Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Heritage Foundation.

I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

It's almost over.

I'm talking about the year 2020, one that won't soon be forgotten. Let's do a little

wrap up. I'll make it quick. The mastermind behind Iran's terrorist campaign against the United States and its allies,

General Kasem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. air strike.

President Donald Trump was impeached and acquitted.

Britain left the European Union for good.

Schools and businesses everywhere shut down due to COVID-19, changing our lives as we know

it.

George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, shocking the conscience of America.

Riots and protests took over cities across the country in the name of the Black Lives Matter

organization, and criminals looted businesses and created civil unrest.

Criminals continued to deface America's monuments, tearing down statues of our founding fathers.

Ignition.

SpaceX launched an American rocket into space with an American crew for the first time in nine years.

California experienced wildfires like never before, and the governor enforced rolling power outages across the state.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away and was replaced by Justice

Amy Comey Barrett, shifting the balance of the court.

Millions of Americans rightly worried if their vote in the 2020 presidential election

was stolen or diluted by fraud and administrative errors.

And just this past week, the FDA approved and released a COVID-19 vaccine.

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