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2020 in U.S. states and territories. The following is a list of notable events, births and deaths from 2020 in the United States . The US was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which by the end of the year killed over 300,000 people within American borders.
2024 Cannes Film Festival. Norah becomes the first film from Saudi Arabia to screen as part of the official calendar at the Cannes Film Festival. (Arab News) Black Dog, a Chinese film directed by Guan Hu, wins the Un Certain Regard prize for international films at the Cannes Film Festival.
The world population reached 8 billion in November 2022. [320] Population growth, life expectancy and birth rates declined globally in the early 2020s, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. [321] India surpassed China and became the most-populous country in April 2023.
2020 ( MMXX) was 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 and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade. The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and ...
Over 14,000 (as of June 27, 2020) [6] Property damage. $1–2 billion (May 26 – June 8, 2020) [7] A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] such ...
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president , Donald Trump , and vice president , Mike Pence . [9]
July. July 1 – 2020 Russian constitutional referendum: President Vladimir Putin is allowed to extend his presidency to 2036. [210] [211] July 5 – 2020 Croatian parliamentary election [212] The conservative Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) wins 66 of 151 seats in parliament. [213] July 9.
January 2020 was the first month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days. It was the first month of the 2020s decade, and it was also the first month of the COVID-19 outbreak, which was declared a public health emergency by World Health Organization on January 30, 2020. Portal:Current events