This is a running account of the major events that took place from 21 April until 12 June, when Mars went out-of-bounds (OOB). A planet is out-of-bounds when its declination exceeds 23° latitude off the ecliptic, as Mars was within the dates just indicated. Such a situation will intensify or accentuate the qualities that the planet represents. This is a list only, not all-inclusive, through to 13 Jun 19:
- There has been violent weather (tornadoes) in the US that has worsened since Mars went OOB. It is still ongoing as of 13 June.
- 21 Apr: The Sri Lanka Easter bombings
- 21 Apr: Ukrainians elect a comedian who played a president in a TV show. True political comedy. Americans should appreciate it, given we put a reality TV star in office.
- 23 Apr: Saudi Arabia executes 37 people in one day on terrorism offenses. The convicted were largely from the Saudi Shia minority. Their trials were denounced as sham show trials.
- 25 Apr: A summit between Putin and Kim took place on an island off Vladivostok.
- 25 Apr: Violence has sharply escalated in Libya, approaching a possible civil war.
- 25 Apr: Cyclone Kenneth at Mozambique displaces thousands and affects as many as 700,000.
- 26 Apr: Huge fire at a refrigerator plant near the Sarmat ICBM factory in Russia
- 26 Apr: North Atlantic storm Hannah
- 27 Apr: Trump pulls the US out of the ATT (arms trading treaty).
- 27 Apr: Chabad at Poway shooting (chart)
- 27 Apr: Collapse of a crane in Seattle kills four. (chart)
- 27 Apr: Mass shooting in Tennessee, with 7 killed
- 29 Apr: Baltimore cookout shootings. One was dead and several injured.
- 30 Apr: Another attempted coup in Venezuela by Guaidó. It was soon over.
- 30 Apr: A mining accident trapped up to 1800 miners underground. No fatalities have been reported. All have since been rescued.
- 1 May: May Day riots in Paris, with violence mainly by Black Bloc anarchists
- 3 May: Cyclone Fani hits India. Over a million evacuated.
- 3 May: Crash of Miami Air International chartered flight from Guantanamo crashed near Jacksonville, FL after skidding off a runway that was too short, due to last-minute decision. No one was killed, and only minor injuries. (chart)
- 4 May: Escalation of violence in Gaza as Palestinians respond to Israeli violence.
- 5 May: Aeroflot SU1492 crash. 41 out of 73 reported killed. Crash was reputedly caused by a lightning strike to one of the engines, causing complete electrical failure. (chart)
- 5 May: Trump announces a new round of tariffs on Chinese imported goods. Largely seen as a negotiating tactic.
- 5 May: The US sends the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group to the Persian Gulf to ‘warn Iran’. This is after the Trump administration sought to reduce Iranian oil exports to zero om May 1st.
- 5 May: The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Russians begin their first phases of the operation to clear the Idlib Province of terrorists.
- 6 May: Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor is born
- 10 May: 25 percent tariff hike on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports by the US takes effect, escalating the trade war.
- 12 May: 2019 Fujairah incident. Four commercial ships ‘sabotaged’ in the Fujairah port. Fingers are immediately pointed at Iran by the US, with no supporting evidence.
- 13 May: Sweden reopens the rape allegations against Julian Assange.
- 15 May: A wave of state-led anti-abortion laws are passed in several states. Trump has since entered the fray, claiming to be “strongly pro-life”. The laws will probably be blocked. Anti-abortion groups hope that the appeals process will cause Roe v. Wade to be overturned. These laws will be held up as divisive hot-ticket campaign issues in the 2020 election.
- 17 May: The Ibiza Affair brings down the coalition government in Austria just ahead of the European parliamentary elections. The right-leaning Freedom Party in Austria was expected to do well in the elections.
- 18 May: In a shock result, the conservative coalition was re-elected in Australia.
- 19 May: 11 people killed at a shooting in a bar in Belém, Brazil. Thought to be gang-related.
- 19 May: A roadside bomb targets a bus near the pyramids in Egypt. Injuries, but no deaths reported. Egypt is to host the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in June.
- 20 May: Volodymyr Zelenskiy announces plans to dissolve the Ukrainian parliament, due to allegations of corruption. His move will probably be seen as illegal and contested.
- 20 May: Google, under orders from Trump, bans Huawei from parts of its android operating system. Trump granted a temporary reprieve the next day to allow American companies to arrange for life without Huawei. Those hardest hit would be chip manufacturers.
- 21 May: A federal judge orders Trump’s accounting firm to hand over his tax returns to the US Congress. A second judge upheld the ruling a day later.
- 24 May: Theresa May resigns as British PM. She will step down on June 7.
- 24 May: A prison riot in Acarigua, Venezuela, leaves 29 inmates and 19 guards dead. (chart)
- 26 – 27 May: Amazonas prison massacres: More than 50 prisoners are killed in a series of riots at four different prisons in Amazonas, Brazil.
- 30 May: Trump announces plans to impose 5% tariffs on Mexican goods entering the US. This is in response to illegal immigration. Tariffs to go into effect on 10 June (Mars still OOB). The move is more about domestic politics than any real concerns about immigration.
- 30 May: South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reports that North Korea executed nuclear envoy Kim Hyok-chol and four other diplomats in March after the failed February Hanoi summit with the United States. They may be resurrected in the future.
- 30 May: The Bilderberg Group holds its yearly meeting.
- 31 May: Shangri-la Dialogue takes place in Singapore. China lays out its rules for the South China Sea, the US threatens.
- 31 May: The Virginia Beach shooting. 13 confirmed dead.
- 1 Jun: A massive explosion at a munitions factory in Russia takes place. No time of day given for the incident.
- 1 Jun: The Chinese produce a white paper on US-China trade relations. Decoupling from the US has begun in light of past US actions.
- 2 Jun: Cruise ship crashes into the dock at Venice.
- 3 Jun: Heavy gunfire in Khartoum as authorities break up protests against military rule. Violence has since worsened and continues.
- 6 – 9 June: The SPIEF took place.
- 9 Jun: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests
- 9 Jun: A large explosive eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia
- 13 Jun: Mars had just gone in bounds, when the June 2019 Gulf of Oman incident occurred.
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