• February 4 - Future superstar Caitlin Clark scored 60 points in a game for Dowling Catholic High School against Mason City High School, setting the second-highest single-game point total in Iowa five-on-five girls' basketball history.
  

• February 13 - NASA confirmed Mars Opportunity rover's mission has ended after 15 years due to a sandstorm damaging its communications.
  

• February 22 - Actor Jussie Smollett suspended from US TV show "Empire" after revealed that the actor made false claims about racist and homophobic attack.
  

• March 3 - SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run.
  

• March 5 - Bugatti announced the most expensive new car ever made, the La Voiture Noire, costing €16.7 million (almost $19 million) was created in Molsheim, France. It was the only one ever made.
  

• March 29 - In a magazine article Democrat Lucy Flores accused Joe Biden of putting his hands on her shoulders, smelling her hair, and planting a kiss on the back of her head.
  

• April 1 - US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores.
  

• April 15 - Parisian cathedral Notre Dame caught fire, toppled its spire and destroyed its roof.
  

• June 9 - Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz was shot while visiting in his native Dominican Republic.
  

• July 8 - US financier Jeffrey Epstein was indicted on additional charges of sex trafficking of minors.
  

• August 10 - US financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York. He was awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges.
  

• December 1 - Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, developed symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China.
  

• December 9 - World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all major sporting events including 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 football World Cup for manipulating doping laboratory data.

• December 20 - United States Space Force, an armed forces branch dedicated to space warfare, was founded.

Notable Deaths -

* Champion of VaE / TdF / GdI / WCRR: Felice Gimondi (Ita) (1942-2019) Italian professional racing cyclist with victories in all 3 Grand Tours: GdI 1967, 1969, 1976; TdF 1965; and VaE 1968. He was the 1973 World RR Champion. He also won three of cycling’s five Monument (P-R 1966; Lombardia 1966, 73; and M-SR 1974). He died at 76.

* Vuelta a Espana Champion: Raymond “Pou-Pou” Poulidor (Fra) (1936-2019) French professional racing cyclist, he was known as "The Eternal Second" because his career coincided Jacques Anquetil and Eddy Merckx. He did win the 1964 Vuelta a Espana Championship. He died at 83.

John Havlicek (1940-2019) American College/Basketball Hall of Fame forward played for the Boston Celtics, had 8 NBA Championship, was named NBA All Star 13 times. He died of Parkinson's disease at 79.

Niki Lauda (1949-2019) Austrian auto racer was F1 World Champion in 1975, 77, 84, died of kidney problems at 70.

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