RETURN TO INDEX
Top Song(s)
• Harry Styles - As It Was
• Adele - Easy On Me
• Lizzo - About Damn Time
• Glass Animals - Heat Waves
• Beyonce - Break My Soul
Top Film(s)
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Batman
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Nope
Best Selling Book(s)
• Book Lovers - Emily Henry
• Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
• I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
• Reminders of Him - Colleen Hoover
• The Maid - Nita Prose
Famous Deaths
• January 11 - Clyde Bellecourt, American Native American civil rights activist (American Indian Movement)
• February 8 - Luc Montagnier, French virologist (Nobel Prize 2008, discovered HIV)
• March 19 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh, 1996-2001)
• April 5 - Bjarni Tryggvason, Icelandic-Canadian astronaut (STS 85)
• May 26 - Ciriaco De Mita, Italian politician (Prime Minister of Italy)
• June 6 - Valery Ryumin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32, 34, 35,37, STS-91)
• July 8 - Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan (2006-07 and 2012-2020)
• August 3 - Raymond Damadian, American physician and inventor of the MRI scanning machine
• August 30 - Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
• September 8 - Elizabeth II Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland
Medical/Science/Technology
• Biochemists report finishing the complete sequence of the human genome.
• A study reports 42 new genes linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease.
• Reviews suggest that global prevalence of long COVID conditions after infection could be as high as 43%.
• A new type of cell death 'erebosis' is reported[84][85] after copper-dependent cell death was first reported the previous month.
• Lineage of H3N8 bird flu is found to infect humans for the first time, with a case reported in the Henan province of China.
• A company reports results of a phase 3 clinical trial, indicating that tirzepatide could be used for substantial weight loss.
• One single master gene that programs ear hair cells into either outer or inner ones is discovered.
• The monthly average carbon dioxide (CO2) level in the atmosphere exceeds 420 parts per million for the first time in recorded history.
• A study reports that declining numbers of the endangered whale shark, may be linked to collisions with large vessels.
• Isotopically pure silicon-28 nanowires are shown to conduct heat 150% better than regular silicon.
Political
• January 1 - Eric Adams succeeds Bill de Blasio as the 110th Mayor of New York.
• January 10 - The United States Mint announces they have started shipping the first of the American Women quarters.
• January 15 - Glenn Youngkin is sworn in as governor of Virginia.
• February 26 - President Biden signs an order to provide $600 million of military assistance to Ukraine.
• March 28 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act.
• March 29 – President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, which makes lynching a federal crime.
• April 12 - Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signs into law a near-total abortion ban.
• April 18 – Federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle strikes down the federal mask mandate on public transportation.
• April 19 – Governor Ron DeSantis suggests that the state legislature revoke Disney World's special self-governing privileges.
• June 12 – The United States Senate reaches an agreement on a bipartisan gun control legislation.
National
• January 10 – The world's first successful heart transplant from a pig to a human patient is reported at University of Maryland Medical Center.
• February 4 - The Death of Kyle Mullen takes place during the Navy SEAL's “Hell Week”.
• April 1 - Amazon workers at the JFK8 in Staten Island vote to form the Amazon Labor Union.
• May 1 – The Global Methodist Church is officially launched by delegates representing the Wesleyan Covenant Association in Avon, Indiana.
• May 10 – After over 20 years, Apple discontinues production of the iPod.
• June 4 – A mass shooting occurs along South Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, leaving three people dead and thirteen others injured.
• July 1 - A law in the state of Minnesota legalizing beverages and edibles which are infused with THC takes effect.
• August 2 - The Department of Justice sues Idaho for its ban on abortion being a violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
• September 1 - President Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence Hall blasting Donald Trump and his movement.
• October 11 – NASA confirms that the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was successful in its ultimate goal.
Worldwide
• January 7 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 300 million worldwide.
• February 6 – Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her "Platinum Jubilee", marking 70 years as Queen of the United Kingdom.
• March 1 - The International Criminal Court begins an investigation into possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine.
• April 14 – The Russian flagship Moskva becomes the largest warship to be sunk in action since World War II.
• May 6 – An outbreak of monkeypox begins when the first monkeypox virus case is reported in London, the United Kingdom.
• June 5 – At least 50 people are killed in a dual mass shooting-bomb attack in Owo, Nigeria.
• July 8 – Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe is assassinated while giving a public speech in the city of Nara, Japan.
• August 4 - China conducts its largest ever military exercise around Taiwan in response to a controversial visit by Nancy Pelosi.
• September 5 – A 6.8 earthquake strikes Luding County in Sichuan province, China, killing 117 and injuring 424.
• November 21 – A 5.6 earthquake strikes near Cianjur in West Java, Indonesia, killing 635 people and injuring 7,700 more.