https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/20/top-10-bay-area-stories-of-2020-and-how-they-will-continue-to-shape-2021/

It was the kind of year that we read about in history books: Momentous. Traumatic. World-changing. Exhausting.

From the worst pandemic in a century to a historic election, devastating wildfires, a civil rights reckoning and economic calamity, the biggest stories of 2020 have been the kinds of upheavals that defined prior years — like 1865, 1918, 1932 or 1968 — for generations to come. But rarely if ever have so many earth-shaking sagas unfolded at the same time.