2020

Facts and Events That Happened in This Year

Dec 11

The US FDA approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.

Dec 7

Coca-Cola was named the world's largest plastic polluter by the charity ''Break Free From Plastic.”

Dec 2

The United Kingdom became the first country to legalize the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.

Dec 1

Puerto Rico's Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.

Nov 29

Joe Biden slipped while playing with his dog, Major, and was left with hairline fractures in his foot.

Nov 23

Charli D'Amelio became the first person to reach 100 million followers on TikTok.

Nov 10

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev established November 10th as Victory Day.

Nov 3

Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.

Sep 25

David Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.

Sep 22

The COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.

Sep 4

China's space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.

Sep 3

MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, became the world's richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.

Aug 31

R&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.

Aug 29

Elon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.

Aug 19

Apple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.

Jul 7

Tourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.

Jul 6

America officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.

Jun 10

Swedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.

Jun 8

Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.

May 30

SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

May 26

A series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

May 17

A pair of Michael Jordan's Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.

May 3

Legendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.

Apr 30

The Queen knighted British Captain Tom Moore on his 100th birthday.

Apr 23

President Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.

Apr 20

The price of a barrel of crude oil dipped below zero.

Apr 19

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.

Apr 18

A gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.

Apr 8

Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for US president.

Apr 6

The first known animal contracted COVID-19.

Apr 5

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19.

Apr 2

COVID-19 claimed the life of comedian Eddie Large from 'Little and Large.'

Apr 1

Shenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.

Mar 27

North Macedonia officially joined NATO, becoming the 30th member of the military alliance.

Mar 25

Charli D'Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.

Mar 20

Tiger King was released on Netflix.

Mar 20

Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizon was released on the Nintendo Switch.

Mar 16

The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.

Mar 13

Bill Gates left the Microsoft board after founding the company four decades prior.

Mar 12

The US announced the suspension of travel from almost all EU nations due to COVID-19.

Mar 11

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of COVID-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.

Mar 11

The United States suspended travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mar 7

A COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.

Mar 4

Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.

Feb 29

Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.

Feb 27

Scientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.

Feb 25

Rihanna received a Guinness World Record for being the most tracked artist on Songkick, with 3,867,117 followers.

Feb 24

An animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.

Feb 23

China announced that the Coronavirus had created the country's worst health emergency since 1949.

Feb 20

A polymer note replaced the paper £20 note in the UK.