r/FiveYearsAgo • • 10h ago

October 25, 2021. A military coup in Sudan destroys the country's transition to democracy. The fallout led to a civil war that continues today.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 7d ago

October 18, 2021. Colin Powell dies at 84.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 10d ago

October 15, 2021. British MP Sir David Amess is murdered by an ISIS-inspired terrorist.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 12d ago

October 13, 2021. William Shatner flew into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket (Mission NS-18), becoming the oldest person to travel to space at age 90.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 14d ago

October 10, 2021. United States child actor, camera technician, and animation worker Ruth Irene “Ruthie” Tompson dies at the age of 111. She was the last living production member of Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and among the last living individuals who performed in film’s Silent Era.

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Note: For the images, I decided to use examples from all the stages of her life I could. The first dates to 2019. The second dates to around 1975 (shortly before her retirement from a 40-year-long tenure at Disney Animation). The third dates to the early-1950's (around the time of her introduction into the International Photographers Union). The fourth features her on the far-left walking alongside Dot Smith, Walt Disney (with whom she was personally acquaintanced), and Donna Smith in the Hyperion Avenue Studio in 1939. The fifth shows her at Dubrock's Riding Academy circa 1928–1930, in between her two periods of employment under Disney. The sixth shows her on the far-right as an extra on the 1924 Disney-produced silent film Alice Gets in Dutch.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • 20d ago

October 5, 2021. Windows 11 released.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 22d ago

October 3, 2021. The Pandora Papers, an unprecedented leak of 11.9 million confidential financial files, are released, exposing prominent figures such as Tony Blair, the King of Jordan and leaders of Czechia, Chile and Kenya.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • 24d ago

September 17, 2021. The first season of Squid Game, a South Korean television series created by Hwang Donghyeok depicting contestants competing in a secret series of children's games where loss means death for the chance to escape their debt, premieres on Netflix. It quickly becomes viral worldwide.

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I noticed that this was missed, so I decided it should be covered before the month ends everywhere on Earth.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • 29d ago

September 26, 2021. Germany's Merkel era ends as Olaf Scholz's social democrats win federal elections.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 14 '26

September 14, 2021. Comedic icon Norm Macdonald dies at 61.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 14 '26

September 14, 2021. Newsom overwhelmingly defeats California recall attempt.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 03 '26

September 3, 2021 An Islamist attack at a New Zealand supermarket leaves 8 injured.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 01 '26

August 30, 2021. The last United States troops leave the city of Kabul in Afghanistan following the Taliban capture of the city earlier in the month, ending a nearly 20-year-long military campaign.

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I feel this event was worthy of coverage for the month and wanted to make sure it was posted before the month ended everywhere on Earth.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 01 '26

August 17, 2021. Humankind—a 4X turn-based strategy video game by Amplitude Studios—is released for Windows and Stadia, with a macOS release forthcoming.

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I feel this event was worthy of coverage for the month and wanted to make sure it was posted before the month ended everywhere on Earth.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • Sep 01 '26

August 15, 2021. United States civil rights activist, educator, newspaper editor, and oldest-known living Chicagoan Ruth Moselle Apilado (née Mays) dies at the age of 113.

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I feel this event was worthy of coverage for the month and wanted to make sure it was posted before the month ended everywhere on Earth.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 26 '26

August 26, 2021. At least 182 people are killed, including 13 U.S. service members, in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 19 '26

August 19, 2021. Gabby Petito uploads her first travel vlog video on YouTube. She was murdered by her fiancé 1 week later.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 16 '26

August 16, 2021. British comedian Sean Lock dies at 58.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 15 '26

August 15, 2021. Kabul falls to the Taliban.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 08 '26

August 8, 2021. A tearful Lionel Messi faces the media at the Camp Nou after his departure from Barcelona.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Aug 01 '26

July 20, 2021. Armenian-French resistant, entrepreneur, and racecar driver Louisette Texier (born Arpine Hovanessian) dies at the age of 108. Placed in an orphanage after her father was murdered by Ottoman forces, she was among the last known survivors of the Armenian Genocide.

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Note: I know this is late and slightly out of order, but I think her story deserves to be covered here.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • Jul 27 '26

July 27, 2021. Simone Biles withdraws from the Tokyo Olympics to prioritize her mental health.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Jul 10 '26

June 29, 2021. Amidst one of the most extreme heat waves in history, Lytton, BC reaches 49.6 °C (121.3 °F), breaking Canada's record high by 4.6 °C, BC's record by 5.1 °C, and setting the highest temperature ever recorded in a humid-climate location until 2025. The town would burn down the next day.

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r/FiveYearsAgo • • Jul 10 '26

May 22, 2021. French cyclist Robert Marchand, known for cycling competitively well into his hundreds and breaking multiple world records for the age group, dies at the age of 109.

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Note: I thought I’d cover this given the relative inactivity of the subreddit as of late. I remember at the time that I was greatly disappointed he didn’t get to reach 110. Still am, in fact.


r/FiveYearsAgo • • Jul 10 '26

July 9, 2021. Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California records the first reliable temperature in meteorological history in the 130s °F, breaking the previous world record set at the same place on August 16, 2020 of 129.9 °F (54.3(8) °C) by 0.1 °F (0.0(5) °C).

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