3 January 2020Soleimani StrikeDonald Trump
Authorises the strike that kills Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
Historical records for United States of America in 2020, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Authorises the strike that kills Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
Announces killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. strike.
Faces first Senate impeachment trial.
The United States confirms its first COVID-19 case.
Acknowledges first confirmed COVID-19 case in the United States.
Death of Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash.
Delivers State of the Union highlighting economy and impeachment.
Death of actor Kirk Douglas.
Acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.
Is acquitted by the Senate in his first impeachment trial.
Says he supports Michael Bloomberg during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Named to lead the White House coronavirus task force.
Wins the South Carolina Democratic primary.
Wins key Super Tuesday contests.
Visits CDC to discuss coronavirus response.
Announces travel restrictions from Europe due to COVID-19.
Declares a national emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Declares a national emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderna begins early human testing of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.
Helps lead coronavirus vaccine research at the National Institutes of Health.
Contributes to rapid design of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine antigen.
Invokes Defense Production Act to boost medical supplies.
Conducts daily coronavirus task force briefings.
Death of country singer Kenny Rogers.
The Act provides emergency payments, unemployment support, business lending and public-health funding.
Signs the CARES Act economic relief package.
Signs the CARES Act relief package.
Highlights Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses.
Holds briefings as federal health agencies update mask guidance.
Announces phased guidelines for reopening the U.S. economy.
Death of rock and roll singer Little Richard.
Announces initiative to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development.
Death of George Floyd during an arrest, sparking global protests.
Launches on SpaceX Demo-2, the first crewed orbital launch from the United States since 2011.
Pilots SpaceX Demo-2 to the International Space Station.
Faces nationwide protests after the killing of George Floyd.
Faces nationwide protests after George Floyd’s killing.
Walks to St. John’s Church after protesters are cleared from Lafayette Square.
Death of civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis.
Negotiates further relief measures with Congress.
NASA launches the Perseverance rover mission to Mars.
Selects Kamala Harris as his running mate.
Declares a state of emergency during major California wildfires.
Is formally nominated by the Democratic Party.
Accepts the Republican nomination for president in 2020.
Death of actor Chadwick Boseman.
Hosts the signing of the Abraham Accords.
Death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Hosts event later linked to COVID-19 cases among attendees.
Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.
Debates Donald Trump in the first presidential debate.
Is admitted to Walter Reed after testing positive for COVID-19.
Announces he and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19.
Announces that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19.
Is admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after COVID-19 diagnosis.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of hepatitis C virus.
Death of guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a supermassive compact object at the centre of the Milky Way.
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of genome editing with CRISPR-Cas9.
Holds large campaign rallies ahead of the 2020 election.
Debates Donald Trump in the final presidential debate.
Releases Letter to You, recorded live in the studio with the E Street Band.
Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Holds ceremony marking Barrett’s appointment.
Confirmed as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket.
Faces Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
Defeats Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Refuses to concede after the presidential election and challenges results.
Claims widespread fraud without evidence after election night.
Promises a national COVID-19 response after being projected president-elect.
Names members of a COVID-19 advisory board.
Supports legal challenges to election results in multiple states.
The United States authorises the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
Juno observations show Jupiter's equatorial hot spots are wider and deeper than earlier models suggested.
The United States authorises the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use.
The Electoral College confirms Joe Biden's presidential victory.
Electoral College votes confirm Joe Biden’s victory.
Electoral College confirms his presidential victory.
McKinnon and colleagues conclude that Arrokoth's lobes likely joined in a slow, gentle merger during early Solar System formation.
Spectral analysis identifies methanol ice and other surface materials on Arrokoth, providing clues to its primitive chemical history.
Refines distance ladder measurements that test the expansion history of the Big Bang universe.
Juno observations track the persistent geometric arrangements of cyclones around Jupiter's poles.
Hubble detects a smaller temporary dark feature near Neptune's giant northern vortex.
Hubble observations show a large Neptune dark vortex reversing its southward drift and moving back northward.
Receives the Nobel Prize in Literature for an unmistakable poetic voice that makes individual existence universal.
Directs power-management measures that preserve critical Voyager engineering and science operations as electrical output declines.
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