Events September 20 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Election of Interest

2015 Alexis Tsipras and Syriza party declared the winners in Greek snap election

2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%

2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba

2015 President Ram Baran Yadav signs Nepal's new constitution into law in Kathmandu

2016 "This Is Us" TV drama premieres in the US starring Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia

2016 Black American Keith Lamont Scott is shot dead by a black police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina, provoking violent protests in the city

2017 Alex Puccio completes the first female ascent of The Wheel of Chaos V14 (8B+) in Rocky Mountain National Park

2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico as a category 4 hurricane, knocking out all power and killing 25
2017 US Federal Reserve says it will start to unwind its bond portfolio employed in wake of the financial crisis

2018 EU leaders, including Donald Tusk and Emmanuel Macron, criticize Theresa May's Brexit plan at a summit in Salzburg, Austria

2018 Overloaded ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, killing at least 207, with one man surviving in air lock for two days
2018 Woman shoots seven people, killing three and herself at a Rite Aid distribution center near Baltimore, Maryland

2019 Australian PM Scott Morrison welcomed for week-long visit at the White House by US President Donald Trump

2019 Batman Day - 80th anniversary of the first Batman comic
2019 Rare Egyptian political protests take place against corruption in President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government in Tahrir Square, Cairo and elsewhere
2019 Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal"

2019 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg

2019 The MOSAiC expedition, the greatest Arctic research expedition ever, sets sail from Norway, aims to stay trapped in ice for a year to study climate change
2020 72nd Emmy Awards held virtually: "Succession" best drama, "Schitts Creek" wins record nine awards for a comedy, "Watchman" best limited series
2020 FinCEN files leaked - over 2,000 mostly 'suspicious activity reports' to the US government showing banks allowed money laundering worth $2 trillion between 2000-17
2020 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot CC: American Bryson DeChambeau claims his first career major title as the only player to score under par; wins by 6 strokes from Matthew Wolff

2021 First edition of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel "Frankenstein" sells for $1.17 million, setting new world record for a printed work by a woman [1]

2021 Kansas City Royals' Salvador Perez hits his 46th home run to break Hall of Famer Johnny Bench's MLB record for most in a season by a catcher, in Royals 7-2 win in Cleveland
2021 Pfizer announces they have developed a safe COVID-19 vaccine for 5-11 year-olds with a dose 1/3 of the strength

2022 Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge breaks his own world record for the marathon in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds in Berlin (previous record 2:01:39) [1]

2023 Azerbaijan agrees ceasefire with Karabakh separatists after 24-hour military offensive against ethnic Armenians in South Caucasus [1]
2023 Earliest known evidence for humans building with wood discovered near Kalambo Falls, Zambia at nearly half a million years old (previous known example 9,000 years old) [1]
2023 US Homeland Security announces plans to grant special status, on humanitarian grounds, to 472,000 Venezuelans already in the US, allowing them to work [1]