-January

• Capitol building invaded by a pro-Trump mob (6th)
• Gina Carano -the tough girl from The Mandalorian- was fired by Disney because she posted support for conspiracy theories and antisemitism (10th)
• Trump impeached again... and acquitted again (13th)
• Reddit users upend Wall Street hedge funds by increasing the price of GameStop stock shares for spite (27th)

- February

• Tom Brady won another Super Bowl and people are laughing because he brought his team from last to first in a single season
• Huge winter storms hit Texas which led to state-wide power outages, lack of fresh water, and almost 100 deaths
• Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer (17th)
• Alex's dad passed away (21st)
• Covid-19 deaths in the US reach 500,000 (22nd)
• Johnson and Johnson vaccine becomes available (27th)

- March

• Immigration crisis at the border as more than 100,000 migrants are being detained in overcrowded and inhumane facilities (5th)
• Megan Markle and Prince Harry spoke to Oprah about the Royals' dirty laundry including racism against Megan and their baby and keeping Megan from seeking mental health treatment (7th)
• 21-yr-old white man goes on a shooting spree at several metro Atlanta massage parlors, killing 8 people- 6 of them Asian. People are speaking out about anti-Asian sentiments stemming from the pandemic. (16th)
• "Stop Asian Hate" starts trending
• New Dead Sea Scroll texts were discovered (16th)
• Scientists created living structures that resemble human embryos for the first time ever (17th)
• Japan ruled that not allowing same-sex marriage is unconstitutional (17th)
• Sherriff stated that Atlanta gunman had a "very bad day" as if that explained why he killed 8 people. (18th)
• Mass shooting at a grocery store in Boulder, CO killed 10 people (22nd)
• I signed up for my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine (23rd)
• Jessica Walter died (24th)
• GA Governor Brian Kemp signed a Republican-led state bill that imposes new voting restrictions. It cuts the time people have to request an absentee ballot, and requires new identification for them, limits the use of ballot drop boxes, shortens the early voting period for runoffs, gives the Republican-controlled legislature more power to decide how elections are run, and makes handing out food and water to voters in poll lines a crime (25th)
• Derek Chauvin's trial into the murder of George Floyd began (29th)
• Volkswagen jokingly told everyone that they were changing their name to Voltswagen and apparently people didn't think it was funny (29th)
• I received my first vaccine dose (30th)
• Shooting in an Orange, California office building killed 4, including 9 year old boy (31st)
• The Pentagon reversed Trump's policy that banned trans people from serving in the military (31st)
• I found out that Alex's dad died (31st)

- April

• Supreme Court ruled that the city of Charlottesville, VA can take down 2 confederate general statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson (1st)
• For the first time in Naval history, four women of color are commanding warships (2nd)
• Daunte Wright was shot by police during a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. Apparently the officer used a gun instead of a taser (11th)
• Johnson & Johnson vaccine is put on pause to make sure that it doesn't cause blood clots (13th)
• Low rise jeans are coming back into style and everyone with a booty is mortified (13th)
• Bernie Madoff died in prison at age 82 (14th)
• A coalition of human rights lawyers and experts from 11 countries carried out an independent probe into America's policing. They publicly released a 188-page report that equates the deadly police killings of back Americans as crimes against humanity (15th)
• Half of US population has received at least one COVID-19 shot (18th)
• Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's VP, died at age 93 (19th)
• Derek Chauvin was convicted on all counts for the murder of George Floyd. VP Kamala Harris says, "A measure of justice isn't the same as equal justice." But it's a damn good start (20th)
• Right before Derek Chauvin was found guilty, Ma'Khia Bryant was killed by an officer in Columbus, OH. She was 16. She called the police for help because she was being assaulted by other kids. When they arrived, she was seen brandishing a knife at one of her assaulters. Police shot her 4 times (20th)
• Andrew Brown Jr., a 42 Y/O father of seven, was fatally shot by police serving warrants in Elizabeth City, NC (21st)
• The Perseverance rover converted carbon dioxide into oxygen on Mars, marking the first time breathable air has been made on another planet (21st)
• India reported over 332,000 CV-19 cases, which set the global record for the highest daily increase of infections since the beginning of the pandemic (23rd)
• Researchers discovered a new duckbilled dinosaur called Yamatosaurus izanagii (26th)
• Biden increased the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15/hour from $10.95/hour (27th)

- May

• Texas governor Greg Abbott signs into law one of the nation's strictest abortion measures, banning the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The law also allows (and encourages) citizens to sue those who help someone get an abortion for a $10,000 bounty (19th)
• Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin: Report says researchers went to hospital in November 2019, shortly before confirmed outbreak; adds to calls for probe of whether virus escaped lab (23rd)
• A gunman opened fire at a VTA rail yard in San Jose, killing at least nine people. The shooter, who died by suicide, was an employee of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Agency (26th)
• Shareholders ousted at least two directors from the ExxonMobil's board. It came after Exxon was called on to better address climate change and develop a strategy for a low-carbon future. Now, with the support of other shareholders, the firm said 'time's up.' (26th)

- June

• Meghan Markle gives birth to daughter Lilibet, her second child with Prince Harry (4th)
• The Nigerian government indefinitely suspended Twitter for deleting a threatening tweet from President Muhammadu Buhari (4th)
• Simone Biles won her 7th US title -- a record. (6th)
• US health officials have approved a new Alzheimer's treatment called Aduhelm that will be priced at $56,000 per year. (8th)
• National Geographic recognizes new Southern Ocean, bringing global total to five (10th)
• Darnella Frazier, teen who filmed George Floyd's murder, wins special Pulitzer award (11th)
• After 12 years in power, Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu was voted out (14th)
• A 12-story beachfront condominium in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida partially collapsed, killing 98 people (24th)
• Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense, died at 88 from multiple myeloma (29th)
• Bill Cosby's sexual assault charges dropped (30th)
• Apprehensions at the border totaled 188,000 in the month of June, which is a 21-year high

- July

• We're starting to hear more about Covid's Delta variant, which is about 60% more contagious than the first variant with double the hospitalization rate (1st)
• The Britney Spears' conservatorship goes viral and #FreeBritney starts trending
• The NCAA will allow college athletes to make money off of their name, image, and likeness (1st)
• The Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting restrictions, which allow states to throw out ballots cast in the wrong precinct and ban voters' ability to have a family member drop off an absentee ballot (1st)
• Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a moratorium on federal executions so the DOJ can review the death penalty (1st)
• Inflation has made everything more expensive. As of today, rental car prices have increased 140% since 2019 and gas prices are averaging out to over $3/gallon (2nd)
• Walmart announced it will start selling its own brand of insulin called ReliOn, which will cost about $73 (saving the people who need it about $100 per vial) (2nd)
• The State Dept will now allow people to pick their gender identity on their passports without a medical certificate (2nd)
• A man named Samuel Luiz was beaten to death outside of a nightclub in Spain after being targeted for being gay (3rd)
• "World's Fastest Woman" Sha'Carri Richardson smoked some legal weed in Oregon after her mother died and failed the Olympic drug test, which will keep her from competing in the games. A lot of people are pissed and looking for lawmakers to change policies on marijuana use (6th)
• Russian-linked hackers attacked software provider Kaseya. It could be the biggest global ransomware attack ever recorded (3rd)
• PM Justin Trudeau named Inuk leader Mary Simon as governor general. She will be the first ever Indigenous person to take on that role (6th)
• Gunmen assassinated Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse in his Port-au-Prince home. His wife, first lady Martine Moïse, was wounded and is in critical condition (7th)
• Trump is suing Facebook, Twitter, Google, and their CEO's for kicking him off their platforms (7th)
• The Covid Delta variant has become the official strain in the US (8th)
• A heat wave in Canada (over 120 degrees at times) killed about 500 people, started dozens of wildfires, and killed 1 billion marine animals
• Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black America to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in its 96-year history (9th)
• Richard Branson and 5 other crew members boarded Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity and traveled three times the speed of sound to the edge of space (11th)
• In Cuba, thousands of people took to the streets to join the biggest anti-government protests in decades to express frustration over high prices, food and medicine shortages, and concern over the gov's handling of the pandemic (11th)
• FDA regulators said that Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine could increase the risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome (where your immune system attacks your nerves)(12th)
• The EU unveiled its plan to cut greenhouse gases by 55% from 1990 levels within nine years (14th)
• The CDC estimated that more than 93,000 people in the US died from drug overdoses last year – a record. It's a nearly 30% increase from 2019 (14th)
• Jeff Bezo, his bro Mark, 82-year-old female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen boarded Blue Origin to travel 62 miles from Earth (20th)
• The Norwegian women's beach handball team wore shorts instead of bikini bottoms and got fined over $1,700 for it. Organizers said they wore "improper clothing."
• 4 police officers who were at the Jan 6 Insurrection detailed the physical and verbal abuse they endured in a House session (27th)
• The shooter responsible for killing 8 people- including 6 Asian women- plead guilty to 4 counts of murder. As part of a plea deal, he received four life sentences without parole instead of the death penalty (27th)
• Simone Biles withdrew from the Olympic games to focus on her mental health (28th)
• A leaked CDC report stated that the Delta variant is more contagious than MERS, SARS, Ebola, the 1918 flu, and smallpox (29th)
• Scarlett Johansson sued Disney for breach of contract and costing her a reported $50 million (29th)
• Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is now the highest-ranking US Catholic official to be criminally charged for sex abuse against a minor (30th)

- August

• Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are probably back together (1st)
• The Dixie Fire is now the second-largest recorded wildfire in California's history and has burned over 463,000 acres
• Team USA took home the most medals (113) and the most gold (39) at the Tokyo Olympics this year (8th)
• NY Governor Andrew Cuomo steps down after 10-years amid an investigation that found he sexually harassed at least 11 current and former state employees (10th)
• In a 69-30 vote, the Senate passed the long-awaited $1 trillion infrastructure bill which will fund things like transportation, broadband, replacing lead pipes, and addressing racial inequities (like reconnecting Black communities divided by highways)(10th)
• A grad student proved that Twitter's cropping algorithm prefers younger, thinner faces with lighter skin, winning a $3,500 cash prize after being challenged to "prove it" (11th)
• Afghanistan is on the verge of falling to Taliban control as US troops start leaving the country (11th)
• Britney Spears' dad signed the paperwork agreeing to step down as the conservator of Britney's personal life, career, and finances (12th)
• A 22-year-old (incel) man killed five people (including his mother and a young girl) in Plymouth, England, before dying by suicide. It marked Britain's worst mass shooting since 2010 (13th)
• A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing at least 1,941 (14th)
• Taliban fighters entered Kabul and took over the presidential palace and freed thousands of prisoners, including former al-Qaeda fighters. US Embassy staff had to be evacuated by helicopter (15th)
• The federal government declared a water shortage at Lake Mead- the country's largest reservoir- for the first time ever. Residents in Arizona, Nevada, and California will be impacted by water rationing (16th)
• Bob Dylan sued for allegedly drugging, sexually assaulting 12-year-old in 1965 (16th)
• R. Kelly's trial for racketeering, sex trafficking, and forced labor, among others, kicked off (18th)
• The Biden administration said it will erase more than $5.8 billion of student loan debt for more than 323,000 disabled people (19th)
• OnlyFans announced it will be banning "sexually explicit conduct" starting in October because it's been struggling to attract investors (19th)
• 51% of the American population is fully vaxxed (19th)
• The Pfizer vaccine received full FDA approval (23rd)
• Kathy Hochul started her job as the first female governor of New York after Cuomo stepped down(24th)
• House Democrats passed the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in a 219-212 vote, which will require certain states to get approval from the DOJ before making changes to their voting laws (24th)
• Charlie Watts, the 80-year-old Rolling Stones drummer died in London (24th)
• Seven Capitol Police officers sued former President Trump, his associates, and far-right groups for trying to upend the country’s peaceful transfer of power (26th)
• Sirhan Sirhan, the man who has spent 53 years in prison for shooting RFK, was recommended for parole by a California parole board (27th)
• Category-4 Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana on the 16th anniversary of Katrina (29th)
• Nia DaCosta became the first black female director to have a #1 film in the US box office for Candyman (29th)
• The FBI released a report showing that the number of hate crimes in the US rose last year to the highest level in 12 years. And that assaults targeting Black and Asian people drove the uptick (30th)
• The United States officially pulled out of Afghanistan, ending 20 years of war (31st)
• People have started taking Ivermectin (a horse dewormer) to protect themselves from Covid

- September

• Starting today in Texas, private citizens have the power to enforce the abortion ban. Meaning: people can sue abortion providers, friends, and family members who they believe violated the law or helped someone get an abortion. And they can get a prize of at least $10,000 if they’re successful (1st)
• The Caldor Fire has burned over 191,000 acres and is only 16% contained since it started on Aug 14th. Residents of CA and Nevada are fleeing (1st)