Facts and Events That Happened in This Year
An animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.
China announced that the Coronavirus had created the country's worst health emergency since 1949.
A polymer note replaced the paper £20 note in the UK.
$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos.
The United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.
US President Donald Trump was acquitted of impeachment charges by the US Senate.
The United Kingdom left the European Union, also known as 'Brexit.'
Coronavirus was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.
The world's largest twin-engine airliner completed its first trip.
One hundred million people were placed in lockdown in Wuhan, China, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
A meteorite that hit Australia 2.2 billion years ago was announced as Earth's oldest recognized meteorite impact structure.
The trial phase of former US President Donald Trump's first impeachment began.
A meteorite that landed in Australia in the 1960s revealed stardust up to 7 billion years old.
Diego, a 100-year-old tortoise, was retired from a breeding program after fathering 800+ children.
Justin Bieber posted on Instagram that he has Lyme disease, a bacterial illness spread by ticks.
