9 good, bad and contradictory events that happened in 2019

The New Year 2020 is coming soon, which means it's time to sum up the results of the past 12 months! They turned out to be very rich in various events — good and not so good. We will not talk about all of them, but we will describe only those of them that thundered all over the world and left no one indifferent.

Since 2011, Google has been trying to force us to use the Google+ social network, but in 2019 it finally gave up and decided to close it. Rest in peace, Google+!

The names of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have not left the lips of journalists since they got married. And in 2019, the media had even more reasons to pursue the couple, because their firstborn Archie was born in May. The boy became the seventh in line to the British throne.

A 16-year-old girl has achieved worldwide fame thanks to her dramatic speech at the UN. A schoolgirl is protesting against climate change and calling on politicians and businessmen to take decisive action. We told you more about the young eco-activist earlier.

On May 6, 2019, the first episode of the mini-series "Chernobyl", created by the American TV channel HBO in conjunction with the British television network Sky, was released. All five episodes of the film are devoted to the accident that occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, the elimination of consequences and the investigation of its causes. And despite the fact that there were a lot of big mistakes in the series, it became the most popular project of the year, surpassing even "Game of Thrones" in this regard.

In 2019, the TikTok application gained huge popularity and took second place in the ranking of the most downloaded. Only WhatsApp messenger managed to get around it.

In 2019 , astronauts Kristina Cook and Jessica Meir performed a pair spacewalk, where the power supply system unit was successfully replaced.

One of the main tourist attractions of France and the whole world was engulfed in flames in April this year. Fortunately, the government has already managed to gather enough resources to fully restore the cathedral.

"The Joker" collected more than a billion dollars at the box office soon after the premiere, despite the fact that the cost of shooting the film did not exceed 63 million. At the same time, the actor Joaquin Phoenix, who played the main role in the film, became wildly popular — videos with his participation began to be searched even on the PornHub website.

In April, the first real photo of a black hole appeared on the Internet. In order to make it, 8 telescopes were used, and image processing took about two years.