- ADVERTISEMENT - The health pandemic, along with the protests and unrest over police brutality that erupted last summer, also managed to eclipse some significant news stories that would have made an end-of-year Top 10 list in any year but 2020. Remember JetBlue leaving the city? Or when key members of the Queen Mary operating team were arrested in Singapore? We also had a couple elections this year that were pretty significant. Here’s a short list of the huge news events that may seem a bit blurry in the backdrop of this obscenely busy news year. JetBlue departs for its final flight out of Long Beach Airport on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Photo courtesy of Erik Skindrud / @Erik_Bookman.