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Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec

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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Scheduled events 2 Confirmed but unscheduled events 3 Predicted or expected events 4 2020 in fiction 4.1 Comics 4.2 Computer and video games 4.3 Films 4.4 Television 5 See also

Scheduled events

June

• European Football Championship

July

• July 16 Time capsule of Shelby, Iowa will be opened.

October

• Halloween, on a Full Moon

November

• 3 - Presidential election and 117th Congressional election in the United States

Confirmed but unscheduled events

The following events will happen in 2020 but they haven't been scheduled yet.

• XXXII summer Olympic Games to be held (bidding cities: Milan (Italy), New York City (U.S.), Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland), Melbourne (Australia), and Berlin (Germany))
• Last nuclear power plant in Germany to be shut down
• Schapelle Corby to be released from prison for drug trafficking in Indonesia
• Former U.S. Major League Baseball players to become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Willie McGee, Jim Abbott, Darryl Strawberry, Jack McDowell, Chili Davis, Tom Candiotti, Jeff Montgomery, Tony Phillips, Terry Steinbach, Mark Langston, and Otis Nixon.

Predicted or expected events

The following events are predicted or expected to happen in 2020.

General predicitions

• British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020 [1].
• Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project was published in december 2004 with a long-term view of the future. The NIC is the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the US Government.

Space

• According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by 2020.
• NASA plans to launch a manned mission to the Moon by 2020.
• The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.
• 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).
• NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly beyond Pluto and Charon to the Kuiper Belt Objects.

Military

• Future Force Warrior to be phased into United States armed forces.

Politics

• Predicted proclamation of Malaysia as a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
• India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed, powerful, and influential nation-state is expected to be fulfilled.
• People's Republic of China intention to take back Taiwan under Chinese rule by 2020

Construction

• Completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in the People's Republic of China
• Completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China
• Completion of the construction of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
• Completion of the urban revitalization of downtown Lisbon, Portugal.

2020 in fiction

Comics

• Comics set in 2020:
  • 2020 Visions (1997-1998)

Computer and video games

• Games set in 2020:
  • Perfect Dark Zero (2005)
  • Super Baseball 2020 (1991)
  • TimeSplitters (2000) (the Planet X mission)
  • Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception (2006)

Films

• Films set in 2020:
  • Roujin Z (1991)
  • Mission to Mars (2000)

Television

• Television programs set in 2020:
  • Knights of God (1987)
  • Sealab 2020 (1972)
  • Terrahawks (1983-1984)
  • Supervolcano (2005)

See also

• Joint Vision 2020
• India 2020

Preceded by: 2019

Years 2020

Succeeded by: 2021