What happened in 2019

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Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus · 19 weeks at #1 in 2019

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1. Jan 5Thank U, NextAriana Grande1 wk
2. Jan 12Without MeHalsey2 wks
3. Jan 19Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse)Post Malone & Swae Lee1 wk
4. Feb 27 RingsAriana Grande8 wks
5. Mar 9ShallowLady Gaga & Bradley Cooper1 wk
6. Mar 16SuckerJonas Brothers1 wk
7. Apr 13Old Town RoadLil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus19 wks
8. Aug 24Bad GuyBillie Eilish1 wk
9. Aug 31SenoritaShawn Mendes & Camila Cabello1 wk
10. Sep 7Truth HurtsLizzo7 wks
11. Oct 19HIGHEST IN THE ROOMTravis Scott1 wk
12. Nov 2Someone You LovedLewis Capaldi3 wks
13. Nov 9Lose You To Love MeSelena Gomez1 wk
14. Nov 30CirclesPost Malone2 wks
15. Dec 14HeartlessThe Weeknd1 wk
16. Dec 21All I Want For Christmas Is YouMariah Carey2 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2019; weeks count only those in 2019.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 1The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.
2. Mar 15Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings, which remains the deadliest terror attack in New Zealand history.
3. Mar 30Pope Francis visits Morocco.
4. Apr 18The United States Department of Justice released a redacted version of the Mueller report about the investigation of Russian influence on the U.S. presidential election to Congress and the public.
5. May 31A shooting at a municipal building in Virginia Beach, United States, left 13 people dead, including the gunman, and injured four others.
6. Jun 20Iranian aircraft shot down an American drone over the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between the two countries.
7. Aug 3A mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 23 people and injuring 22 others.
8. Aug 10Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.
9. Sep 20Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
10. Sep 21A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.
11. Oct 21Thirty people are killed in a fiery bus crash in western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
12. Oct 27Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi kills himself and three children by detonating a suicide vest during the U.S. military Barisha raid in northwestern Syria.
13. Dec 18The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
14. Dec 20The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.

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 → Boris Johnson

• 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 2019, from Wikidata.

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

• Prince Archie of SussexMay 6

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