Haikyu!! To the Top Part 2 begins broadcast, continuing Production I.G's adaptation of Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga as the Karasuno High team pushes toward the national tournament.
All Saints Street 2 premieres, HMCH's second-season continuation of the Chinese ONA about a struggling fortune-telling shop on a street where monsters live quietly among humans.
Ufotable's Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train opens in Japan, following Tanjiro Kamado and the Demon Slayer Corps as they board the Mugen Train alongside Flame Hashira Kyojuro Rengoku to investigate a string of disappearances.
Haoliners Animation streams the first season of Heaven Official's Blessing (Tian Guan Ci Fu), following exiled god Xie Lian as he returns to the mortal world and crosses paths with the mysterious ghost king Hua Cheng.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Transportation history was made Nov. 8 in the Nevada desert, where Virgin Hyperloop tested human travel in a hyperloop pod for the first time".
Virgin Hyperloop carried its first human passengers, Josh Giegel and Sara Luchian, through its DevLoop test tube in the Nevada desert at 107mph.
Tunshi Xingkong (Swallowed Star) premieres, a Chinese CGI donghua adapting Chen Dong's novel about Luo Feng, a young man who becomes one of Earth's rare superhuman "Warriors" after a monster-infested virus outbreak reshapes the world.
Rue Clément Ader, Dammartin-en-Goële, Seine-et-Marne, 77230, FranceAldi Nord
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCECasino's release 'Paris, le 30 novembre 2020': 'Le groupe Casino[1][4] a finalisé la cession à ALDI France'; 648 million euros 'perçus ce jour'.
Aldi France closed its purchase of 545 Leader Price stores, 2 Casino supermarkets and 3 warehouses from Casino for EUR 717 million, the biggest expansion in its history, with the stores converted to Aldi through 2021.
CONFIRMED80% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per interestingengineering.com[1]: "…“Dynamic Tower” which is expected to be completed in 2020. Th … line by 2020 Dubai will be home to t…"
Dubai will be home to the first rotating skyscraper, dubbed the “Dynamic Tower” which is expected to be completed in 2020. The 42-meter skyscraper will be made of a series of 80-story-high rotating condos each costing a whopping $30 million.
22 Bishopsgate, City of London, London, United KingdomMultiplex
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEEstimated: Multiplex's[3] news item of 4 December 2020 says the team achieved practical completion "earlier this week" without naming the day, so the announcement date stands in for the milestone.
Multiplex's 62-storey 22 Bishopsgate tower - planned and sequenced using an immersive 4D virtual-reality model - reaches practical completion, becoming the City of London's tallest building.
MAPPA takes over animation for Attack on Titan Final Season, following the Scout Regiment years after reaching the sea as old tensions between Marleyans and Eldians erupt into war.
9830, Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California, 90212, United StatesAlo Yoga
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCEGlossy[1], 8 Dec 2020: Alo Yoga[2][3] "launched its beauty line on Tuesday in nine Alo Yoga stores and on the brand's site".
Alo moves into beauty with the gender-neutral Glow System, seven amla-based face and body products sold in nine Alo stores and online, ahead of a Nordstrom roll-out on 1 January.
Aldi, Saatbruchstraße 55, Schonnebeck, 45309 Essen, GermanyAldi Nord
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe release says Aldi Nord[2] "eröffnet am 10. Dezember 2020" the direct successor of its historic store No. 1.
Aldi Nord moved its historic store No. 1 out of the Albrecht family's original shop on Huestraße into a new building on Saatbruchstraße, built to its updated store concept.
Halstead, Braintree, Essex, England, United KingdomFerrero
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEFerrero's[1][2] release is dated "Thu, 12/17/2020" and says Ferrero "today announced a definitive agreement" to acquire Eat Natural; no time is given.
Ferrero signed a definitive agreement to buy Eat Natural, the UK maker of cereal bars, toasted muesli and granola, taking over its Halstead factory and its first step into healthier snacking.
Bones's Josee, the Tiger and the Fish opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Seiko Tanabe's short story about university student Tsuneo and Kusuhara Josee, a wheelchair-using young woman he meets while working as her caretaker.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "select Crown Sydney venues were open to the public for the first time from December 28" 2020.
Crown Sydney, the AUD $2.2BN, 71-storey tower at Barangaroo designed by Wilkinson Eyre, opened its hotel and restaurants after a construction run through the Covid-19 pandemic.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per interestingengineering.com[1]: "…cated office high-rise with an expected completion in 2020. Source: TravelAndLeisure, Drives&Control…"
ThyssenKrupp will install the world's first rope-free multi-directional elevator in a project in Berlin, Germany. Not only is this multi-directional elevator very cool, it is also good for the environment. The Multi will reduce energy costs to buildings by incorporating a system that reduces peak power demand by up to 60% giving buildings the opportunity to reduce emissions.
Located to the west of Jinji Lake, the Suzhou Zhongnan Center is a 729-meter, 137-story mixed-use tower with office, residential and hotel space. The tower has five stories below grade and an eight-story, long-span podium that provides ballroom and conference facilities.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the pin description: "…ently under construction with a planned completion date of 2020. the tower is being build in Jeddah,…"
Jeddah tower previously known as Kingdom Tower, is currently under construction with a planned completion date of 2020. the tower is being build in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It will be about 1,000 meters, or one kilometer (3,280 feet) tall, Jeddah tower when complete in 2020 will be second tallest building in the world after ‘The tower at dubai creek harbor’in dubai ,UAE
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United StatesMicrosoft
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per thurrott.com[1]: "Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox[3][4] Will Arrive in 2020 While Microsoft may have been founded as bein…"
The next generation Xbox was codenamed Scarlett and in an effort to track down if this information was accurate, I was able to view content that highlighted several unannounced Microsoft products that are coming in the next two years. Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020. But what is more interesting, is that Microsoft describes ‘Scarlett’ as a family of devices; meaning we may see multiple pieces of hardware released that year.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per macrumors.com[1]: "…ction on the data center is expected to start early next year, with plans to bring it online in 2020…"
Apple today announced plans to build a 400,000-square-foot data center in Waukee, Iowa, which will provide backend infrastructure for the App Store, Siri, Apple Music, iMessage, and other Apple services in North America. The facility, which it says will create over 550 construction and operations jobs in the Des Moines area. Authority reportedly approved a deal on Thursday that will give Apple $208 million in state and local tax breaks to construct two data centers near Des Moines. Apple will reportedly buy 2,000 acres of land for the project, allowing for future development in the area.
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEEstimated: the 17 September 2020 practical completion Buildington[3] records is for the neighbouring Grade II* listed 20 Hanover Square, not 18 Hanover Square. GPE's[2] release of 12 May 2021 says the final office letting came 'less than six months after practical completion', putting 18 Hanover Square's completion after mid-November 2020, so the pin takes the end of that quarter. No source gives the day.
Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per macrumors.com[1]: "…rs of being abandoned, with a predicted opening date for Apple's offices expected sometime in 2021.…"
Apple is working on building an all-new campus location in London's Battersea Power Station, where 1,400 employees will be moved from eight...
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCESOM's own project announcement states the Moynihan Train Hall "opens January 1" (2021), corroborated by New York YIMBY's coverage of the public opening that day.[1]
A public-private consortium led by Empire State Development opened the $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall inside the former Farley Post Office, giving Amtrak and LIRR riders a new concourse next to the cramped original Penn Station.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Since January 2021, the office building has been occupied by the mobile game company Supercell."
Mobile game maker Supercell became the anchor tenant of Wood City, a new Helsinki district built almost entirely from engineered timber.
22, Avenue Montaigne, Quartier des Champs-Élysées, Paris 8e Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France métropolitaine, 75008, FranceLVMH
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCELVMH's press release, filed as Exhibit 99.1 to Tiffany's 8-K, is datelined 'Paris and New York, January 7th, 2021' and says LVMH 'announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Tiffany & Co.'[1]
LVMH finalized its purchase of Tiffany & Co. at $131.50 a share in cash, a total of $15.8 billion, and immediately named Anthony Ledru as Tiffany's CEO and Alexandre Arnault as its product and communications chief.
Bandai Namco Pictures's Gintama: THE VERY FINAL opens in Japanese theaters, the third and concluding film in the Silver Soul arc as the Yorozuya and their allies make a final stand against the Tendoshuu and the ever-returning Utsuro.
CloverWorks' Horimiya begins broadcast, a slice-of-life romantic comedy about two high schoolers, class president Kyouko Hori and quiet classmate Izumi Miyamura, who discover the very different people each of them is at home.
Studio Bind's Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation begins airing, an isekai series following a 34-year-old shut-in reincarnated as an infant, Rudeus Greyrat, who resolves to live his new life without his old regrets.
Gintama: THE SEMI-FINAL streams as a lead-in to the franchise's finale, with Bandai Namco Pictures bringing Gintoki Sakata back into Edo's chaos as old rivalries and diplomatic disasters collide.
Sharefun Studio streams Scissor Seven Season 3, sending the hapless barber-assassin Wu Liuqi to the Xuanwu Kingdom with his partners Dabao and Xiaofei to dig into his true identity.
1105, West 41st Street, Alta Vista, Austin, Travis County, Texas, 78756, United StatesBumble
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCECNBC[1], 11 February 2021: "Shares of Bumble[2] ... began trading Thursday" on the Nasdaq; the pricing release said trading was expected to begin "on February 11, 2021".
Bumble's shares opened at $76 on Nasdaq on 11 February 2021, up from a $43 IPO price, making 31-year-old founder Whitney Wolfe Herd the youngest woman to take a US company public.
A special episode of Heaven Official's Blessing streams, giving Haoliners Animation's adaptation of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel a stand-alone entry following crown prince Xie Lian's return to the mortal world.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The first buyers finalized the purchases of their apartments in February 2021."
The world's tallest residential building began closing apartment sales on Billionaires' Row, months after finishing construction as Manhattan's newest supertall.
The fourth and final installment of Hideaki Anno's Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy finds Shinji, Asuka, and Rei sheltering in one of the last untouched human settlements after the Fourth Impact, each trying to live an ordinary life while a final, world-ending Instrumentality Project looms. Studio Khara closed out the 14-year reboot project with a film that saw three separate cuts released between 2021 and 2023, each refining the visuals and effects without changing the core story.
Ferrero International S.A., 16 Route de Trèves, Senningerberg, Niederanven 2633, LuxembourgFerrero
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEFerrero's[1][2][4] release, dated 22 March 2021: "Ferrero unveiled its first-ever Ferrero Rocher, Ferrero Rocher Dark and Raffaello ice cream sticks".
Ferrero enters ice cream with Ferrero Rocher, Ferrero Rocher Dark and Raffaello sticks, made in Alzira, Spain, and launched first in five European countries in 2021.
50 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4TJ, United KingdomBrookfield Multiplex
DELAYED68% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The hospital was officially opened on 23 March 2021".
Edinburgh's £150M Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, designed by HLM Architects and built by Brookfield Multiplex, opened to patients after ventilation and drainage faults forced repeated delays.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE81%24 episodesRelease date of the ONA's first episode confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
The fourth season of the Chinese donghua Dou Po Cangqiong continues Xiao Yan's cultivation-fantasy journey, adapting further chapters of Tian Can Tu Dou's web novel as he pursues the power to reclaim his family's standing.
Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and serves as the fourth film in Legendary's Monsterverse franchise, as well as the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise and the 12th film in the King Kong franchise.
Fruits Basket The Final Season premieres in Japan, the concluding TV season from TMS Entertainment that closes out the adaptation of Natsuki Takaya's manga as Tohru Honda and the Soma family confront the truth behind their curse.
OLM and P.I.C.S.'s Odd Taxi begins broadcast, an original mystery series following an anthropomorphic-animal taxi driver whose mundane conversations with passengers gradually connect to a missing-girl case.
A-1 Pictures' 86 EIGHTY-SIX begins airing, a mecha war drama adapting Asato Asato's light novels about the Eighty-Six, a persecuted people secretly forced to pilot the Republic of San Magnolia's supposedly unmanned combat drones.
CONFIRMED75% CONFIDENCEesut.de[3] reported that Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first three HX81 heavy-duty transporters to Panzerbataillon 14 in Wels on 12 April 2021.
Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner handed over the first Rheinmetall HX81 8x8 tractor units, paired with 7-axle low-bed semi-trailers, to Panzerbataillon 14 at the Hessen barracks in Wels.
Hennepin County Government Center, 300 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55487, United States
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEThe verdict was returned on 20 April 2021, the date the court record and contemporaneous coverage both carry.[1]
A twelve-member jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all three counts - unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter - in the death of George Floyd during an arrest on 25 May 2020. The verdict came after about ten hours of deliberation.
The Chinese donghua adaptation of Chen Dong's xianxia novel Wanmei Shijie (Perfect World) begins streaming, following the cultivator Shi Hao as he rises from a remote village to face ever-greater trials tied to an ancient calamity.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE87%29 episodes so farBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Link Click premieres, a Studio LAN donghua original about two young men who use a supernatural ability to enter photographs and relive their customers' pasts.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe day is not disputed: "On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline ... suffered a ransomware cyberattack" and operations were halted the same day.[1]
Colonial Pipeline halted every pipeline it runs after DarkSide ransomware hit the computers managing the system, cutting off the line that carries most of the gasoline and jet fuel to the US Southeast. The company paid a ransom of about 75 bitcoin, and fuel shortages and panic buying followed along the East Coast.
Little Island, Hudson River Park, New York, NY, USA
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The park officially opened on May 21, 2021."
Little Island, a 2.4-acre park raised on sculpted concrete piles over the Hudson River, opened to the public at the site of Manhattan’s former Pier 54.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE66%620 episodes plannedStreaming start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Ruo Hong Culture's Wu Shang Shen Di 2 begins streaming, the second season of the long-running Chinese donghua following a young cultivator's rise to power through a martial-arts fantasy world.
A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic horror film written, directed, and co-produced by John Krasinski. It is the sequel to A Quiet Place (2018), following the family from the film as they continue to navigate a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing.
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Copenhagen Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2027 Set for February 1-5 FashionKøbenhavn
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