Event forecast period was June 23 – August 7, 2024
June 24: In South Korea a lithium battery factory (Uranus) was set on fire (Mars) after multiple batteries exploded (Mars) killing at least 22 people and injuring eight.
June 25: In Kenya protests (Uranus) against controversial tax reforms (house 8-Uranus) turn violent (Mars) when police (Mars) fire on protestors (Uranus) trying to storm Parliament House, killing at least 5.
In Israel the Supreme Court (house 9-Jupiter) rules unanimously that the military (Mars) must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men (Saturn) for military service (house 6).
June 26: In Kenya President William Ruto makes a sudden and unexpected backdown (Uranus) and withdraws his planned tax hikes a day after clashes between police (Mars) and protesters (Uranus) left at least 23 people dead and scores wounded across the country.
In Bolivia armed forces (Mars-house 6) pull back from the presidential palace in a failed uprising (Uranus) after leaders from around the world blasted the army’s actions as illegal.
June 29: In Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state at least 18 people are killed and 30 injured in a series of deadly bomb blasts (Mars).
July 1: In America the Supreme Court (house 9-Jupiter) in an historic (bipartisan 6-3) landmark ruling (Uranus) finds that Donald Trump (Sun) has immunity and cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can be for private acts.
North Korea reports that it has successfully tested a new tactical ballistic missile (Mars) capable of carrying a 4.5-ton super-large warhead (Mars).
In Seoul, South Korea, a car (Uranus) being driven in the wrong direction ploughs (Mars) into a crowd of pedestrians killing 9 people and injuring at least 4 others.
July 4: In Lebanon Hezbollah launches more than 200 rockets (Mars) and drones targeting Israeli military positions in the second major retaliatory attack (Mars) for the killing of Muhammad Nimah Nasser in southern Lebanon on July 3.
Scientists report they have discovered (Uranus) in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi what they believe to be the world’s oldest artwork depicting three people gathered around a large red pig that was created some 51,200 years ago.
July 8: In the deadliest wave of air strikes for months Russia rained missiles (Mars) on cities across Ukraine and blasted the main children’s hospital (house 12) in Kyiv killing at least 36 civilians.
July 13: In Pennsylvania Donald Trump is shot (Mars) at a campaign rally in what authorities called an assassination attempt.
July 14: In Somalia a car bomb (Mars-Uranus) explodes outside a café in Mogadishu killing at least nine people and injuring several others. Al-Shabab claims responsibility.
July 15: In Oman at least nine people are dead, including three suicide attackers (Mars-Uranus), in an attack at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque (Jupiter). Islamic State claimed responsibility.
In India thousands of lawyers (Uranus) in New Delhi protest (Uranus) an overhaul of criminal legislation and boycott (Pluto) court hearings (house 9).
July 16: In Peru a bus crash in the Andes mountains kills at least 23 people and injures more than a dozen others.
July 18: In Bangladesh thirteen people are killed as thousands of students (Mercury) armed with sticks and rocks clash with armed police (Mars) in the worst day of anti-quota protests (Uranus) since the violent unrest (Mars-Uranus) began two weeks ago.
July 16-18: In a remote region of Papua New Guinea at least 26 people, including 16 children, are killed in ‘shocking’ (Uranus) violence (Mars) as a result of a land ownership (Saturn) disputer (Mars).
July 19: A massive global IT outage (Uranus) disrupts (Uranus) businesses and institutions in multiple countries, throwing airports (house 9), airlines (Neptune), rail companies (house 3), government services (house 6), banks (house 2), stock exchanges (house 5), supermarkets (house 6), telecoms (Uranus), health systems and media outlets (house 9) into chaos (Neptune). According to some cybersecurity experts it was the ‘largest IT outage in history’.
In Canada 158 wildfire (Mars) events of which 55 are out of control are raging through the northern part of Alberta forcing evacuations of three communities.
July 21: US President Joe Biden in an earth-shaking-moment steps down and abandons his reelection bid endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democrat Party’s candidate to face Donald Trump in the November 5 election.
July 22: In a rare gun-violence incident (Mars) in northwestern Croatia five people are shot dead and six others are wounded by a gunman in a private nursing home (house 12).
In Canada a raging wildfire (Mars) hits the town of Jasper in the Canadian Rockies, causing ‘significant’ losses (Saturn) as firefighters (Mars) work to hold back the flames.
According to the European climate change service the record for the world’s hottest day (Mars) has tumbled twice in one week with the global average surface air temperature reaching 17.15C on July 21.
July 26: In France saboteurs (house 12) strike the country’s TGV high-speed train network (house 3) in a series of pre-dawn attacks (Mars) causing travel chaos (Neptune-house 3) ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony (house 5).
July 27: In Gaza Israeli forces attack (Mars) a school (house 5) that was being used as a field hospital and shelter in central Deir el-Balah, killing at least 30 people, including 15 children; a rocket attack (Mars) on young people playing football in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights kills at least 12 people and wounds 13 others from the Druze community; and in California a rapidly expanding wildfire (Mars) forces thousands of residents to flee (Saturn).
July 29: In Venezuela protesters (Uranus) gather in towns and cities after President Nicolas Maduro (Pluto) claimed victory in a tense weekend election, despite growing evidence of a resounding win for the opposition.
In the UK three girls (house 5) are killed and five children and two adults injured in a ferocious knife attack (Mars) at a children’s dance workshop (Venus-house 5) in Southport.
July 30: In retaliation (Mars) for a cross-border rocket attack (Mars) that killed 12 children Israel’s military (Mars) claims it killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut.
In California the largest wildfire (Mars) in the US swells to over 600 square miles, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, as more than 5,500 firefighters (Mars) battle the blaze (Mars) in a wilderness area north of Sacramento.
August 2: According to its Meteorological Agency Japan experienced its hottest (Mars) July in recorded history with temperatures 2.16 degrees Celsius higher than average, the hottest since records began in 1898.
In Somalia at least 37 civilians are killed and 212 injured in an explosion (Mars) at a popular beach restaurant in the capital Mogadishu. Al-Shabab an al-Qaeda-linked armed group (Mars-Pluto), claimed responsibility.
In Britain there’s widespread rioting (Uranus) by hundreds of anti-immigration protesters (Uranus) following the murder of three young girls in northwest England.
In Bangladesh at least 91 people are killed, including 13 police officers (Mars), and dozens more injured in a new round of violence (Mars) as thousands of protesters (Uranus) return to the streets calling on PM Sheikh Hasina (Sun) to resign.
August 5: In Bangladesh the hated dictator Sheikh Hasina (Mars-Pluto) resigns and flees (Saturn) to India following weeks of deadly protests (Uranus) that saw hundreds of people killed.
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