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January 11: Camp X-Ray (Guantanamo) January 5 – Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a building in Tampa, Florida, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. January 6 – The Boston Globe publishes a story detailing the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal.
The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to July 23 to August 8, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [1]
In Minneapolis–Saint Paul alone, the immediate aftermath of Floyd's murder was the second-most destructive period of local unrest in United States history, after the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [36] [37] [38] Over a three night period, the cities experienced two deaths, [39] [40] 617 arrests, [8] [38] and upwards of $500 million in property ...
January 19 – Federal Appeals Court Judge William H. Webster is appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. January 25–27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and the Great Lakes, causing 51 deaths in Ohio. January 28 – Richard Chase, the "Vampire of Sacramento", is arrested.
Kent State, Ohio, United States of America. 4 students were killed and 9 wounded during an antiwar protest. They were shot by the National Guard. May 15, 1970. Jackson State, United States of America. 2 are killed and tens injured when Highway Patrol shot into a crowd at the Historically Black University.
The United States is the third most populous country in the world, and the most populous in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere. [13] The Census Bureau showed a population increase of 0.4% for the twelve-month period ending in July 2022, [12] below the world average annual rate of 0.9%. [14]
There are an estimated 92 Hells Angels chapters in 27 U.S. states, with a membership of over 800. Due to the club's designation as a "known criminal organization" by the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, the United States has a federal policy prohibiting its foreign members from entering the country.
The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred.. With the dominant political story of this year being the 2024 presidential election, much attention has focused on Democratic incumbent Joe Biden's widely expected rematch against Republican Donald Trump, who Biden unseated four years earlier.