A Year In Review

Christmas is now just 5 days away with New Year’s Eve looming just around the corner. What a fast year this has been, and yet, I feel like I’ve lived an entire lifetime in these past 12 months. Looking on my own personal journey, I can hardly recognize the person from January. Life is strange, beautiful, and surprising like that. After looking at the Impeachment hearings for President Trump this weekend, I started to ask myself “how did we get here?” (In a good way, in case you were wondering which way I’m leaning).  So, lets get a little introspective and play some montage music while we see the year in review. From pop culture, politics, deaths, new beginnings, and more!

Remember when…

January – March

  • McDonald Trump served the Clemson football team
  • The government shutdown lasted 35 days
  • The deathly dam collapsed in Brazil
  • Jussie Smollett lied about being verbally attacked in the street
  • Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, and Anthony Rossomando won the Academy Award for best original song “shallow”
  • Kelly had an interview on CBS This Morning where he was “Fighting for his f-ing life”
  • Two mosques in New Zealand were attacked in Christchurch
  • Boeing planes kept f-ing up

April – June

  • Lori Loughlin and husband were amongst couples being accused with bribing universities to get their kids into college
  • The first picture of a black hole was released to the world
  • The Notre Dame caught fire
  • A wave of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka left 250 dead
  • The first ever meeting between Putin and Kim Jong Un
  • Naruhito becomes Japan’s new emperor, replacing his father Akihito
  • Cyclone Kenneth destroyed Mozambique
  • The Mueller investigation
  • Food shortages incited more protests in Venezuela
  • Michael Cohen started his 3 year sentence in federal prison
  • The largest class of 34 African American women graduate from West Point Academy
  • The Highland Ranch, Colorado school shooting
  • The First child of Prince Harry and Dutchess Meghan, Archie, is born
  • Taiwan approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage
  • Two Mount Everest climbers died due to overcrowding on the mountain
  • British Prime Minister Theresa May resigned
  • Melania Geymonat and her partner Chris were attacked by a group of men on a London bus
  • There were 8 co-winners in the National Spelling Bee
  • Sara Sanders stepped down as Press Secretary
  • The people of Hong Kong stood up against communist China in a city-wide protest
  • President Trump officially announced his reelection campaign
  • The first Democratic presidential debated
  • Trump shook North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un’s hand at the DMZ

July – September

  • Hong Kong protesters made their way into the legislative Council Building, the anniversary of Britian’s colony handover to China
  • Trump’s “Salute to America” ceremony
  • Epstein was arrested on child sex trafficking charges, and found dead in his cell under suspicious circumstances in August
  • New York experiences a blackout to nearly 73,000 people
  • US representatives of color were told to “go back to their countries” (Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley)
  • Jon Stewart campaigned to help the victims of the 9/11 attacks maintain their compensation fund
  • Rober Mueller testified
  • Boris Johnson is named the new Prime Minister of England
  • 22 people were killed in a Walmart parking lot in El Paso, TX
  • Outrage spread over the conditions at the border for separating families seeking asylum
  • The Amazon burned for weeks
  • Trump thought Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama
  • Hurricane Dorian DESTROYED the Bahamas
  • Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau got caught for doing brown face at an Arabian nights party
  • Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg addresses the world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit (HOW DARE YOU?)

October – December

  • President trump calls the impeachment inquiry a witch hunt
  • Nasa’s Curiosity rover takes a selfie
  • The twelve presidential candidates take part in a democratic debate in Ohio
  • Trump pulled all support out of Syria – screwing everyone over
  • The first all-female space walk
  • AOC endorses Sen. Bernie Sanders for president
  • ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is killed
  • California wildfires rage during the dry season
  • Venice flooded
  • There was yet another shooting in Santa Clarita, California
  • Albania was hit with a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. Dozens killed and hundreds injured
  • Record brush fires reap havoc on the Australian outback
  • TRUMP IS IMPEACHED by the House of Representatives. We have yet to see if it passes through the senate

Whoo! What a year!!! Did we miss anything? Comment below