What happened in 2018

“God's Plan”

Drake · 11 weeks at #1 in 2018

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1. Jan 6PerfectEd Sheeran3 wks
2. Jan 27HavanaCamila Cabello Featuring Young Thug1 wk
3. Feb 3God's PlanDrake11 wks
4. Apr 21Nice For WhatDrake8 wks
5. May 19This Is AmericaChildish Gambino2 wks
6. Jun 16PsychoPost Malone Featuring Ty Dolla $ign1 wk
7. Jun 30Sad!XXXTENTACION1 wk
8. Jul 7I Like ItCardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin1 wk
9. Jul 21In My FeelingsDrake10 wks
10. Sep 29Girls Like YouMaroon 5 Featuring Cardi B7 wks
11. Nov 17Thank U, NextAriana Grande6 wks
12. Dec 8Sicko ModeTravis Scott1 wk

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1. Jan 23The China–United States trade war begins when President Donald Trump places tariffs on Chinese solar panels and washing machines.
2. Jan 24Former doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced up to 175 years in prison after being found guilty of using his position to sexually abuse female gymnasts.
3. Feb 14An lone gunman shot and killed seventeen people and injured seventeen others in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
4. Mar 4Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, causing a diplomatic uproar that results in mass-expulsions of diplomats from all countries involved.
5. Apr 16The New York Times and The New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
6. May 19The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, England.
7. May 25The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in the European Union.
8. Jun 12United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea hold the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
9. Jun 23Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
10. Sep 25Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
11. Oct 2The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
12. Oct 6The United States Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Associate Justice, ending a contentious confirmation process.
13. Oct 10Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.
14. Oct 29Lion Air Flight 610, a Boeing 737 MAX, crashes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia killing 189 people on board. This is the first of two crashes that will lead to the plane being grounded worldwide.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Donald Trump

• UK Prime Minister

  Theresa May

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Justin Trudeau

• President of France

  Emmanuel Macron

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2018, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Prince Louis of WalesBritish royal · Apr 23

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.