6 January 2021January 6 Rally SpeechDonald Trump
Addresses supporters before the Capitol is stormed.
Historical records for United States of America in 2021, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Addresses supporters before the Capitol is stormed.
NASA extends Juno through 2025 and adds close exploration of Jupiter's rings and Galilean moons.
Faces suspension from major social media platforms.
House passes article of impeachment for incitement of insurrection.
Signs a federal mask requirement for federal property.
Leaves office as Joe Biden is inaugurated.
Orders the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States.
Launches a national COVID-19 strategy.
The United States and Russia agree to extend New START for five years through February 2026.
Faces second impeachment trial in the Senate.
Is acquitted in his second impeachment trial.
The Act funds household payments, unemployment benefits, vaccination and state and local governments.
Signs the American Rescue Plan Act.
Announces U.S. troops will leave Afghanistan.
Levi directs DESI as its five-year main survey begins mapping millions of galaxies and quasars to track the effect of dark energy across cosmic history.
NASA selects DAVINCI to investigate Venus's atmosphere and composition using a descent probe and remote observations.
NASA selects VERITAS to map Venus at high resolution and investigate the planet's geology, tectonics and interior.
Juno makes a close flyby of Ganymede.
Juno makes the closest spacecraft pass of Ganymede since Galileo and changes its orbital period.
Attends his first NATO summit as president.
Meets Vladimir Putin at a Geneva summit.
Signs legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
Defends withdrawal as the Taliban retakes Kabul.
U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan is completed.
Announces vaccine requirements for federal workers.
Announces the AUKUS security partnership.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk.
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk
Is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk for musical influence.
Is posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Kraftwerk.
Juno data show the Great Red Spot extends hundreds of kilometres below Jupiter's cloud tops.
Signs the bipartisan infrastructure law.
Hosts the first Summit for Democracy.
Shares the medicine prize for discoveries of receptors involved in temperature and touch.
Shares the medicine prize for discoveries of receptors involved in temperature and touch.
Wins Best Actress for Nomadland and shares its Best Picture award as a producer.
Directs and stars in Cry Macho, a late-career western road drama.
The Dark Energy Survey releases year-three galaxy clustering and weak-lensing results, providing powerful tests of the standard cosmological model and dark-energy parameters.
Schlegel explains DESI's use of 5,000 robotic fibres to measure galaxy spectra simultaneously and construct a three-dimensional map for dark-energy studies.
Riess improves local Hubble constant measurements and highlights tension with early universe predictions
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.
Advances electron ptychography to image atoms with resolution approaching limits set by thermal atomic motion.
Portrays televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
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