2018 History

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Cost of Living in 2018

How Much things cost in 2018
- Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.44% (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/inflation-rate-cpi)
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average  25,046.86 (SOURCE - https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart)
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve ???
- Average Cost of new house $385,000.00 (SOURCE - https://www.statista.com/statistics/240991/average-sales-prices-of-new-homes-sold-in-the-us/)
- Average Income per year $64,324.00 (SOURCE - https://www.statista.com/statistics/200838/median-household-income-in-the-united-states/)
- Average Monthly Rent $1,027.00 (SOURCE - https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-year)
- Cost of a gallon of Gas $2.84 in July 2018 (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 $35,742.00 (SOURCE - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/22/car-prices-are-rapidly-increasing-heres-why-thats-bad-for-americans.html)
- US Postage Stamp 50 cents (SOURCE - https://united-mail.com/blog/2017/understanding-usps-postage-rate-changes/#:~:text=Increase%20in%20Postage%20Stamps%20and,stamps%2C%20from%20%240.49%20to%20%240.50.)
- 1 LB of Bacon $5.47 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/bacon-prices-by-year-and-adjusted-for-inflation/)
- Ground Coffee per LB ???
- Loaf of Bread $1.29 (SOURCE - https://stacker.com/stories/1227/cost-goods-year-you-were-born)
- Dozen Eggs $1.74 (SOURCE - https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/egg-prices-adjusted-for-inflation/)

What Events Happened In 2018
- Meghan Markle joined the British royal family: On May 19, the biracial, divorced American actress Meghan Markle married Prince Harry, becoming a real-life princess (officially, the Duchess of Sussex). In October, the royal couple announced they were expecting their first child.
- Two retail icons went bankrupt: Founded as a mail-order watch business in 1886, Sears filed for bankruptcy this year, marking the end of an era for many Americans who remember paging through its extensive catalog. Also, after declaring bankruptcy late last year, the former toy giant Toys "R" US shuttered all of its stores after more than 65 years in business.
- Super Blue Blood Moon: Three lunar events coincided early in 2018 producing a rare “super blue blood moon” for the first time since 1866. The night of January 30-31 saw a total lunar eclipse (also called a “blood moon,” due to the reddish color of the moon while in Earth’s shadow) as well as a “blue moon,” or the second full moon of the month. Not only that—the moon was also at the closest point to Earth in its orbit, making it a “supermoon.”
-  In August, NASA launched the $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe, its long-awaited first mission to the sun and its outermost atmosphere, the corona. After zooming by the planet Venus, the spacecraft got its first up-close-and-personal (or at least from 3.83 million miles away, by far the closest of any mission in history) look at the sun in early November.
- 2018 marked the most destructive fire season ever for California, with massive wildfires ravaging hundreds of thousands of acres in both the northern and southern parts of the state. In November, at least 90 people died as the Camp Fire destroyed the northern California town of Paradise, becoming the deadliest fire in the state’s history.
(All copied from - https://www.history.com/topics/21st-century/2018-events)

Popular Culture 2018

Popular Films
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Venom
- Deadpool 2
- Black Panther
- A Quiet Place
- A Star Is Born
- Bird Box
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Bohemian Rhapsody
(SOURCE - https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?year=2018&title_type=feature&)

Popular Musicians
- Drake
- Post Malone
- Ed Sheeran
- Taylor Swift
- Cardi B
- XXXTENTACION
- Imagine Dragons
- BTS
- Bruno Mars
- Camila Cabello
(SOURCE - https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2018/top-artists/)

Popular Television
- Game of Thrones
- Stranger Things
- The Walking Dead
- Vikings
- The Big Bang Theory
- Grey's Anatomy
- Lucifer
- Arrow
- Prison Break
- Money Heist
- Riverdale
- Black Mirror
- Shameless
- Star Trek: Discovery
(SOURCE - https://www.insider.com/most-popular-tv-shows-ranked-2018-4#15-shameless-showtime-6)

Technology 2018
- Frigondas: The Frigondas is best described as a ‘reverse-microwave’. With this appliance, you can freeze items 15 times quicker than a freezer or cool beverages in just a matter of minutes. Not only that, it also doubles as a microwave!
- 5G Technology: 5G is the fifth generation of wireless technology to hit our mobile devices. Consumers have been experiencing maximum speeds of around 16mbps on the 4G network for the better part of a decade. 5G technology promises to deliver speeds in excess of 1gbps - 64 times as quick as our current connection.
(SOURCE - https://www.smsglobal.com/blog/9-tech-breakthroughs-2018/)



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