Photos - A Look Back At The Year And Events Of 2020

Protester Patrick Hutchinson carries an injured counter-protester to safety, near Waterloo station during a Black Lives Matter protest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in London, Britain, June 13, 2020. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez

Photos – A Look Back At The Year Of 2020.

A cemetery worker digs new graves at the Xico cemetery, as the coronavirus outbreak continues, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Protesters react as they set fire to the entrance of a police station as demonstrations continue in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a heroine to the American left after overcoming entrenched sexism in the legal profession to ascend to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she championed gender equality and other liberal causes during 27 years on the bench. Ginsburg, who died September 18 at age 87, was a fierce advocate for women’s rights – winning major gender-discrimination cases before the Supreme Court – before being appointed to the top U.S. judicial body by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1993. Ginsburg overcame hostility toward women in the male-dominated worlds of law school and the legal profession to become just the second woman ever to serve on the nine-member Supreme Court. “I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks,” Ginsburg said in a 2018 documentary, summing up her lifelong work toward gender equality. Ginsburg was a reliable vote in favor of liberal causes on the court on other issues as well including defending abortion rights, expanding gay rights, preserving the Obamacare healthcare law, and advancing the rights of racial minorities the poor and disenfranchised. When asked how many women there should be on the court, Ginsburg, with an impish smile, always gave the same answer: “Nine.” REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Anurak Jeantawanich, 52, pushes against police officers during an anti-government protest in Bangkok, Thailand, October 16, 2020. "I could sense danger coming," said Jeantawanich. "I looked each of them in the eye and told them not to come any closer, that there were a lot of young students and girls here." REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Anurak Jeantawanich, 52, pushes against police officers during an anti-government protest in Bangkok, Thailand, October 16, 2020. “I could sense danger coming,” said Jeantawanich. “I looked each of them in the eye and told them not to come any closer, that there were a lot of young students and girls here.” REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark McCloskey draw their firearms on protesters as they enter their neighborhood during a demonstration against St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, in St. Louis, Missouri, June 28, 2020. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, died July 17. A Democratic member of Congress from Atlanta since 1987, Lewis had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer. He was 80. Lewis was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom he met after writing to him when Lewis was just 18. He was the last surviving speaker from the 1963 March on Washington, having stood beside King when he made his “I Have a Dream” speech. Lewis endured numerous beatings and arrests in his lifelong fight against segregation and for racial justice, including in Alabama, where he was savagely beaten during the “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965. He kept up the fight for civil rights and human rights until the end of his life. In 2016, Lewis led a “sit-in” by House Democrats to demand a vote on gun regulations. He made his last public appearance last month, as protests for racial justice swept the United States and the world. Using a cane, Lewis walked with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser on a street by the White House that Bowser had just renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza. It had just been dedicated with a large yellow mural – large enough to be seen from space – reading “Black Lives Matter.” REUTERS/Leah Millis

Health care workers stand in the street in counter-protest to hundreds of people who gathered at the State Capitol to demand the stay-at-home order be lifted in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak in Denver, Colorado, April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Alyson McClaran

Former National Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern, who oversaw explosive growth in the popularity of the game during his 30-year tenure, died January 1 at the age of 77. Under Stern, the NBA experienced extraordinary growth, with seven new franchises – including expansion to Canada in 1995 – a more than 30-fold increase in revenue, a dramatic gain in national TV exposure and the launch of the Women’s National Basketball Association and NBA Development League. He also had a role in many other initiatives that helped shape the league, including a drug policy, salary-cap system and dress code. Stern’s greatest accomplishment as commissioner is widely considered to be the way he transformed the NBA, once largely an unknown commodity outside the United States, into a globally televised powerhouse. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Detained Filipino activist Reina Mae Nasino, 23, holds a flower during the burial of her three-month-old baby River, who died while she was in prison, in Manila North Cemetery, Philippines, October 16, 2020. "We were denied the chance to be together. I did not even see your laughter," said Nasino. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

Detained Filipino activist Reina Mae Nasino, 23, holds a flower during the burial of her three-month-old baby River, who died while she was in prison, in Manila North Cemetery, Philippines, October 16, 2020. “We were denied the chance to be together. I did not even see your laughter,” said Nasino. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

David Dinkins, who served as New York City’s first and only African-American mayor during the 1990s, died November 23 at the age of 93. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins attended Howard University and Brooklyn Law School. He eventually came to Harlem, the historically Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan, where he rose in the ranks of local politics. In Harlem, Dinkins formed part of a group of Black power brokers, known as the “Gang of Four,” that included congressman Charles Rangel, Percy Sutton and Basil Paterson, the father of future New York Governor David Paterson. Dinkins defeated the three-term incumbent Democrat Mayor Ed Koch in the primary and then Republican prosecutor Rudy Giuliani in the 1989 mayoral race. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) recognized the former mayor’s achievements in a statement: “Winning his election against all odds, he showed us what was possible at a time when opportunities were limited.” New York, during Dinkins’ term, was battling high crime, a fierce economic recession and the AIDS epidemic. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Protesters on horseback rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, through downtown Houston, Texas, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Kobe Bryant, one of the NBA’s all-time greatest players, was killed at age 41 on January 26 in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others. Bryant rocketed to fame as an 18-year-old rookie drafted straight out of high school, at the time an unusual career path and spent his entire 20-year career with the Lakers before retiring in 2016. Apart from the five championship rings, he made 18 All-Star teams and in 2008 was named league MVP. Bryant called his daughter Gianna “Mambacita” after his own court nickname, “Black Mamba,” confident she would follow in his footsteps and become a professional basketball player. He had been coaching her middle-school team since his retirement. Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

An empty street is seen during the coronavirus outbreak, in Manhattan, New York City, March 15, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Ballerinas Kennedy George, 14, and Ava Holloway, 14, pose in front of a monument of Confederate General Robert E. Lee after Virginia Governor Ralph Northam ordered its removal amid widespread civil unrest following the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Richmond, Virginia, June 5, 2020. REUTERS/Julia Rendleman

Actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for his star turn in the blockbuster Marvel superhero film “Black Panther,” died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. During his screen career, Boseman played a number of real-life characters famed for breaking America’s racial barriers, including soul singer James Brown in “Get on Up,” Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in “Marshall,” and baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson in “42.” But the actor’s most memorable role was his 2018 performance as T’Challa, king of the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda and the crime fighter known as Black Panther, in the first major studio superhero movie featuring a predominantly African-American cast. “Black Panther” went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of the year and was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture. It won three Academy Awards – in the best original score, best costume design and best production design categories. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

A man waves a British flag on Brexit day in London, Britain, January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Rain falls as C'Monie Scott raises her fist while people chant around her at a memorial site for George Floyd, created at the place where he was taken into police custody and later pronounced dead, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Rain falls as C’Monie Scott raises her fist while people chant around her at a memorial site for George Floyd, created at the place where he was taken into police custody and later pronounced dead, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

Game show host Alex Trebek, who as the brainy quizmaster of “Jeopardy!” became one of the most recognizable personalities on American television, died on November 8 at the age of 80. After hosting a number of television shows in Canada during the 1960s, the Canadian-born Trebek was encouraged to move to California in 1973 by the late actor Alan Thicke, a fellow Canadian, to host a short-lived NBC game show called “The Wizard of Odds.” In the following years, Trebek hosted a few other shows with equally quirky names, such as “High Rollers” and “Battlestars.” None of them became an enduring success but they bolstered Trebek’s reputation in Hollywood and eventually paved the way for his joining “Jeopardy!” The show, which requires contestants to display their knowledge of a broad range of trivia topics by providing their answers in the form of a question, has consistently drawn more than 20 million viewers a week in the United States and Canada, making it the most-watched quiz show in those markets. Trebek, who was known for engaging contestants with straight-faced but witty banter and for his scholarly demeanor and scrupulous pronunciation, hosted more than 7,000 episodes of “Jeopardy!” Trebek won six Emmy Awards for outstanding game-show host, most recently in 2019, and also received a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2011. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok

Voters wait in a long line to cast their ballots at Church of the Servant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, November 3, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford

A participant embraces a member of Belarusian Interior Ministry troops, who stands guard during an opposition demonstration to protest against police violence and to reject the presidential election results near the Government House in Independence Square in Minsk, Belarus, August 14, 2020. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures” to a key role in sending humans to the moon, died February 24 at the age of 101. She and her black colleagues were known as “computers” when that term was used not for a programmed electronic device but for a person who did computations. Johnson had a groundbreaking career of 33 years with the space agency, working on the Mercury and Apollo missions, including the first moon landing in 1969, and the early years of the space shuttle program. During the space race that began in the late 1950s, Johnson and her co-workers ran the numbers for unmanned rocket launches, test flights and airplane safety studies using pencils, slide rules and mechanical calculating machines. But they did their work in facilities separate from white workers and were required to use separate restrooms and dining facilities. Johnson was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2015 and in 2016 he cited her in his State of the Union Address as an example of America’s spirit of discovery. NASA/Handout via REUTERS

A woman wearing flame-resistant clothing photographs an airplane as it drops red fire retardant on the Glass Fire at a vineyard in Deer Park, California, September 27, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

A Palestinian girl cries as she is comforted by her uncle after Israeli forces demolished her family's house near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

A Palestinian girl cries as she is comforted by her uncle after Israeli forces demolished her family’s house near Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, September 30, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

Regis Philbin, a familiar face to TV viewers as an energetic and funny talk and game show host who logged more hours in front of the camera than anyone else in the history of U.S. television, died July 24 at the age of 88. He was known for his rough edges, funny anecdotes, self-deprecating humor and a Bronx accent that was once described as sounding “like a racetrack announcer with a head cold.” American comedian and late-night host David Letterman, a long-time friend, called Philbin the funniest man on television. Philbin – known to fans as “Reeg” – was a fixture on various local and national shows for a half century with co-hosts including Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa, winning millions of fans as well as honors as the top U.S. talk and game show host. He hosted the successful “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” program when it debuted in the United States in 1999 as well as other game shows. Philbin signed a deal in 2000 making his salary for “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” $20 million a year, the most ever for a game show host. Guinness World Records listed him as having put in more time on camera than anyone else in the history of U.S. television – about 17,000 hours. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi rips up the speech of U.S. President Donald Trump after his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the House Chamber of the Capitol in Washington, February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

A woman from the Turkana tribe walks through a swarm of desert locusts at the village of Lorengippi near the town of Lodwar, Turkana county, Kenya, July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

French designer Pierre Cardin, who upended fashion styles in the 1960s and 70s with futuristic looks, died at the age of 98. Cardin was also known for overhauling the fashion industry by successfully licensing his brand name and making savvy business moves.
REUTERS/Charles Platiau

A cab driver raises his fist as people celebrate media announcements that Democratic candidate Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Union Square in Manhattan, New York City, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

Author Larry Kramer, whose early advocacy for a national response to AIDS as the disease first emerged in the 1980s helped raise awareness and shape healthcare policy into the 1990s, died May 27 at age 84. Kramer, who co-founded the ACT UP movement that made AIDS a national issue, died of pneumonia after enduring illness for much of his life, including his own battle with AIDS, said his close friend Will Schwalbe. Kramer, whose works include the award-winning 1985 play, “The Normal Heart,” established himself as a fierce advocate for LGBTQ rights as the gay community, including many of his friends, became afflicted with AIDS, a newly emergent disease in the 1980s. He co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) organization in 1981 to help AIDS victims before co-founding the more militant ACT UP in 1987. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Iranian people attend a funeral procession for Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA

Aimee Stephens, a transgender woman at the center of a major LGBT rights battle, died May 12 at age 59, just as a ruling is anticipated in her workplace discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her case before the nation’s highest court involves whether or not a Detroit funeral home violated federal law by firing Stephens after she revealed plans to transition to female from male. The court is considering whether gay and trans workers are covered under the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employers from discriminating against workers on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion. The administration of President Donald Trump has argued that sexual orientation or gender identity are not covered by the law, and the ruling is expected to have implications for workplace discrimination protections for transgender workers. “Aimee did not set out to be a hero and a trailblazer, but she is one, and our country owes her a debt of gratitude for her commitment to justice,” said Chase Strangio, one of the ACLU attorneys representing her. “When Aimee decided to fight back after she was fired for being transgender, she just wanted it to be acknowledged that what happened to her was wrong.” REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden and his wife Jill, and vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Doug, react at their election rally after news media announced that Biden won the 2020 presidential election over President Donald Trump, in Wilmington, Delaware, November 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

A police officer gestures as a member of a feminist collective paints her shield during a march to mark the International Safe Abortion Day in Mexico City, Mexico, September 27, 2020. REUTERS/Toya Sarno Jordan

Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n’ roll” who built his ground-breaking sound with a boiling blend of boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues and gospel, died on May 9 at the age of 87. Richard, a Grammy Award winner and inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame whose electrifying 1950s hits such as “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally” and flamboyant stage presence influenced legions of performers, succumbed to cancer. At his peak in the late 1950s and early ’60s, Richard shouted, moaned, screamed and trilled hits while pounding the piano like a mad man and punctuating lyrics with an occasional shrill “whoooo!” The music drew in both young black and white fans at a time when parts of the United States still were strictly segregated. Many white artists, such as Pat Boone, had their own hit versions of Richard’s songs, albeit considerably toned down and “safer” for the pop audience. “I’ve always thought that rock ‘n’ roll brought the races together,” Richard once told an interviewer. “Although I was black, the fans didn’t care. I used to feel good about that.” REUTERS/Fred Prouser

A helicopter carries water to the Brattain Fire as trees burn in the Fremont National Forest in Paisley, Oregon, September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits “Lean on Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” died March 30 at age 81 from heart complications, Rolling Stone magazine reported, citing a statement from his family. “A solitary man with a heart driven to connect to the world at large, with his poetry and music, he spoke honestly to people and connected them to each other,” the statement said. “As private a life as he lived close to intimate family and friends, his music forever belongs to the world. In this difficult time, we pray his music offers comfort and entertainment as fans hold tight to loved ones.” Withers produced nine albums, most of them written and recorded in the 1970s, starting with the album “Just As I Am,” which included “Ain’t No Sunshine,” which won him the first of three Grammy Awards, according to his official website. His musical career ebbed in the 1980s as he left “the hype and the hoopla” of the musical spotlight for a more private life, it said. REUTERS/Chris Pizzello

Rocker Eddie Van Halen, guitarist and founding member of the hugely successful rock band named after him and his drummer brother, died October 6 at the age of 65. He was born in Amsterdam in 1955 and studied classical piano after moving with his family to the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena in the early 1960s. After switching to guitar, Eddie and his older brother Alex, who had taken up the drums, formed the early bands that would eventually become Van Halen in the 1970s, with lead singer David Lee Roth and bass player Michael Anthony. The hard rock band, featuring Eddie Van Halen’s explosive guitar solos, quickly became a staple of the famed Sunset Strip music scene in Los Angeles before releasing their eponymous debut album in 1978. That album shot to No. 19 on the Billboard charts, becoming one of the most successful debuts of the decade. It was the first in a string of top-selling albums that would make Van Halen one of the biggest rock acts of the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits like “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” “Jump,” “Panama” and “Hot for Teacher.” Eddie Van Halen’s pioneering, virtuoso technique earned him a place along with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin as one of rock’s top guitarists. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Crosses cast shadows at the Parque Taruma cemetery, as pictured from the air amid the coronavirus outbreak, in Manaus, Brazil, June 15, 2020. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Margaret Keenan, 90, becomes the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot outside of a trial, administered by nurse May Parsons, at University Hospital in Coventry, Britain, December 8, 2020. Jacob King/Pool

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