Spirit of America Bookstore U.S.  Timeline  –  2019  to  2020 Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E. 1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950    •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000   • 2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    jump to 2021 to present    •    The Looming Future? The Emperor Trump Era    •    2019    •    2020    •    trumpvirus epidemic The decision to split these pages arose because the 2011-Present page grew overbig and would for many visitors take too long to load, plus the Trump Presidency is a break with democracy and is in opposition to the former Spirit of America context: with the swearing-in of Emperor Trump, the fascist factions of the Republican Party were in control of all three branches of the U.S. government. As-of January 2019, Democrats control the House of Representatives, but the long slog of Emperor's Trump's reign has two more years to go. Trump's  Fascist  AmeriKKKa 2016 Nov 8: The critical Election 2016: America vs. Fascism: Idiot billionaire Republican Donald J. Trump won (or stole) the most electoral votes and Republicans retained control of the House and the Senate, while Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by almost 3 million. "Donald Trump won the election, America lost." — G.E. Nordell, November 2016 real estate tycoon Donald J. Trump Page Emperor Donald J. Trump Page The 'RussiaGate' Scandal Page Emperor Trump's Cabinet Page 2018 Dec: Trump's 2018 Government Shutdown began and continued into the New Year. 2018 Dec 31: Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren launched an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid; her remarks emphasized the economic populism that has propelled her to two Senate victories. 2019: International Year of The Periodic Table 2019 Jan 3: China successfully landed its Chang'e 4 probe & lunar rover at 10:26am Beijing time on the far side of the moon, at the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the moon's largest and oldest impact crater; the probe sent back its first photo just over an hour later, showing a small crater illuminated by the spacecraft. A lack of radio signals on the far side, or dark side, of the moon means Earth can't directly communicate with the lunar probe, so China launched a relay satellite in May. (Chang'e is the name of the mythological moon goddess of China.) 2019 Jan 3: The 116th United States Congress convened; Senate membership is 47-53 (controlled by GOP) and the House is 235-199, 1 (NC) not seated (controlled by Democrats); the House elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to the position of Speaker (the vote was 220-192, with many absent). 2019 Jan 7: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam [GOP] commuted the life sentence of Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman and sex trafficking victim convicted 15 years ago for killing and robbing a man who 'bought' her when she was 16 so he could rape her; Brown will be eligible for release August 7 for time served, then will remain on parole for 10 years. 2019 Jan 19: Thousands of women marched in the streets of Washington, DC and other cities across the world, for the third year of the Women's March. 2019 Jan 23: Health officials in Clark County, Washington declared an emergency over a local measles outbreak in the anti-vaccination ‘hotspot’ of Vancouver, across the river from Portland, Oregon; of 23 confirmed cases, at least 20 involve individuals who were not immunized against measles. UPDATE January 31st: The official tally is now 39 cases of measles; Washington's governor declared a statewide health emergency. UPDATE 2/9: Recent documented cases of measles in the Pacific Northwest have risen to 55 infected adults & children. 2019 Jan 24-31: The season's third major winter storm, caused by weakening of the polar vortex, lowered temperatures in Illinois and Michigan to 28° below zero (wind chill made it minus 51°); after a week, the official tally is ten deaths; the arctic cold blast forced widespread closings at schools and offices, thousands of flights were canceled, Amtrak stopped running trains in and out of Chicago, the Post Office suspended mail delivery & pickup in parts of 10 states, and there were of course multiple highway accidents and pileups because of the ice and snow. 2019 Jan 29: California utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. filed for bankruptcy, citing liabilities from the recent series of wildfires in the state (PG&E is the largest utility in the U.S. with 16 million customers in California); PG&E shares shot up 17 percent later that day; the company's shares dropped sharply earlier this month when it announced plans to file for bankruptcy protection: the stock dropped 71 percent from its 52-week high in early November 2018. 2019 Feb 5: Emperor Trump's bogus State of The Union Address, postponed because of the GOP Shutdown, was delivered before a joint session of Congress; it attracted 46.8 million viewers on 7 channels; the official Democratic Party response from Stacey Abrams also drew substantial viewership with 14.4 million watching on Fox, MSNBC, and CNN {incomplete best numbers 2/9}. 2019 Feb 7: New York Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain approved the sale of most of the assets of Sears to a hedge fund controlled by vulture investor Edward S. Lampert, the company's chairman, for $5.2 billion; the decision will keep 425 stores open and save the jobs of about 45,000 employees. 2019 Feb 8-9: Seattle, Washington got 6.4 inches of snow which is just shy of the 6.8 inches the city usually receives in an entire year; continued snowfall next day brought the accumulation to 7.2 inches and counting, while inland areas of Washington State had up to 18 inches of snow on the ground; the unusual amount of snow comes via Winter Storm Maya, which has also closed part of Interstate 90, cancelled 180 flights at SeaTac Airport, and left more than 50,000 homes & businesses without power. 2019 Feb 9: Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren formally launched her 2020 presidential campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts, north of Boston. "It won't be enough to just undo the terrible acts of this administration. We can't afford to just tinker around the edges - a tax credit here, a regulation there. Our fight is for big, structural change. This is the fight of our lives. And that is why I stand here today: to declare that I am a candidate for president of the United States of America." Feb 11-15: Teachers in Denver, Colorado went on strike to protest a performance pay structure that they said was confusing and hard to predict; their first strike in 25 years ended with an agreement with the school system that will provide an extra $23 million for pay and give teachers an average salary increase of nearly 12 percent next year. Feb 21: After investigating election fraud in the November election for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, the State Board of Elections voted 5-0 to hold a new election (not yet scheduled). 2019 Feb 27-28: Trump's second Summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un will take place in Hanoi, Vietnam. 2019 Feb 28-29: Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael D. Cohen testified under oath before Congress; testimony was postponed 1/23 because of perceived death threats against Cohen and his family. Cohen was scheduled for an interview with House Intelligence Committee, headed by Democrat Adam Schiff [CA-28], on 2/28, and the House Oversight & Reform Committee the House Oversight & Reform Committee, headed by Democrat Elijah Cummings [MD-07] next day; the committees want Cohen to testify before he starts serving a three-year sentence for tax crimes, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress. His sentencing date is now changed to May 6th. 2019 March-June: 'ACLU100 Experience Tour' celebrating the 100th anniversary of A.C.L.U.'s founding - events in 15 cities 2019 March 12: New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank regarding three loans to President Trump's company; the state also asked for documents on a fourth loan that Trump wanted for a bid to buy the Buffalo Bills football team. 2019 Friday March 15: Global Climate Strike for Future around the world, led by Swedish teen Greta Thunberg; a million or so students in 125 countries left their schools to demonstrate.                                         2019 March 15: After Congress voted to block his declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border (House 245-182, Senate, 59-41), Emperor Trump issued the first veto of his tenure; a veto override vote is unlikely. 2019 March 17: Mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand; the death toll rose to 50 after police discovered another victim; the lone suspect is a 28-year-old Australian white supremicist who will be put on trial in New Zealand; lengthy screeds on his website include expressions of great admiration for racist Donald Trump. 2019 March 20: The Walt Disney Company formally closed its $71.3 billion purchase of 21st Century Fox assets; Disney now owns the 20th Century-Fox movie & television studio, animation studio Blue Sky, Fox Searchlight Pictures, the FX & National Geographic channels, and Fox's interest in Hulu. 2019 March 22: Special Investigator Robert S. Mueller delivered his report on the RussiaGate Scandal investigation to Attorney General William Barr; there was much speculation about how much detail would be released to the President and to the public. Emperor Trump immediately declared that the report proved that there was no collusion, which is a bald-faced lie. 2019 March 24: Attorney General William Barr released a 4-page cover-up letter meant to obscure the seriousness of the findings in the Mueller Report. 2019 March 26: Health officials in Rockland County, New York declared a state of emergency, barring unvaccinated children from public spaces for 30 days following a measles outbreak; so far, 153 measles cases have been confirmed in the county, which is about 40 miles from New York City; most of the measles patients are unvaccinated children. 2019 April 10: The National Science Foundation held a press conference during which the first-ever photo of a celestial black hole was revealed to the public; the image required years-long efforts from the Event Horizon Telescope project, which used data from several different radio telescopes to compile a high-resolution photo of something that cannot be captured from a single telescope. Controversy arose over the amount of credit due to young computer imaging scientist Katie Bouman; her algorithm was central to the success of the project {fully detailed explanation on this Facebook page}. 2019 April 15: The iconic medieval Catholic cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris [finished 1260] caught fire at around 6:20pm and was extinguished after about 12 hours; probable cause involves restoration workers up in the main tower.    2019 April 30: Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan (since January 1989) abdicated his ceremonial position due to age and declining health, becoming emperor emeritus. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announced the name of the new Imperial era by holding up a framed calligraphy parchment with the characters 'Reiwa' inscribed on it; the two characters in the name mean 'order' and 'harmony', and replace the current Heisei era, which means 'achieving peace'. 2019 May 1: Crown Prince Naruhito (age 59) ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan as Emperor, succeeding his father, Emperor Akihito. 2019 May 6: Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer and fixer, reported to a Federal country club-style prison in upstate Otisville, New York to begin serving a 3-year prison sentence for crimes that included campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments he made on Trump's behalf. 2019 May 6: 375 former federal prosecutors signed a document asserting that if the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel long-established policy did not prohibit the indictment of a sitting president, President Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice; two days later, over 700 former federal prosecutors had signed onto the letter. 2019 May 9: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stated that the United States is in a 'constitutional crisis'. watch MSNBC video [4:18] at YouTube 2019 June 22: The media creates such a long slog for presidential elections - here we are at 500 days until the actual national elections in November 2020! 2019 June 26-27: The first Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was in Miami, Florida, with ten candidates on stage each night. Candidate Cong. Eric Swallwell [Dem CA-15] withdrew on July 8 due to lack of positive response. 2019 July 4th: Emperor Trump's Military Parade in Washington, DC was originally scheduled for Veterans Day in November 2018; veterans groups organized a protest in Washington, DC for that same day by millions of unhappy veterans - hashtag-1MillionVeteransMarch; the Pentagon got wind of the veterans' protest and moved the parade to Saturday the 10th, which is an anniversary of the Marine Corps, so the veterans groups did likewise; in August 2018, the Pentagon raised the parade cost estimate to $92M and also postponed the event into 2019. In March 2019, Trump announced that his big vanity tribute parade 'Salute To America' would be held on July Fourth. 2019 July 10: After the rain-drenched 'Salute To America' events, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser wrote to President Trump that expenses related to security at his parade had exhausted the Emergency Planning and Security Fund and that the White House owed $1.7 million for its security costs; the White House still owes $7.3 million for security costs related to Trump’s 2017 presidential inauguration. 2019 July 11: The House Judiciary Committee voted 21 to 12 to subpoena twelve people for documents and testimony as part of their investigation into the results of the Mueller Report. Listed persons include the president’s son-in-law & adviser Jared Kushner, former administration officials & White House employees, former campaign employees, and three people connected to the National Enquirer’s efforts to stifle potentially-embarrassing stories about Trump. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index rose above $27,000 for the first time, closing for the day at $27,088.08; the S&P 500 almost broke $3,000, closing for the day at $2,999.91; the NASDAQ Composite slid slightly and closed at $8,196.04; the Russell 2002 Index of smaller company stocks dropped slightly to $1,557.92. The commodity gold has been hovering around $1,400 for several weeks, and closed for the day at $1,407. Emperor Trump convened a Social Media Troll Summit at the White House; representatives of Facebook and Twitter were not invited; the stated purpose was to 'bring together digital leaders for a robust conversation on the opportunities and challenges of today's online environment'; however, the so-called industry leaders who attended included wacky conspiracy theorists, internet trolls, and far-right smear- and hoax-mongers. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention announced new statistics for the current measles outbreak in the U.S.A.: 1,123 individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 28 states, an increase of 14 cases from the previous week. This year has been the worst for measles in the U.S. in 27 years with the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992 (962 cases) and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000. 2019 July 12: The week-long stock market surge continued as the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index jumped 243.95 points, closing at another all-time high of $27,332.03; the S&P 500 closed for the day at $3,013.77, a new record high; the NASDAQ Composite closed at $8,244.14. 2019 July 16: Cong. Al Green [Dem-TX09] introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump. 2019 July 24: Former 'RussiaGate' Special Prosecuter Robert S. Mueller III testified before Congress; Mueller's sworn testimony before 41 members of the House Judiciary Committee (chaired by Cong. Jerry Nadler [Dem NY-10]) ran three hours and 40 minutes, focused on Part 2 of his report, on the topic of obstruction of justice; after a break, Mueller gave sworn testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (chaired by Cong. Adam Schiff [Dem CA-28]) on Part 1 of his report, on the topic of collusion with the Russians. 2019 July 30-31: The second Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle took place in Detroit, Michigan, with ten candidates on stage each night. { highlights of 7/30 debate [3:09] on YouTube } 2019 Aug 2: The FBI classified QAnon as a potential domestic terrorism threat. 2019 Aug 10: An asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower hurtled past Earth early Saturday at a speed of 10,400 miles per hour, missing us by 4.6 million miles; had the fast-moving space rock, named 2006 QQ23, been following a different course, it could have slammed into our planet with an explosive force of up to 500 times that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. 2019 Aug 13: The markets flashed signals that the economy is headed for a recession, with the 'inverted yield curve' showing 10-year bonds plunging below that of 2-year bonds, an odd phenomenon that has reliably predicted recessions in the past fifty years – although it could take up to 18 months, or even longer, to arrive. (For the dense: The eight years under President Obama produced no such warning, just 2½ years under incompetent Emperor Trump and here we are . . .) 2019 Aug 14: U.S. stocks suffered the year's worst plunge after the yield for long-term U.S. bonds fell below that of short-term bonds, a strong warning sign of a looming recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq all lost roughly 3 percent on Wednesday. 2019 Sept 12: The third Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was held in Houston, Texas with ten candidates on stage. 2019 Sept 16: Trump campaign rally and protests in Rio Rancho, New Mexico; the city closed its office building (across the street) and all city schools, so as not to endanger employees and students in any traffic jams. The Santa Ana Star Center Arena held 7,500 people, with a thousand or more listening and watching on PDAs outside. Trump met with about 100 local policy leaders, including Latinos for Trump, at Casa Rodeña Winery in Los Ranchos the next morning. Due to threats of violence and logistical issues, the Democrats held a peaceful 'New Mexico for All' Community Event at Tiguex Park in Old Town Albuquerque, attended by over 1,000 citizens. On the same night, Elizabeth Warren held a rally at Washington Square in New York City's Greenwich Village that was attended by over 20,000 fans. 2019 Midnight Sept 15-16: By previous vote and because General Motors executives demanded cuts in employee pay & benefits to renew the contract expiring on September 14th (while giving themselves millions in extra pay), U.A.W. members from nearly 70 General Motors facilities in 19 states walked out and formed picket lines; the Teamsters Union stood in support of the U.A.W. strike, refusing to deliver completed vehicles; G.M. chose to immediately terminate the health coverage for 55,000 employees, forcing the union to pay for continued coverage as is available via the COBRA program. 2019 Friday Sept 20: The worldwide Global Climate Strike began at Noon in each time zone; over 4 million strikers & supporters rallied. 2019 Sept 24: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi conferred with fellow members of Congress and then announced that the Democrats will proceed with formal impeachment hearings, likely to involve the recent Trump/Ukraine telephone call revelations and the contents of the Mueller Report.   2019 Sept 25: Kaiser Permante averted a strike by 80,000-plus hospital workers by agreeing to a 4-year union contract; union members had already authorized a strike on October 14 if negotiations failed. 2019 Friday Sept 27: The second worldwide Global Climate Strike began at Noon in each time zone; over 2 million strikers & supporters rallied (in different cities than prior week). 2019 Oct 2: Giffords.org and March For Our Lives hosted a groundbreaking presidential forum on gun safety in Las Vegas, Nevada; 10 presidential candidates were in attendance to answer questions about their plans to address our country’s epidemic of gun violence. (This is why Bernie Sanders's two-stent medical procedure took place in Las Vegas.) Friday 2019 Oct 4: Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence), testified in private before the House Intelligence Committee about his investigation into the whistle-blower's complaint and conclusion that it was credible and urgent. 2019 Oct 10: Around 2.4 million people in Northern California lost or could lose power over the next few days. California's already embattled utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shut off power preemptively, to avoid wildfires that might be sparked by downed power lines. Fallout included documents showing that PG&E halted brush control work as a cost-cutting measure while paying millions in dividends to stockholders. 2019 Friday Oct 11: Climate school strike week #60; Greta spoke to a huge crowd of strikers in Denver, Colorado. 2019 Oct 15: The fourth Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio with 12 candidates on stage. 2019 Oct 26 1-5pm: The People’s Presidential Forum of Nevada hosted by Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) Action and People’s Action at the East Las Vegas Community Center in Las Vegas. 2019 Nov 5: A group of 11,258 scientists from 153 countries declared "clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency". In an article published in BioScience Magazine of American Institute of Biological Sciences, William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf of the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society at Oregon State University write that it is their "moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat"; the article lays out six steps that should be taken to ease the worst impacts of climate change, pertaining to energy, short-lived pollutants, nature, food, economy, and population. 2019 Nov 20: The fifth Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. 2019 Late November:    A female university graduate of 2012 named Huang Yanling who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology P4 Laboratory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China was 'patient zero' for the novel coronavirus and she died from it. { For more details, visit Spirit of America's Timeline of the COVID-19 Epidemic } 2019 Late November: A record 189.6 million Americans joined in the five-day Thanksgiving weekend shopping frenzy; that figure was a 19.6% jump compared to last year, per the National Retail Federation. About 48 million people shopped only in brick-and-mortar stores, 66 million shopped only online, and 77 million bought both in stores and online – Cyber Monday has overtaken Black Friday as the biggest day for U.S. retail holiday revenue. Black Friday shoppers reportedly spent $7.4 billion online, making Friday the second-largest U.S. online shopping day ever, trailing only last year's Cyber Monday event; estimates for Cyber Monday are as high as $9.4 billion. 2019 Dec 12: Mike Huckabee announced that he is in charge of Donald Trump's re-election campaign for 2024. 2019 Tuesday Dec 17: 'Nobody Is Above The Law' rallies took place in all 50 states to demand that Congress vote to impeach Donald Trump. 2019 Dec 19: The sixth Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was at the Loyola Mary-mount University campus in West Los Angeles, California; only seven contenders were onstage. The  Year  2 0 2 0      The 400th Anniversary official celebration of the arrival of the Mayflower pilgrims in November & December 1620 is being celebrated during 2020 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and in Plymouth, U.K. and in Leiden, Netherlands (from whence they came). Plymouth 400, Inc. • events Mayflower 400th Anniversary 2020 in U.K. Mayflower 400th Anniversary 2020 in Leiden, Netherlands 2020 Jan 9:    First confirmed death from the new coronavirus epidemic in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. 2020 Jan 14: Microsoft support came to an end for Windows 7 (released in October 2009, replaced by Windows 8 in October 2012). 2020 Jan 14: The seventh Democratic debate for the 2020 presidential election cycle was at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa; only six remaining contenders were onstage taking stupid questions from CNN. 2020 Saturday Jan 18: Thousands of women marched in the streets of Washington, DC and other cities across the world, for the fourth year of the Women's March. 2020 Jan 28: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and Cuba, cutting off water supplies and closing public schools on Grand Cayman Island; there were no reports of serious injuries or extensive damage. 2020 Jan 30:    W.H.O. declared the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency. More than 200 people have died from the flu-like virus, and more than 9,400 have been infected. 2020 Jan 31: The United Kingdom officially left the 28-nation European Union trading bloc at 11 p.m. local time, making 'Brexit' official. 2020 Monday Feb 3: The logistics of the Iowa Caucus results were screwed up by Iowa Democrats; Emperor Trump won nothing in Iowa, he got 39 delegates to the GOP convention and 31,464 votes - soundly beaten by Bernie Sanders who got 45,826, Pete Buttigieg who got 43,195, and Elizabeth Warren who got 34,771; the total votes for Democrats was 172,521 - five times the Republican turnout (data as-of Friday Feb 7). 2020 Feb 5: There were over 150 “Reject The Coverup” marches across the country, with three in New Mexico. 2020 Feb 7: Former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh ended his GOP primary challenge to Trump, stating that "Any Democrat would be better". 2020 Feb 7: The eighth Democratic debate hosted by ABC's New Hampshire affiliate WMUR-TV and Apple News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire; the seven candidates onstage were Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, Warren, and Yang. 2020 Feb 9:    China announced that the death toll resulting from the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus has risen to 811, which is higher than the number of fatalities from the SARS epidemic between 2002 and 2003; the number of confirmed infections rose to 37,198; the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus death toll continued to rise on Sunday: the country's National Health Commission reported that more than 90 people died Sunday, the largest one-day toll to date in the two-month epidemic, which pushed the global total to more than 900. 2020 Feb 11: Important early New Hampshire primary election, won by Bernie Sanders; Bernie got 76,352 votes and 9 delegates, Mayor Pete got 72,443 votes and 9 delegates, Amy Klobuchar got 58,774 votes and 6 delegates; Warren and Biden received zero delegates. Checking the plurality: 298,523 Democrats voted versus 153,660 Republicans or 66% to 34%. 2020 Feb 12: After clear losses in the New Hampshire primary election, Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick, and Andrew Yang ended their campaigns for president in 2020. 2020 Feb 12: The Dow Jones Industrial Index closes at an all time high of 29,551.42. 2020 Feb 15:    Widespread rumors on Chinese social media specified that a female university graduate of 2012 working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology P4 Laboratory named Huang Yanling was 'patient zero' for the novel coronavirus and that she had died from it. 2020 Feb 19:    The Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus death toll for mainland China rose above 2,000. 2020 Feb 19: The ninth Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC and NBC News in Las Vegas, Nevada - five contenders returned to the stage: Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Warren; this was Mike Bloomberg's first debate and he failed miserably. 2020 Feb 20:    Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus cases in the South Korean city of Daegu rose by two-thirds to 104 and South Korea reported its first fatality. Japan reported the first two deaths from the Diamond Princess cruise liner - an 80-year-old Japanese couple. Iran reported three new cases, one day after two people died of the virus in the holy city of Qom. There is a cumulative total of 74,546 infections and 2,118 deaths, mostly in China's central Hubei province. 2020 Feb 22: Nevada Democratic Party Caucus results were delayed because of problems with poorly-tested software merging early voting numbers and caucus numbers; with 96% reported as-of Monday Feb 24th, Sanders got 38,795 votes, Biden got a distant second place with 18,340 votes, Mayor Pete got 16,611 votes, and Warren got 11,115 votes; no plurality info because the GOP cancelled their caucus in Nevada. 2020 Feb 23:    Italy says that Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus cases spiked from three to 132 in a matter of days, making them the largest outbreak outside of Asia. 2020 Feb 25: The tenth Democratic debate was hosted by CBS News at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina; the seven candidates onstage this time were Biden, Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Sanders, Steyer, and Warren. 2020 Monday Feb 24: The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index plummeted by 1,031 points or 3.6 percent, its biggest one-day drop in two years. 2020 Tuesday Feb 25: U.S. stocks plunged for a second straight day, their worst two-day loss since 2008. After the Centers for Disease Control issued a dire warning about the likelihood of a Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. causing widespread disruption, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index fell 879 points, or nearly 3.2 percent and the S&P 500 fell by about 3 percent; CNBC noted that 'the last time the S&P 500 fell more than 3 percent two days in a row was in November of 2008 during the financial crisis'. 2020 Thursday Feb 27: Wall Street took its sharpest plunge of an already terrible week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index falling by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4 percent, as fear mounted about economic damage from the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. The S&P 500 Index also dropped by 4.4 percent, its fastest dive ever from a record high into a 10 percent-plus correction. The NASDAQ Index fell by 4.6 percent. All three of the main U.S. indexes posted their biggest single-day point drops ever. The losses brought Wall Street's six-day decline in value to more than 10 percent. 2020 Friday Feb 28: Another wild day on Wall Street extended a rout that handed the market its worst week since October 2008 at the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Coronavirus panic sent world stock markets crashing again also, bringing the wipeout in value terms to $5 trillion (the 2008 GOP Economic Meltdown caused losses of more than $2 trillion in global economic growth); the panic shut down industrial centers, emptied shops, and severely crimped travel and shipping. All three major U.S. indexes were pushed into corrections this week and lost more than 10 percent of their value; over the course of the week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index fell 12 percent, and the S&P 500 Index tumbled 11.5 percent. The NASDAQ Index dropped 10.5 percent, landing at 13 percentage points down from a record high. 2020 Friday Feb 28: Nouriel Roubini, a New York University business professor and market prognosti-cator who foretold the housing bubble burst, told Yahoo Finance to expect 'severe' consequences as the coronavirus continues to rattle markets. How severe? He told Der Spiegel that it could be worse than investors even believe at this point, predicting 'global equities to tank by 30 to 40 percent this year'. Though the week just saw a 3,500-point drop for the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, Roubini warned that "It is far from being over." 2020 March 2-6: The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index skidded all last week, but jumped back up more than 1,000 points on Monday in its biggest one-day points gain ever. It then slid down 1,000 points on Tuesday, then rebounded, and then flopped again on Thursday, closing down 970 points, or 3.6 percent, in the fourth straight rollercoaster day for Wall Street. U.S. stock index futures dropped by 1 percent early Friday. The selloff came as the continuing spread of the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus around the world, including in the U.S., fueled fears of painful economic fallout – the instability is likely to continue. 2020 Tuesday March 3: Joe Biden won ten of the states in the 'Super Tuesday' elections, Bernie Sanders won four. In at least 12 of the 14 states, voters turned out in record numbers, thanks to the enthusiastic backing of young and liberal voters for Bernie. As-of Friday, CA & CO & ME & MA & UT are not final, but the projection is Biden 623 delegates, Sanders 533, Bloomberg 73, Warren 46, Tulsi 2, Pete 1 (totaling 1344 delegates). 2020 Friday March 6:    The number of confirmed cases of the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus approached 99,000 worldwide, and the total deaths attributed to the new virus topped 3,300 in at least 15 countries. There have been nearly 200 cases in the U.S., and 13 deaths. 2020 Sunday March 8:    Public health officials in the U.S. confirmed at least 532 Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus infections in 33 states, and 21 deaths. Italy now has reported more cases than any other nation outside China, with more than 7,350 of the world's 109,400 cases. 2020 Sunday March 8: Oil prices crashed after Saudi Arabia unexpectedly started a price war against Russia; U.S. oil prices plunged by as much as 27 percent to $30 a barrel, a four-year low; the global benchmark Brent crude fell by 22 percent to $35 a barrel. Saudi Arabia triggered the turmoil after Russia refused to join OPEC's call for the world's big producers to cut production to prop up prices in the face of declining demand caused by the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak. 2020 Monday March 9: Dow Jones Industrial Average futures plummeted by as much as 1,300 points - nearly 5 percent - overnight on escalating fear of economic damage from the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak, which is disrupting global supply chains. Futures for the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ also fell by as much as 5 percent; shares in Europe and Asia fell sharply, as well. 2020 Thursday March 12:    It took three months to reach 100,000 cases of the Wuhan 2019-nCoV corona-virus worldwide; the second 100,000 took only 12 days. 2020 Friday March 13:    President Trump declared a national emergency related to the Wuhan 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak; the new designation will allow up to $50 billion in additional funding for response teams to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, which now has more than 2,100 confirmed cases in the U.S. 2020 Tuesday March 31:    The U.S. trumpvirus death toll jumped above 4,000, surpassing that of China, the first country hit in the pandemic; for the first time, more than 700 people died in the United States in one day. New York State is the deadliest hot spot in the U.S., with about 1,550 deaths statewide, more than 1,000 of them in New York City. The total number of infections in the country reached nearly 190,000, with more than 800,000 cases worldwide. 2020 April 1: The population of the United States was 331,449,281 (as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in April 2021); the country posted the slowest decade of growth since the Great Depression (also possibly due to undercount/resistence promoted by the Republican Party). 2020 April: 10 state primary elections 2020 May: 6 state primary elections 2020 June 2: last 5 state primary elections 2020 early July: Demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd began in the city of Portland, Oregon (and at hundreds of locations around the country) in late May, but did not gain much media attention until unidentified federal troops and CBP/ICE goons were illegally deployed in Portland in July, capturing protestors in violation of their civil rights and also repeatedly using chemical weapons on peaceful protestors.                   2020 July 19:    The peak seven-day average of daily new infections was recorded as 67,902 cases. 2020 July 30: The Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy contracted by 32.9 percent between April and June, compared to the same period last year, its worst drop in history - and by 9.5 percent from the previous quarter.    2020 Sat Aug 1:    The United States recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24-hour period for the 5th straight day; Johns Hopkins University logged more than 58,000 new infections in that same span. South Africa surpassed 500,000 cases after recording more than 10,000 in a single day; also the Philippines topped 100,000 infections. 2020 Sunday Aug 9:    The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 5 million, with about 163,000 deaths; the number of daily new infections appears to have leveled off, with the average over the last week hovering around 54,000. 2020 August 17-20: Democratic Party Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2020 Sat Aug 22:    Data collected by Johns Hopkins University shows that the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 800,000, while the number of confirmed cases across the world shot past 23 million. 2020 Sun Aug 23: Police responding to a domestic violence report in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Afro-American Jacob Blake seven times in the back as he attempted to get into his car where his three children were waiting; although Blake was paralyzed from the waist down (possibly temporary), police handcuffed him to the hospital bed. (The cuffs were removed due to public outcry.) watch neighbor's video {age restricted} of Kenosha police officers shooting Jacob Blake in the back [0:29] online at YouTube 2020 Wed Aug 26: The mother of a 17-year-old boy taught to worship police drove him from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin so that he could join the domestic terrorist 'militia' and threaten peaceful protestors; Kyle the Killer shot his AR-15 at protestors, killing two and maiming a third (he lost his arm); Kenosha police then allowed the shooter and his AR-15 to walk away; Kyle and his mother drove back to Illinois and the boy went to bed; Illinois police arrested the boy next day, extradition is delayed until late September. watch all August 26 video clips {age restricted} of Kyle The Killer [11:00] online at YouTube 2020 Sat Aug 29: Autopsy reveals that Kyle The Killer’s first victim was shot in the back multiple times: Kyle did not act in self-defense. 2020 Sept 15: The island country of Barbados passed legislation removing it from Commonwealth status under the British monarchy, effective November 30th, the 55th anniversary of its independence; it will however remain a member of the British Commonwealth. 2020 Sept 22: Republican Senator John McCain's widow Cindy McCain officially endorsed Joe Biden for President. 2020 Sept 23: The Senate Homeland Security Committee conducted an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden's dealings with Ukraine their interim report says that there was no collusion between Biden's vice presidency and his son Hunter Biden's work at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, nor did they find evidence that Biden tried to oust Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to protect his son from an investigation. 2020 Sat Sept 26: President Trump nominated godawful extreme right-wing jurist Amy Coney Barrett to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ginsburg. 2020 Sat Sept 26:    Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, began experiencing symptoms if trumpvirus and has since been quarantined at her Michigan home; she received confirmation of the positive test results Wednesday September 30th, which she made public on Friday October 2nd. 2020 Mon Sept 28:    The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1 million, with more than 33 million confirmed infections; about 205,000 people have died in the United States. 2020 Sept 29: The first presidential debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio; Donald kept interrupting, Joe Biden was the only adult on camera. 2020 Thurs Oct 1 - 11pm ET:    After White House press advisor Hope Hicks tested positive for Covid-19, she placed herself into quarantine; President Trump announced in an interview on Fox News that he and Melania were being tested for the coronavirus. 2020 Friday Oct 2 :   •  just past Midnight ET: President Trump tweeted that both he and Melania tested positive and were putting themselves into quarantine; son Barron tested negative. •  6:20pm ET: President Trump was administered supplemental oxygen at the White House on Friday before he was flown by helicopter to Walter Reed Medical Center on the advice of his physicians, where he will remain for 'a few days'. •  9pm ET: President Trump received Regeneron’s experimental REGN-COV2 drug cocktail, a combination of two so-called monoclonal antibodies; the treatment is meant to provide the body's immune system with a temporary, but immediate, boost to fight off the coronavirus; he later received a dose of Gilead's experimental antiviral drug Remdesivir, which is being repeated. •  10:30pm ET: former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said in a tweet that she has tested positive for Covid-19. •  Midnight ET: Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said that he has tested positive for Covid-19. 2020 Saturday Oct 3 :   •  India became the third country to record 100,000 coronavirus deaths. •  1pm ET: Trump adviser and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who helped Trump prep for the September 29 debate, said that he has tested positive for coronavirus; he was hospitalized that evening as a precaution due to a history of asthma. 2020 Sunday Oct 4 :   •  2:30pm ET: White House physician Dr. Sean Conley said at a news conference at Walter Reed that the president was given a steroid called dexamethasone following 'two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation' (meaning his oxygen levels dropped too low); doses of the drug will continue 'for the time being'; N.I.H. guidelines state that dexamethasone should be given only to patients who are on ventilators or need supplemental oxygen; common side effects include confusion, irritability & amnesia {see next item}. •  5:30pm ET: Against his doctors' orders, President Trump left Walter Reed Hospital and went on a multi-vehicle 'joy ride' to wave at people along the route, endangering the lives & health of several Special Service agents. 2020 Monday Oct 5 :   White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted that she has tested positive for coronavirus and is not experiencing symptoms, but will now begin the quarantine process. 2020 Oct 7: Broadway theater district officials announced that the current theater shutdown is extended through May 2021. 2020 Oct 7: Vice presidential candidates debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris at University of Utah in Salt Lake City. 2020 Oct 15: The second presidential candidates debate in Miami was to be in town hall format; DJT balked at mute buttons and other restrictions, so Biden held a virtual townhall-style event on ABC with George Stephanopoulos and Donald Trump held a separate virtual town hall 'rally' at the same time on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC. Biden's town hall was watched by 14.1 million people on ABC, while Trump's town hall was watched by 13.5 million people. 2020 Friday Oct 16:    The U.S. reported at least 69,000 new cases, the most in one day since July; cases of COVID-19 trumpvirus in U.S.A. reached another milestone: confirmed cases at 8,008,402, with confirmed U.S. deaths at 218,097. 2020 Thursday Oct 22: The second presidential candidates debate took place at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee; NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker ably moderated the debate. The second and final presidential debate was watched by 63 million people, an estimated 10 million fewer than watched the first debate; this was partly due to a competing broadcast of "Thursday Night Football", which accumulated a total of 7 million viewers on FOX. 2020 Tuesday Nov 3rd: Election of Emperor Trump's replacement. 2020 Friday Nov 6: Results from Pennsylvania looked very good, and media began calling Biden-Harris the winner that evening. 2020 Sat Nov 7: Official results from several more states gave the Democratic candidates more than the 270 Electoral College votes needed, so most media outlets declared Biden-Harris to be the winners of the election; the Orange Loser whined, of course, and said that his lawyers will look into imaginary voter fraud. 2020 Fri Nov 20: 17-year-old Kyle the Killer was released Friday after his attorney paid a $2 million cash bond; Kyle is charged with homicide, attempted homicide, and other charges in the August 25 shooting deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin; part of the bond was paid for by loose cannon Mike Lindell, founder of MyPillow. 2020 Tue Nov 24: The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index hit $30,000 for the first time in history. 2020 Nov 27/29: Election officials in Wisconsin's two largest counties finished their ballot recounts, confirming President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Trump in the state. Milwaukee County finished its count on Friday November 27, and Dane County followed on Sunday November 29. The review of the ballots in the two counties expanded Biden's lead by 87 votes, confirming final tallies showing that Biden won the battleground state by more than 20,000 votes. Under state law, Trump had to cover the $3 million cost of the partial recount. 2020 Wed Dec 2: Former N.A.S.A. astronaut Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, was sworn in as a U.S. senator to serve the final two years of the late John McCain's term; Kelly was accompanied by his wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who suffered a severe brain injury when she was shot in the head in an assassination attempt in 2011. Kelly's election narrows the G.O.P. majority in the Senate to 52-48. 2020 Thu Dec 3:    The U.S. surpassed 275,000 coronavirus deaths as 12 states set daily death records. 2020 Thu Dec 3: Dictionary.com announced that its Word of the Year for 2020 is ... pandemic. 2020 Thu Dec 10:    The U.S. reported more than 3,300 coronavirus deaths, setting a single-day record above 3,000 for the second straight day; the national total death count surpassed 292,000. 2020 Dec 11: The Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for emergency use, a potentially major step toward ending the coronavirus pandemic. The still-experimental vaccine, which was found to be more than 90 percent effective in late-stage clinical trials and does not appear to cause severe side effects, is expected to be rolled out for health care workers and long-term care facility residents in the coming days, the first phase of what should be the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history. Immediate distribution will be limited, with about 3 million doses expected in the initial shipments, but the goal is to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of December, another 30 million in January, and another 50 million in February. 2020 Dec 14: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough new five-week nationwide lockdown, saying that schools, museums, gyms, and non-essential shops will close down at midnight until January 19th. 2020 Dec 14:    More terrible coronavirus milestones for U.S.A.: 16,388,504 confirmed US cases and 300,267 confirmed US deaths and 3,054 more Americans died, another daily death toll exceeding 3,000. That's 77 more victims than died on 9/11, 72 more people than died as a result of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and 651 more people than died at Pearl Harbor in 1941. 2020 Monday Dec 14: Official meetings of the Electoral College. The 538 electors for all 50 states and Washington, DC voted in their respective states and sent their votes off to Congress. The tally confirmed President-elect Joe Biden's victory over President Trump in the November election: Biden received 306 electoral votes, comfortably above the 270 needed to win. 2020 Dec 16: U.S. sees biggest annual jump in poverty rate in 60 years: About 7.8 million Americans have fallen below the poverty line – annual income of $26,200 for a family of four, annual income of $12,760 for a single person – over the past five months, according to new data released by the University of Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. The change contributed to the biggest jump in poverty in a single year since the government started tracking the figures 60 years ago, although overall U.S. poverty levels remain low by historical standards. The poverty rate increased to 11.7 percent in November, up 2.4 percentage points since June, marking the fifth straight monthly increase. The situation stems from the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and the tough labor market that it has created, as well as dwindling government aid in the U.S. 2020 December 21: A mob of far-right protesters that had gathered to protest COVID-19 safety measures breached the Oregon Capitol in Salem while the House was in session because conservative State Rep. Mike Nearman (R) let them in, according to surveillance video showing Nearman exiting the Capitol through a side door; two protesters rushed in and waved in fellow demonstrators, and Nearman 'promptly walked around the building and entered on the opposite side'. State and Salem police arrived and managed to push out the rioters, who tried to fight their way back in, eventually forcing back police with bear mace. The Marion County (Oregon) District Attorney announced in April 2021 that Nearman will face criminal charges for 'unlawfully and knowingly' opening the door of the Oregon Capitol in Salem for rioters on December 21 'with intent to obtain a benefit or to harm another'. 2020 Fri Dec 25: Responding around 5:30 am on Christmas morning to check out reports of shots fired, police in Nashville, Tennessee found a recreational vehicle parked in front of an AT&T-owned building on Nashville's historic Second Avenue; a speaker system on the RV was broadcasting a warning about an imminent explosion and telling people to evacuate in what sounded like a recorded female voice. Police were able to block off the street before the explosion, but three people were injured, none critically; blast damage caused widespread communications outages that took down police emergency systems and grounded holiday travel at the city's airport. The Metro Nashville Police Department and its federal partners - the F.B.I. and A.T.F. - began conducting a large-scale investigation.          { click on each photograph for larger view in new window } Sat Dec 26: Federal agents identified a possible suspect in the Nashville bombing thru 'technological investigation', then searched the residence of Anthony Quinn Warner, age 63, in nearby Antioch, where he had kept an RV like the one that exploded in the bombing; he worked as an independent computer technician at a local real estate firm, which federal agents also searched. Sun Dec 27: Federal authorities said that DNA evidence shows that the Tennessee man identified as the suspect in the Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville died in the blast. 2020 Mon Dec 28: All three major Wall Street indexes hit record highs at the opening bell Monday morning after President Trump caved under pressure and signed the coronavirus stimulus package and an omnibus spending deal needed to avert a government shutdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index shot up 306 points, or 0.7 percent, surpassing $30,500 in the process; the S&P 500 rose 0.9 percent and the NASDAQ Composite rose 0.4 percent. 2020 Dec 31:    77,124 people died of coronavirus in the U.S. in December, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic. Also, the United States managed to administer fewer than 2.8 million coronavirus vaccine shots before 2020 ended, far below the goal of 20 million that federal officials had set for the year. 2020 Dec 31: The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index and the S&P 500 made solid gains Thursday to close the year at record highs; the Dow rose by $196.92 or 0.7 percent to $30,606.48 , the S&P 500 gained $24.03 or 0.6 percent to end 2020 at $3,756. The NASDAQ edged up by 1 percent to end at $12,888.28. The Dow finished an extremely volatile year with a total gain of 7.3 percent, the S&P posted a yearly gain of 16.3 percent, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ grew by nearly 44 percent for the year, thanks partly to some tech companies that soared because Americans relied on computers and internet services to work, study, shop, and keep entertained at home. . . . meanwhile, keep an eye on these planned/expected events THE PLAN - 2020 Oct 12: The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett; the hearing will last for three to four days, and then the markup process will start on Oct. 15; the nomination gets held for a week, setting up a vote on Oct. 22, then a full Senate vote by Oct. 26, a full week before the presidential election. 2021 Wed Jan 20: Inauguration of Emperor Trump's replacement. Indictments Day - pardons from the White House only apply to federal crimes; also there are no statutes of limitation on murder or treason or tax fraud in America. Expect indictments of former Emperor Trump and his criminal gang, in New York State at minimum. Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Timeline Pages Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E.    •    1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950   • 1951-1968    •    1969-2000    •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018 •    2019-2020 { top of this page }    •    next: 2021 to present    •    The Looming Future?    Spirit of America's U.S.A. Timeline of the COVID-19 Epidemic    Spirit of America's New Mexico Timeline of the COVID-19 Epidemic

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