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In 2020, the city has weathered a tornado’s devastation and the rippling consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Then, a bewildering and unsettling attack made a tough year tougher.
A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.
The industry employs millions, and the upheaval it experienced played out in the lives of many Americans.
In a career spanning more than three-quarters of a century, he remained a futurist, reproducing fashions for ready-to-wear consumption and affixing his brand to an outpouring of products.
Black policyholders suspect discrimination as they deal with insurers, but it is impossible to prove because the insurers keep a lid on claims data.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 2020, covering December 29, 2020.
Taylor Swift
Kid Cudi
Taylor Swift
Michael Buble
Jack Harlow
2020Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (born 1922)[†]
Pierre Cardin was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954.
2020Joe Louis Clark, American educator (born 1937)[†]
Joe Louis Clark was an American educator and administrator, who was best known for his tenure as principal of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey from 1982 to 1989. He gained national attention for his unconventional and controversial disciplinary measures while leading the school, and was the subject of the 1989 film Lean on Me, starring Morgan Freeman.
2020Alexi Laiho, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1979)[†]
Alexi Laiho was a Finnish guitarist, composer, and vocalist. He was best known as the lead guitarist, lead vocalist and founding member of the melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, and was also the guitarist for Sinergy, the Local Band, Kylähullut, and Bodom After Midnight, which formed just prior to his death. Laiho had previously played with Thy Serpent and Impaled Nazarene on occasion, as well as Warmen and Hypocrisy.
2020A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits near the town of Petrinja in Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia, killing seven people.[†]
At 12:19 PM CET on 29 December 2020, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 Mw hit central Croatia, with an epicenter located roughly 3 km (1.9 mi) west-southwest of Petrinja. The maximum felt intensity was estimated at VIII to IX (Destructive) on the European macroseismic scale. Before this event there were three foreshocks, the strongest of which had a magnitude of 5.2 Mw on the day before. The earthquake was followed by numerous aftershocks, the strongest of which had a magnitude of 4.9 Mw.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]