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Super Bowl XLVI
2012 Super Bowl XLVI, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN: New York Giants beat New England Patriots, 21-17; MVP: Eli Manning, New York, QB
Wojcicki YouTube CEO
2014 Google Vice President Susan Wojcicki is named CEO of YouTube
Al Jazeera Journalists Call
2014 US President Obama and journalists globally call for the release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
Glitter Found Guilty
2015 70's glam rocker Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) found guilty of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of having sex with a girl under the age of 13 between 1975 and 1980
- 2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
- 2017 African Cup of Nations 2017: Cameroon defeat Egypt 2-1 in Libreville
- 2017 Heavy metal band Black Sabbath play their last concert in their home town Birmingham, England
- 2017 Romanian government scraps corruption degree after 6 days of mass demonstrations
Super Bowl LI
2017 Super Bowl LI, NRG Stadium, Houston, TX: New England Patriots defeat Atlanta Falcons, 34-28; MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
- 2018 A share market sell off starts on Wall Street with Dow Jones sinking 4.6%, spreads around the globe
Paul Simon's Farewell Tour
2018 American singer-songwriter Paul Simon announces his farewell tour - a retirement from touring, but not necessarily from live performance
- 2018 Dow Jones Industrial Average has largest intraday point swing, dropping over 1,413 points
- 2019 China’s first science fiction blockbuster, “The Wandering Earth” premieres, directed by Frant Gwo, based on a story by Liu Cixin
- 2019 Pierre Davis is the first transgender designer to show at New York Fashion Week with label No Sesso
Pope Admits Cleric's Abuse
2019 Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns
Senate Acquits Trump
2020 US Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress
- 2021 Ocean life is being drowned out by human noise, especially shipping, construction, sonar and seismic surveys according to new research [1]
- 2022 Body of five-year old Moroccan boy Rayan Oram retrieved from the well he fell down four days previously after huge rescue effort [1]
- 2022 Sanaz Toossi's play "English" premieres off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2023) [1]
- 2022 Six days before his 50th birthday, 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater wins his 8th Pipeline title beating 22-year old Hawaiian Seth Moniz in the final
65th Grammy Awards
2023 65th Grammy Awards: Best Album Harry Styles "Harry’s House”, Best Record Lizzo "About Damn Time", Best Song Bonnie Raitt “Just Like That”, Beyoncé breaks record for most wins with her 32nd Grammy [1]
Grammy Awards
2024 66th Grammy Awards: Taylor Swift wins record 4th Best Album with "Midnights", Best Record Miley Cyrus "Flowers", Best Song Billie Eilish “What I Was Made For”, Killer Mike led away in handcuffs [1]
- 2024 Brazil warns it is expecting a very bad year of dengue fever with over 4.2 million cases - with Rio de Janeiro already declaring a public health emergency [1]
Hiss Goes #1
2024 Megan Thee Stallion's achieves her first solo #1 with diss single "Hiss" amid a feud with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj [1]
- 2024 One of Los Angeles' rainiest days causes mudslides and flooding, brought by the "Pineapple Express", an atmospheric river from Hawaii [1]
