At the same time, they realized that they had passed up several opportunities during the year to put aviator Charles Lindbergh on its cover.
Looking to 1928, the editors at TIME were having trouble finding a newsworthy cover subject for the first issue of the new year. During the holiday season, the normal flow of public events had temporarily ebbed to a trickle. The year was 1927 it was the last week in December. But the magazine's signature annual tribute was not the result of high-level philosophizing: rather, it was driven by something far more important to journalists?a deadline. TIME's insistence on the primacy of the individual finds its most memorable form in the magazine's annual designation of a Person of the Year?the individual whose actions most affected the course of the news within the last 12 months. This thesis, most memorably advanced by the British writer Thomas Carlyle, was well-suited to the American vision of the two Yale graduates, since it ran counter to the assertions of Karl Marx and others that history is made by impersonal economic and social forces. The founders of TIME Magazine, Henry Luce and Briton Haddon, were strong believers in the idea that history is shaped by the deeds of extraordinary men and women. Trump was the 2016 recipient of the TIME Person of the Year designation after his victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election and has made the shortlist for the distinction for five straight years.Updated Febru| Infoplease Staff How ?Lucky Lindy?and a slow week for news?gave birth to a memorable annual tradition Trump has refused to concede to Biden and filed more than 50 lawsuits in multiple states to try to overturn the results of the election, claiming without evidence widespread voter fraud. When defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 election, he became the first incumbent president to not win reelection since George H.W. Trump also helped broker the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and three Arab states.
He also presided over Operation Warp Speed, which aims to provide 300 million doses of approved COVID-19 vaccines to the public, beginning as early as later this month, in order to turn the tide in the pandemic. He also railed against demonstrators during the protests in the summer following clashes with police. Trump has presided over a pandemic that has resulted in the deaths of 280,000 people in the U.S., more than any nation in the world. The Democrat is part of a historic ticket that includes Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the nation's first female vice president and the first Black and South Asian vice president. The bitterly contested election, which Trump has refused to concede, was also held during a pandemic that caused millions more Americans to vote by mail, resulting in a winner not being called until four days after the election as mail-in ballots were counted.īiden, 78, will be sworn in as the oldest president in the nation's history when he becomes the country's 46th president at next month's inauguration. history to defeat an incumbent president, and the first since Bill Clinton denied George H.W. history, with turnout increasing in every state in the country from the 2016 election. The president-elect defeated incumbent President Donald Trump in a 2020 election that featured the largest amount of votes (157 million) in U.S. They called for equality and an end to systemic racism in housing, schools, entertainment, business and a host of other sectors. The movement caused a racial awakening in cities around the world, featuring politicians, athletes, celebrities and people of all races marching and speaking out. Protesters called for structural changes in policing while invoking the names of Floyd and other Black people killed, like Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot by a white man while jogging in February, and Breonna Taylor, who was shot by police during a raid on her home in March.
The slogan was found on signs, shirts and other paraphernalia, while also being painted in huge letters on prominent streets in cities like New York and Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took to the streets in hundreds of cities and towns across America to protest police brutality and racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May after police officer Derek Chauvin was shown kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes.īlack Lives Matter, a social and political movement co-founded by Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi in 2013, was front and center during protests across the country in the fight for equality.