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2021 New York City mayoral election – Residents of New York City elect a new mayor. This is the first time that a New York City election is determined using rank-choice voting. [308] 2021 Buffalo mayoral election – Community activist and self-avowed socialist India Walton defeats incumbent mayor Byron Brown to win the Democratic primary. As ...
January 1. Congress overrides President Donald Trump 's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA). [ 1] Trump vetoes a bipartisan drift net fishing bill. [ 2] January 3. Nancy Pelosi is reelected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. [ 3]
Here's what followed. President Joe Biden tapped Kamala Harris to tackle the daunting issue of immigration in March 2021, but the vice president’s public-facing work on addressing the root ...
Attacks in Russia during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion. Rockets launched by the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroy a Russian bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk Oblast, killing multiple volunteers who were evacuating Russian civilians. Russia's foreign ministry asserts that the missiles were launched by ...
Fall of Kabul (2021) / 34.3131; 69.1042 ( Kabul, Afghanistan) On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan 's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021. It was the final action of the War in Afghanistan, and marked a total victory for the Taliban. This led to the overthrowing of the Islamic ...
The 2021 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for work during the 2020 calendar year on June 11, 2021. [1] [2] The awards highlighted coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest, and other major stories in the U.S. that year. [1] Several publications, including The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News, received their first Pulitzers.
Current events/August 2021. August 2021 was the eighth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Sunday, ended on a Tuesday after 31 days.
21 June: the World Meteorological Organization wrote that "2021 is a make-or-break year for climate action, with the window to prevent the worst impacts of climate change—which include ever more frequent more intense droughts, floods and storms—closing rapidly." [3]