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Top Song(s)
• Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
• Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
• Ariana Grande - 7 Rings
• Lizzo - Truth Hurts
• Travi$ Scott - Highest In The Room
Top Film(s)
• Parasite
• Avengers: Endgame
• Knives Out
• Once Upon a Time ...in Hollywood
• 1917
Best Selling Book(s)
• The Wicked King - Holly Black
• King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo
• The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi
• Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer
Famous Deaths
• January 3 - Herbert Kelleher, American lawyer, and airline executive (Southwest Airlines co-founder)
• February 7 - John Dingell, American politician (D-Michigan, 1955-2015)
• March 27 - Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 5; Soyuz 22; Soyuz 31)
• April 23 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1964-2000)
• May 16 - Bob Hawke, Australian politician and 23rd Prime Minister of Australia
• June 17 - Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian politician, President of Egypt (2012-13)
• July 22 - Li Peng, Chinese leader, Premier of China (1987-98)
• August 18 - Kathleen Blanco, American politician, 1st female Governor of Louisiana (2004-08)
• September 19 - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, 2nd President of Tunisia (1987-2011)
• December 26 - Gary Starkweather, American engineer and inventor of the laser printer
Medical/Science/Technology
• The first SD card with a storage capacity of 1 terabyte (TB) is announced by Lexar.
• Scientists report that the Greenland ice sheet is melting four times faster than in 2003.
• NASA announces that the Opportunity rover has been on the planet Mars for 15 years.
• A British woman becomes the first person in the world to have gene therapy for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
• Analysts report the creation of mice with infrared vision, using nanoparticles injected into their eyes.
• A second case of sustained remission from HIV-1 is reported, ten years after the 'Berlin Patient.
• NASA reports that latent viruses in humans may be activated during space missions.
• A study by U.S. researchers finds that deleting the ATDC gene can prevent the growth of pancreatic cancer in mice.
• The discovery of a new and more efficient method of storing vaccines in temperatures of up to 40 °C for weeks at a time.
• A report identifies nearly 600 plants that have disappeared since the Industrial Revolution.
Political
• January 11 – Representative Tulsi Gabbard announces her candidacy for U.S. president.
• January 14 – J. B. Pritzker is sworn in as the 43rd governor of Illinois, replacing Bruce Rauner.
• January 28 – The Justice Department charges Chinese tech firm Huawei with multiple counts of fraud, raising U.S.-China tensions.
• February 1 - President Donald Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty.
• February 21 - Senator Kamala Harris declares her candidacy for U.S. president.
• March 22 - Jimmy Carter becomes the longest-living U.S. president at 94 years, 172 days old.
• March 30 – President Trump issues a new permit to construct the Keystone Pipeline.
• April 1 - The Supreme Court rules death row inmates are not guaranteed "painless" executions under the U.S. Constitution.
• May 15 – President Trump issues an executive order invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
• June 12 - Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signs a law making abortion a "fundamental right" for pregnant individuals in the state.
National
• January 21 – The Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration is allowed to limit military service for transgender people.
• March 15 - The New Mexico legislature votes to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day.
• April 3 - The Pittsburgh City Council votes for new gun laws, including a ban on certain semiautomatic assault weapons.
• May 1 – Maine becomes the first state to ban Styrofoam containers.
• June 14 – Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill making Florida the 12th state to ban sanctuary cities.
• July 54 - Southern California is hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the region since 1994.
• August 9 – The North Dakota Supreme Court upholds a voting law that disenfranchises 10% of the state's Native Americans.
• September 3 - The Cherokee Nation names an official delegate to the United States Congress for the first time.
• October 1 - The first cannabis cafe in the United States opens in Los Angeles, California.
• November 1 - A law that allows almost all citizens to open carry guns goes into effect in Oklahoma.
Worldwide
• January 3 – Chinese probe Chang'e 4 becomes the first artificial object to land on the far side of the Moon.
• February 26–27 – The Indian Air Force launches airstrikes on purported militant camps in Balakot, Pakistan.
• March 15 - Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, in southern Africa.
• April 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigns as President of Algeria amid widespread protests, after nearly two decades in office.
• May 3 – The number of deaths from the Kivu Ebola epidemic exceeds 1,000.
• June 5–8 – Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a state visit to Russia, where he also attends the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
• July 1 - Japan resumes commercial whaling after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission.
• August 10 - A fuel tanker truck explodes in Morogoro, Tanzania, killing at least 89 people and injuring dozens more.
• September 19 – 30 Afghan nut farmers are killed and 40 injured in a U.S. drone attack in Nangarhar Province.
• October 5 – 2019 Iraqi protests: 91 people are killed by police during a week of demonstrations in Iraq.