Was 2020 the worst year ever? Historians weigh in. Michael Rosenwald © Katherine Frey/The Washington Post With the White House in the background, 20,000 chairs, each representing 10 Americans killed by the novel coronavirus, are lined up Sunday on the Ellipse for the first National Covid-19 Remembrance.
So, just to recap, the following events occurred in 2020:
The coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, killing more than 1.7 million people (so far), including more than 337,000 (so far) in the United States.
The president of the United States was tried and acquitted, after being impeached at the end of 2019.
Protests stemming from several police killings of unarmed Black Americans erupted throughout the country, including just outside the White House, where federal law enforcement officers used tear gas on U.S. citizens.
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