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In early 2020, a novel coronavirus swept across the globe, triggering lockdowns, overwhelming hospitals, and transforming daily life in ways no one anticipated.

On January 26, 2020, basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, along with seven others, leaving the world in shock.

The 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, known as Black Summer, burned over 46 million acres, killed or displaced an estimated three billion animals, and became a global symbol of the climate crisis.

In 2019, millions of Hong Kong residents took to the streets in historic pro-democracy protests that began over an extradition bill and grew into a broader fight for autonomy.

In 2019, a joke Facebook event called Storm Area 51 attracted millions of RSVPs and turned a remote Nevada town into a festival — all born from a meme about seeing aliens.

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire tore through the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, collapsing its iconic spire and roof while the world watched in disbelief.