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- January. The James Webb Space Telescope entered orbit. The telescope has since yielded a series of stunning images of deep space. The James Webb Space Telescope: Looking back towards the beginning of time ("Sunday Morning")
- February. Russia invaded Ukraine, igniting a bloody conflict now in its tenth month. Ukraine vs. Russia: A modern-day David vs. Goliath story ("Sunday Morning")
- March. Researchers discovered the wreck of Endurance, the ship from Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated trans-Antarctic expedition that got underway in 1914. A tale of Endurance ("Sunday Morning")
- April. Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson? ("Sunday Morning") Why Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation resonates across generations ("CBS Mornings")
- Russia Invades Ukraine. Sometimes intelligence agencies are like the mythical Cassandra, correctly predicting events only to be disbelieved. Late in 2021, U.S. and British officials began warning that Russia would invade Ukraine.
- U.S.- China Tensions Grow. The great power competition between China and the United States is fully underway. The Joe Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, released in October 2022, made the point bluntly: “China harbors the intention and, increasingly, the capacity to reshape the international order in favor of one that tilts the global playing field to its benefit,” and the United States intends to “win the competition.”
- Climate Change Intensifies. Forty years ago, when scientists first warned of a possible climate catastrophe, it was a problem for the future. Two thousand twenty-two showed that that perilous future has arrived.
- Inflation Returns. Sometimes the good old days were not so good. The late 1970s are a case in point. Anyone who lived through those years experienced what it was like to see inflation eat through their paychecks.
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Jan. 1: Wildfirescontinue to burn through Boulder, Colorado, leading to the evacuation of over 30,000 people and the destruction of homes across Boulder County.Jan. 3: The U.S. reaches a record number of COVID-19 cases, with the omicron variant making up 95%of the cases.Feb. 4: The 2022 Winter Olympicsbegin in Beijing, China.Feb. 6: Queen Elizabeth II celebrates 70 yearson the throne as Britain’s longest-serving monarch.Feb. 17: Brittany Griner is detainedin Russia in possession of marijuana cartridges.Feb. 22: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces a “special military operation”in Ukraine, sending troops to the country. The U.S. and other countries begin sanctions against Russia.Mar. 7: Global COVID-19 death tollsurpasses 6 million.Mar. 23: The Taliban reverses the decisionto let high school-aged girls attend school in Afghanistan.Mar. 27: Will Smith slaps Chris Rockat the Academy Awards after Rock made a joke about Smith’s wife.April 25: Twitter announces that it will sell to Elon Muskfor $44 billion.April 26: The U.S. leaves the pandemic phase, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.May 2: The U.S. Supreme Court’s draft opinion of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wadeis leaked to the public.May 14: A gunman shoots 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.May 16: Karine Jean-Pierreis the first black woman and LGBTQ person appointed as U.S. press secretary.May 17: U.S. records 1 million COVID-19 deaths.June 1: John Hinckley Jr., former President Ronald Reagan's attempted assassin, is released from prison.June 1: Amber Heard and Johnny Depp are awarded money in a settlement due to a defamation suit betweenthe couple.Travel numbers return to pre-COVID rates.The U.S. sees a record-breaking heatwave, with the highest temperatures since the early 1900s.July 4: A gunman kills seven people at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois.Aug. 4: The U.S. attorney general announces charges against the four officersinvolved in the death of Breonna Taylor.Aug. 8: The FBI conducts a search of Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, seizing multiple boxes of classified documents.Sept. 6: Liz Trussis appointed as the new British prime minister.Sept. 8: Queen Elizabeth II diesat the age of 96.Oct. 9: Rapper Kanye West makes anti-semitic remarks, resulting in major companies withdrawing from deals with the rapper.Oct. 13: Parkland shooter sentencedto life in prison without parole.Oct. 20: British Prime Minister Liz Truss announces resignation, serving for only 44 days — the shortest term served by a British prime minister in history.Oct. 27: Elon Musk takes ownership of Twitter, immediately firing large numbers of employees.2022 (MMXXII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2022nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 22nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2020s decade. The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with Omicron spreading rapidly and ...
Sep 26, 2024 · 2022 is a Harshad number, which is a number that can be evenly divided by the sum of its digits. It’s like a special math rule for some numbers. To explain in more detail, we add up the digits (2 + 0 + 2 + 2), which equals 6. And now we see if 2022 can be divided evenly by 6, which it can! 2022 ÷ 6 = 337.
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Dec 16, 2022 · From severe flooding in Pakistan to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, these 10 pictures cover major news events from the past 12 months. 2022 has been a year like no other. Economic, environmental and geopolitical turmoil have defined the past 12 months, in a year that saw the death of the UK’s Queen Elizabeth II and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
