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2021 in U.S. states and territories. This article outlines United States-related events which occurred in the year 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to heavily impact the US, with the emergence of numerous COVID-19 variants leading to a substantial rise in both infections and deaths across the country.
March 11 – President Biden officially signs the COVID-19 relief bill (American Rescue Plan Act of 2021) into law. March 12 – The United States Senate approves the nomination of Representative Deb Haaland to be the Secretary of Interior (51-40). Haaland is the first Native American to hold a position in the President's cabinet.
September 20. By September 20, COVID-19 had killed over 675,000 Americans, the estimated number of American deaths from the Spanish flu in 1918. As a result, COVID-19 became the deadliest respiratory pandemic in American history.
March 11, 2021 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is passed. March 16, 2021 – A spa shooting in Atlanta leaves 8 dead; 6 of the victims were of Asian descent. March 22, 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers location in Boulder, Colorado. This is the second mass shooting with at least 8 dead in a week.
2148 or 1767 or 995. Unix time. 1609459200 – 1640995199. 2021 ( MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.
The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.
Date Event Source 5 PBS Kids announces it will stop airing Caillou.The show's "cancellation" attracts widespread online celebration from critics of the show. 6 Due to news coverage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC swap its primetime schedule for continuing news coverage, while Fox and The CW carry their normal lineups during that evening.
The history of the United States from 2008 to the present began with the collapse of the housing bubble, which led to the Great Recession. The resulting economic downturn and general discontent led Barack Obama to win the presidential election in 2008, becoming the country's first African-American president.