Iran claimed to have found over 50 billion barrels of oil in the country's Khuzestan province.
462 non-violent inmates were released from Oklahoma prisons in the largest commutation in American history.
Climate Control reported that rising sea levels would 'erase' many coastal cities by as early as 2050.
Forty-two people were buried alive in a landslide in Bafoussam, Cameroon.
Actor Wes Studi received the Governor's Award Oscar for Lifetime Acting Achievement, making him the first Native American to do so.
Major Australian newspapers blacked out their front pages in protest against press restrictions on printing whistleblower stories.
The oldest natural pearl discovered off the Abu Dhabi coast was estimated to be 8,000 years old.
The first all-female spacewalk took place.
Lana Del Rey's song 'Video Games' was named song of the decade at the Q Awards in London.
The Netflix movie 'Bird Box' and the TV series 'Stranger Things' was reported to be Netflix's most popular for 2019.
A camera in London Zoo became the first camera to take selfies powered by plants.
The state of California became the first to ban fur products.
Three thousand five hundred women in Iran were allowed to attend a soccer match for the first time in 40 years.
Protestors took to the streets in Hong Kong after the government announced a ban on face masks.
Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
Elon Musk announced that he was building a spaceship called Starship that would travel to Mars and return to Earth.
The World Health Organization announced that they would give measles vaccinations to 800,000 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Actor Billy Porter who played Pray Tell in the American drama 'Pose,' made history after becoming the first openly gay actor to win an Emmy Award.
Widespread forest fires in Indonesia caused the skies to turn red.
The climate change rally led by activist Greta Thunberg saw millions of protesters worldwide standing up for urgent action.
The American Bird Conservancy released a study indicating that the bird population in North America had reduced by around 3 billion.
During the Senate climate crisis task force, climate change activity Greta Thunberg said, 'You're not trying hard enough. Sorry.'
The New York Times published an investigation declaring Guantanamo Bay Prison as the most costly prison in the world.
Personal information of Ecuador's entire population (16.6 million) became available online on an unsecured cloud server in Miami.
The UK's prime minister Boris Johnson compared himself to The Hulk in his efforts to steer the country out of the European Union.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.
Margaret Atwood published 'The Testaments,' a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale,' which she released 15 years prior.
The Indian Space Research Organization's Vikram Moon lander crash-landed on the moon.
74-year-old Erramatti Mangamma became the world's oldest mother after giving birth to twins in India.
YouTube was fined $170 million for collecting data on child users.
Amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered a strange comet in another star system.
Nature magazine published findings of a 3.8-million-year-old skull found in Ethiopia, which questioned our previous theories of human evolution.
Jessi Combs broke the female fastest land speed record when her jet-powered vehicle reached a speed of 522.783 mph (841.338 kph).
Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental fund donated $5 million in the battle against Amazon rainforest fires that were devastating the area.
Indonesia announced they plan to move their capital city from Jakarta to Borneo.
American explorer Victor Vescovo became the first person to journey to the deepest points of every ocean.
Russia launched a robot called FEDOR to the International Space Station to work as a remote operator and carry out various tasks autonomously.
NASA announced they would send a ship to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to look for extraterrestrial life.
A funeral was held in Iceland for the loss of the Okjökull glacier.
President Donald Trump announced that he might want to buy Greenland and claim it for the US.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A rainfall survey named 'It is raining plastic' announced that tiny plastic particles were found in 90% of rain samples in Colorado, US.
Thousands of anti-government protesters disrupted Hong Kong International Airport.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
In Tanzania, people attempted to siphon petrol from an overturned fuel tanker which exploded.
The Department of Health in Manila, Philippines, declared a national epidemic after the dengue outbreak.
World Resources Institute reported that a quarter of the world's population is running out of water.
French inventor Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on a hoverboard.
Kenyan cancer survivors protested in Nairobi.
