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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in the United States.. The dominant political story of the year has been the 270-day long speakership of Representative Kevin McCarthy, whose slim majority in the House of Representatives has enabled a far-right rebellion to exert more weight over the lower chamber.
Tornado outbreak of January 12, 2023. A tornado outbreak in the US states of Alabama and Georgia damages several towns and kills at least six people. (USA Today) A truck crashes into several minibus taxis at an intersection in Roodepoort, Gauteng, South Africa, killing five people and injuring nine others.
Russo–Ukrainian war. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. The Russian Foreign Ministry reports that at least 56 Russian civilians were killed and 266 more were wounded by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies as Russian propaganda. (Reuters) Disasters and accidents.
Current events/2023 October 7. October 7, 2023 (Saturday) Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif announces the invasion as the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. Israel declares a state of war in response and warns Palestinian civilians to leave the Gaza Strip. (AP)
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 2023. October 1, 2023 (Sunday) edit. history. watch. Armed conflicts and attacks. Kurdish–Turkish conflict. 2023 Ankara bombing. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Interior Ministry in Ankara, Turkey, injuring two police officers.
2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh. Exodus of Armenians. The number of refugees fleeing from Artsakh to Armenia increases to 50,243, more than a third of the region's population. Former State Minister of Artsakh Ruben Vardanyan is arrested by Azerbaijan after attempting to cross the border into Armenia.
Disasters and accidents. Burning Man 2023, September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods. Heavy flooding at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, United States, kills one person and leaves tens of thousands of people stranded in the Black Rock Desert. Organizers close the festival to vehicles after the death was reported.
November 2023 Brazil heat wave. Death of Ana Clara Benevides. A woman dies at the first of American singer Taylor Swift 's concerts at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during a day when temperatures reached 39.1 °C (102.4 °F). Swift postpones her second concert in the city due to the heat.