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November 2, 2020

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Headlines from November 2, 2020

What These Athletes Learned From Their Pandemic Pauses

By Matt Futterman, Juliet Macur, Talya Minsberg and James Wagner

The coronavirus disrupted lives around the world and sent the gymnast Sunisa Lee, the swimmer Rudy Garcia-Tolson, the Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart and the Seattle Mariners’ Kyle Lewis on unexpected journeys.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2020, covering November 2, 2020.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Folklore by Taylor Swift

    Folklore

    Taylor Swift

    Last week
    10
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    13
  2. 2
    Album cover for Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon by Pop Smoke

    Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

    Pop Smoke

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    16
  3. 3
    Album cover for Savage Mode II by 21 Savage & Metro Boomin

    Savage Mode II

    21 Savage & Metro Boomin

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  4. 4
    Album cover for Legends Never Die by Juice WRLD

    Legends Never Die

    Juice WRLD

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  5. 5
    Album cover for Wildflowers by Tom Petty

    Wildflowers

    Tom Petty

    Last week
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    58

Historical Events

Vienna

2020In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.[†]

Vienna is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the cultural, economic, and political center of the country, the fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most populous of the cities on the river Danube.

Historical Context for November 2, 2020

In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]