2020 summarized: a thread

January
• threat of world war lll
• first 7 covid cases in the US / 9.9k covid cases in the world
• impeachment trial of president Trump
• Kobe Bryant and his daughter were killed
• Britain left the EU
• major fires in Australia

February
• leap year
• Nancy Pelosi rips up the state of union speech
• President trump acquitted
• mass shooting in Milwaukee
• earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hits Puerto rico
• first American died of covid
• Ahmaud Arbery shot to death

February continued ...
• Biggest cosmic explosion detected 390 million light years away
• Ghost ship cargo was found washed up after drifting from Bermuda
• Major shooting in Thailand
• US astronaut Christina Koch completes the longest spaceflight by a female astronaut

March
• Spring break started and never ended
• Beginning of a lockdown that never really ended
• our lives changed forever
• toilet paper crisis
• olympics were postponed
• March 13th worst day of this year, Trump declares a national emergency

March continued ...
• kaaba was seen almost completely empty for the first time ever
• Prince harry and Meghan stepped down from royalty
• US suspends 2019-2020 NBA season
• christchurch gunman pleaded guilty

April
• cases reach 1 million in us / 3.2 million worldwide
• Mass cemetery made in new york where everyone died was just buried
• people protest against public health and safety (causing more cases)
• 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment

April continued ...
• Canada faces its worst mass shorting
• Videos of possible UFOs are released
• A mile wide asteroid passes within 3.9 million miles of earth
• President Trump claims the virus originated in a Chinese lab

May
• killer hornets spotted in America
• George floyd was murdered by police
• mass protests break out all over the United states
• @SpaceX launches 9 rockets carrying Dragon capsule to the international space station
• UK economy goes into recession

May continued ...
• Militants walked into a hospital in Afghanistan an shot multiple people leaving 40 new mothers and their babies dead
• Cyclone hits east India and Bangladesh
• Pakistani plane crashes on small city near Jinnah Airport

May continued ...
• Twitter adds warning labels about inaccuracy to Trumps tweets
• seniors graduated without graduating

June
• protests sparked by George floyd’s death go world wide
• riots broke out
• Black lives matter was written in front of the white house #BlackLivesMatter
• state of Edward Colston was thrown into a river

June continued
• DACA recipients and their supporters rally outside the white house
• other countries spoke up about the Hong Kong protests
• new outbreak of Ebola confirmed
• #BlackLivesMatter protests continue
• US goes into recession

June continued ...
• Russia declares state of emergency
• world bank says covid will shrink global economy
• 46 migrants recovered off coast of Tunisia
• highest temp ever recorded in Arctic circle 100 F (38 C)
• Dust from Sahara desert reaches the caribbean

June continued ...
• 20 million people in the US are thought to have covid
• Global covid death toll passed 500k

July
• Europe opens boarders to a few countries
• over 1 million covid cases in the middle east
• landslide in Myanmar kills 150+ people
• Hagia Sophia is turned back into a mosque
• Monsoon floods India
• scientists find evidence of volcanoes on Venus

July continued ...
• 4 Million US cases confirmed
• China launches first mission to mars
• Wildfire in California starts forcing 8000+ people to evacuate
• @NASA launches its first perseverance rover to mars

August
•UN says covid has created the biggest educational disturbance in history
• Explosion in Lebanon leaves hundreds of people dead
• 10 million people infected wot covid in 43 days
• Israel and UAE make a deal to normalize relations

August continued ...
• Apple becomes valued at $2 trillion
• Fire in California declared as major disaster
• first case documented of someone getting reinfected with covid
• flash floods destroy hundreds of homes in Afghanistan
• hurricane Laura makes landfall

September
• Australia enters recession
• MacKenzie Scott ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, becomes world's richest woman
• LA records highest temp of 121 F (49.4 C)
• wildfires burn 2 million acres in California
• possible life on Venus reported

September continued ...
• China reported to expand Uigher detention centers with more then 380 facilities #UighurGenocide
• water in houston confirmed to have brain eating amoeba
• underground lakes discovered on mars

October
• Vietnam and Cambodia floods
• Killer clowns are back
• Chicago declared the 'rattiest city' in America
• Vietnam suffers its worst floods in decades
• Nigerian police open fire on protesters

October continued ...
• @NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought
• Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border

November
• Baby Shark becomes the most-watched video on YouTube
• @SpaceX Falcon 9 launches first regular flight to International Space Station with four astronauts
• Global recorded cases of COVID-19 pass 50 million
• Joe Biden becomes president

things still happening :
Uyghur muslims still held captive in concentration camps #UyghurLivesMatter
Yemen is still going through a humanitarian crisis #YemenCantBreathe
#BlackLivesMatter #KashmirisBleeding #syria

feel free to add more or anything I might've missed <3

The situation of India’s minorities only worsened and it is moving further away from democracy
#ReclaimIndia