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When the pandemic shut down pools and resorts around the globe, life slid to a halt in the seaside town of Xingcheng, a major producer of bikinis and trunks.
“Hamnet,” by the novelist Maggie O’Farrell, considers the death’s reverberations on his family, and his work.
An event that was once expected to draw 50,000 people to Milwaukee may now involve just 300, with plans still far from settled a month before the convention.
Thousands of New Yorkers left the city and headed to the suburbs during the pandemic, and real estate there hasn’t been the same since.
A department store, a barbecue restaurant, a hotel — all had survived some of the biggest trials in history. Their owners are mourning the loss of a legacy.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2020, covering July 17, 2020.
Pop Smoke
Original Broadway Cast
Lil Baby
DaBaby
Post Malone
2020John Lewis, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1940)[†]
John Robert Lewis was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States, in 1965 Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.
2020Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya, Russian-Australian pair skater (born 2000)[†]
Ekaterina Dmitriyevna Alexandrovskaya was a Russian-Australian pair skater. With her skating partner, Harley Windsor, she was the 2017 CS Tallinn Trophy champion, the 2017 CS Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medallist, the 2018 CS U.S. Classic bronze medallist, and a two-time Australian national champion.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]