31 December 2019 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic
Tag Archives: 2019
20 September 2019
Roughly 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.
9 December 2019
A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.
31 December 2019
The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
9 December 2019
A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills at least 18 people after it erupts.
8 December 2019
First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China
2 September 2019
Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
3 August 2019
Twenty-three people are killed and 23 injured in a shooting in El Paso, Texas.