Explore 734 historical events from 2020–2029.
Louis Ray Henson was an American college basketball coach. He retired as the all-time leader in victories at the University of Illinois with 423 victories and New Mexico State with…
Lou Henson, American college basketball coach (born 1932)
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland was a British, American and French actress. She appeared in 49 feature films throughout her career, with the major works of her cinematic career spann…
Olivia de Havilland, American actress (born 1916)
Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese politician, economist, and agronomist who served as the fourth president of the Republic of China and chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He …
Lee Teng-hui, Taiwanese politician, President (1988–2000), Vice President (1984–1988) and mayor of Taipei (1978–1981)…
Herman Cain was an American businessman and Tea Party movement activist in the Republican Party.
Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist (born 1945)
On April 18 and 19, 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings and set fires at 16 locations in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people, and inj…
A series of attacks in Nova Scotia, Canada, ended when the perpetrator was killed by police, leaving 22 victims dead
On 22 April 2020, a truck driver under the influence of drugs, Mohinder Singh, crashed his truck into a Porsche 911 and two police cars on the Eastern Freeway, in the suburb of Kew…
A truck struck and killed four Victoria Police officers on the Eastern Freeway, Australia, the force's deadliest single
ABS-CBN is a Philippine media and content company. It serves as the flagship media brand of ABS-CBN Corporation, a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation. Formerly the country's …
Philippine broadcast network ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air by the National Telecommunications Commission after Congre
George Perry Floyd Jr. was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd h…
George Floyd, a black American man, was murdered (memorial pictured) during an arrest by a white police officer in Minne
The Norilsk diesel oil spill was an industrial disaster near Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It began on 29 May 2020 when a fuel storage tank at Norilsk-Taimyr Energy's Thermal …
An oil spill in Norilsk released 17,500 tons of diesel oil into nearby rivers
Crew Dragon Demo-2 was the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, named Endeavour, launched on May 30, 2020 on a Falcon 9 rocket, and carried NASA …
Crew Dragon Demo-2 became the first commercial mission to the International Space Station
Reddit is an American proprietary social news aggregation and forum social media platform. Registered users submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos…
Reddit banned r/The_Donald, a pro-Trump subreddit, for rule violations and antagonizing the company
On 2 July 2020, a major landslide at the Wai Khar jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar, killed between 175 and 200 miners in the country's deadliest-ever m…
A landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant killed 175–200 miners, the deadliest mining accident in Burmese history.
Naya Marie Rivera was an American actress, singer, and model recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series Glee. She began her career as a child actress and mo…
After a five day search, the body of American actress and singer Naya Rivera was recovered from Lake Piru, confirming…
A major oil spill from the Colonial Pipeline in a nature reserve near Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, began on July 27, 2020. The spill resulted in approximately 2,000…
A major oil spill from the Colonial Pipeline was discovered in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (system map pictured).