Explore 1099 historical events from 2020–2029.
Robert W. Gore was an American engineer and scientist, inventor and businessman. Gore led his family's company, W. L. Gore & Associates, which was founded by his father Bill Gore, …
Robert W. Gore, American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (born 1937)
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was n…
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court justice (born 1933)
John Napier Wyndham Turner was the 17th prime minister of Canada, serving from June to September 1984. He served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 19…
John Turner, Canadian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1929)
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).
The 2020 Alaska mid-air collision occurred at approximately 8:27 a.m. on July 31, 2020, when a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver collided with a Piper PA-12 over the Kenai Peninsula, Alask…
A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, kills seven people including state representative Gary Knopp.
On 4 August 2020, a major explosion occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, caused by the ignition of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The chemical, confiscated in 2014 from the cargo ship M…
A large explosion of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon killed 218 people and caused…
The 2020 Alaska mid-air collision occurred at approximately 8:27 a.m. on July 31, 2020, when a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver collided with a Piper PA-12 over the Kenai Peninsula, Alask…
A mid-air collision in Soldotna, Alaska, killed seven people, including state representative Gary Knopp.
Air India Express Flight 1344 was a scheduled international flight operated by a Boeing 737-800 on 7 August 2020 from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Kozhikode, India, landing at C…
Air India Express Flight 1344 overshot the runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India, and crashed,…
The Abraham Accords are a set of agreements that established diplomatic normalization between Israel and several Arab states, beginning with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. A…
Signing of the Abraham Accords (signatories pictured) occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel…
2020 was a record-setting year for wildfires in California. Over the course of the year, 8,648 fires burned 4,304,379 acres (1,741,920 ha), more than four percent of the state's ro…
California wildfires: A pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party ignited the El Dorado Fire (pictured), burning for…