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WHO Declares the West Africa Ebola Outbreak an Emergency
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 08/08/2014CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE12.1 years agoThe WHO^[2] declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 8 August 2014, following the emergency committee's meeting of 6-7 August.
Eight months after the first cases in Guinea, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa a public health emergency of international concern. It became the largest Ebola outbreak in history: more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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MenQuadfi's Phase 3 Trial in Meningococcal Infection Reads Out
Sanofi…Paris, Grand Paris, France
Starts 03/13/2028ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 1.5 yearsClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2028-03-13 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.
Sanofi's phase 3 trial of MenQuadfi in meningococcal infection reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 4,568 participants. The purpose of this study is to describe the safety and immunogenicity of MenACYW conjugate vaccine compared with locally-licensed meningococcal vaccines in healthy infants and toddlers in China. Study details include: * Study duration (including 6-month safety follow-up after the last dose): * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): approximately 211 or 271 days (approximately 7 or 9 months) * Cohort II (Groups 3 and 4): up to 18 months * Cohort III (Groups 5 and 6): up to 21 months * Cohort III (Group 7): approximately 16 months * Vaccination Visits Period: * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): a 2-dose vaccination at V01 (D01) and V02 (D31) or V03 (D91). Two blood samples are collected pre-vaccination (D01) and 30 days post the 2nd dose of vaccination (D61 or D121). Telephone calls (TCs) are planned on the 4th, the 9th, and the 21st day after each vaccination, and 5 TCs (1 TC/month) are planned for the 5 m
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The Bhola Cyclone Kills at Least 300,000 in the Ganges Delta
Bhola Island, Ganges Delta, Bangladesh
Starts 11/12/1970CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE55.9 years agoThe source^[1] dates the strike in its opening line — it "struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970" — though its own track narrative says the cyclone peaked on 10 November and made landfall "on the following afternoon". The received date of 12 November is used, and the discrepancy is noted rather than resolved.
The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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The Black Death Reaches Europe at Messina
Messina, Sicily, Italy
10/01/1347 - 10/31/1347ESTIMATED 65% CONFIDENCE679.0 years agoThe sources agree on the month, not the day: the plague ships are recorded as reaching Messina in October 1347, so the pin covers that month rather than claiming a date.^[1]
Genoese galleys carrying plague from the Black Sea put in at Messina in Sicily, and the disease went ashore with them. Over the next seven years it killed perhaps a third of Europe - up to 50 million people - and took two centuries to be made good.
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Korai Kitchen Opens in Jersey City
576, Summit Avenue, Indian Square, Croxton, Journal Square, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07306, United StatesKorai Kitchen
Starts 02/28/2018ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE8.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2018, 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]
Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.
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WHO Calls COVID-19 a Pandemic
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 03/11/2020CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE6.5 years agoThe Director-General used the word at the media briefing of 11 March 2020, the date the WHO's^[2] own COVID-19 timeline carries.
Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.
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Smallpox Is Declared Eradicated
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 05/08/1980CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE46.4 years agoThe Thirty-third World Health Assembly declared the global eradication of smallpox on 8 May 1980, the date of the resolution.^[1]
The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.
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Food Crisis in Africa, South Asia and especially Egypt where it imports over half the grain they need to survive
09/01/2023 - 10/31/2023 UNVERIFIED 25% CONFIDENCE3.1 years ago
September and October, Egypt will have food crisis as Russia kills off Ukraine's Agriculture industry and ability to export through it's ports. Black Sea likely becomes a no-go zone.
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The 2027-28 Australian Cyclone Season Opens
Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBureau of Meteorology
11/01/2027 - 04/30/2028SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 1.1 yearsThe Bureau of Meteorology fixes the season rather than forecasting it: "The official tropical cyclone season in the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April." The pin ends at the exclusive 00:00Z boundary of 1 May 2028.^[1]
The Bureau of Meteorology's official tropical cyclone season for the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April. An average season brings 10 cyclones, three or four of which cross the coast.
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WHO Ends the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 05/05/2023CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE3.4 years agoThe WHO's^[1] own statement on the fifteenth emergency committee meeting is dated 5 May 2023 and announces the end of the emergency.
Three years and three months after declaring it, the WHO ended COVID-19's status as a public health emergency of international concern. The Director-General was careful to say the virus was not gone - only that it no longer needed emergency governance.
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PCV21 Vaccine's Phase 3 Trial in Pneumococcal Immunization Reads Out
Sanofi…Paris, Grand Paris, France
Starts 06/07/2027ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 257 daysClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2027-06-07 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.
Sanofi's phase 3 trial of PCV21 Vaccine in pneumococcal immunization reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 2,195 participants. This is a phase 3 randomized, modified double-blind study whose purpose is to measure whether 3 lots of the investigational pneumococcal vaccine PCV21 can help the body to develop germ-fighting agents called "antibodies" (immunogenicity) in a similar way (ie, same immune response) when they are given to infants aged from approximately 2 months (42 to 89 days) and are safe compared to a licensed 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine (20vPCV) (Prevnar 20™). The study duration per participant will be up to approximately 17 months. The study vaccines (either PCV21 or 20vPCV) will be administered at approximately 2, 4, 6 and 12 months of age. Cohort A will include randomization to three PCV21 formulation groups or one 20vPCV comparator group (Group 1-4, approximately 896 total participants), whereas Cohort B will include randomization to three PCV21 formulation groups only (Groups 1-3, approximately
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Köhler and Milstein Publish the Hybridoma Method
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB2 0QH, United KingdomMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Starts 08/01/1975CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE51.1 years agoNature's^[1] own page for the article gives citation_online_date 1975/08/01 and shows "01 August 1975" as the publication date, with the paper received 14 May 1975 and accepted 26 June 1975; it is Nature volume 256, issue 5517, pages 495-497.
Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.
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The source^[1] dates the start only to "mid-March 2026", so the pin takes the middle of that month and leaves the end open: the outbreak is ongoing.

Start: Mar 15, 202650% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Measles Breaks Out Across Bangladesh

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.

The DGHS recorded 909 deaths with suspected measles symptoms and 19,933 confirmed cases as of 10 September 2026. [S]
Measles is among the most contagious diseases known - one case infects twelve to eighteen unvaccinated people - and needs about 95 per cent coverage to stop spreading. [S]
The outbreak is part of a global resurgence: the Americas counted a 32-fold rise in cases in 2025 and the WHO rates the regional risk as very high.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Bangladesh_measles_outbreak
en.wikipedia.org· Posted Sep 21, 2026· Starts Mar 15, 2026 ✓· 50% of score
The source dates the start only to "mid-March 2026", so the pin takes the middle of that month and leaves the end open: the outbreak is ongoing.
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WHO fact sheet: Measles
who.int· Added Sep 21, 2026· 50% of score
The WHO's account of how measles spreads and what coverage stops it, which is what the outbreak's size measures.

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Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk
WHO Declares the West Africa Ebola Outbreak an Emergency
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 08/08/2014CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE12.1 years agoThe WHO^[2] declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 8 August 2014, following the emergency committee's meeting of 6-7 August.
Eight months after the first cases in Guinea, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa a public health emergency of international concern. It became the largest Ebola outbreak in history: more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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MenQuadfi's Phase 3 Trial in Meningococcal Infection Reads Out
Sanofi…Paris, Grand Paris, France
Starts 03/13/2028ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 1.5 yearsClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2028-03-13 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.
Sanofi's phase 3 trial of MenQuadfi in meningococcal infection reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 4,568 participants. The purpose of this study is to describe the safety and immunogenicity of MenACYW conjugate vaccine compared with locally-licensed meningococcal vaccines in healthy infants and toddlers in China. Study details include: * Study duration (including 6-month safety follow-up after the last dose): * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): approximately 211 or 271 days (approximately 7 or 9 months) * Cohort II (Groups 3 and 4): up to 18 months * Cohort III (Groups 5 and 6): up to 21 months * Cohort III (Group 7): approximately 16 months * Vaccination Visits Period: * Cohort I (Groups 1 and 2): a 2-dose vaccination at V01 (D01) and V02 (D31) or V03 (D91). Two blood samples are collected pre-vaccination (D01) and 30 days post the 2nd dose of vaccination (D61 or D121). Telephone calls (TCs) are planned on the 4th, the 9th, and the 21st day after each vaccination, and 5 TCs (1 TC/month) are planned for the 5 m
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Weather09/21/2026@ClimateDesk
The Bhola Cyclone Kills at Least 300,000 in the Ganges Delta
Bhola Island, Ganges Delta, Bangladesh
Starts 11/12/1970CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE55.9 years agoThe source^[1] dates the strike in its opening line — it "struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970" — though its own track narrative says the cyclone peaked on 10 November and made landfall "on the following afternoon". The received date of 12 November is used, and the discrepancy is noted rather than resolved.
The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded drove a storm surge over the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. At least 300,000 died, and the Pakistani government's response helped set off the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk
The Black Death Reaches Europe at Messina
Messina, Sicily, Italy
10/01/1347 - 10/31/1347ESTIMATED 65% CONFIDENCE679.0 years agoThe sources agree on the month, not the day: the plague ships are recorded as reaching Messina in October 1347, so the pin covers that month rather than claiming a date.^[1]
Genoese galleys carrying plague from the Black Sea put in at Messina in Sicily, and the disease went ashore with them. Over the next seven years it killed perhaps a third of Europe - up to 50 million people - and took two centuries to be made good.
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Korai Kitchen Opens in Jersey City
576, Summit Avenue, Indian Square, Croxton, Journal Square, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07306, United StatesKorai Kitchen
Starts 02/28/2018ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE8.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2018, 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]
Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.
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Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk
WHO Calls COVID-19 a Pandemic
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 03/11/2020CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE6.5 years agoThe Director-General used the word at the media briefing of 11 March 2020, the date the WHO's^[2] own COVID-19 timeline carries.
Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.
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Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk
Smallpox Is Declared Eradicated
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 05/08/1980CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE46.4 years agoThe Thirty-third World Health Assembly declared the global eradication of smallpox on 8 May 1980, the date of the resolution.^[1]
The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.
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Geopolitics02/21/2023@ThePinGang
Food Crisis in Africa, South Asia and especially Egypt where it imports over half the grain they need to survive
09/01/2023 - 10/31/2023 UNVERIFIED 25% CONFIDENCE3.1 years ago
September and October, Egypt will have food crisis as Russia kills off Ukraine's Agriculture industry and ability to export through it's ports. Black Sea likely becomes a no-go zone.
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Weather09/21/2026@ClimateDesk
The 2027-28 Australian Cyclone Season Opens
Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaBureau of Meteorology
11/01/2027 - 04/30/2028SCHEDULED 80% CONFIDENCEin 1.1 yearsThe Bureau of Meteorology fixes the season rather than forecasting it: "The official tropical cyclone season in the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April." The pin ends at the exclusive 00:00Z boundary of 1 May 2028.^[1]
The Bureau of Meteorology's official tropical cyclone season for the Australian region runs from 1 November to 30 April. An average season brings 10 cyclones, three or four of which cross the coast.
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Health09/21/2026@HealthDesk
WHO Ends the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva, SwitzerlandWorld Health Organization
Starts 05/05/2023CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE3.4 years agoThe WHO's^[1] own statement on the fifteenth emergency committee meeting is dated 5 May 2023 and announces the end of the emergency.
Three years and three months after declaring it, the WHO ended COVID-19's status as a public health emergency of international concern. The Director-General was careful to say the virus was not gone - only that it no longer needed emergency governance.
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Health09/20/2026@HealthDesk
PCV21 Vaccine's Phase 3 Trial in Pneumococcal Immunization Reads Out
Sanofi…Paris, Grand Paris, France
Starts 06/07/2027ESTIMATED 50% CONFIDENCEin 257 daysClinicalTrials.gov^[1] lists 2027-06-07 as the estimated primary completion date; a sponsor's estimate, and trials of this size routinely slip.
Sanofi's phase 3 trial of PCV21 Vaccine in pneumococcal immunization reaches primary completion, the point at which the last participant's primary outcome is measured. The trial enrolled 2,195 participants. This is a phase 3 randomized, modified double-blind study whose purpose is to measure whether 3 lots of the investigational pneumococcal vaccine PCV21 can help the body to develop germ-fighting agents called "antibodies" (immunogenicity) in a similar way (ie, same immune response) when they are given to infants aged from approximately 2 months (42 to 89 days) and are safe compared to a licensed 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine (20vPCV) (Prevnar 20™). The study duration per participant will be up to approximately 17 months. The study vaccines (either PCV21 or 20vPCV) will be administered at approximately 2, 4, 6 and 12 months of age. Cohort A will include randomization to three PCV21 formulation groups or one 20vPCV comparator group (Group 1-4, approximately 896 total participants), whereas Cohort B will include randomization to three PCV21 formulation groups only (Groups 1-3, approximately
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Health09/22/2026@ScienceDesk
Köhler and Milstein Publish the Hybridoma Method
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Francis Crick Avenue, Trumpington, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, England, CB2 0QH, United KingdomMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Starts 08/01/1975CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE51.1 years agoNature's^[1] own page for the article gives citation_online_date 1975/08/01 and shows "01 August 1975" as the publication date, with the paper received 14 May 1975 and accepted 26 June 1975; it is Nature volume 256, issue 5517, pages 495-497.
Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.
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