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2021 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court opinions from October Term 2021 (October 4, 2021 to October 2, 2022), also called OT2021, including Dobbs v. Jackson, Bruen, and West Virginia v. EPA: 63 merits opinions, 9 decided 5-4, historic 6-3 rate.
2021 Texas power crisis
The 2021 Texas power crisis, known as the Great Texas Freeze, was a February 2021 grid failure that cut power to over 4.5 million homes during Winter Storm Uri.
2021 Tillabéri attacks
The 2021 Tillabéri attacks were mass killings of civilians in Niger's Tillabéri region by the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, including a January massacre that killed at least 103 people.
2021 Tour de France
The 2021 Tour de France, 108th edition, ran 26 June–18 July from Brest, Brittany after Copenhagen's postponement. Tadej Pogačar won his second straight title; Mark Cavendish took four stages and the green jersey, equaling Merckx's 34 stage wins.
2021 UEFA Champions League final
The 2021 UEFA Champions League final: Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0 on 29 May 2021 at Porto's Estádio do Dragão, moved from Istanbul over COVID rules, with Kai Havertz scoring and N'Golo Kanté named Player of the Match.
2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the 23rd U21 EURO, first 16-team finals, held in Hungary and Slovenia in two phases (March group stage, June knockouts) due to COVID-19; Germany beat Portugal 1-0 in Ljubljana for a third title.
2021 UEFA Nations League final
2021 UEFA Nations League final: Spain 1-2 France, 10 October 2021 at San Siro, Milan. Oyarzabal scored first; Benzema and Mbappé (controversial offside-interpretation winner) gave France their first Nations League title, succeeding Portugal.
2021 UEFA Nations League Finals
2021 UEFA Nations League Finals: second edition's knockout stage, 6-10 October 2021 in Milan and Turin. France beat Spain 2-1 in the final; Italy took third; Belgium, France, Italy, Spain were the League A group winners.
2021 UEFA Super Cup
2021 UEFA Super Cup, Belfast's Windsor Park, 11 August 2021: Chelsea beat Villarreal 1-1 (6-5 pens) after Ziyech and Gerard Moreno scored; substitute keeper Kepa saved twice for Chelsea's second Super Cup.
2021 Ugandan general election
2021 Ugandan general election, held 14 January 2021: Museveni won a sixth term with 58.38% against Bobi Wine (35.08%), amid a five-day nationwide internet shutdown, social media bans, and widespread violence.
2021 UK Championship
2021 Cazoo UK Championship, snooker ranking event, 23 Nov-5 Dec 2021 at York Barbican; Zhao Xintong beat Luca Brecel 10-5 for his first ranking title; defending champion Neil Robertson lost round one to John Astley.
2021 United Kingdom local elections
2021 UK local elections ("Super Thursday", 6 May 2021): English council, mayoral, PCC, London, Scottish Parliament and Senedd polls, partly postponed from 2020. Conservatives gained 234 English council seats; Labour lost 326 and Hartlepool.
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference
The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, was a UN climate summit held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021, producing the Glasgow Climate Pact.
2021 United States elections
2021 United States elections: off-year contests on November 2, 2021, chiefly the Virginia governor's race won by Glenn Youngkin and Phil Murphy's narrow New Jersey reelection, plus mayoral races in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, and New York City.
2021 United States Electoral College vote count
The January 6, 2021 joint session of Congress counted and certified the 2020 electoral votes, Biden 306 to Trump 232, rejecting Arizona and Pennsylvania objections after the Capitol attack delayed certification until 3:44 a.m. January 7.
2021 United States gubernatorial elections
2021 US gubernatorial elections: only New Jersey and Virginia voted on Nov 2, 2021. Democrat Phil Murphy narrowly won reelection in NJ; Republican Glenn Youngkin upset Terry McAuliffe in Virginia amid a 10-point shift.
2021 US Open – Men's singles
2021 US Open men's singles: Daniil Medvedev won his first Grand Slam, beating top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the final, denying Djokovic the calendar-year Grand Slam and a 21st major title.
2021 US Open (tennis)
2021 US Open (tennis), 141st edition, Aug 30-Sep 12, 2021, New York hard courts. Daniil Medvedev beat Novak Djokovic to stop a calendar Grand Slam; qualifier Emma Raducanu, 18, won the women's title without dropping a set.
2021 Virginia gubernatorial election
2021 Virginia gubernatorial election (November 2, 2021): Republican Glenn Youngkin, former Carlyle Group CEO, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, becoming the first Republican statewide winner in 12 years, with record 55% turnout and education as the dominant issue.
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election: eight-phase poll. TMC under Mamata Banerjee won 213 seats with 47.94% of the vote; BJP 77 seats, 38.13%; CPI(M) and Congress won none.
2021 Western Australian state election
The 2021 Western Australian state election (13 March 2021) saw Mark McGowan's Labor win 53 of 59 Assembly seats and a first-ever upper-house majority, reducing the Liberals to two seats and unseating opposition leader Zak Kirkup.
2021 Western United States drought and heat wave
The 2021 Western United States drought and heat wave was a record drought and June heat wave that NOAA put at $8.9 billion in losses and 229 deaths.
2021 Wimbledon Championships
2021 Wimbledon Championships, The Championships, grass-court Grand Slam at the All England Club, June 28 to July 10, 2021, after 2020's wartime-first cancellation; Djokovic won a 20th major, Barty her first Wimbledon, at 50% capacity rising to full finals crowds.
2021 World Figure Skating Championships
The 2021 World Figure Skating Championships was the ISU's annual world championship, held March 22–28, 2021 at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden, crowning champions in all four disciplines.
2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
2021 IIHF World Junior Championship, World Juniors, Edmonton bubble tournament won by the United States 2-0 over Canada for gold; Finland took bronze; Trevor Zegras named MVP.
2021 World Men's Curling Championship
2021 World Men's Curling Championship, held April 2-11, 2021 in the Calgary COVID-19 bubble at Canada Olympic Park after relocation from Ottawa. Sweden's Niklas Edin won a record fifth world title, beating Scotland 10-5; top six teams qualified for Beijing 2022.
2021 World Men's Handball Championship
2021 IHF Men's World Championship (27th edition), held in Egypt 13-31 January 2021, first 32-team format; Denmark beat Sweden for a second straight title, Spain took bronze, Mikkel Hansen was MVP.
2021 World Rally Championship
2021 World Rally Championship season: Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia won their eighth WRC drivers' title with 230 points, Toyota took the manufacturers' crown, and the World Rally Car era ended before 2022's hybrid Rally1 rules.
2021 World Series
2021 World Series: Atlanta Braves beat Houston Astros 4-2 (Oct 26-Nov 2, 2021) for their first title since 1995; Jorge Soler MVP; Astros' third Fall Classic in five years.
2021 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
2021 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 5-7 March 2021, pandemic bubble, zero COVID cases; Suzanne Schulting swept all four women's titles, Shaoang Liu won the men's overall.