2020 Collected Events


Nobody had any idea what was in store. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.

It started unobtrusively with a NY snow.

Indonesia floods.

German zoo fire claims 30.

Don Larsen takes his perfect game to a final inning at 90.

David Stern, 86.

Jack Sheldon schoolhouse rock singer, 88.

Australia burns.

Iranian commanders taken out.

Iran responds by hacking the Federal Depository Library Program website. Pure Evil!

6.4 earthquakes rock Puerto Rico.

#arrestGeorgeLopez trending?! Ugh.

Buck Henry makes his last joke, 89.

Iran shoots down a Ukrainian passenger jet.

Kookie cant lend his comb anymore. Eddie Byrnes, 87.

Exit the warrior. Neil Peart, 67.

Puerto Rico hit with a 5.9.

Undefeated LSU over previously undefeated Clemson.

MW surgery goes smooth.

Ken Jennings Jeopardy GOAT.

Spaaaaaace Force! It’s for real.

Megxit. Royal couple goes it alone. Crazy kids.

Senate trial begins.

Newsman Jim Lehrer last report at age 85.

Coronavirus reaches 56.

Kobe Bryant, 41.

Who the hell is Billie Eilish?

NAFTA out, USMCA in.

Something completely different again. Python Terry Jones, 77.

No more suspense, Mary Higgins Clark, 95.

Punxatawney Phil says early spring.

It’s Palindrome Day! WOW!

Super Bowl LVI VP Mahomes takes KC to the win over 49ers. Shakira AND J-Lo shake it.

Iowa caucus puzzles everyone.

92nd Oscars. Parasite? Ugh.

Dantonio calls it quits.

State of the union

Impeachment acquittal.

Chrome and Ice (and snow).

He was Spartacus. Kirk Douglas, 103.

Orson Bean, 91

Robert Conrad loses his battery at 84

NH primaries.

Siba the poodle is Westminster BoS.

Pearl Harbor USS Arizona survivor Donald Stratton joins his comrades at 97.

Denny Hamlin takes a fiery ending after two days of the 62nd Daytona 500 racing.

Owen Bieber’s contract is not renegotiated at 90.

“2020 is all about throwin’ shit.” LOL, Jackie!

Ja’Net DuBois moves on up, 72.

Trump goes to India. Namaste Macho Man.

Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu 2000 – 1000 – 1000.

Weinstein guilty.

Joe Sinnott, 93.

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek 91.

Molson Coors Milwaukee brewery shooting claims 6

Ben Cooper hits the trail at 86.

James Lipton leaves the table at 93.

Nashville tornadoes leave devastation

Wallenda walks over a volcano? worst waste of modern day media programming ever. Okay, maybe not ever.

Bloomberg out after only a half billion.

Then there were two. Bernie and Joe are all that are left as Democrat presidential hopefuls. No more Kanye.

Max Von Sydow finishes his chess game of life at 90.

NBA suspends season for Covid 19.

Presidential address on Covid 19. No European travel for 30 days.

The Hanks tested Corona positive.

Where’s all the TP?!

Iraq airstrike is downplayed.

Disneyland closed. 

Schools closed – 3 weeks of purgatory for some.

CV – the price we pay for a global society.

Lyle Waggoner, 84.

The Gambler folds. Kenny Rogers, 81.

MI lockdown for 14 days!

Sweet Georgia brown, Curly Neal, 77.

Senate and House approve $2T stimulus bill.

Olympics rescheduled.

NAIAS cancelled.

Another good one is gone. Albert leaves us.

He’s propped up inside the jukebox. Joe Diffie, 61 from CV.

Mr. Tiger. Number 6. Al Kaline, 85.

Feel the Bern. Sanders calls it quits.

John Prine, 73.

Linda Tripp, 70.

Mort Drucker, 91.

Brian Dennehy, 81.

Quibi launches.

Howard Finkel makes his final announcement at 69

Canada has shooting as well. Nova Scotia 22.

Eb Dawson heads for greener acres.Tom Lester, 81.

Sad Big Poppa pic defines social isolation.

Belichick’s dog is the real decision maker.

Still under stay-at-home order 5-1.

Asian Murder Hornets are here.

Don Shula reaches the endzone at 90.

Lansing capitol protests.

A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom! Little Richard, 87.

Festivus for the rest of us. Gerry Stiller, 92.

The soul train leaves the station. Betty Wright, 66.

Fred Willard, 86.

Phyllis George, 70

Harvick wins NASCAR’s return at Darlington.

Mid Michigan underwater.

Safer. Supposedly. Until 6-12.

Memorial Day weekend with no Indy in quarantine. Blech.

Patsy Lou Williamson 87.

George Floyd death starts Minneapolis rioting and weeks of protests.

Section 230.

SpaceX launch GO!

Who is Tara Reade? Not that Tara Reid!

Seattle Capital Hill Autonomous Zone.

Johnny Rebs take note – no more Confederate flags to fly at NASCAR tracks.

Contact tracing is now exposure notification.

Bilbo’s journey ends. Ian Holms, 88.

No noose, but NASCAR is reeling.

Joel Schumacher, 80.

Carl Reiner, 98.

Hugh Downs, 99.

Joey Chestnut breaks his own record with an unprecedented 75 dogs in 10 minutes. Miki Sudo repeats her own 7th victory with a record 48.

#4 Harvick makes back to back Brickyard victories.

Ennio Morricone, 91.

Charlie Daniel’s, 83.

Stone sentence commuted.

Neowise streaks by.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

The Palace receives a royal send off.

Kelly Preston, 57.

Grant Imahara, 49.

Matty Moroun, 93.

GA Congressman John Lewis, 80.

Ivanka ruins (or saves) Goya beans.

One Bigfoots name is Darryl.

Fauci pitches as baseball begins.

Who names their baby X Æ A-12. Oh yeah, Elon Musk. Babyhater.

Peter Green, 73.

Regis Philbin, 88.

John Saxon, 83.

Olivia de Havilland, 104.

Perseverance launches.

Wilford Brimley, 85.

SpaceX Dragon makes a splashdown return.

Beirut explosion takes down the government.

Surprise. No surprise, Kamala is VP pick.

Takoma Sato makes it 2 at the 104th Indy.

Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha spark further shootings.

Laura hits as a Cat 4.

Chadwick Boseman, 43.

Tom Seaver, 75.

Authentic takes the 104th Kentucky Derby.

Made it to 54!

Oregon fires.

Thiem and Osaka take 2020 U.S. Open.

Israel, UAE and  Bahrain sign Abraham accords.

$100K for 100K run.

Sally storms in.

Ginsberg renders her final verdict at 87

Gardenhire retires before the season is over.

Ron Cobb, 83.

Gale Sayers, 77.

Breonna Taylor verdict sends Louisville up.

Worldwide CV death toll tops 1M.

Mac Davis, 78.

Kids visit and bring unexpected Christmas gifts!

First presidential debate.

Helen Reddy, 78.

Martin Milner, 83.

Eddie Van Halen, 65.

Covid is getting close.

VP debate. It’s a shitshow when a fly is the biggest thing everyone’s talking about.

Whitmer dodges a killing and kidnapping.

Lakers over Heat for a record 17th Championship.

Dodgers over Rays in World Series.

Ginsberg replacement Barrett settles in.

RIP 007. Sean Connery, 90.

MW says yes again. Makes it 22.

Election night. CEW votes!

He’s not. He is. He’s not. He is. Biden?

CEW tastes life at 21 

Alex Trebek, 80.

Dustin Johnson record -20 takes 2020 Masters.

SpaceX launches.

MI takes a “3 week pause”.

Saddest Thanksgiving parade ever.

Lions trounced 25-41 on T-day.

Quinn and Patricia out. Bevel in.

Iran “top” nuclear scientist assassinated.

Squiggy says “goodbye”!  David Lander, 73.

No evidence of fraud or tampering whatsoever. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nothing to see here.

Sound barrier breaks again, Gen. Chuck Yeager; 97.

You got a lotta nerve! Dylan sells out!

Tiny Lister 62.

Texas has a case? Michigan has a case? Nope.

Time’s Person of the Year – dynamic duo?

Charlie Pride, 86.

Jeremy Bulloch, 75.

Benny Napoleon, 65.

Lava flow. Kilaueau eruption.

KT Oslin, 78.

Leslie West, Mountain, 75.

Nashville explodes. Literally.

More tax relief. Well, at least until 2022.

“Spread hope. Not Covid. Wear a mask.” Ugh.

Vaccine rollout begins.

Boston Dynamics robots dance in the new year.

Mary Ann is off the island. Dawn Wells, 82.

Alto Reed (best stage name ever), 72.

MW’s surgery performed handily.

So there goes 2020; leaving mayhem and bewilderment in its wake. Bizarre doesn’t begin to describe it.

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