What a year 2020 has been. Around March I realized how many major and bizarre events were going on so I started to compile a list to publish at the end of the year. As someone who has studied UI/UX research and design, I wanted to make this list not only look aesthetically appealing, but also fill it with additional features to enhance the user experience. For example, I wanted to add a search bar that would allow readers to filter by topic. When I was was trying to brainstorm creative ways to display this list my friend Taylor made a genius point: â2020 doesnât deserve creative design/effort.â With that I present to you a simple list of things that happened in 2020. Disclaimer: this is in no way close to a comprehensive list.
January
Jan 1: The US embassy in Iraq attacked by a crowd of angry demonstrators furious over the deaths of people killed by US airstrikes
Jan 2: Australian state declares emergency as wildfires spread
Jan 3: Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani killed in US drone strike
Jan 3: First episode of R.Kelly Part 2 Documentary released
Jan ?: Twitter WW3 Memes as a response to increased US-Iran tensions
Jan 5: Golden Globes
Jan 5: Awkwafina makes Golden Globes history by becoming first performer of Asian descent to win in a lead actress film category
Jan 5: When students of Jawaharlal Nehru University were holding peaceful protests against CAA/NCR in their Delhi campus, more than 50 unidentified people stormed the campus and attacked the students.
Jan 7: The WHO is notified of the novel coronavirus in China then referred to as 2019-nCoV
Jan 8: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce they are stepping down from their duties as senior royals in Buckingham Palace
Jan 8: Iran retaliates by firing missiles at two Iraqi bases housing US troops and injuring American soldiers
Jan 8: A Ukrainian flight crashes in Tehran, Iran, killing all 176 passengers on board
Jan 8: Cheer debuts on Netflix and its cast and coach become cheerlebrities overnight
Jan 11: China records it first COVID-19 death
Jan 13: Queen Elizabeth issues a statement supporting Prince Harry and Meghan Markleâs wish to step down
Jan 16: The impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins
Jan 19: Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reunite on the SAG awards red carpet. Fans go crazy
Jan 20: First coronavirus case in the US is reported in Washington state
Jan 22: Planters announces that Mr. Peanuts has died
Jan 23: Wuhan, China – the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak – goes under an unprecedented lockdown, impacting 11 million residents
Jan 25: Roc Nation Brunch
Jan 26: Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant, Payton Chester, Sarah Chester, Christina Mauser, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, Alyssa Altobelli and pilot Ara Zobayan die in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California
Jan 26: Host Alicia Keys and Boyz II Men deliver a moving tribute to Kobe Bryant at his home in the Staples Center
Jan 26: 62nd Grammy Awards. Billie Eilish wins big
Jan 28: Trump unveils his Middle East âpeace planâ to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jan 27: âJustin Bieber: Seasonsâ documentary series premieres on Youtube
Jan 31: Brexit Happens – The United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union
Jan 31: Taylor Swiftâs documentary âMiss Americanaâ is released
February
Feb 2: Palindrome Day: the date 02022020 reads the same forward and backward
Feb 2: J-Lo and Shakira perform at Super Bowl LIV
Feb 2: Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV
Feb 3: Cruise ship Diamond Princess with 3700 passengers quarantined in Yokohama port, Japan after cases of coronavirus found on board
Feb 4: The Iowa caucus results are delayed due to âquality controlâ
Feb 4: Jessica Simpson becomes hot topic after she releases book âOpen Bookâ and reveals several bombshells
Feb 4: Nancy Pelosi rips up her copy of Trumpâs State of the Union speech
Feb 5: Trump is acquitted by the Senate on both articles of impeachment
Feb 6: Antarctica records high temperature of 64.9 F / 18.2 C
Feb 9: âParasiteâ wins 4 Oscars and makes Oscar History
Feb 9: Billie Eilish makes her iconic âconfused faceâ during Eminemâs performance at Oscars
Feb 9: Brad Pitt wins his first Oscar for the best supporting actor for âOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodâ
Feb: Brad Pitt turns awards season into his own personal comedy tour
Feb 11: The WHO names the coronavirus disease COVID-19
Feb 11: Snow falls in Baghdad, Iraq, for only the second time in a century
Feb 13: Love is Blind, a new reality TV dating show, is released on Netflix
Feb 16: NBA All Star Game – Team Lebron beats Team Giannis
Feb 17: Indianâs Supreme Court grants equal rights to women in the armed forces
Feb 17: Jerry Harris, star of Netflixâs Cheer, arrested by FBI agents on child pornography charges
Feb 18: The Boy Scouts of America filed for Title 11 bankruptcy
Feb 18: Charlotte Awberry goes viral after she is stopped in the London subway to finish the lyrics to Lady Gagaâs âShallowâ
Feb 19: Pop Smoke passes away after being shot twice during a home invasion
Feb 20: Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months imprisonment for obstructing a congressional investigation
Feb 24: Harvey Weinstein is found guilty of third-degree rape and first-degree criminal sexual act
Feb 24: Funeral of Kobe Bryant and Gigi Bryant held at Staples Center
Feb 24: Donald Trump begins a 2 day trip to India meeting Indian PM Modi
Feb 25: Ahmaud Arbery shot to death after being chased down by two white men in Georgia
March
Mar 2: American rap group Public Enemy part ways with Flavor Flav after 35 years over playing for free at Bernie Sanders rally
Mar 4: Jill Biden blocks a protester who charged the stage during Joe Bidenâs Super Tuesday speech in LA
Mar 4: Mike Bloomberg drops out of the 2020 Presidential Race
Mar 5: Sen. Elizabeth Warren drops out of the 2020 presidential race
Mar 10: Italy becomes the first country to implement a nationwide lockdown
Mar 11: The WHO declares the coronavirus a pandemic
Mar 11: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were diagnosed with COVID -19 becoming the first major celebrities to announce they were sick
Mar 11: The NBA officially canceled the rest of the season due to COVID-19
Mar 11: Sarah Palin appears on âThe Masked Singerâ and closed out the show by singing âBaby Got Backâ
Mar 12: NHL announces the pausing of the 2019-2020 season due to COVID-19
Mar 12: March Madness is cancelled. First time itâs not held since it began in 1939
Mar 13: Trump declares a national emergency amid the coronavirus pandemic
Mar 13: The streets of Siena are filled with song as people sing from their balconies
Mar 13: Breonna Taylor shot by cops in her own home
Mar 15: US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero to support the economy during COVID-19
Mar 16: Dow plunges 2,997 points in the worst drop since 1987 amid coronavirus fears
Mar 16: MLB suspends remainder of Spring Training and delays start of regular season
Mar 17: Musical âCatsâ wins award for worst film
Mar 17: Many people continue to party on Floridaâs beaches despite the coronavirus pandemic
Mar 17: Tom Brady announces through his social media that he will not be returning to the New England Patriots, ending his 20 year run with the franchise
Mar 19: A close-up of Donald Trumpâs notes shows where the word âCoronaâ was crossed out and replaced with âChineseâ as he speaks about COVID-19Â at the White House
Mar 20: Netflix releases âTiger Kingâ
Mar 20: India hangs four men for 2012 gang rape. Countryâs first hanging since 2013
Mar 24: The 2020 Summer Olympics, which are suppose to take place in Tokyo, are postponed until 2021
Mar 24: India imposes the worldâs largest lockdown
Mar 24: The historical Shaheen Bagh protests, in response to the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), come to an end – first time religion was used as criterion for citizenship under India Law
Mar 25: Swizz Beatz and Timbaland create Verzuz battles
Mar 27: People contemplate if New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a nipple piercing during his daily press briefing
Mar 29: Some Good News, a web series on YouTube by John Kransinski, is released
Mar 30: Ships deployed to take some of the pressure off medical facilities that were strained in NY and LA because of the coronavirus pandemic
Mar ?: Clubhouse, a voice-based social app, makes waves in the music industry
April
Apr 2: Global COVID-19 cases surpass one million
Apr 3: US aircraft carrier captain Brett Crozier cheered off his ship after being fired for a letter demanding more help for his sailors infected with coronavirus COVID-19
Apr 5: Queen Elizabeth II makes an address to the nation âwe will meet againâ, for only the 5th time in her 66-year reign
Apr 5: British PM Boris Johnson admitted to hospital suffered from COVID-19
Apr 6: Nadia, a tiger at the Bronx Zoo, tests positive for COVID-19, 1st known case of human-to-cat transmission
Apr 6: Quibi launches
Apr 7: Officials in Wuhan, China lift the city-wide lockdown after 76 days
Apr 8: Sen. Bernie Sanders drops out of the 2020 race, making former VP Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee
Apr 9: The state of New York alone has the highest number of coronavirus cases than any country in the world
Apr 9: Raven-SymonĂŠ laughing on IG Live after talking with Kiely Williams for the first time in years
Apr 12: OPEC and other major oil companies agree to the largest ever-drop in production to stabilize world prices
Apr 13: Protestors stand outside the Statehouse Atrium in Columbus, Ohio, to voice their opposition to stay-at-home orders. Other states also stage protests
Apr 14: Donald Trump leaves the White House Rose Garden following a coronavirus briefing after questions about social distancing
Apr 19: A health care worker stands in a Denver street counterprotesting a rally where people were demanding that stay-at-home orders be lifted.
Apr 19: Together at Home concert for COVID-19 aid curated by Lady Gaga and streamed worldwide
Apr 19: First episode of âThe Last Danceâ, a documentary of Michael Jordanâs legacy, airs
Apr 20: A unity deal is made to allow Israelâs government to start the domestic process of annexing parts of the occupied West Bank that includes Israeli settlements and the area of the Jordan Valley
Apr 20: Teddy Riley faces technical difficulties during Verzuz battle with Babyface
Apr 21: Keke Palmer hints at possible “True Jackson VP” reboot on TikTok
Apr 23: Donald Trump suggests COVID-19 might be treated by injecting disinfectant or UV lights into a human body at a White House press briefing.
Apr 24: Kansas farmer mails N95 mask to NY governor Cuomo for health care worker. Cuomo called the gesture a âsnapshot of humanityâ
Apr 25: Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-unâs sister, becomes heir apparent after Joung-unâs disappearance
Apr 25: SNL debuts Brad Pitt as Anthony Fauci
Apr 27: The Pentagon released UFO videos and no one cared
Apr 30: Michigan state police prevent protesters from entering the chamber of the Michigan House of Representatives
May
May 1: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau announces ban on 1,500 types of assault-style weapons in response to recent Nova Scotia shooting
May 1: Elon Musk’s bizarre tweet wipes $14 billion off Tesla market value in hours
May 2: Murder hornets arrive in the US
May 3: Warren Buffet dumps his holdings in 4 major airlines
May 4: Elon Musk and Grimes have son X Ă A-12
May 5: Adele shows off dramatic weight loss in new photo celebrating her 32nd birthday on Instagram
May 7: Father and son arrested for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery after video surfaces
May 2: Kim Jong Un visits a fertilizer factor in Sunchon, North Korea proving he is alive
May 7: Toxic leak at Indian chemical factory near Visakhaptnam kills and injuries
May 7: US unemployment claims hit 33.3 million or 20% of the workforce, a 50-year low
May 11: Jerry Stiller dies of natural causes at 92
May 12: Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, BeyonceĂŠ & Megan Thee Stallion make Billboard history – marking the first time that rap tracks by female artists have secured the top two spaces
May 12: The #PatienceChallenge takes over social media
May 16: 118-year old JC Penney files for bankruptcy
May 16: Nelly gets clowned for his poor Internet connection during Verzuz with Ludacris
May 17: Michael Jordanâs autographed Air Nike 1s from 1985 sell for a record $560,000 in an online auction
May 18: Donald Trump confirms he is taking controversial drug hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19
May 19: Study published that greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 by âNature Climate Changeâ
May 21: John Kransinski sells âSome Good Newsâ to ViacomCBS
May 21: Crayola launched a box of crayons (âColors of the World) with diverse skin colors for children to “accurately color themselves into the world”
May 22: A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into houses in Karachi killing 97 people. 2 passengers survived.
May 25: Video of George Floydâs arrest and murder surfaces
May 25: Amy Cooper calls cops on black birdwatcher, Christian Cooper
May 26: Costa Rica becomes the first country in Central America to legalize same-sex marriage
May 26: Twitter adds warning labels to warn about inaccuracies in Trumpâs tweets for the first time
May 26: George Floyd Protests start
May 27: Americaâs COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000 (Johns Hopkins figures)
May 27: HBO Max launches
May 28: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz declares State of Emergency in Minneapolis and activates the Minnesota National Guard after protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody
May 29: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calls for new protections for women after the ‘honor killing’ of a 14-year old by her father
May 30: SpaceX launch
May ?: 2020 Graduates graduate online
June
June 1: Peaceful protesters tear-gassed to clear way for Trump to pose for pictures with a bible at St.Johnâs Church
June 2: Dream Streetâs Chris Trousdale dies from coronavirus complications
June 3: 3 former police officers charged in connection with death of George Flloyd in Minneapolis, Derek Chauvinâs charge upgraded to second degree murder
June 3: Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people â does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.”
June 4: Memorial for George Floyd led by Rev. Al Sharpton, as 10th night of protests held around the country
June 6: The new Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington
June 6: J.K. Rowling tweets controversial transgender-comments
June 7: Protestors in Bristol, england throw a statue of Edward Colson in the River Avon
Voting delays in Georgia
June 7: US National Guard pulled out of Washington D.C. and curfew ends in New York as anti-racism protests stay largely peaceful
June 8: Former astronaut Kathy Sullivan is the first woman to reach the deepest point of the ocean – Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench. Formerly the first American woman to spacewalk.
June 8: The New York State Assembly votes to pass a bill to make it a hate crime when 911 callers make a false accusation based on race, gender, or religion
June 12: After casting 40 seasons of âThe Bachelorâ and âThe Bachelorette,â ABC finally cast its first Black male lead, Matt James.
June 12: Rayshard Brooks shot dead in Wendyâs drive-through carpark in Atlanta leading to further protests at police violence and the resignation of city’s police chief
June 13: Wendys up in flames in response to Rayshard Brooks killing
June 15: The US Supreme Court ruled that federal civil-rights law protects gay, lesbian and transgender workers
June 16: At least 20 Indian soldiers killed in 1st deadly clash on the Chinese Indian border in 45 years in the Galwan Valley, Himalayas
June 17: Former police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta charged with murder and aggravated assault
June 17: Actor Danny Masterson charged with raping three women
June 18: In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administrationâs attempt to end DACA
June 18: A couple draws guns on people who were protesting against St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson
June 18: Actress Raven-SymoneĂŠ marries Miranda Maday
June 19: BeyoncĂŠ surprise single âBlack Paradeâ on Juneteenth
June 20: Trump holds first rally in Tulsa where only 6,200 showed up. Social media campaigns claim responsibility for wildly inflating the expected attendance
June 21: Door pull shaped like a noose found Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway in the garage stall assigned to Bubba Wallace.
June 22: 39 NASCAR drivers show support by rallying around around Bubba Wallace
June 23: A petition to rename Columbus, Ohio âFlavortownâ in honor of native Guy Fieri racks up over 54,000 signatures out its 75,00 goal after only two weeks
June 25: âThe Dixie Chicksâ change their name to âThe Chicksâ to remove connotations of Confederate history, two weeks after band âLady Antebellumâ changed their name to âLady Aâ
June 25: NASA names its Washington, D.C. headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, its first Black female engineer
June 27: Locust invasion labelled âSwarmageddonâ by the Times of India as it reaches Delhi
June 27: Shane Dawson gets cancelled over resurfaced video with Willow Smith poster
June 28: 20th anniversary of 1st Gay Pride march in NYC marked around the world
June 28: BeyoncĂŠ surprises fans with trailer for Disney+ visual album âBlack is Kingâ
June 29: Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional
June 29: Golden State killer and former police officer Joseph DeAngelo Jr pleads guilty to 12 murders and dozens of rapes
June 30: Lionel Messi scores his 700th career goal
June 30: Gov. Tate Reeves signs a bill to retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem
June 30: August Alsina reveals past relationship with Jada Pinkett Smith on Angela Yee interview
July
July 1: Putin wins national referendum allowing longer presidential terms of office
July 1: More than 500 companies join Facebook ad boycott âstop hate for profitâ
July 2: Zuckerberg: Advertisers will be back to Facebook âsoon enoughâ
July 2: Ghislaine Maxwell arrested
July 5: Nick Cordero, Canadian Broadway actor, dies of COVID-19 complications at 41
July 6: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes agrees to the largest contract for an athlete in sports history, inking a 12-year deal that could end up being worth US$503 million
July 6: America officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization
July 6: Manhattan DA announces that Amy Cooper has been charged with filing a false police report
July 7: U.S. considers ban on TikTok
July 7: Sleeping Giants has tracked more than 1,000 companies that have paused advertising on Facebook, including Unilever, Verizon, Starbucks, and Coca-Cola.
July 8:Â US government issues directive that more than 1 million international students will be stripped of their visas if their courses entirely online
July 8: American actress and singer Naya Rivera drowns at 33. Saves her son
July 8: Kanye West reveals he is running for president in Forbes interview
July 10: Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith addressing August Alsina
July 10: Trump commutes sentence of Roger Stone on 7 felony crimes
July 11: Tory Lanez allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion
July 13: 4 charged in murder of Pop Smoke
July 13: Tamera Mowry-Housley reveals she will be leaving âThe Realâ daytime talk show after 7 years
July 13: Caludia Conway, Kellyanne Conway’s Daughter, tweets that her parents are âforcingâ her to delete social media after becoming an Anti-Trump TikTok Star
July 14: Nick Cannon let go by ViacomCBS over anti-Semitic comments
July 14: Trump holds bizarre news conference in Rose Garden
July 17: Nick Cannon posts troubling tweets following massive backlash
July 17: August Alsina releases a new song called âEntanglementsâ
July 17: Civil Rights Legend Rep. John Lewis passes away at the age of 80
July 17: The Chicks (formerly Dixie Chicks) return after 14 years with âGaslighterâ
July 18: Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abishek are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mumbai
July 19: World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacherâs record of wins at a single circuit
July 19: Trump interview with Fox Newâs Chris Wallace
July 19: Son and husband of US District Judge Esther Salas shot in New Brunswick home
July 19: Kanye West holds his first presidential rally in North Charleston, South Carolina
July 20: Nicki Minaj announces she is pregnant
July 20: A michigan judge denies the release of a 15-year-old Black girl who has been jailed since mid-May for not doing her online schoolwork
July 20: Bryshere Gray arrested on domestic abuse charges
July 20: Kanye West claims Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner tried to âlock me upâ in a series of late night tweets
July 20: Suspect (an attorney) in fatal shooting at a New Jersey judgeâs home found dead
July 20: Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first man to score 50 goals in Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League with a double in Juventus’ 2-1 win over Lazio
July 21: Lil Uzi Vert says heâs running for president
July 21: Chicago Mass Shooting
July 22: Kim Kardashian asks for understanding of her husband Kanye West‘s struggles with his bipolar disorder on Instagram
July 23: Demi Lovato announces she is engaged to Max Ehrich
July 23: Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy interviews Trump at the White House
July 23: Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash
July 24: Regis Philibin passes away at age 88
July 24: Taylor Swift drops surprise album âFolkloreâ
July 25: Women in Portland form “Wall of Moms” to protect protesters from federal officers
Wall of vets
July 26: Body of civil rights activist John Lewiscrosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma for the last time (beaten there 55 years ago) with a military honor guard as part of a remembrance ceremony
July 27: Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner become parents
July 31: BeyoncĂŠ drops surprise Disney+ visual album âBlack is Kingâ
July 31: Rihannaâs Fenty Skin launches
August
Aug 1: Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens, after Musk tweets in support of a conspiracy theory that they did
Aug 2: SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Doug Harley and Bob Behnken splashed down in the Gulf of Mexia, 1st commercial crewed mission
Aug 2: Islamic State stages a jail break at a prison in Afghan city of Jalalabad, placing bombs at its entrance, results in 20 hr gunfight, 29 deaths and over 300 prisoners at large
Aug 3: Spain’s former King Juan Carlos announces he will go into exile abroad amid his implication in a corruption inquiry
Aug 3: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in the US as a Category 1 hurricane near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
Aug 4: Huge explosions at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, kill more than 200 and leaves over 6,000 thousand people injured
Aug 7: Cardi B drops WAP music video with Megan Thee Stallion, featuring cameos from Kylie Kenner, RosalĂa, Normani, and more
Aug 8: Music mogul Simon Cowell breaks his back riding an electric bike
Aug 11: US Democratic candidate for President Joe Biden announces California Senator Kamala Harris is his running mate, the 1st woman of color selected by a major party
Aug 11: President Vladimir Putin in a propaganda stunt announces Russia has become the 1st country to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine, called âSputnik V”, despite no scientific data being published or phase 3 trials having even begun
Aug 12: Yemen authorities say at least 172 people died in floods caused by torrential rains, which have also destroyed historic buildings in Sanaa, a Unesco World Heritage Site
Aug 13: Israel strikes historic deal with the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations, Israel suspends plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank
Aug 16: Largest-ever demonstration in Belarus as 100,000 people gather in Minsk to protest against controversial election results and regime of Alexander Lukashenko
Aug 16: Biggest protests in Thailand in six years as 10,000 people demonstrate in Bangkok for reforms of the government and the monarchy
Aug 17: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 1st US college to send students home and convert to online classes after 135 COVID-19 cases detected
Aug 17: Kanye proposes âJesus Tokâ after feeling âdisturbedâ by TikTok
Aug 18: Joe Biden is formally nominated as the Democratic party’s presidential candidate during the second night of their 1st ever virtual DNC
Aug 18: California Governor Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency as 27 fires burn across the state amid a continuing heat wave
Aug 18: Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar KeĂŻta resigns amid a military coup condemned by the UN Security Council
Aug 19: Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation
Aug 19: US Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he will suspend controversial plan to cut costs until after the election
Aug 19: Apple becomes the 1st US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached $1 trillion valuation
Aug 19:Â Bella Thorne joins OnlyFans and makes $1 million in her first day
Aug 20: Former adviser to Donald Trump Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on Mexican border
Aug 20: On night 3 of DNC, Kamala Harris accepts her nomination for vice-president, becoming the 1st US woman of color on a major-party ticket saying “there is no vaccine for racism”
Aug 21: Lori Loughlin has been sentenced to 2 months in prison over the college-admissions scandal. Her husband got a 5-month sentence.
Aug 21: BTS’s release new single Dynamite, becomes 1st video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube
Aug 21: “Golden State Killer” Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. sentenced to 26 life terms
Aug 22: Fires burning in Northern California declared Major Disaster with LNU Lightning Complex Fire (341,243 acres) and SCU Lightning Complex Fire (339,968) among the 3 largest wildfires in state history
Aug 22: Melanie Trump reveals renovated Kennedy-era White House Rose Garden
Aug 23: US RNC begins by formally re-nominating Donald Trump for a second presidential term
Aug 23: President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway announces she is stepping away from the White House for family reasons
Aug 23: US African-American man Jacob Blake shot seven times and injured by police in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin, prompting violent protests
Aug 24: First documented case of a person being re-infected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection
Aug 25: Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito no-hits the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field
Aug 25: WHO announces that Africa has eradicated polio
Aug 25: Melania Trump delivers RNC speech in Rose Garden
Aug 25: Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year old from Illinois, shoots three protestors during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Aug 26: Milwaukee Bucks forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake, leading to the NBA postponing more games
Aug 27: Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant sentenced to life without parole, for the killing of 51 mosque worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1st time the country imposes the sentence
Aug 27: Mike Pence accepts nomination for vice president at RNC, calling for “law and order” after the shooting of Jacob Blake
Aug 28: OnlyFans introduces new caps on tips and pay-per-view content
Aug 28: Chadwick Boseman, American actor (Black Panther), dies of colon cancer at 42
Aug 29: Elon Musk unveils pig named Gertrude with coin-sized computer in her brain, part of his Nuralink start-up creating a brain-to-machine interfaceÂ
Aug 31: Singer Akon lays first stone for Akon city, futuristic solar-powered city to be built in Senegal, saying will be real-life version of Wakanda in “Black Panther”
Aug 31: California passes a law classifies Calling 911 to harass or otherwise violate the rights of a person based only on their race as a hate crime that could lead to jail time and a fine
Aug 31: Brandy and Monica address beef in Verzuz battle
September
Sept 1: BTS becomes the 1st all-Korean pop act to top the Billboard 100 singles chart with âDynamiteâ
Sept 1: Rare protests in Mongolia against moves to teach school subjects in Mandarin instead of Mongolian
Sept 1: Trump visits the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake was shot, to offer support to law enforcement
Sept 2: Australia officially enters recession for the first time in almost 3 decades
Sept 2: Press conference with body camera evidence brings to light death of African American Daniel Prude after being retrained by police back in March
Sept 3: MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist and ex-wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, becomes world’s richest woman worth $68 billion
Sept 3: Actor Robert Pattinson tests positive for COVID-19, shutting down production of the Batman film he is shooting
Sept 3: More healthcare workers have died of COVID-19 in Mexico than any other country according to Amnesty International
Sept 4: Record 53% of American 18-29 year-olds are living with their parents because of the pandemic according to Pew Research Center study
Sept 5: More than 50 arrested as Portland, Oregon, marks 100 days of protest against racism and police brutality
Sept 6: Strain of Bacteria nicknamed âConan the Bacteriumâ survives three years attached to the International Space Station in open space
Sept 6: World #1 tennis player Novak ÄokoviÄ is sensationally disqualified in 4th round of US Open after hitting a ball in frustration, striking a line judge; trailed Pablo CarreĂąo Busta 5-6 in 1st set
Sept 6: 100,000 people demonstrate in Minsk against Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (Dictator and 1st President of Belarus), amid month-long protests against his re-election
Sept 6: Los Angeles County reports its highest-ever temperature of 121F (49.4C)
Sept 7: India overtakes Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million
Sept 7: Wildfires have burnt a record 2 million acres in California 2020 fire season, more than the state of Delaware according to Cal Fire
Sept 8: Travis Scott has launched his own McDonald’s meal deal, becoming the first celebrity since 1992 to appear on the fast food chain’s menu.
Sept 9: Donal Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage”
Sept 9: Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 900,000 with the US the most deaths at 190,589
Sept 9: San Francisco Bay area blanketed by dark orange skies and smoke due to California wildfires
Sept 10: Wildfires in Oregon cause 500,00 people to evacuate, 10% of the population with unprecedented 900,000 acres burnt
Sept 10: Californiaâs August Complex wildfire becomes largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)
Sept 12: US Open Women’s Tennis: Naomi Osaka of Japan wins her second US title; beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
Sept 12: Cameraâs caught Osaka’s boyfriend, rapper Cordae, jumping out of his seat to pump his fist and pound his chest in celebration after Naomi clinches victory
Sept 13: Chicago Cubs pitcher Alec Mills no-hits the Milwaukee Brewers, 12-0
Sept 14: Astronomers report possible sign of life on Venus, after detecting phosphine in planetsâs atmosphere by telescope
Sept 14: Israel becomes the 1st country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
Sept 14: WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417
Sept 15: Scientific American issues its 1st ever presidential endorsement in 175 years by backing Joe Biden
Sept 15: Family of Breonna Taylor announce $12 million wrongful death settlement with city of Louisville, Kentucky, after her death in botched police raid March 13
Sept 16: Whistleblower reveals federal officials stockpiled ammo and sought âheat rayâ to use against D.C. protesters in June
Sept 17: Rick Fox tells users on Twitter that Kanye West wanted him to tell users that Kanye has been kicked off Twitter for 12 hours
Sept 17: Barbados announces its intention to remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state and become a republic
Sept 18: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies of pancreatic cancer at 87
Sept 18: Paris Hilton reveals how her âreal voiceâ sounds: âIâve been playing a character this entire time. Iâm not a dumb blondeâ
Sept 19: US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away
Sept 20: FinCEN files leaked – over 2,000 mostly âsuspicious activity reportsâ to the US government showing banks allowed money laundering with $2 trillion 2000-17
Sept 20: TikTok Ban Canceled as Trump Gives New Oracle & Walmart Deal His Blessing
Sept 20: The 72nd Emmy Awards held virtually: âSuccessionâ best drama, âSchitts Creekâ wins record nine awards for comedy, âWatchmanâ best limited series
Sept 20: Zendaya wins Emmy for Best Actress for her role in âEuphoriaâ, becoming the youngest woman to ever win Emmy for best lead actress in a drama
Sept 22: Americanâs COVID-19 death toll passes 200,000, more than any other country
Sept 22: PM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a âperilous turning pointâ in the pandemic as he announces new restrictions
Sept 22: President Xi Jinping of China pledges at the UN that the country will adopt stronger climate targets including becoming carbon neutral by 2060
Sept 23: Alexander Lukashenko sworn in for sixth term as President of Belarus in a secret ceremony, amid continued widespread protests against his re-election
Sept 23: Kentucky grand jury indicts only one of three officers for wanton engagement for shooting unarmed Breonna Taylor in Louisville
Sept 23: President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference
Sept 24: President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sept 24: Report China is continuing to expand its Uighur detention centers
Sept 24: David Attenborough breaks Jennifer Anistonâs record as the fastest person to reach one million followers on Instagram
Sept 24: Demi Lovato ends engagement to Max Ehrich
Sept 25: Nathan Apodaca, also known as the “Ocean Spray” guy goes viral after posting a TikTok of him skateboarding with Ocean Spray cranberry juice while listening to Fleetwood Macâs hit song âDreamsâ
Sept 25: Singapore announces it will be the first country in the world to use facial verification as part of its national identity scheme
Sept 25: 18 people in a government convoy killed by Islamist militants in Borno State, Nigeria
Sept 25: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the 1st woman to lie in state in the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Sept 27: New York times releases Donald Trumpâs tax returns that shows he paid $750 in income tax (2016 & 2017) revealing âchronic losses and years of tax avoidanceâ
Sept 27: Border fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan forces over disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh kills at least 23
Sept 27: Houstin officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy
Sept 28: COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
Sept 29: Scientist confirm the existence of three new underground lakes on Mars
Sept 29: First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden held, widely criticized as chocatic and ill-tempered
Sept 29: Donald Trump shouts out Proud boys – âProud Boys, stand back and stand byâ
Sep 30: Nicki Minaj gives birth to her first child
Sept 30: Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases
Sept 30: California becomes the 1st US State to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves
Sept 30: Chrissy Teigen shares news of loss of baby in heartbreaking Instagram post
October
Oct 1: Irish Supreme Court rules that Subway âbreadâ isnât bread
Oct 1: US White House aide Hope Hicks tests positive for COVID-19
Oct 1: 102-year-old woman, CTU retiree Bea Lumpkin, gears up to cast her vote-by-mail ballot safely during COVID-19
Oct 2: Donald Trump tweets that he and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. He was hospitalized later that day
Oct 2: Jim Carrey introduced as Joe Biden and Maya Rudolph as Kamala Harris in SNL Season 45 premiere promo
Oct 4: Trump takes short drive in motorcade to wave to supporters. Decision comes under scrutiny from medical experts
Oct 5: Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and returns to the White House
Oct 5: At least 14m tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface according to new research
Oct 5: India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
Oct 5: WHO estimates 10% of worldâs population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
Oct 6: Eddie Van Halen dies of throat cancer at 65
Oct 6: Johnny Mash (I Can See Clearly now) dies at 80
Oct 6: St. Louis couple indicted by grand jury for waving guns at protesters
Oct 7: Kamala Harris says âMr Vice President, Iâm speakingâ to interrupting Pence during Vice-Presidential Debate
Oct 7: A fly lands on Mike Penceâs head during Vice-Presidential Debate
Oct 8: FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol
Oct 9: Trump goes through a âmedical evaluationâ from Dr. Marc Siegel on Fox Newâs Tucker Carlson tonight
Oct 10: 11 people who were at the White House event where Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee tested positive for COVID-19, known as the âsuperspreader eventâ
Oct 11: Rafael Nadal beats Novak ÄokoviÄ in French Open
Oct 11: India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19
Oct 11: LA Lakers beat Miami Heat in Game 6 to win record equalling 17th title; MVP Lebron James first to win the award with 3 different teams
Oct 11: Formula 1 Driver Lewis Hamilton wins Eifel Grand Prix
Oct 12: China announces it will test entire city of Qingdao, 9 million people, for COVID-19 within five days after a dozen cases discovered
Oct 12: PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge
Oct 13: Conchata Farrell, Berta from Two and a Half Men, dies at 77
Oct 14: French president Emmanuel Macron announces a public health emergency and a curfew of 9 pm for nine cities due to surge in COVID-19 cases
Oct 15: Thai government issues emergency decree banning public gatherings amind increasing pro-democracy protests and criticism of the king
Oct 17: Labour Party headed by Jacinda Ardern re-elected in a landslide in new Zealandâs general election
Oct 17: Chicago declared the ârattiest cityâ in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service orkin
Oct 17: QAnon supports believe that JFK is alive and at a rally in Dallas he will be announced as Trumpâs running mate replacing Mike Pence
Oct 19: US charges six Russian military officers with massive cyber-attack meant to disrupt 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2017 French Presidential election, and Ukraineâs power grid
Oct 19: Irish government moves country to highest level of COVID-19 restrictions amid rising cases
Oct 20: Vietnam suffers its worst floods in decades with over 100 people killed according to the Red Cross
Oct 20: Argentina becomes the fifth country in the world to record over 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases with the death toll at 26,716
Oct 20: Nigerian police open fire on protesters in Lagos amin escalating protests against police violence around the country #endSARs
Oct 20: US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising
Oct 21: Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions in interview in documentary film âFrancescoâ
Oct 21: Spain becomes the first European country to record more than 1 million COVID-19 cases with the death toll at 34,366
Oct 21: Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union
Oct 21: FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information and are trying to influence outcome of US election
Oct 21: Quibi announces is shutting down about 6 months after launch
Oct 23: First US National Womenâs Rights convention opens in Brinley Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts
Oct 24: Deadliest shipwreck of the year claims 140 lives on a ship that sank with 200 migrants on board off the coast of Senegal
Oct 24: Colombia records more than 1 million cases of COVID-19, the 8th globally and 3rd in Latin America
Oct 25: Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton wins Portuguese Grand Pix
Oct 25: Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet
Oct 25: Pope Francis announces appointment of 13 new cardinals including 1st African American Wilton Daniel Gregory
Oct 25: Senate Democrats hold talkathon to protest Barretâs Supreme Court nomination
Oct 26: Police officers in Philadelphia shoot and kill African-American man Walter Wallace Jr. armed with a knife, prompting protests and the city to impose a curfew
Oct 26: Melbourne officials announce end to their three-month lockdown as city records no new cases of COVID-19 for 1st time since June
Oct 26: Pakistanâs first metro line, the Orange Line, opens in Lahore
Oct 26: A baby is born from an embryo frozen more than 27 years ago, setting a new known record for the longest-frozen embryo to ever come to birth
Oct 26: NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought, in sunlit as well as shadowed regions
Oct 26: Silverado wildfire breaks out in Orange County, California forcing 60,000 people to evacuate
Oct 26: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will become carbon neutral by 2050
Oct 27: US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative majority
Oct 27: Leader of the Nxivm sex cult Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex traffickimg, racketeering, fraud and other crimes
Oct 27: A record 69.5 million Americans have already voted, a week before election day. 50.4% of 2016 total vote
Oct 27: LA Dodgers beat Tampa Bay Rays in World Series, win first title in 32 years
Oct 27: WHO confirms Europe is in the midst of a 2nd COVID-19 wave with cases rising rapidly
Oct 28: French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will enter a new 4-week lockdown October 30 in a televised address
Oct 28: New coral reef taller than the Empire State Building discovered north of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Oct 27: Global COVID-19 cases record one-day increase of more than 500,000 for the first time
Oct 28: Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in the US near Cocodrie, Louisiana, as category 2 storm
Oct 28: Typhoon Molave strikes Vietnam triggering heavy rain and landslides, leaving more than 60 people dead
Oct 28: Tanzania reelects President John Magufuli, with opposition parties calling the vote fraudulent
Oct 29: India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527
Oct 29: Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in a terrorist attack, after simular attack and President Macronâs defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
Oct 30: PM Boris Johnson announces a second gour-week lockdown for England
Oct 30: New DNA study of dogs suggests they were humanâs first domesticated animal, 11,000 years ago at the end of the Bronze Age
Oct 31: Sean Connery dies at 90
November
Nov 2: Johnny Depp loses libel case against UK newspaper, âThe Sunâ. which called him a âwife-beaterâ, said he assaulted wife Amber Heard
Nov 2: Baby Shark by Pinkfong becomes the most-watched video on Youtube with over 7.04 billion views
Nov 3: Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category Four storm killing at least 235 people across Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Panama
Nov 3: Trump gets upset over Fox News calling Arizona for Biden
Nov 4: A crowd of Donald Trump supporters, some armed with rifles and handguns, gathered outside an election center in Maricopa County, Arizona
Nov 5: Trump delivers speech alleging that unnamed opponents of his are “trying to steal an election” and “trying to rig an election.”
Nov 6: Rapper King Von (age 26) shot and killed in Atlanta
Nov 6: Stacey Abrams celebrated as Georgia turns blue
Nov 7: Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election
Nov 7: Kamala Harris makes US history as the 1st woman and 1st woman of color to be elected to the vice presidency
Nov 7: Biden and Harris deliver victory speeches in Delaware
Nov 8: Global recorded cases of COVID-19 passes 50 million, with the known death toll at 1,245,240 (Johns Hopkins data)
Nov 8: First test of a high-speed levitating pod system to carry people and cargo by Richard Bransonâs Virgin Hyperloop in Las Vegas, Nevada
Nov 8: Rudy Guiliani holds infamous Campaign press conference at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to contest the US election results
Nov 8: Alex Trebek dies of cancer at 80
Nov 9: US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000
Nov 9: Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
Nov 9: Peruâs Congress votes to impeach and oust President MartĂn Vizcarra on corruption charges
Nov 9: 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Thetha named record 29th storm
Nov 9: US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigations into voter fraud for the US elections
Nov 10: Word of the year is âLockdownâ according to Collins English Dictionary
Nov 10: Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
Nov 11: UK becomes the first European country to record over 500,000 deaths, fifth country after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico
Nov 11: All Hong Kongâs pro-democracy lawmakers resign after China passes resolution allowing for removal of four of their colleagues
Nov 13: British strategist and chief advisor to PM Dominic Cummings is let go by Boris Johnson
Nov 13: Harry Styles becomes the first-ever solo male cover star for US Vogue
Nov 13: Kylie Minogue becomes the first woman to top the UK album chart over five consecutive decades with âDiscoâ
Nov 14: Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 cases declared by the WHO, with total known infections over 54 million
Nov 15: American Dustin Johnson wins 84th US Masters and his first Masters title
Nov 15: Formula 1 Driver Lewis Hamilton 7th F1 World Drivers Câship
Nov 15: Trump tweets that Biden âwon because the elections was rigged,â while still refusing to concede the election
Nov 15: Treaty establishing worldâs largest trading bloc between 15 Asian Pacific countries signed at virtual ASEAN meeting
Nov 15: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches first regular flight to International Space Station with four astronauts, three from NASA, one Japanese
Nov 15: The term âJadaDrunkâ becomes its own brand after the Jadakiss vs. Fabolous Verzuz battle
Nov 16: US drugmaker Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective in early data
Nov 16: Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
Nov 16: Peruâs Congress votes in its third interim President in a week, Francisco Sagasti after violent protests
Nov 17:Â Angelina Friedman, a 102-year-old woman who survived the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and beat cancer overcomes COVID-19 twice
Nov 17: Rudy Giulani makes his first appearance in federal court in nearly three decades to make the case that Trump has been robbed of reelection – struggles and talks of disbarment star
Nov 18: Thailandâs parliament agrees to reforms, but not to the monarchy, after massive public protests were met by tear gas and water canons
Nov 18: Michael B. Jordan named âSexiest Man Aliveâ by People Magazine
Nov 18: Tory Lanez pleads not guilty in Megan Thee Stallion shooting
Nov 18: US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
Nov 18: LaMelo Ball And Lonzo Ball Become First Brothers To Be Picked In Top 5 of NBA Draft
Nov 19: Rudy Giulani is seen with streaks of black trickling down his face during a press conference
Nov 19: Inquiry finds âcredible evidenceâ that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan civilians
Nov 20: Fauci says Santa Claus has âinnate immunityâ from COVID-19
Nov 20: Kyle Rittenhouse released from jail after posting $2 million bail – 80âs TV sitcom star Ricky Schroder among those who helped
Nov 21: Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso Country deal with morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge
Nov 22: G20 virtual two-day summit ends with pledge to ensure affordable access to vaccines for all
Nov 23: AstraZeneca is the third drugmaker to report an effective vaccine for COVID-19 and easy-to make and distribute
Nov 23: Charli DâAmelio becomes the first person to hit 100 million followers on TikTok
Nov 23: President-elect Joe Biden introduces his new cabinet including Alejandro Mayorkas 1st Latino head of homeland security and Avril Haines 1st female director of national intelligence
Nov 24: Scotlandâs parliament votes to become the first country to make period products free
Nov 24: Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 30,000 points for the first time after formal transition to Joe Biden Administration begins
Nov 24: US General Services Administration official begins Bidenâs transition, declaring him the âapparent winnerâ although Trump vows to continue challenging the result
Nov 24: COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200, highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day
Nov 25: Trump pardons former security advisor Michael Flynn who was found guilty of lying to the FBI
Nov 25: The New York Times names its â25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (so far)â with Denzel Washington at No.1
Nov 25: Football legend Diego Maradona dies from a heart attack at 60
Nov 26: Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
Nov 27: Iranâs most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated outside Tehran escalating tensions in region
Nov 28: Thousands of farmers begin entering Delhi to protest proposed agriculture reforms
Nov 29: Biden and Harris announce the first all-female Communications team for the White House
Nov 30: Los Angeles County begins three-week stay at home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge
Nov 30: Australia condemns doctored photo of Australian soldier threatening Afghan child with knife on Chinese officialâs Twitter, marking new low in the two countries relationship
Nov 30: Joe Biden announces he is nominated Janet Yallen for US treasury secretary
Nov 30: Newly discovered rock art found in the SerranĂa La Lindose, Colombian Amazon, dated 12,600 and 11,800 years ago with thousands of paintings of now extinct Ice Age animals
December
Dec 1: Chinese robotic spacecraft Changâe-5 lands on the Moon as part of two-day mission to retrieve rock samples
Dec 1: Actor Elliot Page, formerly known as Ellen Page, reveals he is transgender
Dec 1: Spotifyâs most streamed artist of 2020 is Bad Bunny. Its most streamed song âBlinding Lightsâ by The Weeknd
Dec 1: Sasha Obama trends for a TikTok video to Popp Hunnaâs âAdderall (Corvette Corvette)
Dec 1: Major Lee Wooten beats COVID-19 at 103 years old
Dec 2: US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in 2020 presidential election despite claims by Trump
Dec 2: The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19 – the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Dec 2: US records its largest daily death toll for COVID-19 at 2,885 and for the first time patient numbers in hospitals exceed 100,000
Dec 3: âI actually believe theyâre going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nationâ warns Dr. Robert Redfield, head of US CDC about the months ahead with COVID-19
Dec 3: Warner Bros studio announces all its 2021 movies will stream online the same day they appear in theatres because of the pandemic
Dec 5: Russia begins vaccinating people with its Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow, despite the vaccine not finishing clinical trials
Dec 6: Japanese space capsule Hayabusa-2 lands safely back on earth in Australia, carrying first significant rock samples form an asteroid, the Ryugu
Dec 6: Trump orders about 700 troops withdrawn from Somalia
Dec 7: The competitive form of breakdancing confirmed as an Olympic sport for the Paris 2024 games
Dec 7: Coca-Cola named the worldâs No. 1 plastic polluter in Break Free From Plasticâs annual brand audit
Dec 7: Most of California begins second lockdown as hospitals come under strain and the state records average of 21,000 COVID-19 cases a day
Dec 7: Australian states celebrate âFreedom Dayâ easing COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria and New South Wales
Dec 7: Exxon quietly shelved one of its most ambitious carbon-capture projects, a technology essential to reversing climate change
Dec 7: Texas files lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states
Dec 8: The UK begins vaccinating for COVID–19 using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Dec 9: United Arab Emirates is the first country to authorize Chinaâs Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 saying it is 86% effective
Dec 9: Canada approves the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19
Dec 9: Starbucks names finance executive Mellody Hobson to lead its board as chair, making her one of the highest-profile Black directors in corporate America
Dec 10: Jerry Harris, star of Netflixâs Cheer faces seven new counts
Dec 11: US FDA authorizes Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for emergency distribution
Dec 11: European Union leaders agree to cut net carbon emissions by 55% in the next decade
Dec 11: Blue Ivy Carter becomes a Grammy-nominated artist
Dec 11: FKA twigz sues Shia LaBeouf citing abusive relationship
Dec 11: U.S. Supreme Court throws out Texas lawsuit contesting 2020 election results in four battleground states
Dec 11: Taylor Swift drops 2nd surprise album of the year âEvermoreâ
Dec 11: Gunmen storm a school in kankara, Katsina state, northern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 300 students (Boko Haram later claims responsibility)
Dec 11: Chinese leader Xi-Jinping says the country will reduce its carbon intensity by 65% by 2030
Dec 12: UN Chief Antonio Guterres urges worldâs leaders to declare âclimate emergencyâ to avoid catastrophic global warming on the 5th anniversary of Paris Climate Accord
Dec 12: The WSJ published an opinion piece by writer and essayist Joseph Epstein suggesting Dr. Jill Biden stop using the ‘Dr.’ title
Dec 12: Protesters, anti-protesters and police clash as pro-Trump rallies take place in Washington, DC – including Alex Jones and Michael Flynn – 4 people stabbed
Dec 12: Ashanti says she has tested positive for COVID-19 just hours before Verzuz battle with Keyshia Cole – battle canceled
Dec 12: First woman detained under India’s controversial Love Jihad laws âforced into miscarriageâ
Dec 13: Germany announces a strict lockdown till Jan 10 after looser restrictions failed to prevent COVID-19 numbers surging
Dec 13: initial breach of Russian hacks into computer systems at multiple U.S. agencies reported
Dec 13: Bella Thorne gets slammed by Twitter users for claiming she took “heat” for joining OnlyFans “first” before other celebrities began to join
Dec 13: Sasha Obama trends on social media again after âHot Girlâ pictures go viral
Dec 14: Trump announces that Attorney General William Barr will step down from his post
Dec 14: Little Mix announce Jesy Nelson is leaving the group
Dec 14: Total solar eclipse visible across southern Chile and Argentina
Dec 15: Audio leaks of Tom Cruise furiously shouting at crew on the British set of Mission: Impossible 7 for breaking COVID-19 protocols – five crew members quit after
Dec 15: MacKenzie Scott announces she has given away more than $4 billion to 284 non profit organizations across the US
Dec 16: China clocks imports of coal, from Australia, the worldâs second biggest market for the worldâs biggest coal exporter
Dec 16: 14 people found guilty of 2015 terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo office and supermarket in Paris
Dec 16: Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death
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Dec 17: Vanessa Bryant claims her mom is trying to extort her with “disgraceful” lawsuit
Dec 18: US Vice President Mike Pence publicly receives Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine
Dec 18: FDA approves Modernaâs COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the US
Dec 18: Mike Pence announces that members of the Space Force will be called âGuardiansâ
Dec 19: Tiger and his son, Charlie Woods, play in the first round of the 2020 PNC Championship
Dec 20: Ariana Grande engaged to boyfriend Dalton Gomez
Dec 20: Deal reached on approximately $900 billion economic relief package which includes $600 in stimulus checks #LetThemEatCake
Dec 21: A new COVID-19 strain in the UK appears to spread faster, prompting panic and a wave of border closures
Dec 21: Twitter talks about how African Americans will gain superpowers today when Saturn and Jupiter align and be closest to the Earth they have been for hundreds of years
Dec 21: U.S. Congress passes COVID-19 stimulus package in a 92-6 vote
Dec 21: People get angered by Republicans who downplayed COVID-19 getting the vaccine
Dec 21: Comedian John Mulaney checks into rehab
Dec 21: Diddy gives his mom a $1 million dollar check for her 80th birthday
Dec 22: Trump announces pardons for 15 people including former GOP lawmakers and four Blackwater guards involved in Iraq killings
Dec 22: Trumpâs longtime Deutsche Bank private banker abruptly resigns
Dec 22: Coming 2 America official trailer drops
Dec 22: Trump says would not sign the proposed relief package and called on Congress to increase direct payments from $600 to $2,000 for adults earning up to $75,000 yearly
Dec 22: Lakersâ championship ring ceremony – ring includes tribute to Kobe Bryant
Dec 23: Video shows Rajon Rondoâs girlfriend punch woman behind $1 Million Lawsuit in face
Dec 23: Meghan Marklet and Prince Harry share first American Christmas card
Dec 23: Trump announces 26 new pardons including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Charles Kushner
Dec 25: Three injured after ‘intentional’ explosion in Nashville, Christmas morning
Dec 28: Lori Loughlin released from prison after serving two months for college admissions scandal
Dec 28: US judge denies bail to longtime Jeffrey Epstein companion Ghislaine Maxwell
Dec 28: Video goes viral of a man smacking another man in the head with a can of Twisted Tea because he hurled racial epithets
Dec 28: VP Pence has been sued by Rep. Louie Gohmert and other House Republicans in an attempt to grant the vice president the exclusive authority to decide which EC votes count at Congressional certification
Dec 29: Aly & AJ drop an explicit version of Potential Breakup Song
Dec 29: Two Louisville police officers involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor have reportedly received termination letters
Dec 29: First known U.S. case of COVID-19 variant that considered to be more transmissible is detected in Colorado
Dec 29: McConnell blocks Senate Democratsâ initial attempt to approve stimulus checks amid growing pressure on GOP to act
Dec 29: House musters enough votes to reject Trumpâs veto of defense bill, setting up first override of his presidency
Dec 30: Sen. Hawley (R. Mo) announces he will object to certification of election results, a move that will ensure a delay in Congress cementing Bidenâs victory
Dec 30: Gilliganâs Island star Dawn Wells has died from COVID-19 at age 82
Dec 30: The deadliest serial killer in American history, Samuel Little, dies at 80
Dec 30: Becky Hammon becomes the first woman to serve as head coach in NBA history after coach Gregg Popovich was ejected
Dec 31: FarmVille, which had 32 million daily active users at its peak, shuts down