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On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. was attacked by a mob [39] [40] [41] of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
2024 →. v. t. e. The following article is a broad timeline of the course of events surrounding the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by rioters supporting United States President Donald Trump 's attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Pro-Trump rioters stormed the United States Capitol after ...
1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide. 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan : Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan . 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest ...
2021 – Ken Reitz, American baseball player (b. 1951) 2021 – Muhammad Wakkas, Bangladeshi teacher and parliamentarian (b. 1952) 2022 – Shirley Burkovich, former American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1933) 2022 – Patrick Demarchelier, French fashion photographer (b. 1943)
[6] 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore. 1936 – The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street. 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to ...
Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (U.S. National Archives, 80-G-30549, 520599) A series of events led to the attack on Pearl Harbor. War between the Empire of Japan and the United States was a possibility each nation's military ...
Coordinates: 53.9098°N 27.5429°E. Map of the Minsk Ghetto by professor Barbara Epstein. The Minsk Ghetto was created soon after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It was one of the largest in the Byelorussian SSR, and the largest in the German-occupied territory of the Soviet Union. [1] It housed close to 100,000 Jews, most of whom were ...
March 2 is the 61st day of the year (62nd in leap years) ... 1941 – John Cornell, Australian actor, director, and producer (d. 2021) 1941 – David Satcher, ...