$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.
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Sweden changed their calendar to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day March 1 instead of February 18.
Oregon became the first US state to pass a minimum wage law.
Polish mountaineers Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy became the first to ascend Mt. Everest in winter.
Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
A stampede at a soccer match killed forty-nine people in Cairo, Egypt.
