2020
2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. (see link for calendar)
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| Centuries: 20th century – 21st century – 22nd century | |
Predictions relating to year 2020
- British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020
- George W. Bush stated on January 14, 2004 that humans should return to the moon no later than 2020, to prepare to eventually go on to Mars
Events
- Summer Olympic Games to be held
- Stipulated completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in China
- Scheduled completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- November 3 – scheduled presidential and congressional elections in the United States (117th Congress will be elected).
- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, if still reigning, passes Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria to become the longest reigning monarch in modern European history.
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