# WTF Happened In 2020?

### Jan 2
🔥 Australia declares a state of disaster amid large bushfires that have killed as many as 500 million animals.

### Jan 3
🇮🇷 A U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

### Jan 30
🦠The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the sixth time that this measure has been invoked since 2009

### Feb 27
📉 The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline in history. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading coronavirus.

### Mar 8
🇮🇹 Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.

### Mar 9
📉 Share prices fall sharply around the world, in response to a new oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point. Oil prices plunge by as much as 30% in early trading, the biggest fall since 1991, after Saudi Arabia launches a price war.

### Mar 10
🇮🇹 Italy’s quarantine is expanded to cover the entire country.

### Mar 11
🦠 The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic

### Mar 12
📉 Global stock markets crash three days after Black Monday due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes into free fall, closing at over -2,300 points, the worst losses for the index since 1987.
 Bitcoin crashes about 30%. Shitcoins fall even harder but who gives a fuck?
🔑 Gold falls and Peter Schiff doubles down his shill.

### Mar 14
🇪🇸 Spain goes into lockdown after the country is hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic the day before declaring the Alarm Status.

### Mar 15
💩 The Fed lowers the interest rate to 0%, starts QE5, lowers bank reserve requirements to 0%.
📉 Immediately after, DJIA futures drop 5%.
📉 EU markets open: around -10% drops. Shit's getting real.

Lol why did it stop in March 15? Plenty of stuff missing still!

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