Major data breach hits federal agencies.

Art patron Agnes Gund dies at age 87.

President Trump requires new H-1B visa petitions filed after Sept 21, 2025, to include a one-time $100,000 fee, in effect until Sept 21, 2026.

ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show over comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

UC Berkeley shares list of participants in “antisemitic” activities with the Trump administration.

Charlie Kirk assassinated.

Protests organized on Discord erupt around the Nepalese Parliament.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs finds the Trump Administration’s freeze on Harvard’s federal funding illegal, citing the University’s free speech rights.

Avant-garde director Robert Wilson dies at 83.

Columbia University agrees to pay Trump Administration $200 Million.

Ari Aster’s film Eddington, a dystopian neo-western about the COVID pandemic, premieres in the United States.

Texas floods kill over 130.

Melissa Hortman is assassinated.

Record heat wave scorches East Coast.

The Whitney suspends the ISP.

Mid-Atlantic flooding submerges towns.

Cardinal Robert Prevost elected Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Francis dies at age 88.

Harvard University sues Trump administration.

CDC reports highest measles cases in 25 years.

Severe storms devastate the South.

White House imposes broad tariffs.

Trump signs executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

DoGE seeks to dismantle the U.S. DoE.

Trump administration freezes $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and doctoral student at Columbia University, is arrested by ICE in the lobby of his apartment building in Manhattan.

Mid-air collision over the Potomac River.

TikTok voluntarily suspends its services in the United States.

Los Angeles wildfires force mass evacuations.

The CDC reports multi-state measles outbreak.

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, is shot and killed by a gunman.

Kamala Harris appears on Call Her Daddy.

Donald Trump survives second assasination attempt.

Joe Biden drops out of the United States presidential race.

20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks shoots at Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

ChatGPT 4 omni, a version of the AI software that can generate images and audio, is released.

Morrison Hall, which houses Princeton African American Studies department, is locked.

Protestors at Princeton stage a peaceful sit-in at Clio Hall.

Students establish Princeton’s Gaza Solidarity encampment at 7:00 am.

Alex Garland’s film Civil War premieres in the United States.

Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender is published.

Generative AI banned by Princeton University Dean.

An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers / Giữa hai giòng sông / Entre deux rivières opens at the Museum of Modern Art.

David Velasco is fired from Artforum.

Hamas-led militant groups attack Southern Israel; used as justification for escalation of Israeli settlements.

Elon Musk renames Twitter, X.

The Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action.

Sotheby’s buys Marcel Breuer’s Upper East Side Museum.

Sarah Sze: Timelapse opens at the Guggheim Museum in New York.

ChatGPT 4 is released.

Tortuguita, a Stop Cop City activist, is killed.

Elon Musk buys Twitter for 44 Billion USD.

Roe v. Wade overturned.

The issue of transgender athletes emerges.

Death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 1 million.

WHO announces outbreak of monkeypox.

Russia invades Ukraine.

Don’t Look Up is released.

FDA approves first COVID-19 vaccine.

Cop City is approved by Atlanta City Council; Stop Cop City emerges.

Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, making Juneteenth a federal holiday.

Beeple’s NFT, Everydays: The First 5000 Days, sells at auction for $69 million.

GameStop short squeeze.

Donald Trump is impeached for the second time.

Donald Trump supporters storm the Capitol.

The US FDA issues an emergency use authorization for the second COVID-19 mrna vaccine developed by Moderna.

A US nurse is the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials.

The US FDA issues an emergency use authorization for the first COVID-19 mrna vaccine developed by Pfizer-Biontech.

Joe Biden elected president.

The US FDA approves the drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19.

Universities remain online.

Lockdowns lifted as social life moves outside; Black Lives Matter protests persist across the country.

First interview published in November.

2020 would see the removal of over 100 confederate monuments across the United States. Some were toppled during protests and some were removed by state actors.

AMNH requests that Theodore Roosevelt monument be removed.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone is established in Portland, Oregon.

#BlackoutTuesday

Demonstrations emerge around the world in response to Floyd’s murder.

Derek Chauvin murders George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Zoom reaches 300 million daily users.

Trump cuts funding to the WHO while his administration investigates that group's handling of the pandemic.

Data is released that suggests that black residents are dying at a higher rates than white residents of Chicago.

COVID-19 deaths in the United States surpass 100,000.

New Yorkers clap and bang pots at 7:00 pm in solidarity with essential workers.

New York City shuts down the public school system.

New Rochelle, New York is declared a “containment area.”

The WHO declares the novel coronavirus a pandemic.

The NIH states that COVID-19 is likely to reach “pandemic proportions.”

The phrase “flatten the curve” enters the popular vernacular.

The term COVID-19 is first used to refer to the virus.

The WHO names the cause of this sickness the “2019 Novel Coronavirus.”

NIH begins developing a 2019 Novel Coronavirus Vaccine.

Wuhan locksdown.

China makes the genetic sequence of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus public.

Individuals report experiencing pneumonia-like symptoms in Wuhan, China.