Explore 907 historical events from 2020–2029.
Julian Alexander Bream was an English classical guitarist and lutenist. Regarded as one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of the 20th century, he played a significant …
Julian Bream, English classical guitarist and lutenist (born 1933)
Robert Stewart Trump was an American businessman and investor. He was the younger brother of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and a loyal supporter o…
Robert Trump, American real-estate developer, business executive (born 1948)
Harry Bernard Cross was an English actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire and for playing Billy…
Ben Cross, English stage and film actor (born 1947)
Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books and numerous high-profile articles for magazines such as New York and Vanity Fai…
Gail Sheehy, American author, journalist, and lecturer (born 1936)
Joseph Clemens Ruby was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the animated Scooby-Doo franchise, together with K…
Joe Ruby, American animator (born 1933)
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was an American actor and playwright. Through his two-decade career, he appeared in a number of projects spanning both blockbuster and independent films, and…
Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (born 1976)
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.