Editing 2021

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== Events ==
*January 2 - A 13 year old boy named Oliver Stephens is stabbed to death in Emmer Green.
*January 6 - The United States Capitol is [[2021 United States Capitol storming|stormed]] by right-wing extremists in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results and allow [[Donald Trump]] to remain in office. As a result, 5 people (4 protesters and 1 police officer) are killed.
*January 7 - [[Carlos Alarcón]] is found guilty of the murder of Camilo Catrillanca and of the attempted murder of a teenager nicknamed "M.A.P.C.".
*January 8 - [[La Vega raid]]: members of the [[Special Action Forces]], the National Police and the National Guard take over the parish of La Vega in Caracas and begin to arrest and execute civilians. 23 people die.
*January 13 - Donald Trump became the first and only president to be impeached for the second time by the House of Reprenstatives.
*January 20 - Donald Trump's term as President of the United States officially ends.
*January 21 - The [[2021 Baghdad bombings]] are carried out when two [[The Islamic State|ISIS]] [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombers]] attack an open-air market in central Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and injuring another 110.
*February 1 - [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] is deposed as State Councilor of Myanmar in a coup lead by [[Min Aung Hlaing]]. The [[State Administration Council]] is subsequently established as the country’s executive body.
*February 1 - American rapper [[Silentó]] is arrested in DeKalb County, Georgia and charged with murder in the shooting death of his cousin, Frederick Rooks.
*February 2 - [[Lord's Resistance Army]] member [[Dominic Ongwen]] is convicted on 61 counts of [[war crimes]] by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
*February 21 - The [[Three Percenters]] are dissolved.
*February 24 - Former Navy veteran Angelo Quinto is killed by three officers in an act of [[police brutality]].
*February 24 - [[Christopher Cantwell]] is found guilty of extortion and threatening to injure property or reputation, and is sentenced to 41 months in prison, as well as two years of supervised release following completion of the prison sentence.
*March 1 - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] is sentenced to one year in prison for corruption.
*March 4 - The Loyalist Communities Council, an organization representing the [[Ulster Defence Association]] and other proscribed loyalist paramilitaries, withdraws from the Good Friday Agreement.
*March 15 - [[Dylan Pountney]] is arrested for the murder of Jennifer Winkler.
*March 16 - [[Robert Aaron Long|2021 Atlanta spa shootings]]
*April 2 - [[Noah Green|April 2021 US Capitol attack]].
*April 9 - [[Cameron Herrin]] is sentenced to 24 years in prison.
*April 15 - [[Brandon Scott Hole|Indianapolis FedEx shooting]]
*April 16 - Mikayla Miller, a black LGBT teen, is killed by a group of teens appearing to be motivated by [[homophobia]] and [[racism]].
*April 19 - Raúl Castro steps down as First Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Cuba]], handing power to Miguel Díaz-Canel. This marks the end of the Castro regime in Cuba, which had been in power since 1959.
*April 20 - [[Idriss Déby]], President of Chad, is killed in combat while commanding army forces against the [[Front for Change and Concord in Chad]] (FACT). His son, [[Mahamat Déby Itno]], is appointed chairman of a Transitional Military Council.
*April 23 - [[Bryant Moreland]]'s YouTube channel (EDP445) is terminated.
*May 1 - The [[Taliban]] begins a critical offensive in Afghanistan as US coalition forces withdraw from the country.
*May 6 to 21 - [[Hamas]] and [[Palestinian Islamic Jihad]] launch a series of coordinated rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza in protest of the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to evict Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood of East Jerusalem. 122 Palestinians, including 31 children, are killed, while seven Israelis, including one child, are killed.
*May 9 - [[Aiden Fucci]] murders and possibly rapes Tristyn Bailey.
*May 26 - [[Samuel Cassidy|2021 San Jose shooting]]
*June 6 - [[Nathaniel Veltman]] rammed into Muslim Pakistani-Canadian family with a pick-up truck in London Ontario, killing 4 and injuring 1
*June 13 - [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is ousted as Prime Minister of Israel after opposition leaders in the Knesset agree to form a coalition government.
*June 25 - [[Derek Chauvin]] is found guilty of all three charges of second-degree [[murder]], third-degree murder, and manslaughter, in relation to the death of George Floyd. He is sentenced to 270 months (22.5 years) in prison.
*June 30 - [[Bill Cosby]]'s rape conviction is vacated by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court due to violation of his 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment rights, and he is released from prison after serving only three years of his sentence.
*July 6 - Haitian president Jovenel Moise is assassinated in a night-time attack by "unidentified Spanish-speaking individuals".
*July 8 - Six of Jovenal Moise's assassins are killed or arrested by Haitian police. 
*July 9 to 17 - Triggered by arrest of [[Jacob Zuma]] widespread riots and [[looting]]s have been taken place in South Africa that destroyed businesses especially pharmacies and caused COVID-19 vaccination crisis in the country. 
*July 18: Lewis Hamilton attempts to murder his main rival, Max Verstappen by ramming into his car during the race. He gets away with it.
*July 19 - [[Paul Allard Hodgkins]] becomes the first participant in the Capitol storming to be sentenced as he receives eight months in prison.
*August 10 - [[Andrew Cuomo]] announces his resignation as Governor of New York in the wake of various sex scandals.
*August 12 - [[Jake Davison]] goes on a shooting rampage in Plymouth, England, killing five people and himself.
*August 15 - [[Taliban]] forces capture Kabul, Afghanistan, restoring the country as the '''Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan''' and ending the 20-year [[War in Afghanistan]].
*August 16 - [[Muhyiddin Yassin]] resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia.
*August 23 - [[Proud Boys]] leader [[Enrique Tarrio]] is sentenced to five months in federal prison for destruction of property and weapons charges.
*August 24 - [[Hissène Habré]] dies in prison.
*August 26 - The [[2021 Kabul airport attack]]: militants from [[The Islamic State]]'s Khorasan Province perpetrate a [[Suicide Bombing|suicide bombing]] at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing approximately 182 people, including 169 Afghan civilians, 13 United States military personnel and 2 British civilians.
*September 3 - [[Jake Angeli]] pleads guilty to obstruction of Congress.
*September 5 - [[Alpha Condé]] is overthrown as President of Guinea by the Guinean Armed Forces.
*September 12 - [[Francesco Bagnaia]], a self-proclaimed "Italian Nazi", wins his first race in MotoGP.
*September 17 - [[Robert Durst]] is convicted of the 2000 murder of Susan Berman.
*October 20 - [[Mauro Carlesse]] is suspended from his position as governor of Tocantins for corruption cases.
*October 23 - Colombia's most wanted drug lord, [[Dario Antonio Úsuga]], is captured by Colombia's armed forces.
*November 21 - Waukesha parade attack
*November 26 - [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Abigail Paez]] And [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Magdalena Esposito Valenti]] Murders their 5 year old child Lucio Dupuy
*November 30 - [[Ethan Crumbley|Oxford High School Shooting]]
*December 23 - [[Kimberly Potter]] is convicted of fatally shooting Daunte Wright.

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
*January 2 - [[Michael McKevitt]]
*January 6 - [[Ashli Babbitt]]
*January 13 - [[Lisa Montgomery]]
*January 14 - [[Corey Johnson]]
*January 16 - [[Dustin Higgs]] & [[Phil Spector]]
*January 21 - [[Aslan Avgazarovich Byutukayev]]
*January 29 - [[Lai Xiaomin]]
*February 8 - [[Anthony Sowell]]
*February 14 - [[Carlos Menem]]
*February 28 - [[Roger Kibbe]]
*March 12 - [[Ronald DeFeo, Jr.]]
*March 17 - [[John Magufuli]]
*March 28 - [[Joseph E. Duncan III]]
*March 30 - [[G. Gordon Liddy]]
*April 2 - [[Noah Green]]
*April 14 - [[Bernie Madoff]]
*April 15 - [[Brandon Scott Hole]]
*April 20 - [[Idriss Déby]]
*April 21 - [[Ma'Khia Bryant]]
*May 3 - [[Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr.]]
*May 11 - [[Lance Lowe]]
*May 12 - [[Fernando Torres Silva]]
*May 14 - [[William Lothian]]
*May 17 - [[Jesús Santrich]]
*May 19 - [[Abubakar Shekau]]
*May 26 - [[Samuel Cassidy]]
*June 30 - [[John Hummel]]
*July 24 - [[Rodney Alcala]]
*July 26 - [[Fernando Karadima]]
*August 12 - [[Jake Davison]]
*August 24 - [[Hissène Habré]]
*September 4 - [[Miguel Estay Reyno]]
*September 11 - [[Abimael Guzmán]]
*September 13 - [[Brian Laundrie]]
*September 18 - [[Ali Kalora]] & [[Jaka Ramadan]]
*September 20 - [[Helmut Oberlander]]
*September 25 - [[Théoneste Bagosora]]
*September 29 - [[François Vérove]]
*October 28 - [[John Marion Grant]]
*November 23 - [[Chun Doo-hwan]]
*December 5 - [[Hernán Darío Velásquez]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*January 1 - Christine Dacera
*January 2 - Oliver Stephens
*January 7 - Brian D. Sicknick
*February 24 - Angelo Quinto
*March 3 - [[Wayne Couzens|Sarah Everard]]
*March 16 - Victims of the [[Robert Aaron Long|Atlanta Spa Shooting]]:
**Suncha Kim
**Daoyou Feng
**Delaina Yau
**Xiaojie Tan
**Paul Michels
**Hyun Jung Grant
**Soon Chung Kim
**Yong Ae Yue
*March 29 - Adam Toledo
*April 2 - [[Noah Green|William Evans]]
*April 11 - [[Kimberly Potter|Daunte Wright]]
*April 15 - Victims of the [[Brandon Scott Hole|Indianapolis FedEx Shooting]]:
**Samaria Blackwell
**Karli Smith
**Matthew Alexander
**Amarjit Sekhon
**Jasvinder Kaur
**Amarjeet Johal
**Jaswinder Singh
**John Weisert
*April 16 - Mikayla Miller
*May 9 - Tristyn Bailey
*May 11 - Jimmy Inn
*May 26 - Victims of the [[Samuel Cassidy|San Jose VTA Shooting]]:
**Adrian Balleza
**Jose Hernandez
**Taptejdeep Singh
**Michael Rudometkin
**Paul Megia
**Timothy Romo
**Alex Fritch
**Abdi Alaghmandan
**Lars Lane
*June 6 - Kieth and Nolven Absalon
*June 6 - Salman Afzaal, Madiha Afzaal, Yumna Afzaal, Fayez Afzaal & Jovenel Moïse
*July 15 - Peter R. de Vries
*July 30 - [[Angharad Williamson and John Cole|Logan Mwangi]]
*August - [[Brian Laundrie|Gabby Petito]] 
*August 19 - Haji Mullah Achakzai
*September 17 - [[Koci Selamaj|Sabina Nessa]]
*October 15 - [[Ali Harbi Ali|David Amess]]
*November 26 - [[Abigail Paez and Magdalena Esposito Valenti|Lucio Dupuy]]
*November 30 - Victims of the [[Ethan Crumbley|Oxford High School Shooting]]:
**Hana St. Juliana
**Tate Myre
**Madisyn Baldwin
**Justin Shilling