Spirit of America Bookstore U.S.  Timeline  –  2023  to  2025 Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E. 1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950    •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000    •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    2019-2020    •    2021-2022    • year 2023    •    year 2024    •    year 2025 2026 forward {just below }    •    year 2026    •    RECENT EVENTS    •    The Looming Future? 2021 Wed Jan 6: Hours before the riot, Trump urged a crowd to 'go wild' at the Capitol to get lawmakers to overturn the election result; Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani called for 'trial by combat' to settle allegations of election fraud, which courts and state election officials from both parties have rejected as false. 2021 Wed Jan 6: Violent pro-Trump terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol Building and tried to derail the process of certifying President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. They ransacked offices, stole artifacts, broke onto the Senate floor, and sent lawmakers fleeing. Details of the January 6th U.S. Capitol Riot in 2021 and subsequent events are on their own page 2022 Feb 24: Dictator Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade several major cities in independent Ukraine; artillery and tanks killed local troops and civilians, return fire killed Russian soldiers.    2022 Dec 31:    77,124 people died of coronavirus in the U.S. in December, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic. Also, the United States managed to administer fewer than 2.8 million coronavirus vaccine shots before 2020 ended, far below the goal of 20 million that federal officials had set for the year. 2022 YEAR-END VIRUS STATISTICS: Less than half of Americans have gotten a flu shot; there already have been 15 million cases of the flu, 150,000 Americans have gotten it bad enough that they had to be hospitalized, and a whopping 9,300 Americans died from influenza! About 244,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in 2022 (weekly average 4,700), far more than were killed by the flu. According to the C.D.C., up to 160,000 Americans 65 and older are hospitalized with R.S.V. each year, and the virus kills about 10,000 of them. Don't fool around; get vaccinated. 2025 Dec 31: By year-end, more than 2,000 confirmed measles cases were reported in the U.S., the biggest outbreak since 1991 - as ongoing outbreaks threaten elimination status. 2025 Dec 31: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported high or very high levels of illness in more than half the states; the C.D.C. estimated that there have been at least 7.5 million illnesses, 81,000 hospitalizations, and 3,100 deaths from flu so far this season The  Year  2 0 2 6 2026:    Year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, especially in July. 2026:   Year-long series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of U.S. Route 66. 2026 Jan 1: The Affordable Care Act [signed March 2010] subsidies at the heart of the recent government shutdown fight expired, raising insurance premiums for millions of Americans. 2026 Jan 1: Blondie & Dagwood, Betty Boop, Nancy Drew, Miss Marple & Sam Spade entered the public domain after the copyright protection on the fictional characters expired. 2026 Jan 3:   Dictator Trump became the first U.S. President to bomb eight countries in one year: Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen. 2026 Jan 25-29: Further economic uncertainty produced new record highs for gold - $5,409.30 per ounce - and silver - $121.60 per ounce. 2026 February: January included the worst job cut announcements statistics since the Great Recession of 2008. 2026 February: Bitcoin fell 11% in January, its fourth-straight losing month. And then it fell below $76,000, meaning it has declined about 40% from its all-time high of ~$126,200 set in October. 2026 Tue Feb 3: Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since November 2024, despite President Trump's pledge to make the U.S. the 'crypto capital of the world'. The price of Bitcoin fell as much as 10%, dipping below $70,000 for the first time since it began rallying on President Trump’s 2024 election; later in the day, Bitcoin sold below $63,000, erasing nearly $500 billion in market value over several days. 2026 Feb 5: The 2010 New START nuclear treaty with Russia officially expired. 2026 Fri Feb 6:   Stocks reached a historic milestone as the Dow-Jones Index crossed 50,000 points for the first time ever: $50,115.67 on Friday, $50,219.40 on Monday, $50,512.79 on Tuesday, 50,499.04 on Wednesday, 50,447.01 on Thursday, and back down at $49,500.93 on Friday February 13th. 2026 Wed Feb 18: Bitcoin fell further to $66,135.70, losing 47% of value since the peak in October and 24% of value for the year. 2026 Sat Feb 28: A joint military attack by the U.S. and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran with overnight waves of air strikes pounded military installations across the country; Israel claimed the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran responded with a barrage of strikes targeting Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar. Israeli authorities have instructed residents to remain in bomb shelters until further notice. . . . meanwhile, keep an eye on these planned/expected events 2026 July: UPCOMING    Commemoration events for the 250th anniversary of the United States. 2028 May 15: UPCOMING 100-year birthday of Mickey Mouse, whose first public appearance was at a test screening of the silent b&w cartoon short "Plane Crazy". 2028 Summer: UPCOMING Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. 2029 April 13: Asteroid 99942 Apophis is expected to pass very close to Earth; the asteroid is about 3,280ft long by 558ft thick and will zoom past us 10 times faster than a bullet; original calculations were dire, predicting passage closer than weather satellites and thru a tiny 'keyhole' and then returning to impact Earth in April 2036; later calculations bring the likelihood of impact down to zero. 2032 Dec 22: The 1.3% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 pummeling toward Earth will strike the planet may not seem very high, but it’s high enough that scientists gave it a 3 out of 10 on the Torino Scale - the second-highest rating ever given to an asteroid. A zero on the Torino Scale means there’s no threat, while a 10 is essentially 'goodbye Earth', so a 3, though of mild concern, suggests there’s no reason to panic. The good news is that the space rock is small enough (~130 to 330 feet long) that NASA’s D.A.R.T. mission may be able to deflect it, and even if it did hit Earth, it wouldn’t be an extinction-level event. N.A.S.A. upgraded the odds of a strike from a 1-in-83 chance to a 1-in-32 chance in January 2025; probability estimates climbed to 3.1%, before later calculations brought the likelihood of impact down to zero. 2046 Valentine's Day: Asteroid 2023DW, roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool, has about a 1-in-560 chance of hitting Earth, per N.A.S.A. (2023). Spirit of America Bookstore's U.S. History Timeline Pages Ancient Times - 3500 B.C.E to 1490 C.E.    •    1491-1800    •    1801-1900    •    1901-1930    •    1931-1950 •    1951-1968    •    1969-2000    •    2001-2010    •    2011-2016    •    2017-2018    •    2019-2020 Spirit of America's U.S.A. Timeline of the COVID-19 Epidemic Spirit of America's New Mexico Timeline of the COVID-19 Epidemic •    2021-2022    •    2023-2025    • 2026 Forward Page    •    year 2026    •    RECENT EVENTS    •    The Looming Future?

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