2021 Through Slides 
                     2021 THROUGH SLIDES
JANUARY
Donald Trump banned from social media platform
When Twitter permanently banned Trump from the platform in 
January 2021 during the final days of his term, his handle 
@realDonaldTrump had over 88.9 million followers.
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JANUARY
Death of Larry King
Larry King was an American television and radio host, whose 
awards included two Peabodys, an Emmy and ten Cable ACE 
Awards. The veteran TV host died on 23 January at the age of 
87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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JANUARY
Earthquake Strikes Indonesia
A very powerful earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter 
scale, rocked the Flores Sea in southern Indonesia, prompting 
tsunami alerts for nearby coastlines.
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JANUARY
Kim Jong-un is elected as the General Secretary of the 
ruling Workers' Party of Korea
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been elected as general 
secretary of the ruling workers’ party.
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FEBRUARY
Death of Leon Spinks (Heavyweight Boxing champion)
Leon Spinks, who scored one of boxing's greatest upsets when 
he defeated Muhammad Ali to capture the heavyweight 
championship in February 1978, but lost his crown in a rematch 
seven months later and never again found glory in the ring, 
died on Friday night in Henderson, Nev. He was 67.
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FEBRUARY
Jeff Bezos announces he is stepping down as CEO of 
Amazon
World's richest man and the founder of Amazon.com, Jeff 
Bezos has stepped down from the position of CEO, after 27 
years of steering the company. Bezos will now take over as 
Amazon’s executive chairman and continue to be its biggest 
shareholder.
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MARCH
An African woman leads the World Trade Organization
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria secured the support of the 
United States for Director-General of the WTO. Okonjo-Iweala 
assumed office on 1 March 2021, and became both the first 
woman and the first African to hold this position.
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MARCH
Once in a hundred year flood in Australia since 1961
Days of heavy rain pounded the Australian province of New 
South Wales (NSW) at the end of March 2021, leading to a 
once-in-a-hundred-year-flood with water amounts unseen 
since 1961.
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APRIL
Death of Prince Philip
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United 
Kingdom, died on 9 April,2021. He was 99.
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APRIL
End of Castro rule in Cuba
Raul Castro is set to step down as the head of the Communist 
Party of Cuba. · This will mark an end to over 60 years of Castro 
rule over Cuba.
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APRIL
The President of Chad, Idriss Déby, was killed after 30 
years in office
Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno, who ruled the central 
African nation for more than three decades, died Tuesday of 
wounds suffered on the battlefield during a fight against rebels, 
the military announced on national television and radio.
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APRIL
COVID-19 pandemic: The number of vaccinations 
administered worldwide exceeds 1 billion
The world has reached the milestone of administering one 
billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines, just four months after the 
World Health Organization (WHO) approved the first vaccine 
for emergency use, and roll-outs began in countries such as the 
United States and the United Kingdom.
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MAY
"Friends" reunion screens, 17 years after the TV sitcom 
series ended
The Reunion brings the original six cast members of the 
beloved sitcom together 17 years after the finale aired, and 
offers some fun and intriguing behind-the-scenes reveals along 
the way.
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JUNE
Cristiano Ronaldo moves Coke bottle, Coca-Cola value 
drops
Cristiano Ronaldo’s gesture for people to drink water instead of 
Coke at a Euro 2020 press conference may have cost the soda 
company $4 billion in market value. 
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JUNE
2021 Israeli presidential election is held, and won by 
Isaac Herzog
Isaac Herzog was elected the 11th President of Israel with 87 
Knesset members voting for him, which was the biggest 
majority a candidate has ever won.
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JUNE
Annular solar eclipse is visible from Canada, 
Greenland, and other countries
The June 10 solar eclipse is an annular one. In an annular 
eclipse, the Sun is not entirely covered and a thin boundary of 
it is visible, which is called the ‘ring of fire.’
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JULY
2020 Summer Olympics
Summer Olympics in Tokyo happened on July 23, 2021. The 
new date for the Games, postponed for a year in response to 
the coronavirus pandemic.
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JULY
Flooding and Typhoons in China
During the July 2021 flooding, the three major provinces 
affected as a result of prolonged rainfall and Typhoon In-Fa 
were the Henan, Shanghai, and Zhejiang provinces. Between 10 
and 23 July 2021, Henan province was the worst affected by 
floods.
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JULY
Over 130 wildfires, fuelled by lightning strikes, burn 
through Western Canada
More than 130 wildfires - fuelled by lightning strikes - are 
burning across western Canada following a record-breaking 
heatwave.
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AUGUST
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic
The 16th Summer Paralympic Games, held in Tokyo, Japan 
between 24 August and 5 September 2021.
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AUGUST
Haiti Earthquake and Tropical Storm Grace
Tropical Storm Grace swept over Haiti with drenching rains just 
two days after a powerful earthquake battered the Caribbean 
nation, adding to the misery of thousands who lost loved ones, 
suffered injuries or found themselves homeless and forcing 
overwhelmed hospitals and rescuers to act quickly.
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SEPTEMBER
French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo died
Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo was a French actor, initially 
associated with the New Wave of the 1960s and a major 
French film star for several decades from the 1960s.
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OCTOBER
World Health Organization endorses the first malaria 
vaccine
The World Health Organization has recommended the 
widespread rollout of the first malaria vaccine, in a move 
experts hope could save tens of thousands of children’s lives 
each year across Africa.
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OCTOBER
Lucy spacecraft is launched by NASA, the first mission 
to explore the Trojan asteroids
The US space agency NASA has launched a first-of-its-kind 
mission called 'Lucy Mission' to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. 
The mission life of Lucy is 12-year, during which the spacecraft 
will fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids to study about solar 
system's evolution.
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OCTOBER
India crosses landmark of 900 million Covid 
vaccinations
India's Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya confirmed 
that India has administered 980 million COVID-19 vaccine jabs 
to the people till October,2021.
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NOVEMBER
Barbados becomes a republic on its 55th anniversary 
of independence
Barbados Governor General Sandra Mason was sworn in before 
dawn on Tuesday as the island marked its 55th anniversary of 
independence from Britain.
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NOVEMBER
Louis Vuitton star designer Virgil Abloh dies after 
private battle
Virgil Abloh, the American-born son of Ghanaian immigrants 
who became fashion's highest profile Black designer and the 
creative mind behind Louis Vuitton's menswear collections, 
died on Sunday at age 41, following a two-year battle with a 
rare form of cancer.
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NOVEMBER
First confirmed case of omicron detected
On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) 
classified a new variant, B.1.1.529, as a Variant of Concern and 
named it Omicron.
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NOVEMBER
India's CDS Bipin Rawat died in a helicopter crash
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others 
died after the Mi-17V5 helicopter crashed in the southern state 
of Tamil Nadu.
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