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Looking Back
HISTORY MAKING-MOMENTS
As we say farewell to 2020, here are just some of the significant events that have taken place over the year.
Australia Wildfires
In 2019, continuing into 2020, fires raged through 47 million acres, killing more than a billion animals and displacing thousands of people, one of the worst fire seasons Australia has faced in history.
Global Pandemic
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Rampant Virus states its claim. Towards the end of February, the coronavirus that started in China raised to its highest risk level by the World Health Organisation.
On Dec 8, the UK gives 1st COVID-19 vaccine doses. A retired British shop clerk was the first to receive the vaccine shot in the United Kingdom. The beginning of an unprecedented global immunisation effort intended to perhaps offer a route out of the pandemic.
USA Politics
Pre-farewell, as he loses the election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump throws around allegations of a corrupt election.
President-elect Joe Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, is the nation’s first Black woman (of Indian descent), Vice President.
Equality and
Diversity
Sexual Harassment allegations as Women fight back. January 16th sees Harvey Weinstein Convicted of rape and sexual assault. Weinstein, convicted on the 11 March, was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Sarah McBride became the nation’s first openly transgender state senator in US history.
Black Lives Matter protests
Demonstrations and riots across the world erupt, bringing back the Black Lives Matter movement's resurgence in demanding an end to police inhumaneness and racial injustice. In August, protests were inflamed when 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop and paralysed from the waist down.
Lebanon - Beirut
explosion
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Beirut's port explosion on August 4 left more than 178 people dead, over 6,500 injured, and 300,000 people homeless. Sources reported the cause of the blast was a vast stockpile of ammonium nitrate fertiliser. The blast devastated an already flagging Lebanese economy and the trustworthiness of its governing elite. Disturbing questions raised behind the massive stockpile and its bizarre storage location created distrust and unrest amongst the people.
China
China cracked down on Hong Kong’s student-led protests by imposing a new security law criminalizing dissent, effectively dismantling the city’s political and cultural identity
Trade War - China and Australia's trade relations hit an all-time low. Australia intends to take China to account, challenge China’s anti-dumping duties on various exports through the World Trade Organization (WTO) Court Appeal.
Media sources suggests China views its relations with South Korea as an intermediary mechanism for handling tactical competition with the United States alongside implying other hidden agendas.
United Kingdom
Politics
Following its 2016 Brexit referendum, On January 31, Britain becomes the first country to leave the European Union.
Brexit deadline imminent as 31 Dec 2020 loomed. Despite his contradictory appeal and the odds, Boris Johnson kept winning. The UK Prime Minister negotiated the European Union Trade Agreement deal just in 'the nick of time'.
Brexit deadline imminent as 31 Dec 2020 loomed. Despite his contradictory appeal and the odds, Boris Johnson kept winning. The UK Prime Minister negotiated the European Union Trade Agreement deal just in 'the nick of time'.
Royals
Prince Harry and Megan Markle quit the royal family.
Heritage Discover
Archaeology the closest thing we have to a time machine
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Archaeologists Discover a Giant Ice Age Structure made of 60 Mammoth Bones
Now the largest and oldest in the archaeological record, dating back approximately 25,000 years.Native Americans May Have Reached Polynesia Long Before Europeans
In July, Genetic evidence points to an epic journey made around 1200 CE, suggesting that indigenous South Americans voyaged to South Pacific islands some 300 years before European colonists' arrival.
Ancient Egyptian Necropolis
Bounty - holding her arms wide open to bear more and continuing not to disappoint, more than 100 Painted Coffins unearthed at Saqqara. On October 3, archaeologists also opened a sealed, roughly 2,600year-old sarcophagus revealing a mummy wrapped in ornate burial linen, more than two millennia after the individual’s burial.Mexico
The Lost Capital of the Ancient Maya Kingdom (A.D. 250 to 900) is discovered at Tabasco by Archaeologists.A milestone in human history, earlier than previously known, Stone Tools and other evidence unearthed in Central Mexico may upend the timeline of early human migration, arrival in North America.
In January, scientists analysed meteorite fragments to discover the oldest solid material ever found on our planet, containing bits of stardust between 5 and 7 billion years old. That's older than our sun, which is about 4.6 billion years old.
SpaceX - Elon Musk
SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station in November, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately-owned spacecraft.
50th Anniversary, Apollo 11 moon landing
Northern Europe and Greenland
The largest-ever study of Viking DNA revealed a wealth of information, offering new insights into the Vikings’ genetic diversity and travel habits.Science and Space
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