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2020

Saudi Arabia has banned pilgrimages by foreign visitors to Mecca due to COVID-19. This is the first time in living memory.

The city of Venice, Italy, introduces a tax on day-trippers.

84th Academy Awards: “The Artist” wins five Oscars and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927.

Terrorists detonate a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000.

The Dallas Cowboys fire head coach Tom Landry after 29 years at the helm of the team.

Michael Jackson releases the album “Thriller.” It will remain at #1 for 37 weeks.

The Beatles release “Beatles Again,” also known as the “Hey Jude” album,

The first Volkswagen factory in Saxony, Germany, is inaugurated by Adolf Hitler.

The first traffic lights are installed in New York.

“Kinemacolor,” the first process for making color films, is unveiled to the public at the Palace Theater in London.

It happened on… February 26