U.S. History Timeline | 2017-2020

U.S. History Timeline | Presidency of Donald Trump
CONTENTS:

• Year 2017
• Year 2018
• Year 2019
• Year 2020

U.S. History Timeline | Year 2017

January 20: Donald Trump is inaugurated.
April: The U.S. launches Airstrikes on Syria.
May 9: FBI Director James Comey is fired by President Trump.
August 11-12: The Unite the Right Rally, a white supremacist rally Charlottesville, Virginia leads to 3 deaths.
August 17–September 2: Hurricane Harvey become one of the costliest natural disaster in the U.S. history.
September 16 – October 2: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico kills hundreds.

U.S. History Timeline | Year 2018

February 14: Stoneman Douglas High School shooting makes 17 dead.
March 14: Stephan Hawking, one of the greatest astrophysicists ever dies.
June 12: President meets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore.
November 12: Creative leader of Marvel Comics Stan Lee dies.
December 22: 2018-2019 United States Federal Government shutdown, the longest government shutdown in American History (December 22nd, 2018 -January 25th, 2019) starts.

U.S. History Timeline | Year 2019

January 1: Washington State bans the purchasing of semi-automatic rifles for all under age 21.
January 30: A Polar Vortex hits the U.S.
February 1: President Trump confirms that the U.S. will leave the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
February 27: Hanoi Summit between the U.S. and North Korea held.
March 26: Mike Pence, the Vice President orders NASA to fly Americans to the Moon within the next five years.
April 1: Bucklew Vs Precythe: the Supreme Court rules that inmates on death row are not guaranteed "painless executions" under the Constitution.
April 4: The 1973 War Powers Act Resolution is invoked for the first time when the House of Representatives votes to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia in its intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
April 10: The first image of Black Hole is presented to the world, taken by Event Horizon Telescope.
April 22: Avengers Endgame is released, becomes the highest grossing movie of all time till now.
April 27: White supremacist John Timothy Earnest kills one and injures three in California Synagogue.
May 31: Virginia Beach Shooting is occurred killing 12.
June 8: An agreement with Mexico is reached by President Trump to avoid tariffs.
July 26: The Supreme Court ruled to give President Trump $2.5 billion to fund his border wall.
August 3: A Mass Shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas kills 23 people leaving another 23 injured.
August 4: A gunman opened fire on a bar in Dayton, Ohio killing 9 people and injuring another 27.
August 10: Financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is found dead in his prison cell under mysterious circumstances, but declared a suicide by hanging.
August 12: An anonymous whistleblower filed a complaint against Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, for seeking foreign intervention in the 2020 presidential election. This complaint would lead to an investigation into the Trump-Ukraine Scandal.
August 22: Donald Trump and majority of Republican leaders attend Indian PM Narendra Modi’s election campaign ‘Howdy, Modi!’, funded by US based pro-Modi, BJP and RSS volunteers.

September 24: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announces the House of Representatives would begin an impeachment Inquiry against President Donald Trump.
December 18: The U.S. House of Representatives impeaches President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors.

U.S. History Timeline | Year 2020

January 1:

• Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad.
• After a fishing vessel sinks near Kodiak, Alaska, the United States Coast Guard searches for five missing crew members. Two other crew members are rescued.
• United States misses a year-end deadline for a restart of denuclearization talks with North Korea As a result North Korean leader Kim Jong-un declares his nation will be "developing a new strategic weapon" in the near future.

January 8: The American Cancer Society reports the largest single-year decline in mortality for cancer ever recorded in the U.S. with a 2.2% drop in the cancer death rate between 2016 and 2017.
January 9: The Justice Department reports finding "nothing of consequence" in its two-year investigation into the business dealings of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
January 10: For the first time women outnumber men in the American workforce, since the Great Recession, with women holding 50.04% of all jobs.
January 15: The U.S.–China Phase One trade deal is signed between President Donald Trump and China's Vice Premier Liu He sign in Washington, D.C.
January 16: The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins.
January 21: The first patient in the U.S. is diagnosed with COVID-19.
January 24: Personally attending the annual anti-abortion protest of March for Life in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump becomes the first sitting president to do so.
January 29:

• Donald Trump establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
• Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA).

January 31: Senate votes 51–49 against calling witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial.
February 10: The first all-news channel aimed at African Americans, the Black News Channel is launched by J. C. Watts, a Former Congressman.
February 5: A majority of the U.S. Senate votes to acquit Donald Trump of charges related to the Trump-Ukraine Scandal.
February 11: COVID-19 is declared a global pandemic, leading to a global shut-down.
February 17: From the quarantined Diamond Princess Cruise ship more than 300 Americans are evacuated in Japan, including 14 who have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus.
February 19: The Utah Senate decriminalizes polygamy.
February 24-25: Donald Trump attends Namaste Trump Rally in Ahmedabad (Gujarat, India), a tour event organized by Narendra Modi’s BJP Government of India on favor of Trump’s 2020 Presidential Election Campaign to attract Indian-American voters during 2020 Delhi Riots.
February 25: Amazon opens its first cashierless grocery store in Seattle.
February 26: 6 people are killed in a Mass Shooting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
February 29:

• Trump administration and the Taliban sign a conditional peace agreement as part of a process to end the war in Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar.
• After the total number of cases nationwide reaches 66, the first COVID-19 death in the US is reported.

February 23: Ahmaud Arbery is killed in Glynn County, Georgia. No arrests are made until May.
March 2: Killing 26 people, a tornado outbreak strikes four counties around Nashville, Tennessee.
March 4: California governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency, when at least 130 cases of COVID-19 are reported in the United States, with ten deaths in Washington State and one in California.
March 5:

• The Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package bill in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to be signed into law by President Trump next day.
• The Arizona House of Representatives passes a bill banning transgender females from sports.

March 6: Florida reports two deaths from COVID-19, the first confirmed U.S. fatalities outside of the west coast.
March 7: Washington, D.C. records its first case of COVID-19.
March 9

• Share prices fall sharply in response to economic concerns and the impact of COVID-19, known as Black Monday 2020.
• The U.S. begins a conditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. American troop numbers are to be reduced from 12,000 to 8,600 within 135 days.

March 10: COVID-19 cases in the U.S. exceed 1,000, with a 50% increase within a 24-hour period and infections reported in 35 states.
March 11:

• A British soldier and two Americans are killed in a rocket attack in Taji, Iraq as an outcome of Persian Gulf crisis.
• The arrest of more than 600 alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is announced by The Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
• Harvey Weinstein, former film producer is sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault.

March 13:

• With freeing up $50 billion in disaster relief funds, President Trump declares a national emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• To properly focus on philanthropic activities, Bill Gates steps down from the board of Microsoft.
• A 26-year-old emergency medical technician, Breonna Taylor, is shot eight times by Louisville police during a no-knock warrant as part of a narcotics investigation.

March 17: West Virginia becomes the 50th state to have a confirmed a case of COVID-19.
March 19: The Department of Labor reports that 281,000 Americans filed for unemployment in the last week, a 33 percent increase over the prior week and the biggest percentage increase since 1992.
March 23: Colorado becomes the 22nd state to abolish the death penalty.
March 24: For the first time ever, the U.S. box office records zero revenue.
March 25: The White House and the Senate agree to a $2 trillion stimulus package to boost the economy amid the ongoing pandemic, the largest in U.S. history. The Senate subsequently approves the negotiated bill (the CARES Act) in a 96–0 vote. Trump signs the bill into law on March 27 after a House voice vote.
March 26:

• Surpassing infections in China and Italy nationwide COVID-19 infections exceed 82,000.
• The Department of Labor reports that 3.28 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the last week, the largest increase in U.S. history, surpassing the all-time high of 695,000 in October 1982.
• The Space Force launches its first satellite, a $1.4 billion Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) military communications satellite.

April 1: The Trump administration deploys anti-drug Navy ships and AWACS planes near Venezuela. It reported as the largest military build-up in the region since the 1989 invasion of Panama.
April 8: Leaving Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee, Senator Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign.
April 11: The U.S. becomes the country with the highest number of reported COVID-19 deaths (over 20,000) overtaking Italy.
April 12: After an Easter tornado outbreak across the South at least 30 people dies and 1.3 million are left without electricity.
April 14: President Trump blames World Health Organization (WHO) guilty, pending an investigation into its early response to the outbreak. He also announces that he will suspend U.S. funding for the organization.
April 16: It is revealed that due to COVID-19 lockdowns nearly 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment within a single month, the worst unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.
April 20: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values.
April 24: President Trump signs a $483 billion bill to rescue small businesses.
April 27: Confirming a previously revealed The New York Times report of 2019 the Pentagon officially releases three short videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena".
April 30:

• To demand an end to lockdown measures, armed protesters enter Michigan's State Capitol building
• Three U.S. companies—Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX is selected by NASA to design and develop human landing systems for the agency's Artemis program, one of which is planned to deliver the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024.

May 3: Asian giant hornets (Vespa mandarinia magnifica) invade the United States, threatening domestic bees.
May 15: The Senate Intelligence Committee submits the fifth and final volume of its report, totals nearly 1,000 pages on Russian election meddling to the ODNI for classification review, to be released on August 18, providing new information about President Trump's relationship with Russian officials.
May 16: A massive fire destroys a historic condominium in Padre Island, Texas.
May 18: The FBI confirms that the 2019 Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting was the first terrorist attack on U.S. territory that had been directed by a foreign actor since 9/11.
May 19: Resulting in extensive evacuations and the declaration of a state of emergency, two dams in Midland County, Michigan, fail.
May 25: George Floyd, a Black American man living in Minneapolis, is murdered during an arrest by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, three other officers watching.
May 26:
Beginning of George Floyd Protests from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Twin Cities) area.
For the first time, Twitter labels a tweet by President Trump "misleading" and includes a "fact check" link.
May 27:

• The nationwide COVID-19 death toll surpasses 100,000. More Americans than were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and approaching Americans died in combat (116,000) in the First World War.
• George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis turn violent as activists call for murder charges against the police officers involved in George Floyd's death.
• Accusing Twitter and other social media platforms of bias against conservatives, Trump threatens to shut them down.

May 28:

• A state of emergency is declared in the Twin Cities with hundreds of National Guard soldiers deployed on the streets as George Floyd protests spread nationwide.
• President Trump signs an executive order rolling back liability protections for social media companies over user-generated content.

May 29:

• Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin is charged with murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd; charges against the three other officers who were present are also filed on June 3.
• Twitter hides a tweet by Trump after his reacttion to the Minneapolis unrest by warning that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Twitter says the post violates its rules on glorifying violence.

May 30:

• The first crewed flight of the SpaceX Dragon 2 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• Curfews are declared in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta as riots and protests continue nationwide following George Floyd’s death. Rioting of the week is termed the worst instance of civil unrest in the United States since the 1968 King assassination riots.

May 31: Trump says he will designate the far-left activist group Antifa a terrorist organization, in response to the wave of civil unrest across the country.
June 1: Trump threatens to deploy the military to quell the riots and conducts a controversial photo-op at St. John's Episcopal Church.
June 2: Blackout Tuesday is observed. It is an industry-driven collective protest against racism and police brutality inspired by the George Floyd protests.
June 5: A two-block-long section of 16th Street NW is designated as "Black Lives Matter Plaza" by Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser designates.
June 8: Protestors declare an autonomous zone in the city's Capitol Hill amid unrest in Seattle.
June 9: Air Force General Charles Brown becomes the first African American to lead a branch of U.S. Armed Forces and the first African American Air Force Chief of Staff.
June 12: Protests breakout in Atlanta following the killing of Rayshard Brooks by a police officer in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.
June 13: Atlanta Chief of Police Erika Shields resigns and protesters burn down the fast food restaurant where the incident took place.
June 15: The Supreme Court rules that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate because of a person's sex, also covers sexual orientation.
June 19: Juneteenth is observed across the country.
June 26: The New York Times reports that a Russian military intelligence unit offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for the killing of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. It is also reported that President Trump was briefed on the findings in late March 2020, but did not authorize any response. Trump lies denying he was ever briefed on the matter.
July 1: The House Armed Services Committee votes for a National Defense Authorization Act amendment to restrict President Trump's ongoing troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and prospective withdrawal from Germany.
July 11: For the first time, Trump is seen publicly wearing a face mask while visiting wounded soldiers and health care workers at Walter Reed military hospital.
July 14: White supremacist and murderer Daniel Lewis Lee is executed by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Indiana. The last federal execution was done in 2003.
July 15: To promote a bitcoin scam, Twitter accounts of prominent political figures, CEOs, and celebrities are hacked.
July 18: Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum files a lawsuit against the federal government, accusing it of unlawfully detaining George Floyd protesters in Portland.
July 30: Trump suggests delaying the 2020 presidential election, saying increased voting by mail could lead to fraud and inaccurate results.
August 2: Crew Dragon Demo-2 lands in the Gulf of Mexico, the first U.S.-crewed splashdown since 1975.
August 5: The highest U.S. official visit to Taiwan in 40 years is done with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar travels to Taiwan.
August 6: President Trump signs an executive order banning any U.S. companies or citizens from making transactions with ByteDance (the parent company of TikTok) and Tencent in 45 days.
August 9: President Trump is escorted from a news briefing by the Secret Service following a shooting near the White House.
August 10–11: A derecho with winds recorded at up to 140 mph strikes the Midwest, resulting in four deaths, hundreds of injuries, widespread utility outages, and severe property damage.
August 11: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden names Senator Kamala Harris as his vice presidential nominee, the first African American woman to serve in the role.
August 13: Similar to the U.S. Navy's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, the Pentagon reportedly begins establishing a new task force to investigate UFO sightings, particularly over military bases.
August 19: Apple Inc. becomes the first U.S. company to be valued at over $2 trillion.
August 20: Former White House advisor Steve Bannon is arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. He is released on a $5 million bail bond after pleading not guilty.
August 23: Violent protests break out in Kenosha, Wisconsin following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer.
August 26–28: Riots break out in downtown Minneapolis following false rumors about the suicide of an African American man being pursued by police, and resulted in arrest of 113 people.
August 26:

• Kenosha protests cause shooting of two people fatally, arresting of a suspect.
• Professional athletes begin boycotting their respective sports contests in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake.
• According to Forbes, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becomes the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding $200 billion.

August 28: Thousands of people gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. for the Commitment March in support of black civil rights.
September 2: Following the release of police body camera footage of the fatal March 2020 arrest of Daniel Prude, Protests breakout in Rochester, New York.
September 4: Trump administration releases a memo to cease funding for diversity and sensitivity training and teachings of critical race theory, calling on all executive branch agencies.
September 6: With 2.1 million acres burned in the year. California sets a new record for land area destroyed by wildfires.
September 9: A Norwegian lawmaker nominates Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in facilitating the Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement.
September 12: Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies are shot and critically injured while sitting in their patrol car in Compton, California.
September 16: Hurricane Sally brings massive flooding to the South after making landfall, killing eight people and costing billions in damage.
September 19: 16 people are shot and two confirmed dead in a mass shooting at a backyard party in Rochester, New York.
September 21: Microsoft have done the largest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game industry, agreeing to buy ZeniMax Media holding company and its subsidiaries for $7.5 billion.
September 27: Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is hospitalized under the Florida Mental Health Act after arming himself and threatening to commit suicide at his home.
September 29: The first 2020 presidential debate takes place in Cleveland, Ohio between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
October 1: The White House COVID-19 outbreak is realized, as both President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19 along with several White House staffers and multiple congress members. They enter quarantine.
October 8: 34 editors of The New England Journal of Medicine denounce the Trump administration's handling of COVID-19 pandemic.
October 9: Plans to create a congressional commission invoking the 25th Amendment to evaluate the physical and mental health of the president is announced by House Democrats.
October 12:

• Facebook bans content relating to Holocaust denial.
• Protesting 1862 execution of 38 Dakota and Roosevelt's views on Native Americans, activists in Portland, Oregon topple statues of former presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

October 22: The second 2020 presidential debate takes place in Nashville, Tennessee.
October 25: Daily nonstop American Airlines flights return to India again since 2015.
October 26: Walter Wallace Jr. is shot to death by two Philadelphia police officers, resulting in subsequent protests and riots.
October 31: A Stanford University study links over 30,000 COVID-19 cases and 700 deaths directly to Donald Trump's 2020 campaign rallies.
November 3:

• The 2020 United States presidential election takes place. Shortly after midnight, President Trump asserts, alleging potential electoral fraud that he has won the election and demands all vote counting to stop.
• A number of US states votes for legalization of processing limited amounts of narcotics. Oregon becomes the first state to decriminalize possession of small amounts of narcotics, including heroin, cocaine and LSD. Voters in New Jersey, Arizona, Montana and South Dakota vote to legalize recreational marijuana. Voters in Mississippi along with South Dakota vote to legalize medical marijuana.
• Mississippi approves a new state flag to replace the previous design that featured a Confederate battle flag.
• Voters in Rhode Island approve the removal of "...and Providence Plantations" from the state's official name.

November 4: The United States formally withdraws from the Paris Agreement.
November 5:

• Former White House advisor Steve Bannon is permanently banned from Twitter after suggesting FBI Director Christopher Wray and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci be beheaded during a live broadcast.
• Amid election-related protests, Facebook bans a 300,000-member Stop the Steal group page being used by supporters of Trump to organize protests against the election results, citing calls for violence by some participants.

November 7:

• Joe Biden is projected to have won the presidential election, following several days of uncertainty due to postal vote counting. It is the first time since 1992, when Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush that an incumbent president's challenger has won the election over the incumbent president.
• Kamala Harris is the first woman and first person of color to be elected Vice President of the United States. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, is to become the first Second Gentleman and the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. vice president.

November 9: President Trump's re-election campaign files multiple lawsuits in several states alleging widespread electoral fraud.
November 10: Donald Trump promotes a number of reported loyalists to various roles in the Defense Department following the November 9 ouster of Defense Secretary Mark Esper.
November 14: Thousands of Pro-Trump supporters march in Washington, D.C. in support of Donald Trump and his baseless claims of electoral voter fraud.
November 15: President Trump concedes that Joe Biden won the presidential election, but only with alleging vote rigging.
November 16: the first operational SpaceX crew dragon mission, SpaceX Crew-1, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
November 19: Joe Biden's win in Georgia is upheld and reaffirmed following a hand recount, making him the first Democrat to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992.
November 22: The United States withdraws from the Open Skies Treaty.
November 23: The presidential transition of President-elect Joe Biden formally begins.
November 27: A recount in Door County, Wisconsin's largest county results in Joe Biden achieving a net gain of 132 votes.
November 29: Including Kate Bedingfield as Communications Director and Jen Psaki as Press Secretary, President-elect Biden nominates an all-female communications team.
November 30: Making Arizona the 12th state to legalize recreational cannabis, Arizona Proposition 207 comes into effect.
December 3: The Department of Justice files a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing them of discriminating against American workers.
December 7:
Georgia re-certifies Joe Biden as the winner of the state following a second recount.
Joe Biden nominates retired Army General Lloyd Austin to be the first African American Secretary of Defense.
December 12: Four people are stabbed, one is shot, and 33 are arrested during pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C.
December 14: U.S. Representative Paul Mitchell of Michigan announces his resignation from Republican Party to become an independent.
December 17: Joe Biden nominates Deb Haaland for Secretary of the Interior, becoming the first Native American appointed to a cabinet-level position.
December 18: Roy Charles Waller, also known as the NorCal Rapist, is sentenced to 897 years in prison for a series of rapes that spanned from 1991 to 2006.
December 22:

• Including Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner; President Trump begins issuing a new round of pardons for dozens of associates.
• California Secretary of State Alex Padilla is appointed to fill the remaining Senate term of Kamala Harris, becoming the state's first Latino senator.

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