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- The climate crisis ravaged the United States this summer. As the West struggled with unrelenting drought and dozens of wildfires, a deadly heat wave seared the Northwest in June. Months later, back-to-back hurricanes – Henri and Ida – slammed the Northeast, breaking all-time rainfall records.
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This article outlines United States-related events which occurred in the year 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to heavily impact the US, with the emergence of numerous COVID-19 variants leading to a substantial rise in both infections and deaths across the country.
- Covid-19'S Continued Toll
- U.S. Election Fallout
- Global Events
- Cultural Moments
- Disasters & Violence
- In The Courts
- Space & Tech
- In Memoriam
- Sources
As the year began, the nation was still firmly in the grip of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that first emerged in late December 2019 and spread around the world in 2020, prompting lockdowns, a global recession and upheaval on an unprecedented scale. In what became a record for the fastest vaccine development in history, vaccines by Pfizer and Mod...
January 6 Insurrection On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump demonstrators stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. Five people died in the chaos either shortly before, during or following the event, including a Capitol police officer. Lawmakers from both political parties, in...
U.S. Rejoins Paris Climate Accord and WHO In his first hours as president, Biden signed a letter signaling the return of the United States to the global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, adopted by nearly 200 nations in Paris in 2015. The nation had officially withdrawn from the Paris accord in late 2020...
Juneteenth Becomes a Federal Holiday In June, President Biden signed legislation officially establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The new holiday marks the anniversary of the date in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in...
Mass Shootings in Atlanta and Boulder Two mass shootings within a week of each other in March—at three spas in the Atlanta area on March 16 and a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado on March 22—proved a devastating reminder of the ongoing scourge of gun violence in the United States. Of the eight people killed in Atlanta, six were Asian women, fueli...
Verdicts in Three Prominent Murder Trials In April, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, which sparked protests against systemic racism and police violence in more than 2,000 U.S. cities and 60 countrie...
NASA Rover Lands on Mars Launched in late July 2020, the NASA rover Perseverance spent months traveling through space, covering some 292.5 million miles before touching down on Mars on February 18. As the space agency’s most sophisticated rover yet, Perseverance spent the rest of the year exploring Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake, collec...
Among the notable people we lost in 2021 was Colin Powell, the celebrated military leader who became the nation’s first Black secretary of state, who died in October of complications from COVID-19 while suffering from multiple myeloma, a blood cell cancer that suppresses the immune system, as well as Parkinson’s disease. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank...
Amy McKeever, “U.S. surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 deaths as Omicron looms.” National Geographic, December 15, 2021. CNN Editorial Staff, “Covid-19 Pandemic Timeline Fast Facts.” CNN, November 23, 2021. Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch, “FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated.” Reuters, August 20, 2021. Devan Cole and Paul LeBlan...
Aug 9, 2021 · Many places in the United States are starting to reopen and get back to some sort of normal as more people get vaccinated.
Oct 2, 2021 · The climate crisis ravaged the United States this summer. As the West struggled with unrelenting drought and dozens of wildfires, a deadly heat wave seared the Northwest in June.
- Rachel Ramirez
Dec 30, 2021 · The climate crisis took a catastrophic toll across the globe in 2021, with acute consequences in the US, where historic flooding trapped and killed residents in submerged basements.
Sep 2, 2021 · Big problems and petty politics. Think about the big problems: Fires out in the West. A hurricane in the Southeast. Flooding in the East. A humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. A deadly pandemic...
Dec 26, 2021 · Inauguration 2021: Swearing in of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris; President Biden takes office, moving quickly to implement agenda; Read the full text of Biden's inaugural address
