Curated playlist
First presidency of Donald Trump
- Parkland high school shootingThe Parkland high school shooting began at 2:19 p.m. on the 14th of February 2018, when an Uber driver dropped a 19-year-old passenger at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Dismissal was twenty minutes away. The…
- North American Free Trade AgreementOn the day the NAFTA trade deal began, an armed militia seized five municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico.
- War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)The war in Afghanistan lasted from 2001 to 2021, and it became the longest war in United States military history. It ran six months longer than the Vietnam War. A United States-led coalition launched it under the name Operation Enduring…
- 2017 Las Vegas shootingThe 2017 Las Vegas shooting began on the 1st of October 2017, on the last night of a country music festival, and many people in the crowd first took the sound for fireworks. The gunfire came from a suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay…
- Hurricane HarveyHurricane Harvey left a measurement of 60.58 inches of rain in Nederland, Texas. No other tropical cyclone in the United States has ever dropped more water on a single place. In late August 2017, the storm settled over the eastern part of…
- Guantanamo Bay detention campThe Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison on the coast of southeastern Cuba. On the 11th of January 2002, military guards brought the first twenty detainees to a temporary compound there called Camp X-Ray. Over…
- Tea Party movementWithin roughly ten hours of a trading-floor rant, a Tea Party protest website existed. It was called reTeaParty.com.
- Second Cold WarIn May 1998, George Kennan warned that expanding NATO was "the beginning of a new cold war".
- 2019 El Paso Walmart shootingAt 10:15 on the morning of the 3rd of August 2019, a young man sat in a parked car outside a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. He opened his laptop and visited the imageboard 8chan. There he started a thread with a two-word title, "ITS TIME". The…
- War on terrorThe war on terror aimed at a tactic, not a country. The U.S. began it after the September 11 attacks.
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United StatesA woman in Santa Clara County died of COVID-19 by February 6, 2020. The CDC did not confirm her death until April 21.