Explore 1359 historical events from 2020–2029.
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…
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…
The Abraham Accords were signed in Washington, D.C. (signatories pictured), normalizing relations between Israel and…
An earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.0 occurred on 30 October 2020 about 14 km (8.7 mi) northeast of the Greek island of Samos. Although Samos was closest to the epicentre, i…
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami and causing 119…