It goes without saying that many epochal great human events during the year 2020 have been overshadowed a great deal by the worst year-long pandemic-disrupt alerts to a significant proportion of population dwellingover a wide geographic area of the world. 

In the midst of the ongoing proceedings of the painful COVID-19, in fact, there have been quite a number of creative record-breaking points to be worthy of note without indifference, other than the pandemic declared on March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization. Nine cosmopolitan happenings can be chosen during the year based on the evolving transformation of glocal communities for the improved well-being looking forward to the imminent future paths of human livelihood. Such nine world-record-breaking events, which have taken place in 2020, could be certainly illustrated as follows. 

First and secondly, Korea' s kudos both on band music and drama film attained the world top levels. The SK pop band, BTS made its song sung in England, 'Dynamite,' hit the number one on the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 Chart at the Grammys in January 2020. Soon after, Bong Joon-ho' s film, 

' Parasite,' swept the Oscars in February 2020. It marked the first time a non-English-language movie awarding the best picture, the best drama, the best original screenplay and the best international feature film. 

Thirdly, during June 2020, 'Hajj' was cancelled for the first time in modern history. The participation in the most important annual worldwide pilgrimage for two million worshippers living outside Saudi Arabia was banned from travelling to the 'Grand Mosque' in Mecca, Islam' s hottest site since 632, due to new crowd control restrictions put in place. 

Fourth, China launched its first solo Mars mission, called Tianwen-1 in July 2020. Its flying board carried a robot, a lander, and an orbiter, and successfully auded a reusable spacecraft for the first time, using experimental technology. It s expected to land on Mars in February 2021. 

Fifth, the Tokyo-based SkyDrive in Japan completed its first successful public test of the world' s smallest flying electric car in August 2020. The manned vehicle, named SD-03 circled Toyota Test Field, the company' s data base. SkyDrive plans to make the car available to consumers by 2023.  

Sixth, a robot ship to sail across the Atlantic was unveiled in America during September 2020 on the 400th anniversary of the original Mayflower' s journey to the New World. The maiden voyage slated April 2021 will be the first robot-powered ship to sail across the same 3,200 mile sea route for 12 days from Plymouth, England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, roughly retracing the wake of namesake. 

Seventh, at the Rome Film Festival m October 2020, Pope Francis (266th) spoke about low gay people have the right to be in a family and described them as 'children of God.' He became the first pontiff to voice support for civil unions. 

Eighth, India' s first space mission to send a flight crew into space in December 2020 was notable. Due to the COVID-19 lockdown, this program was delayed until June 2021. The project, called Gaganyaan, relies on India' s own technology, and will aunch three astronauts and a humanoid robot into orbit for a week targeting for 2022. I t would be the fourth mission, after the United States, China and Russia. 

Ninth and last, despite the threatening pandemic originated from Wuhan, China in December 2019, the successful worldwide developments of the COVID-19 vaccines, whether by AstraZeneca, Covax, Janssen, Moderna, Pfizer, or whichever pharmacists concerned, have offered hope to billions of people, and they could help the mankind living back to the 'new normal,' for the foreseeable future. 

The history can never get back. Remember 2020 achievements realized by human beings wisely for the sake of the emerging artificial transformation processes as well as the eventual advancement and upgrading of visions for 2021 and far beyond. What went around in the bygone days will surely come around in the coming years and decades to come. 

Thursday, February 11, 2021 (Lunar New Year' s Eve)