Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
The US FDA approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
Coca-Cola was named the world's largest plastic polluter by the charity ''Break Free From Plastic.”
The United Kingdom became the first country to legalize the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.
Puerto Rico's Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.
Joe Biden slipped while playing with his dog, Major, and was left with hairline fractures in his foot.
Charli D'Amelio became the first person to reach 100 million followers on TikTok.
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev established November 10th as Victory Day.
Americans headed to the polls to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the US Presidential Election.
David Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.
The COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.
China's space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.
MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, became the world's richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.
R&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.
Elon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.
Apple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.
Tourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.
America officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.
Pakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.
The guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana's 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.
Swedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
A series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
A pair of Michael Jordan's Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.
Legendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.
The Queen knighted British Captain Tom Moore on his 100th birthday.
President Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.
The price of a barrel of crude oil dipped below zero.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
A gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.
Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race for US president.
The first known animal contracted COVID-19.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was taken to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19.
COVID-19 claimed the life of comedian Eddie Large from 'Little and Large.'
Shenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.
North Macedonia officially joined NATO, becoming the 30th member of the military alliance.
Charli D'Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.
Tiger King was released on Netflix.
Nintendo's Animal Crossing: New Horizon was released on the Nintendo Switch.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
Bill Gates left the Microsoft board after founding the company four decades prior.
The US announced the suspension of travel from almost all EU nations due to COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of COVID-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.
The United States suspended travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.
Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.
Scientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.
Rihanna received a Guinness World Record for being the most tracked artist on Songkick, with 3,867,117 followers.
An animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.
