November 2, 2020

That fall of 2020, gas ran $2.17 a gallon and Trump was in the White House — and the country was deep into a presidential campaign that would end with Joe Biden defeating Trump in the November election. On television, "Ted Lasso" had just won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and "The Crown" took drama, while Matt Haig's "The Midnight Library" sat atop the fiction bestseller list. The Los Angeles Dodgers claimed their first World Series title in 32 years by defeating the Tampa Bay Rays, the same fall that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made history by touching down on the asteroid Bennu and collecting the first samples an American probe had ever retrieved from an asteroid.