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2020

China locks down the city of Wuhan and places its 11 million residents under mandatory quarantine as a new coronavirus spreads.

Netflix becomes the world’s largest digital media and entertainment company, with a value of $100 billion.

Evo Morales becomes president of Bolivia. He is the first indigenous person to hold this office.

Gulf War: Kuwait’s oil industry is destroyed by Iraqi forces.

Heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier suffers his first career loss to George Foreman.

Aretha Franklin’s 14th studio album, Lady Soul (Billboard’s Album of the Year, 1968), is released.

Edward VII is proclaimed King of England following the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

The National Association becomes the first professional baseball league. The first game takes place in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The first contingent of Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

It happened on… January 22