101 Facts About The 2010s

101 facts now in Technicolor greetings mother fact is my name is Sam and today we're going to be taking a fond look back on the pure unfettered insanity that was the 2010 it was the best of times and then it was subsequently the absolute worst of times and it may very well be the worst of times for some time yet we'll just have to wait and see but what awesome legal changes happen upon the verdant Island violent in the 2010 what did Neptune do for the very first time in 2011 and what the hell did we ever do to you 2016 not cool man not cool anyway to answer three those questions are going to be answered so sit yourself down choke yourself something intoxicating to numb the pain and prepare to wince in horror as we review the utter bedlam that was the previous decade in 101 fact about the 2010 before we get going though just to say I originally really wanted this video to be entirely composed of my drawings illustrations for the last decade but Chris said he hated them and then for some 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on the 31st of December 2019 and boy was it unpleasant at times like it had some good stuff but number two the decade was characterized by economic woes in the specter of austerity as well as the ongoing intensification of social medias Gripen are gooey vulnerable brains all while global warming continued to crank up the heat on the already very sweaty planet Earth it's been rough basically but hey it's not all bad the decade also witnessed further progression the battle for gender equality and queer and there's been all this cool to per hero stuff going on too so at least it wasn't boring number three we start on the 4th of January 2010 only four days into the decade when a staggering new world record was set for the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates the structure rises to the height of two thousand seven hundred twenty two feet making it the current tallest man-made structure on earth the Burj Khalifa also became somewhat of a celebrity chumming it up with Tom Cruise in Mission Possible ghost Protocol likely legit a Lister it is number four on the 14th of April 2010 Iceland started exploding out of a glacier covered a volcano could cool a good AF ya plug do you good AF yet love yogurt all-male dip which speed huge quantities of volcanic debris up to nine kilometers into the atmosphere this resulted in a truly gargantuan ash cloud which covered much of Europe as well as large parts of Asia and North America leading to the cancellation of well over 100,000 flights screwing up the travel plan to around 10 million people in what was the largest air traffic shutdown since the Second World War oh god damn Iceland you crazy number five on the 20th of April 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico killing 11 workers the damage caused by the explosion left oil gushing out of the seabed resulting in the largest oil spill in American history the world was not successfully plucked until several months later and though the environmental disaster that followed prompted massive fines of over 18 billion dollars for BP not a single person went to prison as a result eleven people died and horrifying numbers of marine animals died as a result of the oil spill but no prison time for anyone nada number six on the 31st of May 2010 the Gaza freedom fatiah a group of civilian vessels carrying humanitarian aid destined for the blockaded Gaza Strip was raided by Israel soldiers in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea the soldiers clashed with those on board the ship resulting in the deaths of ten Turkish activists prompting controversy around the globe and severely damaging its rails international reputation as a result Israel eases blockade on Gaza and off a turkey 20 million dollars in compensation number seven in the summer 2010 the 19th FIFA World Cup was held in the very literally titled nation of South Africa constituting the very first time that the event made its way to the African continent held between the 11th of June and the 11th of July the competition was ultimately won by Spain though we all know the real winners were the millions of plastic horns and his booboo sailors who still hism now the busing the buzzing number 8 on the 24th of June 2010 Australian politician Julia Gillard was elected unopposed in a Labour Party leadership ballot and subsequently was sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Australia bonsai Australians do say bonds of right it's not like a whole shrimp on the barbie situation number 9 on the 8th of July 2010 a big Swiss aircraft called the Solar Impulse spent 26 hours 10 minutes and 19 seconds in the air after taking off from and subsequently learning back in Payerne in Switzerland this constituted the very first 24-hour flight by a solar-powered plane and was especially significant as the Solar Impulse managed to stay aloft throughout the night using energy collected during the day this meant that the aircraft could theoretically stay in the air indefinitely proving solar powers potential in the face of impending environmental disaster caused by global warming nifty number 10 on the 16th of July 2010 the first Instagram posts were made by Co developers Mike Krieger and Kevin sized room in San Francisco this artsy snap of South Beach harbor at pier 38 was a test the proceed of the services public launch months later on the 6th of October after which Instagram became the insanely popular social media big hitter that it is today finally giving people a platform to show how much better their lives are than yours number 11 on the 25th of July 2010 a certain online publisher of anonymous covert and classified material known as WikiLeaks leaked the hell out of roughly 90 mm internal reports about the United states-led involvement in the war in Afghanistan between 2004 and 2010 and boy oh boy of the American political establishment not like that mostly because this leaked as well as several other previous leaks exposed various wrongdoings on the part of the US government such as let's see scores of unreported civilian casualties several embarrassing friendly fire incidents and the use of psychological torture stay classy number 12 on the 3rd of October 2010 the nation of Germany made its final reparation payment for the whole first world war thing though Germany didn't start the Great War they did kind of make it their thing which did become a bit of a problem for the rest of Europe still it's good to know they were finally able to draw a line under to move on and wonder if you only stayed out of trouble after the war ended I wonder number 13 oh you thought we were moving on from WikiLeaks ha ha nah fam I'll chase an American on the 28th of November WikiLeaks released a further collection of more than 250,000 American diplomat cables including 100,000 they were marked secret or confidential these included nearest candid comments and illuminating revelations varying wildly in their scope importance and perhaps most vitally their hilarity examples include the fact that US diplomats have been gathering personal info on the former Secretary General of the UN Ban ki-moon that the u.s. bartered with Guantanamo prisoners and there is insults made against world leaders such as the former dictator of North Korea Kim jong-il being referred to as a flappy old chap lol number 14 on the 17th of December a tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire in a desperate protest against harassment and humiliation by local officials who are alleged to have confiscated his wares and assaulted him Bouazizi's anguish self-immolation which led to his death three weeks later triggered the Tunisian Revolution and the resignation of the Tunisian president Ben Ali this in turn prompted a wave of revolutions and protests throughout the Arab world later dabbed the Arab Spring number 15 and now on to 2011 between the 9th and 15th of January the people of South Sudan voted in a referendum on whether or not to put them an independent state having felt marginalized and oppressed by them Sudanese government of the north almost 99% of the largely non Arab and Christian people of Sudan southern regions voted in favor of Independence and several months later on the 9th of July South Sudan officially became its very own independent country number 16 on the 11th of March a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred approximately 70 kilometers east of the ashika blinchik of Turku in Japan this quakes the most powerful ever recorded in Japan triggered a series of tsunami waves that crashed into the eastern Japanese coastline and threat up to ten kilometers inland causing chaos and destruction almost 16,000 people were killed in the days after the earthquake for damages reaching an estimated 235 billion dollars according to the World Bank making this by far the costliest natural disaster in history number 17 on the 29th of April a couple of posh people got married what do you do moving on number are fine okay more detail I'm doing this for you Liz on the 29th of April millions of people in the UK and across the globe tuned in to watch the wedding of Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London it was a lovely day good songs were heard by all problem number 18 on the 1st of May then US President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden the founder and leader of the militant group al-qaeda that masterminded the 9/11 attacks had been killed following an American military operation in Pakistan having been on the run for almost a decade bin Laden finally got got for his crimes and at the risk of being controversial here good number 19 on the 26th of May 2011 the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic wanted for a variety of fun and kooky misdeeds like genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity was finally arrested in Serbia having been one of the principal figures and the atrocities committed against Bosnian Muslims in the Bosnian war Labbit was later sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia number 20 on the 12th of July 2011 the planet Neptune finally got his act together and completed its very first full orbit of the Sun since it was discovered in 1846 that's right a year on Neptune last almost 165 of our puny earth years since it's a bit further away from that enormous orbit burning gas than we are number 21 on the 17th of September 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests began in the u.s. originally organized by the Canadian anti-consumerist and pro-environment organization Adbusters citing increasing social and economic equality greed and corruption as motivating factors the original protest eventually developed into the entire Occupy movement that eventually spread to over 80 countries in a matter of months like some form of disease but but a good one as a result of the Occupy movement corruption inequalities decreased significantly throughout the world and oh no wait no that didn't happen in fact it's worse than ever well I tried number 22 all this fat Siri on the 20th of October 2011 as part of the continuing Arab Spring movement yep that again retreating Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi was captured and paraded through the streets of his hometown of Sirte a city on Libya's northern coast before finally being executed by the National Transitional Council forces with this came the end of the Libyan Civil War and the end of Gaddafi's 42-year rule number 23 the 31st of October 2011 is the symbolic date chosen by the UN as the moment in human history at which the global population reached 7 billion go us I think maybe number 24 on the 15th of December 2011 the United States formally declared an end to the Iraq war a conflict that began as part of them President George Bush's so-called war on terror following the 9/11 attacks of 2001 the Bush administration based a decision to go to war on the claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction which posed a threat to the US and its allies and sport alert hey by the way Iraq did not in fact have WMDs and the resulting conflict cost the lives of least 100,000 Iraqi civilians though some estimates go higher at 600,000 hey Lisa damn his angle executed silver linings right gosh what a grim fact that is moving on number 25 on the 13th of January 2012 the passenger cruise ship cost to Concordia sank off the coast of Italy following a collision with the submerged rock resulting in the death of 32 passengers the responsibility for the horrific loss of life fell squarely on the captain Francesco Schettino who was later found guilty of manslaughter causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship number 26 on the 6th of February 2012 queen elizabeth ii la vie a.m. match celebrated her Diamond Jubilee which marked the 60th anniversary of her ascension to the throne to the United Kingdom Canada Australia and New Zealand and the 60th anniversary of becoming the head of the Commonwealth so congrats or not being dead lizzie and looking better than ever number 27 on the 13th of March 2012 after an impressive 246 years the Encyclopedia Britannica discontinued its print edition sorry books Google's are ruthless yet very convenient killer which is incidentally how I hope to be described in the many biographies of my life that I assume will be written in the next 30 years watch this space number 28 following much sciencing on the 4th of July 2012 the brain boxes at CERN announced the discovery of a brand-new elementary particle with properties consistent with the so-called Higgs experiments conducted at the Large Hadron Collider that's the massive circular tube that British tabloids do Tata convinced us was actually going to destroy the planet prove the particles existence which was necessary to justify the Higgs mechanism as an explanation of why particles have mass which I personally had been really troubling over for a long time so I'm glad they clear that up number 29 between the 27th of July and 12th of August 2012 the gorgeous City of London where all the coolest people live also known as yours truly yeah as make hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics bringing people from all over the globe to the UK's capital and a beautiful display of British hospitality and international goodwill our tiny little island placed third in the rankings behind the US and China a terrific achievement which swelled British chests with pride it was nice while it lasted number thirty on the 30th of July 2012 northern India suffered a massive power outage that affected roughly 400 million people making it the worst power outage in world history at least it was until the very next day on the 31st of July when another huge outage across an even larger area of northern India eliminated power for roughly 620 million people or about 9% of the total world population Powell was finally restored a day later on the first of August number 31 on the 6th of August 2012 NASA successfully landed the mars science laboratories missions rover known as curiosity on the red planet hopefully without killing any cats in the process screw you guys it was a good joke you didn't get it anyway NASA landed a robot on Mars it was pretty cool and HD and everything good for them number 32 on the 14th of October 2012 a crazed Austrian skydiver named Felix Baumgartner flung himself from a massive helium filled balloon floating in the planets stratosphere roughly 24 miles above Roswell New Mexico in the United States in doing so Baumgartner broke several badass World Records and became the very first person to break the sound barrier without any machine assistance reaching the incredible speed of around 843 miles per hour during his four minutes in 19 second freefall honestly the things people do for an adrenaline rush when I need a thrill all I do is order a tikka masala instead have a Cormack much safer but what a kick number 33 on to 2013 now and on the 15th of burberry a massive meteor all measuring roughly 20 meters across literally exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk producing a hot cloud of dust and gas and raining smaller fragments across a large area the resulting shockwave damaged over 4300 buildings which in turn left almost 1500 people injured mainly from flying broken glass from window is being blown in bad meaty or naughty meaty or not to explode all at again I suppose it won't with it number 34 on the 21st of every it was announced an American scientist had managed a 3d print and actual ear using collagen and animal ear cell cultures they printed an ear guys what's next streaming an eyebrow air dropping a buck cheek madness number 35 on the 28th of February 2013 the absolute mad lad that is Pope Benedict shocked the world when he decided to resign becoming the first pope to do so since Gregory the 7th in 1415 and the first to do so voluntarily since celestine v all the way back in 1294 around the time your mum was born soon after the new pope was revealed to be pope francis who everyone thinks is a cool modern pope because he's ever so slightly less openly rude about gay people than his predecessors cool number 36 on the 15th of april 2013 - improvised pressure-cooker bombs were planted roughly 190 meters apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts the bomb was detonated within seconds of each other at roughly 250 p.m. killing three people and injuring 264 others the perpetrators were later identified as brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Kyrgyz Americans of Chechen descent who had tracked down over the course of several days and an unprecedented manhunt Tamerlan tsarnaev was killed three days after the bombing while his brother was found hiding in a boat in a backyard and later sentenced to death number 37 in the early evening of the 31st of May the central region of the u.s. state of Oklahoma was terrorized by the El Reno tornado which over the course of just 40 minutes swelled to a record-breaking 2.6 miles across making it the widest tornado ever recorded the tornado which caused the deaths of eight people and left over 100 people injured also exhibited extreme winds of up to 301 miles per hour the second fastest ever recorded only the 1999 bridge Creek Moore tornado recorded slightly higher wind speeds not a 38 on the 6th of June a fellow by the name of Edward Snowden leaked a bunch of highly classified information which he had obtained while working for CIA to several journalists and then heated himself out of the United States to Russia the information he leaked concerned mass surveillance operations carried out by the US government prompting considerable conversation and controversy regarding national security and one's individual right to privacy Snowden is currently married and living in Moscow kicking back with a bowl of borscht and wondering if it was all worth their I assume number 39 in December of 2013 the West African nation of Guinea saw the outbreak of the Ebola virus epidemic which raised until April of 2016 over 28,000 600 people were infected leading to over 11,000 300 deaths making the epidemic the most widespread outbreak of Ebola in history it sucked basically number 40 in February 2014 major protests erupted in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych continued to postpone moves to form closer relationship with the European Union the demonstrations soon became violent with clashes between protesters and police eventually resulting in the deaths of nearly 130 people viewing your new kovitch as leadership as untenable the Ukrainian Parliament voted unanimously on the 22nd February to remove him from office you don't give it to requested assistance from Russia who responded by annexing the Crimean Peninsula after almost 97% of those living there votes to become part of the Russian Federation none 41 on the 8th of March Malaysia Airlines flight 370 a Boeing 777 airliner flying to Beijing from Kuala lumper mysteriously disappeared over the gulf of thailand with 239 people on board debris from the aircraft which is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean washed up on Reunion Island in August of 2015 well over a year later the meaning of life on the 25th of April 2015 officials in Flint Michigan changed the water source for the city to the Flint River as a cost-cutting measure they did so without undertaking proper safety procedures uh-oh and as a result led from aging pipes leached into the water supply over 100,000 were exposed to elevated lead levels which was also the cause of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease in the county that killed 12 people as of January 2020 the Flint water crisis is still not fully resolved number 43 between the times of June and the 13th of July the 2014 FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil the highly anticipated international competition was marred by domestic controversies over the willingness of officials who spend public money on the tournaments in a nation with such a huge number of people living in poverty oh and also because England went out in the group stage for the first time since 1958 which 100% sucked also Germany beat Brazil 71 on their own turf and eventually went on to win the whole thing with a 1 nil victory over Argentina Germany had ample time to gouge before the next World Cup in 2018 in which they were less than successful number 44 on the 17th of July 2014 Malaysia Airlines flight 17 a Boeing 777 crashed in eastern Ukraine after being shot down by a missile resulting in the deaths of all 298 people on board given the political situation in Ukraine at the time the incident prompted tense discussion over who was responsible weeks later on the 28th of September international investigators concluded that the aircraft was shot down by a Buch missile fired from an error controlled by pro-russian rebels in eastern Ukraine despite considerable evidence the Russian government continues to deny any responsibility for shooting down the plane because well of course they do number 45 on the 18th of September 2014 the people of Scotland voted in a referendum on whether or not to become an independent country when the results were counted it emerged Scotland had voted to stay in the UK and in the year since the majority of Scots have come to agree this was the best decision for the country number 46 on the 7th of January 2015 two gunmen belonging to al-qaeda's Yemen branch assaulted the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people and injuring 11 more the attackers were motivated by the magazine's controversial depictions of Muhammad and various Islamic leaders prompting a widespread discussion on religious tolerance and freedom of speech in the wake of the attack millions of people attended rallies in France and worldwide in condemnation of the senseless murders 147 almost when TVs of April 2015 a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred in the mountainous nation of Nepal causing almost 9,000 deaths and dozens more in the areas of India China and Bangladesh the quake levelled entire villages across the region leaving hundreds of thousands of Nepalese people homeless while numerous historic sites some dating back hundreds of years were completely destroyed number 48 on the 23rd of May 2015 the people of Ireland voted to legalize same-sex marriage becoming the first country to legalize marriage equality by popular vote the results of the referendum was seen by many as a major shift away from the traditionally conservative character of the nation and as a stark rebuke to the power of the Catholic Church go Ireland for the first bit number 49 on the second of June 2015 Sepp Blatter announced his intention to resign as FIFA president amidst an fbi-led investigation into the International football governing body here in Europe we've known that fever's corrupt as hell for years and we really had to give it to the Americans who historically haven't been really big football fans for taking Blatter down Thank You America Thank You mommies script here's his Eagles reach but I can't do that but well done number 50 on the 14th of July NASA's new Horizons interplanetary space probe zipped past the expander to Pluto becoming the first spacecraft in history to visit the distant world the probe sent back a bunch of lush pics of Pluto's gorgeous surface allowing us to get a look of it's hot exterior like the perps we are number 51 on the 20th of July 2015 Cuba and the United States finally established full diplomatic relations after 54 years stretch of bickering gossiping and general bitchiness between the nations I'm so glad they finally made up honestly it was getting boring number 52 on the 10th of September 2015 scientists announced the discovery of homo Naledi a previously unknown species of early hominin that scurried around what's now South Africa about a quarter of a million years ago and wouldn't you know it humans are still scurrying around all over South Africa today scurrying we all do it number 53 the lines of September 2015 63 years and 217 days of queen elizabeth ii reign overtaking her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria who ruled for 63 years 216 days up until her death on the 22nd of January 1901 in doing so Queen Elizabeth Fisher became the longest reigning British monarch in history snaps Vil Izzie Yas Queen literally number 54 on the 18th of September 2015 in emerge of the automobile manufacturer automaker Volkswagen had allegedly been involved in the worldwide rigging of diesel emissions tests an estimated 11 million vehicles worldwide had been fitted with software that would detect when they were subject to emissions and change the vehicles performance accordingly to improve results months later on the 28th of june 2016 volkswagen agreed to pay a settlement a 15 point three billion dollars the largest auto related consumer class-action lawsuit in US history number 55 on the 13th of november islamic stink terrorists carried out a series of coordinated attacks in paris france at the star de france the Bataclan theater and various cafes and restaurants bombs were detonated at least our two de France while gunmen opened fire upon the audience during a performance by the American band Eagles of Death Metal resulting in 90 deaths in total 130 people were killed number 56 on the 21st of December 2015 private aerospace company SpaceX you know the one founded by almost real live Tony Stark but not quite South African billionaire Elon Musk managed to land an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket making it the very first reusable rocket to successfully enter orbital space and then return number 57 on the 3rd of April 2016 the international consortium of investigative journalists and the German newspaper suddeutsche Zeitung published a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate services provider mossack fonseca that revealed detailed information regarding hundreds of thousands of companies as well as many well-known corporate leaders and heads of state turns out rich people use various corporate tactics and legal loopholes for a wide range of illegal purposes including fraud tax evasion and even the evasion of international sanctions I know shocking shocking number 58 on the 28th of May a 17 year old western lowland gorilla named harambe was shot and killed after a boy fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati Ohio the decision to kill harambe was made to protect the child who was deemed to be an extreme danger in the enclosure regardless of whether or not to Rambo ever actually intended to do the child any harm the killing of harambe sparked considerable controversy with many accusing the child's parents of negligence while Harambee himself also became the focus of various online viral means I believe the kids call it which I can confirm the sad and funny in equal measure number 59 the first of June 2016 saw the opening of the got heart that's a funny name bass tunnel in Switzerland the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel oh come on following two decades of construction work the tunnel stretches roughly 35 point five miles under the Swiss Alps and reaches a maximum depth of eight thousand and forty feet number 60 following a truly extrusion bitterly divisive political campaign on the 23rd of June 2016 the people of the United Kingdom voted in a referendum on whether or not to leave the European Union with the lead camp managing to produce a very narrow victory and we all lived happily ever owned oh wait the result only appeared to exacerbate the worsening political climate in the UK as the process of exiting the EU became a nasty protracted exercise and self-torture that continues right up till now lovely [Music] number 61 on the 6th of July 2016 the horror of bricks it was overshadowed by the release of a little app called Pokemon go an augmented reality mobile game that's allowed users to catch the adorable little critters while out and about in the real world want to catch a pitch in a post office done a zoo batán a zoo no problem and I'll bark in an abandoned mine I can't see why not created by the American software company Niantic the game became a global phenomenon almost immediately by the end of July only 25 days after its release the game had been downloaded over a hundred million times and as of January 2020 it's ranked in an eye-watering 3.1 billion dollars enough money to buy I'd say a fairly sizable amount of chicken nuggets number 62 on the 22nd of July 2016 we finally said farewell to a legend when the final video cassette recorder was manufactured by the Japanese company phone I ashes to ashes dust to dust goodbye old friend I'll never forget you number 63 between the fifth and twenty first of all Gris 116 the 2016 Summer Olympics were held and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil constituting the first time the global sports competition had been held in a South American nation the games were enjoyed around the world with the majority participating nations winning at least one gold medal on a slightly patriotic note I'll also like to point out the great britain became the first-ever nation to beat their overall medal count immediately after having hosted the event which we did in 2012 we can sports pretty good yo nintendo64 the 7th of october was a bumper day in the world of news as three separate events that would play a significant role in the 2016 united states presidential election all happened within hours of each other first the US intelligence agencies publicly accused the Russian government of interfering in the u.s. election then WikiLeaks were these thousands of private emails from within Hillary Clinton's political campaign shady finally the Washington Post then released a videotape showing Donald Trump sitting on a bus privately bragging about horrible horrible things with women gross number 65 on the second of November 2016 the Chicago Cubs won the annual World Series baseball championship for the first time since 1908 a staggering 108 years later I did the math for you there in doing so the Cubs ended the longest championship drought in American sports history so snaps for them number 66 on the 8th of November Donald J Trump got himself elected as the 45th President of the United States Trump is the first person to be elected president of the US with zero political or military experience and the fifth person to become the US president despite more people voting for their opponent millions more in fact just saying number 67 on the 21st of January and direct response to the election of Donald Trump in its inauguration the day before millions of people worldwide participated in the women's March the protest was organized against the demonstrably sexist and misogynist views and attitudes helped by mr. Trump which apparently unfazed the 53% of white women he voted for him regardless the women's March subsequently became the largest single-day protest in American history and one of the largest global protests ever number 68 on the 13th of February 2017 Kim jong-nam the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong hoon was assassinated in an attack carried out by two women who wiped VX nerve agent on his face as he walked through Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia soon after Kim suffered a seizure and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital the women involved later claimed they'd been made to believe they were participating in a TV prank which is disputed by both Malaysian authorities and basic common sense while North Korea denied any involvement they were definitely very involved indeed because kind of obvious isn't it number 69 in the early morning hours of the 14th of June a huge fire engulfed Gwen bell tower a 24 story residential building in North Kensington West London after an electrical fault caused a refrigerator to catch fire in a flat on the fourth floor in the subsequent hours the fire moved rapidly upwards due to the use of cheap combustible cladding installed on the building's exterior that encouraged the place to spread the fire trapped residents inside and despite the best efforts of the emergency services 72 people ultimately lost their lives in the disaster no criminal charges being brought through until late 2021 number 70 on the 1st of October a gunman situated on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on Las Vegas Strip opened fire on the audience of a nearby country music fest of all in the space of just 10 minutes a total of 58 people were killed and 413 wounded as such the events began the deadliest of its kind in American history and prompted major changes in u.s. gun laws that will help prevent such horrors from being repeated tragically that was a joke nothing actually happened as a result except that new M&M song number 71 on the 27th of October 2017 the autonomous region of Catalonia declared independence from Spain based on a referendum held almost a month earlier on the 1st of October in which over 90% of residents voted in favor of Independence however the proposed Catalan Republic was not recognized by the Spanish government or any other sovereign nation sadly the voting process was marred by outbreaks of violence and disorder and subsequently several Catalonia Independence leaders had been jailed after being found guilty of sedition and misuse of public funds number 72 on the 15th of November 2017 these in barbarian President Robert Mugabe was placed under house arrest after the nation's military took control of the country six days later Mugabe resigned ending his controversial 37 year rule though Mugabe was at times praised for freeing Zimbabwe from British colonialism and minority white rule his time as president was also characterised by corruption human rights abuses and crimes against humanity two years later McGarvey died in exile in Singapore number 73 on the 5th of December 2017 the International Olympic Committee banned Russia from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang arturro transpired that for several years the Russian sports authorities have been cheating by providing numerous Russian athletes with performance-enhancing substances and subsequently covering up the results with anti-doping tests skipping forward to December of 2019 the world anti-doping agency voted unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for for years as a result of the systematic doping and now the country's excluded from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar number 74 on the 14th of December 2017 the Walt Disney Company announced it would acquire most of 21st century fox-- including the 20th Century Fox film studio for the princely sum of 66 billion dollars the transaction was criticized by numerous political and business leaders who warned of the implications of allowing such a huge proportion of film TV and news content under the control of a single media giant oh well mutants in the MCU whoo numbers up to 5 on the 4th of March 2018 a former Russian double agent Sergei script for and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Nova top nerve agent in Salisbury England British counterterrorism police investigated the poisoning amid speculation the Kremlin was behind the incident yeah speculation definitely need to be careful not to unfairly accused the Russian government of dramatically assassinating people regardless both sergey and julius [ __ ] survived the poisoning and as a result more than 100 Russian diplomats were expelled by more than 20 countries in protest number 76 on the 11th of March the government of China approved the constitutional change that removed term limits for its leaders granting the Chinese President Xi Jinping the status of president for life these limits were originally put in place to prevent the emergence of another Chairman Mao so let's see how that go shall we number 77 on the 25th of March 2018 Australian a new room airline Qantas launch director non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and London Heathrow making it the first commercially nonstop service between Australia and the UK the flights last an arson arming 17 hour to cross a staggering distance of nine thousand two hundred and forty miles number 78 on the 18th of April 2018 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia took the progressive step of allowing cinemas to operate for the very first time since 1983 the first film to be shown in the totalitarian state was the American superhero film black panther all was it because some people seem to think it was actually the emoji movie which what a comeback number 79 on the 19th of April 2018 a fellow named Miguel Diaz canal was sworn in as president of Cuba making it the very first time since 1959 that Cuba had been led by President other than those rascally brothers Fidel and Raul Castro number eighty on the 19th of April twenty eighteen the nation formerly known as Swaziland officially changed its English name to the same already in use in the Swazi language as such Swaziland officially became the kingdom of s were teeny this change was made to mark the nation's 50th year of independence and to prevent apparently frequent confusion with the similarly named European nation of Switzerland number 81 on May the 19th the least controversial wedding in history took place between I've lost track are we calling him Prince Harry still well that guy whatever he's called and Pierce Morgan's favorite Megan Markel they were Wed at some George's Chapel England to a global audience of 1.9 billion people me and Jennifer Lawrence's wedding that's gonna get to two billion baby number 82 meanwhile the 26th of May came along and in Ireland it came with a constitutional referendum this time on the abortion ban sixty six point four percent voted to repeal the ban making abortion legal with a landslide victory number 83 on the truth of June 2018 Greece in the nation formerly known as the Republic of Macedonia finally settled a 27 year long naming dispute essentially the name Macedonia actually refers to a cultural and historical region that extends across several Balkan countries including a large part of northern Greece and yet Macedonia was hogging the term all to themselves the cheek still of a once in the 2010 census did ultimately prevail as Macedonia did eventually agreed to change its official name to the Republic of North Macedonia number 84 on the 19th of June Canada became the first major country to legalize cannabis specifically for recreational use it came into effect on October 17th when there was a good time for 20 all oh so sorry number 85 five days later on June the 24th Saudi Arabia took a turn from the modern and actually allowed women to drive actual cars number 86 on July the 19th finally some peace this decade Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declared an end to their 20 year long war a war I bet you didn't even know what's happening but hey it's over now number 87 on July the 10th 12 boys and their football coach was saved from their 17 day long ordeal trapped in a cave in Thailand reminds me of when I was in Thailand once and got stuck it actually lets not number 88 on the 2nd of august 2018 tech giant Apple became the world's first public company to achieve a market capitalization of 1 trillion dollars Mazel Tov rich capitalists number 89 by December the 7th the UN's International Telecommunication Union reported that 51 point 2 percent of the world's population was now using the Internet yay internet without that no 101 for us all you number 90 now on to a quick summary of 2019 the nation of Hungary didn't have a great one as it lost its free rating from political watchdog organization Freedom House this was following various attacks on democratic institutions by p.m. Viktor orbán's party and now it's been established as partly free instead number 91 the 23rd of March though was not a good day for the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant as they lost their last bit of territory in Syria yay global peace forever now right number 92 on the 10th of April we saw the first ever image of a black hole that's right the event horizon telescope project saw it all the way from the m87 galaxy that's a long way away by the way car look at it certainly death number 93 on the same day other clever boxes and brain cogs found fossil fragments in the Philippines and therefore a new ancient species of human being named the homo luzon Ensis number 94 but they after that not related in any way but hey who knows Julian Assange was arrested after spending the last seven years in london's ecuadorian embassy seeking asylum he was out saying there 7 years and yet i had to leave the cinema when the film's finished not allowed to stay overnight number 95 april sure was busy as on the 15th the fire came to the not Redang Cathedral in Paris luckily no one was hurt but the roof and main spire collapsed ruining one of France's major attractions number 96 let us forget too that the biggest movie in the world ever well since each other one with the blue people anyway came out this decade with Avengers endgame it made nearly three billion dollars three billion billion number 97 the Emperor of Japan abdicated his throne on the 30th of April this year the first time a Japanese Moloch has done so in two whole centuries it ended the Heisei era for japan and a new emperor Naruhito came along the next day may the first number 98 on June the 9th over 1 million people in Hong Kong protested against the proposed extradition of Hong Kong to China it was the largest protest there since 1997 people are mad number 99 on the 20th of September three days before the UN climate summit young people all over the world took part in a protest to demand action on climate change it's one of the largest mobilizations in history with millions and millions having marks to stop planet melty melty number a hundred on the 27th of October President Trump announced that the leader of is Abu Bakr al-baghdadi had been killed in a US Special Forces operation he also made a big deal out of a dog that was injured in said raid haha what a nut oh wait no I just remembered almost everything else he's ever done number 101 on the 10th of December those Democrat lads in the US House of Representatives only went ahead and announced impeachment charges against President Trump this makes him the fourth present ever to be impeached and I must say he can't be happier about it I mean just check his Twitter feed for how happy he is so it's on the raw facts about the 2010 so are they as you remember did we miss anything else let me know in the comments down below also thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this 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Published: Sat Jan 25 2020