Historical Events in 2020 (Part 4)

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• Sep 16 Hurricane Sally makes landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a category 2 storm bringing serious flooding

• Sep 17 More than 15,000 fires have caused widespread devastation in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020, according to its National Institute for Space Research
• Sep 18 Cyclone Ianos, a rare 'medicane' begins sweeping across Greece, killing three
• Sep 18 Earliest dated evidence for the human species in the Arabian Peninsula as fossilized footprints 120,000 years old uncovered in Saudi Arabia's Nefud Desert [1]

• Sep 20 72nd Emmy Awards held virtually: "Succession" best drama, "Schitts Creek" wins record nine awards for a comedy, "Watchman" best limited series
• Sep 20 FinCEN files leaked - over 2,000 mostly 'suspicious activity reports' to the US government showing banks allowed money laundering worth $2 trillion between 2000-17
• Sep 20 US Open Men's Golf, Winged Foot CC: American Bryson DeChambeau claims his first career major title as the only player to score under par; wins by 6 strokes from Matthew Wolff
• Sep 21 Canadian province of Quebec expands restrictions, declaring it is in a second COVID-19 wave as cases across the country average 1,000 a day

• Sep 22 America's COVID-19 death toll passes 200,000, more than any other country

• Sep 23 President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference

• Sep 24 Report China is continuing to expand its Uighur detention centers, with more than 380 suspected facilities housing 1 million people in Xinjiang [1]
• Sep 25 18 people in a government convoy killed by Islamist militants in Borno State, Nigeria

• Sep 25 Magawa, an African Giant Pouched Rat, is the first rat to be awarded a prestigious PDSA hero award, for sniffing out landmines in Cambodia
• Sep 25 Singapore announces it will be the first country in the world to use facial verification as part of its national identity scheme
• Sep 26 108 pilot whales survive, while 350 die in Australia's largest mass stranding at Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania
• Sep 26 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Sep 27 Border fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan forces over disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh kills at least 23
• Sep 27 Details of President Donald Trump's tax returns released by the New York Times showing he paid $750 in income tax (2016 & 2017) revealing "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance" [1]
• Sep 27 Houston officials confirm water supply around Lake Jackson, Texas, contaminated with brain-eating amoeba after death of six-year-old boy
• Sep 28 COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
• Sep 28 Stanley Cup Final, Rogers Place, Edmonton, Alberta: Tampa Bay Lightning claim second championship in franchise history with a 2-0 Game 6 win over Dallas Stars; win series 4-2

• Sep 29 First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden held, widely criticized as chaotic and ill-tempered
• Sep 29 Scientists confirm the existence of three new underground lakes on Mars using radar on Esa's Mars Express spacecraft
• Sep 30 California becomes the 1st US state to pass a law allowing for reparations for black residents and descendants of slaves
• Sep 30 Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases

• Oct 2 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day
• Oct 3 The UK's wettest day on record, with average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) across the country in wake of Storm Alex
• Oct 5 At least 14m tonnes of plastic pieces are at the bottom of the ocean, 30 times more than on the surface according to new research [1]
• Oct 5 India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
• Oct 5 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of hepatitis C virus [1]
• Oct 5 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House
• Oct 5 WHO estimates 10% of world's population may have been infected with COVID-19, more than 20 times the number of confirmed cases
• Oct 6 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea M. Ghez for work on black holes
• Oct 7 Hurricane Delta makes landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, with 100-mph winds, the 25th named storm for 2020
• Oct 7 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”
• Oct 8 American poet Louise Glück is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Oct 8 FBI charge 13 men with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and storm the Michigan Capitol
• Oct 9 The UN's World Food Programme is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Oct 10 Italian teenage computer genius Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15, beatified by the Catholic Church in Assisi, Italy

• Oct 11 India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19
• Oct 12 China announces it will test entire city of Qingdao, 9 million people, for COVID-19 within five days after a dozen cases discovered
• Oct 12 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson for their contributions to auction theory
• Oct 12 UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge

• Oct 14 Details of the world's first room-temperature superconductor created by scientists at the University of Rochester, NY, published in "Nature" [1]

• Oct 15 Thai government issues emergency decree banning public gatherings amid increasing pro-democracy protests and criticism of the king
• Oct 16 French teacher Samuel Paty beheaded by 18-year-old Islamist militant in Paris suburb of Éragny
• Oct 17 Chicago declared the 'rattiest city' in America for the sixth year in a row by pest control service Orkin

• Oct 18 Bolivia elects Luis Arce President and his party, Movement for Socialism back into government
• Oct 19 Belgium officials say country facing a "tsunami" of COVID-19 cases amid new restrictions and figures it has third-highest number of Covid-related deaths per 100,000 people globally
• Oct 19 Irish government moves country to highest level of COVID-19 restrictions amid rising cases
• Oct 19 Ming handscroll painting “Ten Views of Lingbi Rock” by Wu Bin sells for 512.9 million yuan ($77 million) at auction in Beijing, a new world record for a classical Chinese work
• Oct 19 Peru announces rediscovered 37m figure of a cat, completed 500 BC to 200 AD, a geoglyph outline in the Nazca Desert
• Oct 19 US charges six Russian military officers with massive cyber-attack meant to disrupt 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2017 French presidential election, and Ukraine's power grid
• Oct 20 Argentina becomes the fifth country in the world to record over 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases with the death toll at 26,716
• Oct 20 Nigerian police open fire on protesters in Lagos amid escalating protests against police violence around the country
• Oct 20 US Justice Department sues Google for illegal monopoly over search and search advertising
• Oct 20 Vietnam suffers its worst floods in decades with over 100 people killed according to the Red Cross
• Oct 21 FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information and are trying to influence outcome of US election
• Oct 21 Nasa Osiris-Rex spacecraft lands briefly on asteroid Bennu on mission to collect dust, largest sample from space since Apollo
• Oct 21 Parents of 545 children cannot be found that were separated at the US-Mexico border according to American Civil Liberties Union

• Oct 21 Spain becomes the first European country to record more than 1 million COVID-19 cases with the death toll at 34,366
• Oct 22 Goldman Sachs agrees to pay record $3 billion to end probe into its role in 1MDB corruption scandal to regulators in the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia

• Oct 24 Colombia records more than 1 million cases of COVID-19, the 8th globally and 3rd in Latin America
• Oct 24 Deadliest shipwreck of the year claims 140 lives on a ship that sank with 200 migrants on board off the coast of Senegal [1]
• Oct 25 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Portuguese Grand Prix at Autódromo Internacional Do Algarve for his 92nd career victory; moves 1 win clear of Michael Schumacher in all-time F1 victories list

• Oct 25 Pope Francis announces appointment of 13 new cardinals including 1st African American Wilton Daniel Gregory
• Oct 26 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says the country will becomes carbon neutral by 2050
• Oct 26 Melbourne officials announce end to their three-month lockdown as city records no new cases of COVID-19 for 1st time since June
• Oct 26 NASA announces there is more water on the Moon than previously thought, in sunlit as well as shadowed regions [1]
• Oct 26 Pakistan's first metro line, the Orange Line, opens in Lahore
• Oct 26 Police officers in Philadelphia shoot and kill black man Walter Wallace Jr. armed with a knife, prompting protests and the city to impose a curfew
• Oct 26 Silverado wildfire breaks out in Orange County, California forcing 60,000 people to evacuate
• Oct 26 US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sealing a conservative 6-3 majority
• Oct 27 A record 69.5 million Americans have already voted, a week before election day, 50.4% of 2016 total vote [1]
• Oct 27 Leader of the NXIVM cult Keith Raniere (60) sentenced to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking, racketeering, fraud and other crimes
• Oct 27 Organizers of 96th East-West Shrine Bowl college football all-star game, benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children, announce cancellation of game scheduled for January 23, 2021, in St. Petersburg, Florida, due to COVID-19 issues. The
• Oct 27 WHO confirms Europe is in the midst of a 2nd COVID-19 wave with cases rising rapidly, 30% in a week, deaths rising 40%
• Oct 28 15th-century medieval manuscript "The Book of Lismore", returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork
• Oct 28 French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will enter a new 4-week lockdown October 30 in televised address
• Oct 28 Global COVID-19 cases record one-day increase of more than 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in under two weeks according to Reuters
• Oct 28 Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in the US near Cocodrie, Louisiana, as category 2 storm
• Oct 28 New coral reef 500m (1,640ft) high, taller than the Empire State Building, discovered north of Australia's Great Barrier Reef
• Oct 28 Tanzania reelects President John Magufuli, with opposition parties calling the vote fraudulent
• Oct 28 Typhoon Molave strikes Vietnam triggering heavy rain and landslides, leaving more than 60 people dead
• Oct 29 Former leader Jeremy Corbyn is suspended from the British Labour Party after saying a report into antisemitism in the party was "overstated"
• Oct 29 India records more than 8 million COVID-19 cases, the second country after the US, with a death toll of 120,527
• Oct 29 South Australian government axes the Adelaide 500 from 2021 Supercars Championship due to COVID-19 and falling revenue
• Oct 29 Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron's defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad
• Oct 30 7.0 magnitude earthquake in the Aegean Sea kills at least 64 in Turkish city of Izmir and Greek Island of Samos
• Oct 30 New DNA study of dogs suggests they were human's first domesticated animal, 11,000 years ago at end of the Bronze Age [1]
• Oct 30 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a second four-week lockdown for England
• Oct 31 New Zealand Rugby Union team routs Australia, 43-5 in Sydney to retain Bledisloe Cup (2-1) for 18th straight series; Wallabies' largest ever defeat by All Blacks
• Nov 1 Gunmen kill at least 32 people, set fire to homes in Oromia state, Ethiopia, in attack blamed on rebel Oromo Liberation Army
• Nov 1 Slovakia completes testing two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06% test positive out of 3.625 million
• Nov 1 Super typhoon Goni makes landfall on Catanduanes island, Philippines, leaving at least 16 dead and 370,000 people displaced
• Nov 2 Baby Shark by Pinkfong becomes the most-watched video on YouTube with over 7.04 billion views
• Nov 2 Gunmen storm Kabul University, Afghanistan, shooting at least 22 dead with Islamic State group claiming responsibility

• Nov 3 Australia's Melbourne Cup won by Twilight Payment
• Nov 3 Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category Four storm with winds of 140 km, killing at least 235 people across Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama

• Nov 7 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump

• Nov 8 Global recorded cases of COVID-19 pass 50 million, with the known death toll at 1,245,240 (Johns Hopkins data)
• Nov 8 More than 50 people beheaded in latest attack by Islamist militants in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique [1]
• Nov 9 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm
• Nov 9 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people
• Nov 9 Peru's Congress votes to impeach and oust President Martín Vizcarra on corruption charges
• Nov 9 US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigations into voter fraud for the US elections
• Nov 9 US recorded COVID-19 cases pass 10 million, with 1 million new cases recorded in 10 days. Death toll over 237,000. [1]
• Nov 10 Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
• Nov 10 Word of the year is "Lockdown" according to Collins English Dictionary
• Nov 11 All Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers resign after China passes resolution allowing for removal of four of their colleagues
• Nov 11 Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Indians (AL) and Cincinnati Reds starter Trevor Bauer (NL) take Cy Young Award for best pitchers in MLB
• Nov 11 UK becomes the first European country to record over 50,000 COVID-19 related 50,000; 5fth country, after the US, Brazil, India, and Mexico
• Nov 12 US President-elect Joe Biden announces Ron Klain will be his White House Chief of Staff

• Nov 13 British strategist and chief advisor to the PM Dominic Cummings is let go by Boris Johnson
• Nov 13 Fly-half Nicolas Sanchez scores all the Pumas points as Argentina claim their 1st ever win over New Zealand's All Blacks, winning 25-15 in a Rugby Championship game in Sydney

• Nov 14 Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 cases declared to the WHO, with total known infections over 54 million
• Nov 15 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton clinches 4th straight and record equalling 7th F1 World Drivers C'ship by winning Turkish GP at Intercity Istanbul Park, Tuzla

• Nov 15 Treaty establishing world's largest trade bloc between 15 Asian Pacific countries signed at virtual ASEAN meeting
• Nov 15 US President Donald Trump tweets [Biden] "won because the election was rigged,” while still refusing to concede the election
• Nov 15 World-record price for a Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim sold for €1.6m (£1.4m) at auction
• Nov 16 Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
• Nov 16 Peru's Congress votes in its third interim President in a week, Francisco Sagasti after violent protests
• Nov 16 US drugmaker Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective in early data
• Nov 18 Floods and landslides effect more than 3 million people, killing at least 70 in wake of Typhoon Vamco in Cagayan Province, Philippines

• Nov 18 Thailand's parliament agrees to reforms, but not to the monarchy, after massive public protests were met by tear gas and water canons
• Nov 18 US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
• Nov 19 Inquiry find "credible evidence" elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan civilians
• Nov 19 Scottish American Douglas Stuart wins the Booker Literary prize for his first novel "Shuggie Bain"
• Nov 20 Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of Zvěřinec in Czech Republic, claiming it as his hardest 9b+ and the second hardest route of his life
• Nov 21 Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge

• Nov 22 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gives Tigrayan forces 72 hours to surrender before the military begins offensive on regional capital of Mekelle
• Nov 22 G20 virtual two-day summit ends with pledge to ensure affordable access to vaccines for all
• Nov 23 AstraZeneca is the third drugmaker to report an effective vaccine for COVID-19 (62% or 90% effective depending on how it is given) and easy-to make and distribute

• Nov 23 China launches Chang’e-5 mission to the Moon from Wenchang space site, Hainan Island, to collect lunar rock and soil samples
• Nov 23 US President-elect Joe Biden introduces his new cabinet including Alejandro Mayorkas 1st Latino head of homeland security, Avril Haines 1st female director of national intelligence
• Nov 24 COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day
• Nov 24 Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 30,000 points for the first time, after formal transition to Joe Biden administration begins
• Nov 24 Scotland's parliament votes to become the first country to make period products free [1]
• Nov 24 US General Services Administration officially begins Joe Biden's transition, declaring him the "apparent winner" although Donald Trump vows to continue challenging the result

• Nov 25 Dead and buried mink reported rising from the ground due to bloating, after a hurried cull of millions of COVID-19 infected animals in Denmark

• Nov 26 Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
• Nov 27 Iran's most senior nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh assassinated outside Tehran, escalating tensions in the region
• Nov 28 At least 110 people killed in attack on Koshobe village in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram jihadist group
• Nov 28 Joe Biden injures his foot playing with his dog Major
• Nov 28 Thousands of farmers begin entering Delhi to protest proposed agriculture reforms
• Nov 29 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announce the first all-female Communications team for the White House
• Nov 30 Alphafold's DeepMind AI program announces it has achieved scientific breakthrough by being able to predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes
• Nov 30 Australia condemns doctored photo of Australian soldier threatening Afghan child with knife on Chinese official's Twitter, marking new low in the two countries relationship

• Nov 30 Los Angeles County begins three-week stay at home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge
• Nov 30 Newly discovered rock art announced found in the Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, dated 12,600 and 11,800 years ago with thousands of paintings of now extinct Ice Age animals [1]

• Dec 1 Chinese robotic spacecraft Chang’e-5 lands on the Moon as part of two-day mission to retrieve rock samples

• Dec 2 The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
• Dec 2 US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump
• Dec 2 US records its largest daily death toll for COVID-19 at 2,885 and for the first time patient numbers in hospital exceed 100,000
• Dec 3 AT&T Inc’s Warner Bros studio announces all its 2021 movies will stream online the same day they appear in theatres because of the pandemic
• Dec 3 “I actually believe they’re going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation,” warns Dr. Robert Redfield, head of US CDC about the months ahead with COVID-19
• Dec 4 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Coventry, England: Europe ends US 2-year run with emphatic 11-3 win; MVP: Jayson Shaw (Scotland)
• Dec 4 New Zealand cricket captain Kane Williamson smashes 251 to set up the home side's innings & 134 run win over the West Indies in the 1st Test in Hamilton
• Dec 5 Russia begins vaccinating people with its Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow, despite the vaccine not finishing clinical trials

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