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The Longest Government Shutdown in US History Begins
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE357 days agoThe shutdown began just after midnight on 1 October 2025 and ended on 12 November 2025 when the President signed the stopgap, a span of 43 days.[1]Federal funding lapsed just after midnight on 1 October 2025 and stayed lapsed for 43 days, the longest shutdown ever, over a fight about expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.0.68Homeland Security Goes Dark for a Record 76 Days
Department of Homeland Security Headquarters, St. Elizabeths West Campus, Washington, D.C., United StatesUnited States Department of Homeland Security
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE221 days agoDHS was without routine funding from 14 February 2026 until the President signed the funding bill on 30 April 2026, a record 76 days.[1]A two-week stopgap for DHS alone ran out on 14 February 2026, and the department stayed unfunded for 76 days - the longest shutdown of a single agency in US history - until the President signed a bipartisan bill on 30 April.0.66Government Funding Runs Out Again on December 11
SCHEDULED86% CONFIDENCEin 79 daysH.R. 6500 funds federal agencies through 11 December 2026, so the continuing resolution expires at the end of that day.[1]The stopgap signed in September expires on 11 December 2026, the deadline for Congress to enact the twelve fiscal 2027 appropriations bills or pass another continuing resolution before agencies shut down.0.63Trump Signs the Stopgap That Funds the Government to December 11
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE21 days agoThe White House[1] statement dates the signing of H.R. 6500 to Wednesday, September 2, 2026. The act is in force from that day and its appropriations run to 11 December 2026, the date named in section 106(3) of the enrolled text.H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, was signed on 2 September 2026, four weeks before the fiscal year ran out. Its appropriations run from 1 October to 11 December 2026, pushing the next shutdown fight past the midterm elections.0.59Colonial Pipeline Shuts Down After a Ransomware Attack
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE5.4 years agoThe day is not disputed: "On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline ... suffered a ransomware cyberattack" and operations were halted the same day.[1]Colonial Pipeline halted every pipeline it runs after DarkSide ransomware hit the computers managing the system, cutting off the line that carries most of the gasoline and jet fuel to the US Southeast. The company paid a ransom of about 75 bitcoin, and fuel shortages and panic buying followed along the East Coast.0.56US Fiscal Year 2028 Begins
United States Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., United StatesUnited States Department of the Treasury
SCHEDULED83% CONFIDENCEin 1.0 yearsThe federal fiscal year is the 12-month period beginning on 1 October and ending on 30 September of the next calendar year, so fiscal 2028 runs 1 October 2027 to 30 September 2028.[1]The United States federal fiscal year 2028 starts on 1 October 2027 - the date by which Congress must have funded the government or shut it down.0.55All 41 Workers Freed After Silkyara Tunnel Collapse
Silkyara, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE2.8 years agoHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the rescue team finally managed to break through the 60-meter blockage and free all the 41 workers."Rescuers freed all 41 workers trapped for 17 days after a Himalayan highway tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand, India, in one of the largest tunnel rescue operations on record.0.55The US Abandons Its Secret Ice City, Camp Century
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCE59.7 years agoHappened as dated, per taskandpurpose.com[3]: "Camp Century continued to operate as perhaps the Army's most remote outpost until 1966 when it was closed down."The US Army shut down Camp Century, its secret nuclear-powered base carved into the Greenland ice sheet to conceal a mobile missile network under Project Iceworm, after the tunnels it depended on began collapsing.0.55Zalando Closes Its Erfurt Fulfilment Centre
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysZalando's[1] 8 January 2026 release says it will "close our fulfilment centre in Erfurt, Germany, planned for the end of September 2026", and on 9 July 2026 a spokesman told dpa "Es bleibe bei der Standortschließung Ende September" (the closure stays at the end of September); pinned to 30 September.Zalando is due to shut its Erfurt fulfilment centre at the end of September 2026, ending the jobs of about 2,100 remaining staff at a site that employed around 2,700 when the closure was announced.€80M0.55Katrina Empties 11 Million Barrels From the Reserve
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCE21.1 years agoDOE dates the President's Finding of a Severe Energy[2][3] Supply Interruption to 2 September 2005; the White House fact sheet announcing the 30-million-barrel release is dated the next day.Hurricane Katrina shut in about half of US domestic oil production and knocked out refineries and import terminals, so on 2 September 2005 President Bush found a severe energy supply interruption and ordered a sale. DOE offered 30 million barrels and sold 11 million; the first oil left Bryan Mound on 26 September.0.54US Fiscal Year 2027 Begins on a Stopgap
United States Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C., United States
SCHEDULED84% CONFIDENCEin 8 daysThe US federal fiscal year runs 1 October to 30 September, so fiscal year 2027 begins on 1 October 2026 and ends on 30 September 2027.[1]PolymarketFiscal year 2027 starts on 1 October 2026 with none of the twelve appropriations bills through both chambers, so the government runs on the continuing resolution signed in September rather than on a budget.0.54o4-mini Update Rolled Back
CONFIRMED95% CONFIDENCE1.3 years agoOpenAI's[1] own model release notes date this entry June 6, 2025OpenAI rolls back an o4-mini snapshot deployed less than a week earlier after its monitoring detected an increase in content flags.0.54
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