Historical timeline for February 23

A snap election is held in Germany.

Four simultaneous prison riots leave at least 62 people dead in Ecuador.

Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old African-American citizen, is shot and murdered by three white men after visiting a house under construction while jogging at a neighborhood in Satilla Shores near Brunswick in Glynn County, Georgia.

Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board.

Parliamentary elections are held in Djibouti.

The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.

A series of attacks across Iraq leave at least 83 killed and more than 250 injured.

Unknown criminals pour more than 2+1⁄2 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.

A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber crashes on Guam, marking the first operational loss of a B-2.

The Japanese WINDS satellite is launched.

A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.

An Ariane 4 rocket is launched from the Guiana Space Centre carrying Intelsat 904.

An avalanche buries the town of Galtür, Austria, killing 31.

Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.

In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42 people.

In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.

Saddam Hussein begins the Anfal genocide against Kurds and Assyrians in northern Iraq.

Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.