Events in History in 2020 (Part 4)

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• Oct 28 15th-century medieval manuscript "The Book of Lismore", returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork

• 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 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]

• 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 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 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 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 14 Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 cases declared to the WHO, with total known infections over 54 million

• Nov 15 Treaty establishing world's largest trade bloc between 15 Asian Pacific countries signed at virtual ASEAN meeting

• 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 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 Charli D'Amelio becomes the first person to hit 100 million followers on TikTok
• 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 5 Russia begins vaccinating people with its Sputnik V vaccine in Moscow, despite the vaccine not finishing clinical trials
• Dec 6 Japanese space capsule Hayabusa-2 lands safely back on earth in Australia, carrying first significant rock samples from an asteroid, the Ryugu
• Dec 6 US President Donald Trump orders about 700 troops withdrawn from Somalia
• Dec 7 Australian states celebrate "Freedom Day" easing COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria and New South Wales
• Dec 7 Coca-Cola named the world's No. 1 plastic polluter, in Break Free From Plastic's annual brand audit
• Dec 7 Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo wins a second term in the country's general elections
• Dec 7 Most of California begins second lockdown as hospitals come under strain and the state records average of 21,000 COVID-19 cases a day
• Dec 8 Former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed says Aliens and a Galactic Federation exist and Donald Trump knows about it, in article published in the Jerusalem Post
• Dec 8 The UK begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
• Dec 9 Canada approves the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19
• Dec 9 United Arab Emirates is the first country to authorize China's Sinopharm vaccine for COVID-19 saying it is 86% effective
• Dec 11 America's FDA authorizes the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
• Dec 11 European Union leaders agree to cut net carbon emissions by 55% in the next decade
• Dec 11 First same-sex civil union registered in Bolivia after a two-year legal battle by activists
• Dec 11 Gunmen storm a school in Kankara, Katsina state, northern Nigeria, kidnapping more than 300 students (Boko Haram later claims responsibility)
• Dec 11 US Supreme Court rejects lawsuit by Texas to overturn Jo Biden's election in four battleground states, endorsed by 17 Republican attorney generals

• Dec 13 Germany announces a strict lockdown till Jan 10 after looser restrictions failed to prevent COVID-19 numbers surging
• Dec 14 America begins its first COVID-19 vaccinations using the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on the same day it records over 300,000 deaths
• Dec 14 Russia revealed to have been behind massive cyberattack on US government agencies and private companies since the Spring
• Dec 14 Total solar eclipse visible across southern Chile and Argentina
• Dec 14 US Attorney General William Barr resigns
• Dec 14 US Electoral College votes 306-232 to officially affirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory

• Dec 16 14 people found guilty of 2015 terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo office and supermarket in Paris
• Dec 16 China blocks imports of coal, from Australia, the world's second biggest market for the world's biggest coal exporter
• Dec 16 Major winter storm hits US Northeast resulting in at least seven deaths and Binghamton, New York, receiving record 41 inches of snow
• Dec 16 Nine-year-old girl who died of an asthma attack in 2013 becomes first person in the world to officially have air pollution listed as cause of death
• Dec 17 China's Chang'e-5 mission successfully returns from collecting rock samples from the Moon, landing in Siziwang Banner, Mongolia
• Dec 17 Cyclone Yasa makes landfall as a category 5 storm over Bula province, Fiji, killing two people
• Dec 17 French President Emanuel Macron tests positive for COVID-19, sending other European leaders into isolation
• Dec 17 King Carl XVI Gustaf says Swedish authorities have failed in their response to COVID-19, criticizing the country's controversial anti-lockdown strategy
• Dec 17 More than 300 school boys rescued after they were kidnapped from their school in Katsina state, northern Nigeria
• Dec 18 International body Covax, established to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to low and middle income countries, announces deals with vaccine manufacturers and method for countries to share excess vaccines
• Dec 18 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine granted emergency authorization by US Food and Drug Administration
• Dec 18 South Africa announces detection of new variant of COVID-19, called 501.V2, which is driving a second wave of infections

• Dec 20 European countries begin closing their borders to the UK after news of a faster-spreading variant of COVID-19 across London and the south-east
• Dec 21 Governor of California Gavin Newson says there are now no intensive care beds left in Southern California or the San Joaquin Valley
• Dec 21 United States attorney general announces charges against Libyan Abu Agela Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accusing him of involvement in constructing the bomb that destroyed Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on the 32nd anniversary of the disaster
• Dec 21 US begins vaccinating for COVID-19 using the Moderna vaccine
• Dec 21 US President-elect Joe Biden receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine live on TV
• Dec 25 An RV detonates in downtown Nashville, Tennessee causing damage to people and property; prior to detonating, a recorded message playing from speakers warned anyone in earshot to evacuate prior to an explosion
• Dec 30 Argentina is the first major Latin American country to legalize abortion (signed into law 14 Jan 2021)
• Dec 31 WHO grants the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency authorization, paving the way for worldwide distribution

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