The second part of the year end recap.
What would a year end list be without some tangeants first. Sports Illustrated just laid off everyone. Are aviator chairs the best ever? Could beeeee.
What happened last year:
May 1 First Republic Is SeizedRegulators seize First Republic Bank and strike a deal to sell the bulk of its operations to JPMorgan Chase, heading off a chaotic collapse
May 5 pandemic emergncy is overThe World Health Organization declares an end to the Covid-19 emergency
May 6 king charles crowned
June 18 Titanic Explorers DieFive adventurers on an expedition to the 1912 Titanic shipwreck die in a catastrophic implosion of their submersible deep in the North Atlantic.
June 23 Mutiny and DeathYevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner paramilitary group leads a short-lived military mutiny in Russia, the most serious challenge to Putin’s 23 years in power. Prigozhin and other Wagner commanders would be assassinated via a plane crash in late August.
July 13 Actors on StrikeTV actors join picket lines alongside screenwriters in what becomes Hollywood’s biggest labor fight in decades.
July 25 Twitter Becomes XElon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X elicits excitement, exasperation and effrontery from users as they adjust to the billionaire’s latest change to the social-media platform.
Aug. 8 Wildfires in HawaiiWildfires tear through Maui, killing 100 people. The historic town of Lahaina is destroyed.
Aug. 17 More 401(k) MillionairesThe number of people with at least $1 million in their 401(k)s grows about 25%—meaning there are now some 378,000 retirement-plan millionaires in Fidelity Investments plans—thanks to the year’s market rally.
Sept. 15 UAW StrikesThe United Auto Workers union goes on strike against GM, Ford Motor and Chrysler parent Stellantis, the first walkouts to hit all three automakers at same time
Sept. 19 Armenia-Azerbaijan ConflictIn the space of just over a week, Nagorno-Karabakh—a self-governing, Armenian region established inside Azerbaijan after the collapse of the Soviet Union—is effectively dismantled.
Oct 3 In a first in U.S. history, the House removes Kevin McCarthy as speaker, after the California Republican battled with GOP dissidents. Mike Johnson elected Oct 25
Oct. 7 Hamas Attacks IsraelPalestinian militants pour out of Gaza in a surprise assault, rampaging through villages and taking hostages. By Israel’s count, 1,400 people are killed, mostly civilians. Israel declares war on Hamas. President Biden would condemn Hamas’s attack as “an act of sheer evil.”
Nov 2 Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is convicted of stealing billions of dollars from customers in one of the biggest financial-fraud cases in U.S. history.
Nov. 29 Henry Kissinger Dies at 100 As a presidential adviser, he helped forge U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Dec 5 The NCAA unveils a proposal that would allow Division I schools to pay their athletes for the first time.
Dec. 8 Colleges and Free SpeechWhere’s the line between antisemitism and free speech on campuses? The University of Pennsylvania’s president, Liz Magill, resigns along with the chair of the board of trustees—the highest-profile casualties of debates roiling colleges in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
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