, a 550,000 barrel-a-day plant, and Aramco halted it as a precaution.

At MWC Barcelona 2026 Qualcomm unveiled the X105 5G Modem-RF, the first modem ready for 3GPP Release 19, with 14.8 Gbps peak downloads, video calls over satellite and the first 6 nm RF transceiver, for devices in the second half of 2026.

Thundray's Release that Witch begins release, an ONA adapting Er Gen's web novel about a modern man reborn as a prince who rescues persecuted witches and fuses their magic with early industrial technology to defend his frontier territory.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant with more accurate answers, better-contextualized web search results and fewer unnecessary caveats.

Aldi reached 500 stores in Spain with a 1,200 m2 supermarket in Mijas (Málaga), 24 years after entering the country - also the 5,555th store of the whole Aldi Nord group.

Adidas's supervisory board extended Bjørn Gulden's appointment as chief executive to 31 December 2030, crediting him with driving the company's turnaround since he took over in January 2023.

Boyd Gaming brought down the 16-story Eastside Cannery tower at 2 a.m., six years after the locals casino closed for the pandemic and never reopened; the site is being sold for housing.

Associated British Foods confirmed Eoin Tonge, its finance director who had run Primark on an interim basis since Paul Marchant's March 2025 exit, as the retailer's permanent chief executive, alongside a new chief commercial officer role.

Maggie Gyllenhaal writes and directs a dark, comedic reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

Harry Styles's fourth album, a synth-driven dance-pop record made largely in Berlin with Kid Harpoon, came out on Erskine and Columbia and opened with 430,000 US units, the biggest debut week of 2026 at the time.

Salesforce said a known threat group was mass-scanning public Experience Cloud sites with a modified Mandiant tool and pulling CRM data through overly permissive guest user profiles.

For International Women's Day Alo runs 270 free Pilates, yoga, meditation and sound-bath classes with more than 100 women-owned studios in nine countries, as the Alo Foundation backs The Mental Health Coalition.

Aramco's board approved buying back up to 350 million of its shares, worth at most SAR 11.3 billion ($3 billion), within 18 months of 9 March 2026, to hold in treasury for its employee share plan. It is the company's first buyback; until now it returned cash only through dividends.

At CSW70 in New York on 9 March 2026, the Commission on the Status of Women adopted its Agreed Conclusions on access to justice for women and girls by recorded vote, 37 to 1 with 6 abstentions, after the United States broke the usual consensus.

Oracle grew revenue 22% to $17.2 billion, its first quarter in over 15 years with organic revenue and adjusted EPS both up 20% or more, raised its fiscal 2027 revenue forecast to $90 billion, and the stock jumped 9% the next day.

Aramco's 2025 net profit fell 12% to SAR 348 billion on lower oil prices, yet it raised its quarterly base dividend 3.5% to $21.89 billion and announced its first-ever share buyback, of up to $3 billion. No performance-linked dividend was declared for 2025.

A 6.4-million-square-foot garage beside the 405, the second-largest concrete building in the US after the Pentagon, now holds all 12 on-airport rental car brands.

Inditex's fiscal 2025 net sales rose 3.2% to €39.9 billion and net income climbed 6.0% to a record €6.2 billion, as the Zara owner posted its highest-ever profit even as reported sales growth slowed.

Broadcom's Tomahawk 6, the first 102.4 Tbps Ethernet switch chip and double the bandwidth of Tomahawk 5, moved into production-volume shipments less than three quarters after its first samples.

The first tranche of the 172-million-barrel release went out as a request for proposals on 13 March 2026, covering 86 million barrels from Bryan Mound, West Hackberry and Bayou Choctaw. Bids were due the following Tuesday, and the borrowers must hand the oil back with extra barrels on top.

B.A.S.S. Nation qualifier Dylan Nutt, 22, won the Bassmaster Classic on the Tennessee River with 66 pounds 13 ounces over three days, 9-5 clear of Trey McKinney, the first Nation angler to win since 1994.

Sable Offshore resumed shipping crude from Las Flores Canyon to Pentland Station through the Santa Ynez Pipeline System on March 14, 2026, complying with a Defense Production Act order issued by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The company expects first sales by April 1, 2026 at a gross oil rate of 50,000 Bbls/d, which it says would raise domestic crude supply into the California market by about 17%.

Boston's new NWSL club lost its first-ever match 1-0 to reigning champion Gotham FC, on a 55th-minute Esther González goal, before an announced 30,207, a league record for an expansion team's home opener. The club splits its first season between Gillette Stadium and Centreville Bank Stadium before moving to White Stadium.

A measles outbreak that began in mid-March 2026 has killed 909 people with suspected symptoms and confirmed nearly 20,000 cases, by the Directorate General of Health Services' count as of 10 September. It is still running.

North America's largest seafood trade show opened its 44th edition in Boston with 1,215 exhibiting companies from 50 countries across 247,915 net square feet.

OpenAI updates GPT-5.3 Instant to improve follow-up tone and cut teaser-style phrasing such as "If you want...".