Historical Events in 2021 (Part 5)

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• Nov 17 Record number of Americans, over 100,000, died of drug overdoses April 2020 - April 2021 according to the CDC [1]
• Nov 17 US capitol rioter QAnon Shaman [Jacob Chansley] sentenced to three years in prison by a federal court [1]
• Nov 17 US National Book Award given to Jason Mott (fiction), Tiya Miles (nonfiction) and Martín Espada (poetry)

• Nov 19 Austria becomes the first country to make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory (from 1 Feb) as it announces its fourth lockdown [1]
• Nov 19 Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds
• Nov 19 MLB Cleveland Indians name change to Guardians becomes official
• Nov 19 Rare original copy of the U.S. Constitution sold to Ken Griffin, head of hedge fund Citadel, for $43.2 million - world record price for a book, historical document or manuscript [1]

• Nov 19 US jury clears Kyle Rittenhouse (18) of murder for fatally shooting two people and injuring a third during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Nov 21 "Voiceless Mass" by Raven Chacon, premieres at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee - first work by an Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music [1]

• Nov 23 At least 45 people are killed when a bus crashes and catches fire, near Sofia, Bulgaria
• Nov 23 Egypt reopens its 3000 year old Avenue of the Sphinxes in Luxor with a grand ceremony [1]

• Nov 23 NASA launches its DART Mission, to test technology to prevent future impact on earth by hazardous asteroid, by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid (in a real life echo of the movie Armageddon) [1]
• Nov 24 At least 27 migrants drown after their boat capsizes in the English Channel trying to reach the UK
• Nov 24 Sweden's first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart
• Nov 24 Three men found guilty by a jury of felony murder of black runner Ahmaud Arbery, with Travis McMichael also convicted of malice murder in Brunswick, Georgia [1]

• Nov 25 India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey [1]

• Nov 26 WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a "variant of concern", with its dozens of new mutations, after it emerges in Botswana and South Africa [1]
• Nov 28 Dan Campbell records his first victory as head coach of the Detroit Lions with a win against the Minnesota Vikings in Week 13
• Nov 28 Honduras presidential elections: Xiomara Castro elected country's first female president (declared 2 Dec)
• Nov 29 British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffery Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex trafficking in a federal court in Manhattan [1]

• Nov 30 15-year-old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan

• Dec 1 Tel Aviv named the world's most expensive city for the first time ahead of Singapore and Paris, with Damascus the cheapest [1]
• Dec 1 Turner Art Prize awarded to activist group Array Collective for installation including mock Irish pub - first Northern Irish artists to win [1]
• Dec 4 Mt Semeru erupts on Java island, Indonesia, killing at least 14 and injuring 56
• Dec 4 New Zealand cricket spin bowler Ajaz Patel (10-119) joins Jim Laker and Anil Kumble as the only three men to take all ten wickets in a Test innings, on Day 2 of the 2nd Test against India in Mumbai
• Dec 5 First known Hippos tests positive for COVID-19 at Antwerp Zoo in Belgium, with staff putting Imani (14) and Hermien (41) into isolation [1]

• Dec 6 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a COVID-19 mandate for all private employers effective December 27, to combat Omicron, 1st in the country
• Dec 7 3,500 year-old Gilgamesh Dream Tablet goes on display in Iraq for the first time in 30 years after looted during Gulf War. Part of the Epic Gilgamesh, one of oldest known pieces of literature. [1]
• Dec 7 Chile becomes the 31st nation to legalize same-sex marriage [1]
• Dec 7 Mockumentary comedy "Abbott Elementary" premieres in the US, created and starring Quinta Brunson

• Dec 8 Olaf Scholz is sworn as the new Chancellor of Germany, replacing Angela Merkel after 16 years
• Dec 9 Actor Jussie Smollett found guilty of falsely reporting a hate crime in 2019, in a Chicago court
• Dec 9 Chicago Black Hawks Marc-Andre Fleury becomes 3rd NHL goaltender to reach 500 career wins in 2-0 shut-out over the Canadiens at Montreal
• Dec 9 More than 40 camels disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements were discovered [1]
• Dec 9 Truck with a trailer carrying 150 migrants crashes in Chiapas, Mexico, killing 54 [1]
• Dec 10 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, London, England: Europe retains trophy with an 11-6 win over US; MVP: Jayson Shaw (Scotland)
• Dec 10 Rare December tornadoes strike four American states, with a 'Quad-State Tornado' across Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky, completely destroying some towns and leaving at least 70 dead
• Dec 11 87th Heisman Trophy Award: Bryce Young, Alabama (QB)

• Dec 12 Dutchman Max Verstappen wins Formula 1 Drivers' C'ship for Red Bull with a controversial last lap win over Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton in the season-ending Abu Dhabi GP
• Dec 13 1 in a 100 Americans aged over 65 has now died of COVID-19, or 75% of total deaths, according to the CDC [1]

• Dec 13 First COVID-19 Omicron death in the UK reported by PM Boris Johnson

• Dec 14 American Covid-19 death toll passes 800,000, with more deaths recorded in 2021 than 2020
• Dec 14 Fuel tanker explosion after an accident leaves at least 90 dead in city of Cap-Haitien, Haiti [1]
• Dec 14 Steph Curry makes his 2,974th three-point shot to pass Ray Allen as the NBA's greatest career 3-point shooter during Golden State Warriors' 105-96 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden

• Dec 15 COVID-19 Omicron variant called "probably the most significant threat" of the pandemic by head of UK Health Security Agency, warning of "staggering" growth in next few days [1]

• Dec 16 Six children die in a bouncy castle accident at a school in Devonport, Tasmasia, Australia
• Dec 16 Super Typhoon Rai strikes the Philippines' south-eastern islands with winds of 195km/h (120mph), killing at least 375
• Dec 17 Discovery of the first true millipede (Eumillipes persephone) with 1,000 legs found down a drill hole in Western Australia published in "Scientific Reports" [1]
• Dec 19 Former student activist Gabriel Boric wins Chile's Presidential election, to become the country's youngest president at 35
• Dec 20 First Hong Kong legislative elections with only 'patriot' candidates allowed to stand has low turnout of 30%
• Dec 21 Major breakthrough in development of nuclear fission energy when experiment produces 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at JET Laboratory, UK (reported Feb 2022) [1]
• Dec 25 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched in joint effort with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America [1]
• Dec 28 Test cricket debutant Scott Boland takes 6 for 7 as Australia retain the Ashes (3-0) with an innings & 14 run win against England in the 3rd Test in Melbourne
• Dec 30 Rare winter wildfire destroys nearly 1000 homes at the base of the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, in suburban neighborhoods between Boulder and Denver [1]

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