2019 History

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Cost of Living in 2019

How Much things cost in 2019
- Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.81% (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/inflation-rate-cpi)
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average  26,379.55 (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart)
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve ???
- Average Cost of new house $485,128.00 (SOURCE - https://www.homelight.com/blog/buyer-how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-house/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Census%20Bureau%20puts,still%2C%20at%20%24485%2C128%20in%202019.)
- Average Income per year $69,560.00 (SOURCE - https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.html#:~:text=Median%20household%20income%20was%20%2467%2C521,median%20household%20income%20since%202011.)
- Average Monthly Rent $1,071.00 (SOURCE - https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year)
- Cost of a gallon of Gas $2.74 in July 2019 (SOURCE - https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epmr_pte_nus_dpg&f=m)
- Average cost of new car $36,718.00 (SOURCE - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/car-prices-are-rapidly-increasing-heres-why-thats-bad-for-americans.html)
- US Postage Stamp 55 cents (SOURCE - https://fortune.com/2019/01/28/usps-forever-stamps-prices-postage-rates-2019/)
- 1 LB of Bacon $5.61 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/bacon-prices-by-year-and-adjusted-for-inflation/)
- Ground Coffee per LB ???
- Loaf of Bread $1.30 (SOURCE - https://stacker.com/stories/1227/cost-goods-year-you-were-born)
- Dozen Eggs $1.40 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/egg-prices-adjusted-for-inflation/)

What Events Happened In 2019
- Trump was impeached: In August, an anonymous whistleblower in the Trump administration first revealed a July phone conversation in which President Trump urged Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, to investigate alleged corruption on the part of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. As Joe Biden was a leading Democratic presidential candidate for 2020, Congressional Democrats claimed Trump broke the law by soliciting help from a foreign government in digging up dirt on his political rival. The call with Zelensky also occurred days after Trump blocked nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, leading to speculation that the president may have made release of the aid conditional on Ukraine’s investigation of the Bidens. 
- Japan’s emperor abdicated: In April, Emperor Akihito formally stepped down after a 30-year reign, becoming the first Japanese monarch in some 200 years to abdicate.
-The U.K. prime minister resigned over Brexit: Amid the failure of negotiations over the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (a.k.a. Brexit), Prime Minister Theresa May formally resigned in June after nearly three years in office.
- College admissions cheating scandal: Some 50 people were charged in March by the U.S. Justice Department in connection with Operation Varsity Blues, a massive investigation into a large-scale criminal conspiracy to influence college admissions at elite universities. Wealthy parents, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were charged with paying tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer, the man at the center of the scheme, to help get their kids into college—by bribing coaches to falsely recruit them as athletes, faking standardized test scores and various other methods.
- Fire at Notre-Dame: On April 15, much of the world watched in horror as fire raged at Notre-Dame de Paris in France, destroying the spire and most of the roof of the beloved 850-year-old cathedral.
- Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had their first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, who is currently seventh in line to the British throne.
(All copied from - https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/2019-events)

Popular Culture 2019

Popular Films
- Spider-Man: Far from Home
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Gentlemen
- Little Women
- Downton Abbey
- Midsommar
- Knives Out
- Joker
- Captain Marvel
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
(SOURCE - https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=2019&title_type=feature&)

Popular Musicians
- Post Malone
- Ariana Grande
- Billie Eilish
- Khalid
- Drake
- Travis Scott
- Ed Sheeran
- Taylor Swift
- Lil Nas X
- Halsey
(SOURCE - https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2019/top-artists/)

Popular Television
- Back to Life
- When They See Us
- Watchmen
- Undone
- David Makes Man
- Lodge 49
- Vida
- Succession
- Russian Doll
- Fleabag
(SOURCE - https://time.com/5736515/best-tv-shows-2019/)

Technology 2019
- Robot Dexterity:  Robots are teaching themselves to handle the physical world. For all the talk about machines taking jobs, industrial robots are still clumsy and inflexible. A robot can repeatedly pick up a component on an assembly line with amazing precision and without ever getting bored—but move the object half an inch, or replace it with something slightly different, and the machine will fumble ineptly or paw at thin air. But while a robot can’t yet be programmed to figure out how to grasp any object just by looking at it, as people do, it can now learn to manipulate the object on its own through virtual trial and error.
- A simple blood test can predict if a pregnant woman is at risk of giving birth prematurely. Our genetic material lives mostly inside our cells. But small amounts of “cell-free” DNA and RNA also float in our blood, often released by dying cells. In pregnant women, that cell-free material is an alphabet soup of nucleic acids from the fetus, the placenta, and the mother. Stephen Quake, a bioengineer at Stanford, has found a way to use that to tackle one of medicine’s most intractable problems: the roughly one in 10 babies born prematurely.
- Gut probe in a pill: A small, swallowable device shaped like a pill captures detailed images of the gut without anesthesia, even in infants and children. 
(SOURCE - https://www.technologyreview.com/10-breakthrough-technologies/2019/)



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