bad events in 2020 so far

1) COVID-19 (Over 50M cases and over 1M deaths) (December 31, 2019-PRESENT)

2) Indonesia Floods (Happened a few hours after 12 AM Jan 1, 2020 Indonesia time)

3) Australia Bushfire (These fires killed 450 people) (Sometime in January 2020)

4) Ukrainian Jetliner Crash (shot by Iran, happened on Jan 8, 2020)

5) Windows 7 stopped its support (January 14, 2020)

6) WWIII almost happened (Sometime in jan 2020, declared by USA and Iran)

7) Kobe and Gigi Bryant death (Happened in Jan 26, 2020 during a helicopter crash)

8) WHO (World Health Organization) Declares COVID-19 as a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern) in January 30, 2020

9) India Riots (Happened in Feb 2020, and over 50 deaths happened in the riots)

10) Death of Irrfan Khan & Rishi Kapoor (died bc ilness)

11) WHO declares COVID-19 as a pandemic (March 11, 2020)

12) Pakistan airline crash (Happened on May 22, 2020, Killed 97 people, only 2 survived)

13) George Floyd death (Happened on May 25, 2020, where derek chauvin suffocated george for 8 minutes and 46 seconds killing him)

14) George Floyd protests (Ongoing since May 26, 2020, where the goal is to spread "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter". 19 people have died in these protests at least and lots of destruction was caused

15) George Floyd protests go International (This happened in June 2020)

16) Naya Rivera dies (July 8, 2020)

17) Beirut Explosion (August 4, 2020)

18) Historic thunderstorm hits Bay Area (August 16, 2020)

19) The thunderstorm causes lots of fires including the 2nd and third largest fires (August 17, 2020)

20) Hurricane Marco and Laura almost collide  (Sometime in August)

21) Hurricane Laura hits louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane (Sometime in August, killing 71 people and doing $8.9B in damages)

22) Chadwick Boseman aka Black Panther dies  (August 28, 2020, died from colon cancer, after battling it since 2016)

23) Fires In Beirut explosion (September 10, 2020)

24) Gas Explosion in China (September 11, 2020)

25) A one second glitch causes many  and one ban to innocent people who played (October 26, 2020)

Check these out for more info:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/strike-bug-1-second-arenas-are-a-bad-idea 

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/are-these-1-second-tournaments-a-good-idea 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/petition-for-the-cheat-detection-for-hyperbullet-to-be-a-lot-smarter 

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/a-chess-com-arena-banning-everyone 

26) A true legend of chess.com, @Coach-Bill, Passed away  (November 6, 2020)

27) @SpicyMcmuffin and @Chesswarriors12 got banned (November 9, 2020)

28) @SpicyMcmuffin's profile picture gets removed (November 13, 2020)

If I forgot any horrific moments, tell me

"but 2020 keeps on getting worse" -- @Dark_Knight_DK14

"be greatful you made it this far in 2020, there are several people not that lucky" - @1g4_1-0

and WWIII conspiracies between USA and Iran

Another one

Devesh comes back

hmm... COPPA an youtube? that started on jan 1 2020 and got some people saying 202 was about to be a bad year... boy were they in for a treat

F in the chat pls

don't forget that the inventor of chess died

the inventor of chess has died, 2020 is even worse now. 

rip 

press f to pay respects 

remember to copy paste this this so people know you care. most people won't, but people with a heart will. 

such little significance to the death of the inventor of chess. Very unfortunate though.

no chess inventor just died. Ask @HorribleTomato >: (

Yeah

Someone agrees with me!

Rip

Oh no