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2020 (MMXX) is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium, the 20th year of the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.
2020 has been designated as Year of the Nurse and Midwife by the World Health Organization.[1] The United Nations has declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health.[2] 2020 has been designated as International Year of Sound by the International Commission for Acoustics.[3]
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has led to severe global socioeconomic disruption.[4]
Events
January
- January 2 – The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency whilst the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster amid large bushfires that have killed as many as 500 million animals.[5][6][7]
- January 3 – 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis: A U.S. drone strike at Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.[8][9]
- January 5 – Second Libyan Civil War: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkish troops will be deployed to Libya on behalf of the United Nations-backed Government of National Accord.[10]
- January 7 – Persian Gulf crisis: 56 people are reported killed and over 200 injured in a crush at the funeral of general Qasem Soleimani in the city of Kerman, Iran.[11]
- January 8
- Persian Gulf crisis: Iran launches ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases hosting American soldiers, injuring multiple personnel.[12]
- Persian Gulf crisis: Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 is shot down by Iran's armed forces shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini Airport, killing all 176 people on board.[13]
- January 9
- A rare, circumbinary planet called TOI 1338-b is discovered.[14]
- ISIL militants assault a Nigerien military base at Chinagodrar, killing at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.[15]
- January 10 – The Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, dies aged 79. Haitham bin Tariq is sworn in as his successor.[16][17][18]
- January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and five civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Ma'rib.[19]
- January 28 – President of the United States Donald Trump and Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu announce the Trump peace plan.
- January 29 – U.S. President Donald Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, the North American trade agreement replacing NAFTA.[20]
- January 30 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the sixth time that this measure has been invoked since 2009.[21][22][23]
- January 31 – The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union at 11PM (GMT), beginning an 11-month transition period.[24]
February
- February 11 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.[25][26]
- February 13 – NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper belt.[27][28][29]
- February 27 – 2020 stock market crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline at the time. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading COVID-19 coronavirus.[30]
- February 28 – Ambassadors of all 29 NATO Allies meet in the North Atlantic Council expressing solidarity with Turkey after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces during the ongoing Syrian civil war.[31][32][33]
- February 29 – A conditional peace agreement is signed between the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar.[34] The U.S. begins gradually withdrawing troops from Afghanistan on March 10.[35]
March
- March 5 – The International Criminal Court authorizes the Afghanistan War Crimes inquiry to proceed, allowing for the first time for U.S. forces to be investigated.[36]
- March 8 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.[37] Two days later, the quarantine is expanded to cover the entire country.
- March 9 – Share prices fall sharply around the world, in response to a new oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The DJIA plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point.[38] Oil prices also plunge by as much as 30 percent in early trading, the biggest fall since 1991.[39]
- March 11
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.[40]
- Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in the Americas, surpassing Pacal the Great, who held that record for almost 1337 years, from 683 to 2020.
- March 12 – Global stock markets crash due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes into free fall, closing at over -2,300 points, the worst losses for the index since 1987.[41]
- March 13 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The government of Nepal announces that Mount Everest will be closed to climbers and the public for the rest of the season due to concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.[42]
- March 14 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain goes into lockdown after COVID-19 cases in the country surge.[43]
- March 15 – Argentine president Alberto Fernández declares preventive quarantine to gradual lockdown of the country being the first country aside from Spain and Italy to lockdown the country and the first one after few cases and no deaths were confirmed.
- March 16 – The DJIA falls by –2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second largest percentage drop ever at −12.93 percent, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0 to 1/4 percent.[44]
- March 17
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The Iranian government warns that "millions" of its citizens may die from COVID-19 as 988 people have thus far died in the country. 90 percent of the 18,000 COVID-19 cases in the Middle East have thus far occurred in Iran.[45]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: European leaders close the EU's external and Schengen borders for at least 30 days in an effort to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.[46]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: UEFA postpones the Euro 2020 association football tournament until summer 2021.[47] The next day, the European Broadcasting Union announces that the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will be cancelled due to COVID-19 in Europe, the first cancellation in the 64-year history of the contest.[48]
- March 20 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 10,000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million.[49]
- March 23 – Ten nations had joined the SOLIDARITY trial, a group sponsored by the World Health Organization to find a cure against COVID-19. Four European countries (Switzerland, France, Norway and Spain), two American countries (Argentina and Canada), three Asian countries (Iran, Thailand, Bahrain) and South Africa are leading efforts to finding a cure.
- March 24
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: India goes into lockdown for 21 days to contain COVID-19. The total number of people in the world facing some form of movement restriction now exceeds 2.6 billion, a third of the global population.[50][51]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The United Kingdom goes into lockdown for three weeks to contain COVID-19.[52]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that the domestically transmitted epidemic was "basically blocked" and the domestic outbreak was now controlled.[53] Two days later, China temporarily suspends entry for foreign nationals with visas or residence permits, effective midnight March 28.[54]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The International Olympic Committee and Japan suspend the Summer Olympics until 2021, without a rescheduled date.[55]
- March 26
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed.[56] The United States surpasses China and Italy in total number of known COVID-19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.[57]
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's call for a ceasefire; some accept medical aid for themselves and the noncombatants in their communities. Guterres also asked wealthy countries to provide $2 billion to aid in fighting the virus. Colombia and Venezuela discussed a common response to the global pandemic, and the UAE airlifted aid to Iran.[58]
- A third mass coral bleaching event in five years is recorded at the Great Barrier Reef.[59][60]
- March 27 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th country to join NATO.[61]
- March 30
- 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain surpasses China in COVID-19 deaths, with a total of 7,340 reported.[62]
- 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.[63]
- 2020 Summer Olympics: The International Olympic Committee announces that the Olympics will be rescheduled from July 23 to August 8, 2021.[64][65]
April
Predicted and scheduled events
Scheduled
- May 7 – The first crewed flight of the Dragon 2 spacecraft is expected to start.[67]
- July 17 – Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.[68]
- October 18 – The 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in eight cities.[69]
- October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.[70]
- December 31 – Following the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, the current transition period for negotiations on a future relationship is set to expire on this date.[71]
Date unknown
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- Egypt, which has the highest rate of hepatitis C in the world, is expected to eradicate the disease by 2020 after an ambitious nationwide campaign against the disease.[72]
- Estimated completion date for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.[73]
- Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.[74]
- Liberia will become the first nation of the world to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid – Norway will pay the impoverished country $150 million to stop deforestation by 2020.[75]
- The Grand Egyptian Museum, described as the largest archaeological museum in the world, is expected to be completed.[76]
- The New Administrative Capital of Egypt is expected to be completed.[77]
Deaths
January
- January 1
- Don Larsen, American baseball player (b. 1929)[78]
- David Stern, American businessman and NBA commissioner (b. 1942)[79]
- January 2 – John Baldessari, American conceptual artist (b. 1931)[80]
- January 3
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Iraqi-Iranian military commander (b. 1954)[81]
- Qasem Soleimani, Iranian general (b. 1957)[81]
- January 5
- Anri Jergenia, 4th Prime Minister of Abkhazia (b. 1941)[82]
- Hans Tilkowski, German football goalkeeper and manager (b. 1935)[83]
- January 6 – Luís Morais, Brazilian football player (b. 1930)[84]
- January 7
- Khamis Al-Dosari, Saudi Arabian footballer (b. 1973)[85]
- Silvio Horta, American screenwriter and television producer (b. 1974)[86]
- Neil Peart, Canadian drummer and lyricist (b. 1952)[87]
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, American writer and journalist (b. 1967)[88]
- January 8
- Edd Byrnes, American actor (b. 1932)[89]
- Buck Henry, American actor, screenwriter and television producer (b. 1930)[90]
- Infanta Pilar de Borbón, Spanish royal (b. 1936)[91]
- January 9 – Mike Resnick, American science fiction author (b. 1942)[92]
- January 10
- Neda Arnerić, Serbian film actress (b. 1953)[93]
- Guido Messina, Italian racing cyclist (b. 1931)[94]
- Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman (b. 1940)[95]
- January 12 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher and writer (b. 1944)[96]
- January 13 – Isabel-Clara Simó, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1943)[97]
- January 15
- Rocky Johnson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1944)[98]
- Christopher Tolkien, British academic and editor (b. 1924)[99]
- January 16 – Efraín Sánchez, Colombian footballer and manager (b. 1926)[100]
- January 17
- Pietro Anastasi, Italian footballer (b. 1948)[101]
- Derek Fowlds, English actor (b. 1937)[102]
- January 19
- Jimmy Heath, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)[103]
- Shin Kyuk-ho, South Korean businessman (b. 1921)[104]
- January 21
- Hédi Baccouche, 6th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1930)[105]
- Terry Jones, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1942)[106]
- Tengiz Sigua, 2nd Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1934)[107]
- Theodor Wagner, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1927)[108]
- January 23
- Alfred Körner, Austrian footballer (b. 1926)[109]
- Gudrun Pausewang, German writer (b. 1928)[110]
- January 24
- Duje Bonačić, Croatian rower (b. 1929)[111]
- Juan José Pizzuti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1927)[112]
- Rob Rensenbrink, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)[113]
- January 26
- Kobe Bryant, American professional basketball player (b. 1978)[114]
- Louis Nirenberg, Canadian-American mathematician (b. 1925)[115]
- January 28 – Nicholas Parsons, English radio and TV presenter (b. 1923)[116]
- January 30 – Jörn Donner, Finnish writer, film director and politician (b. 1933)[117]
- January 31
- Mary Higgins Clark, American novelist (b. 1927)[118]
- Janez Stanovnik, 12th President of SR of Slovenia (b. 1922)[119]
February
- February 1 – Andy Gill, English musician (b. 1956)[120]
- February 2 – Mike Moore, 34th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1949)[121]
- February 3 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (b. 1929)[122]
- February 4
- José Luis Cuerda, Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter and producer (b. 1947)[123]
- Daniel arap Moi, 2nd President of Kenya (b. 1924)[124]
- February 5
- Stanley Cohen, American Nobel biochemist (b. 1922)[125]
- Kirk Douglas, American actor, director and producer (b. 1916)[126]
- February 6 – Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer (b. 1962)[127]
- February 7
- Orson Bean, American actor, comedian and producer (b. 1928)[128]
- Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (b. 1986)[129]
- Nexhmije Pagarusha, Albanian singer and actress (b. 1933)[130]
- February 8 – Robert Conrad, American actor (b. 1935)[131]
- February 9 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano (b. 1935)[132]
- February 11 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (b. 1940)[133]
- February 12
- Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (b. 1951)[134]
- Geert Hofstede, Dutch social psychologist (b. 1928)[135]
- February 13 – Rajendra K. Pachauri, Indian scientist (b. 1940)[136]
- February 14 – Lynn Cohen, American actress (b. 1933)[137]
- February 15 – Caroline Flack, English presenter (b. 1979)[138]
- February 16
- Zoe Caldwell, Australian actress (b. 1933)[139]
- Harry Gregg, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1932)[140]
- Larry Tesler, American computer scientist (b. 1945)[141]
- February 17
- Mário da Graça Machungo, 1st Prime Minister of Mozambique (b. 1940)[142]
- Kizito Mihigo, Rwandan gospel singer, organist and peace activist (b. 1981)[143]
- Andrew Weatherall, English music DJ and producer (b. 1963)[144]
- February 18
- José Bonaparte, Argentine paleontologist (b. 1928)[145]
- Sonja Ziemann, German actress (b. 1926)[146]
- February 22 – Kiki Dimoula, Greek poet (b. 1931)[147]
- February 24
- Clive Cussler, American author (b. 1931)[148]
- Katherine Johnson, American mathematician (b. 1918)[149]
- Diana Serra Cary, American child actress (b. 1918)[150]
- Jahn Teigen, Norwegian singer (b. 1949)[151]
- February 25
- Mario Bunge, Argentine philosopher (b. 1919)[152]
- Hosni Mubarak, 41st Prime Minister and 4th President of Egypt (b. 1928)[153]
- Dmitry Yazov, Soviet and Russian marshal (b. 1924)[154]
- February 26 – Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician (b. 1921)[155]
- February 28 – Freeman Dyson, British-born American physicist and mathematician (b. 1923)[156]
- February 29 – Éva Székely, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (b. 1927)[157]
March
- March 1
- Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest (b. 1925)[158]
- Jack Welch, American business executive and writer (b. 1935)[159]
- March 2
- March 3 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician, First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party (b. 1927)[162]
- March 4
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, 137th Prime Minister of Peru and 5th United Nations Secretary-General (b. 1920)[163]
- Robert Shavlakadze, Georgian high jumper (b. 1933)[164]
- March 6
- Henri Richard, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (b. 1936)[165]
- McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist (b. 1938)[166]
- March 8 – Max von Sydow, Swedish-French actor (b. 1929)[167]
- March 9 – Richard K. Guy, British mathematician (b. 1916)[168]
- March 11
- Charles Wuorinen, American composer (b. 1938) [169]
- Michel Roux, French chef and restaurateur (b. 1941) [170]
- March 12 – Tonie Marshall, French-American actress, screenwriter, and film director (b. 1951) [171]
- March 13 – Dana Zátopková, Czech javelin thrower (b. 1922)[172]
- March 14 – Genesis P-Orridge, English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and occultist (b. 1950) [173]
- March 15 – Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)[174]
- March 16 – Stuart Whitman, American actor (b. 1928)[175]
- March 17
- Eduard Limonov, Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident (b. 1943)[176]
- Roger Mayweather, American professional boxer and trainer (b. 1961)[177]
- Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Acting President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1958)[178]
- Betty Williams, Northern Ireland Nobel peace activist (b. 1943)[179]
- Alfred Worden, American astronaut (b. 1932)[180]
- March 18
- Catherine Hamlin, Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist (b. 1924)[181]
- Joaquín Peiró, Spanish football player (b. 1936)[182]
- March 19 – Peter Whittingham, English footballer (b. 1984)
- March 20
- Amadeo Carrizo, Argentine footballer (b. 1926)[183]
- Kenny Rogers, American country singer and songwriter (b. 1938)[184]
- March 21 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish sports executive (b. 1943)[185]
- March 23
- Lucia Bosè, Italian actress and beauty pageant winner (b. 1931)[186]
- Branko Cikatić, Croatian kickboxer (b. 1954)[187]
- March 24
- Manu Dibango, Cameroonian saxophonist (b. 1933)[188]
- Stuart Gordon, American film director (b. 1947)[189]
- Terrence McNally, American playwright (b. 1938)[190]
- Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)[191]
- March 25 – Inna Makarova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1926)[192]
- March 26 – Michel Hidalgo, French footballer and manager (b. 1933)[193]
- March 27 – Hamed Karoui, 7th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1927)[194]
- March 29
- Philip W. Anderson, American Nobel physicist (b. 1923)[195]
- Yuri Bondarev, Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter (b. 1924)[196]
- Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian (b. 1950)[197]
- Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1933)[198]
- March 30
- Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and resistance fighter (b. 1922)[199]
- Hau Pei-tsun, 13th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1919)[200]
- Joachim Yhombi-Opango, 4th President and 12th Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)[201]
- March 31 – Abdul Halim Khaddam, Acting President of Syria (b. 1932)[202]
April
- April 1
- Nur Hassan Hussein, 12th Prime Minister of Somalia (b. 1937)[203]
- Ellis Marsalis Jr., American jazz pianist (b. 1934)[204]
- Adam Schlesinger, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)[205]
In fiction
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