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2021 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.
2021 was additionally defined by protests against COVID-19 lockdowns in response to the pandemic, as well as the beginning of a period of high inflation and ongoing protests mostly against police brutality. The year also saw an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season, a destructive wildfire season in California, and a power crisis in Texas.
2021 begins with 346,000 pandemic-related deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [126] Over 20 million people had been infected and 4.2 million have received the first vaccine dose by January 2, well behind the projected 20 million doses by the end of 2020. [ 127 ]
If 2020 was a difficult year for most of the country, 2021 represented a reprieve - but mostly just because of the extremely low bar set by the previous year.The nation in 2020 was locked down by ...
Apollo-type asteroid 2024 YR4 triggers global planetary defence procedures for the first time and rises to the top of the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale after recent observations confirmed it has a 1-in-77 (1.3%) chance of impacting Earth on 22 December 2032. Follow up observations in 2028 will provide a more refined estimation of the ...
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2020–2021 Minneapolis–Saint Paul racial unrest, 2021 Uptown Minneapolis unrest, Killing of Deona Knajdek. One woman is killed and three are injured after a driver drove his car into a group of people in Minneapolis's Uptown district protesting the killing of Winston Boogie Smith, a 33-year-old black man. Police say the suspect is in custody.
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