History Buffs: Has there ever been year as "WTF?!?" as 2020?

[Gotham citizen]

I was hoping to keep it to recorded human history. There were even bigger problems than even the one you listed. Something called The Great Dying, or the Permian Extinction event 252 million years ago. By the time that was over 70% of all land species were extinct, and a mind boggling 96% of all aquatic species. It makes the asteroid impact look tame.

Yes, it seems that the Permian-Triassic Extinction was caused by an asteroid six times greater than the one which killed also the not avian dinosaurs during the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extintion and an extremely intense volcanic activity that separated almost entirely the northern and the southern Pangea; when you say: «The fortune is blind, but the bad luck sees very well; also in the dark.»

[DrNewGod]

There was that year that the Eagles won the Super Bowl...

Still salty about that one are we?

[KNIGHT OF THE LAKE]

In my lifetime sure. A pandemic shutting the country down would have been a major thing and propped this up no matter what. However we had a recession, the most sustained race based protests since the Civil Rights movement, the president attacking protestors,...of and we still have an election

[MyriVerse]

We're not even close to 1918 levels, and don't seem to be on that track. By comparison, things are actually pretty chill.

[Sacred Knight]

In my lifetime this might be the champ thus far. But it still hasn't gotten to 1968 levels insofar as recent history.

[Mister Mets]

I was hoping to keep it to recorded human history. There were even bigger problems than even the one you listed. Something called The Great Dying, or the Permian Extinction event 252 million years ago. By the time that was over 70% of all land species were extinct, and a mind boggling 96% of all aquatic species. It makes the asteroid impact look tame.

It was mindblowing to learn about that, to consider how radically different the world may have been before that.

Although technically, the consensus is that it lasted much longer than an year.

[Scott Taylor]

There was that year that the Eagles won the Super Bowl...

Santa cried a little that day.

[Gray Lensman]

It was mindblowing to learn about that, to consider how radically different the world may have been before that.

Although technically, the consensus is that it lasted much longer than an year.

Estimates are that the eruption of the Siberian traps lasted for up to two million years alone.

[nx01a]

There was that year that the Eagles won the Super Bowl...

Even their own fans rioted.

[Starter Set]

Well, the year is still young.

Maybe Trump is going to start a war with Mars cause reasons, some new nuclear plant catastrophe coud happen and maybe the whole of Argentina down to the last padre is going to convert to Buddhism, now that would be a wtf moment.