Donald Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
Lil Nas X released a children's book called 'C is for Country.'
Lionel Messi broke Pelé's record for the most goals with one soccer club.
Charli D'Amelio became the first person to reach 100 million followers on TikTok.
David Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.
MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, became the world's richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.
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.
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.
Dr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.
A pair of Michael Jordan's Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
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.'
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.
Bill Gates left the Microsoft board after founding the company four decades prior.
Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
Rihanna received a Guinness World Record for being the most tracked artist on Songkick, with 3,867,117 followers.
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.
Justin Bieber posted on Instagram that he has Lyme disease, a bacterial illness spread by ticks.
Jesse initiated the 9to5buzz, a concise online platform providing information on current events in history.
Mariah Carey's single 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' reached number one, 25 years after its release.
North American migratory birds getting smaller, their wings wider due to climate change according to study by University of Michigan published in journal 'Ecology Letters'.
Spotify announced Drake as the most-streamed star of the 2010s with 28 billion streams, and Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You' as the most-streamed track with 2.4 billion streams.
Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
Elon Musk revealed Tesla's first electric cyber truck with shatterproof windows.
The Disney+ streaming service was launched.
Actor Wes Studi received the Governor's Award Oscar for Lifetime Acting Achievement, making him the first Native American to do so.
Lana Del Rey's song 'Video Games' was named song of the decade at the Q Awards in London.
The Netflix movie 'Bird Box' and the TV series 'Stranger Things' was reported to be Netflix's most popular for 2019.
Three thousand five hundred women in Iran were allowed to attend a soccer match for the first time in 40 years.
Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack.
Elon Musk announced that he was building a spaceship called Starship that would travel to Mars and return to Earth.
Actor Billy Porter who played Pray Tell in the American drama 'Pose,' made history after becoming the first openly gay actor to win an Emmy Award.
Personal information of Ecuador's entire population (16.6 million) became available online on an unsecured cloud server in Miami.
Margaret Atwood published 'The Testaments,' a sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale,' which she released 15 years prior.
YouTube was fined $170 million for collecting data on child users.
Jessi Combs broke the female fastest land speed record when her jet-powered vehicle reached a speed of 522.783 mph (841.338 kph).
Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental fund donated $5 million in the battle against Amazon rainforest fires that were devastating the area.
Thousands of anti-government protesters disrupted Hong Kong International Airport.
Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' single reached a new record for the longest time on the Billboard charts after spending 17 weeks at number one.
Meghan Markle became the first-ever guest editor for UK Vogue.
Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' became the most financially successful movie of all time.
Babe Ruth's baseball jersey became the most expensive sports memorabilia when it sold for $5.6 million.
Toy Story 4 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in LA, California.
Simon Pagenaud of France finished the 2016 Indy 500 just two-tenths of a second ahead of Alexander Rossi.
