On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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With private property proving hard to acquire, the administration has stepped up efforts to secure land on the Mexican border for President Trump’s wall.
While many are eager for life to get back to pre-virus normal, some introverts, and even some extroverts, are savoring their time sheltering in place.
Science and children’s museums are studying how to rethink their many tactile exhibits to keep people safe.
President Trump’s taking aim at Twitter for fact-checking his tweets is part of a long tradition upheld by aggrieved internet trolls. The stakes are high.
The company made the cost-cutting move as it navigates a slump in advertising created by the pandemic.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 2020, covering May 29, 2020.
Future
Polo G
Lil Baby
Drake
DaBaby
2020Maikanti Baru, Nigerian engineer, former chief of state oil firm. (born 1959)[†]
Maikanti Kachalla Baru was a Nigerian engineer, crude oil marketer and the 18th Group Managing Director of the Nigeria's state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He served in the position from July 2016 to July 2019 and had previously served as the Group General Manager (GGM) of National Petroleum Investment Management Services. Baru was a fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers and Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
2020An oil spill in Norilsk releases 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers.[†]
The Norilsk diesel oil spill was an industrial disaster near Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It began on 29 May 2020 when a fuel storage tank at Norilsk-Taimyr Energy's Thermal Power Plant No. 3 failed, flooding local rivers with up to 17,500 tonnes of diesel oil. President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency in early June. The incident has been described as the second-largest oil spill in modern Russian history, after the 1994 Komi pipeline spill, where 400,000 tonnes of crude oil were released to the environment between August 1994 and January 1995.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]