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July 2020 was the seventh month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days. The opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics was postponed from July 24 of that year to July 23, 2021.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2020.

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July 2020

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Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 2019–20 European windstorm season
• 2019–20 locust infestation
• 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
• 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
• 2020 Pacific hurricane season
• 2020 Pacific typhoon season
• 2020 wildfire season
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Bulgarian protests
• George Floyd protests
• Hachalu Hundessa riots
• Hong Kong protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir autonomy status
• Libyan peace process
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Serbian protests
• Thai protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)

Elections and referendums

Recent

• July
  • 19: Syria, Parliament

Upcoming

• August
  • 5: Sri Lanka, Parliament
  • 9: Belarus, President
  • 10: Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives
  • 11–12: Egypt, Senate (1st phase)

Trials

Recently concluded

• Congo DR: Vital Kamerhe
• France: François Fillon
• Iran: Fariba Adelkhah
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malaysia: Najib Razak
• Philippines: Maria Ressa
• Russia: Paul Whelan

Ongoing

• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Cambodia: Kem Sokha
• Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu
• Malta: Murder of Daphne Caruana
• Philippines: Leila de Lima, Marcos vs. Robredo electoral protest
• Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair, Catalan police leadership
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, North Korean Embassy in Madrid raid, 6ix9ine
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
• Japan: Carlos Ghosn
• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Nikolas Cruz, Ghislaine Maxwell
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020 Major League Soccer season
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2019–20 UEFA Champions League
  • 2019–20 UEFA Europa League
  • 2019–20 Serie A
• Women's association football
  • 2019–20 Champions League
  • 2019–20 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2019–20 FA WSL
  • 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2020 MLB season
  • 2020 NPB season
• Softball
• Basketball
  • 2019–20 NBA season
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2019–20 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs
  • 2019–20 KHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 NASCAR Cup Series
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
  • 2019–20 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Other sports seasons
  • 2020 AFL season
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 snooker season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

July 2020

• 31: Alan Parker
• 30: Herman Cain
• 30: Lee Teng-hui
• 29: Joe E. Kernan
• 29: Perrance Shiri
• 28: Gisèle Halimi
• 27: Owen Arthur
• 25: Azimzhan Askarov
• 25: Olivia de Havilland
• 25: Francisco Frutos
• 25: Peter Green
• 25: Maurice Petty
• 25: John Saxon
• 24: Benjamin Mkapa
• 24: Regis Philbin
• 23: Stuart Wheeler
• 22: Charles Evers
• 21: Annie Ross
• 19: Emitt Rhodes
• 19: Nikolai Tanayev
• 18: Juan Marsé
• 18: Henrique Soares da Costa
• 17: Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya
• 17: John Lewis
• 15: Toke Talagi
• 14: Daniel Lewis Lee
• 13: Grant Imahara
• 13: Zindzi Mandela
• 12: Mohamed Hashi
• 12: Hassan Abshir Farah
• 12: Kelly Preston
• 11: Jack Charlton
• 11: Edward Kmiec
• 10: Vikas Dubey
• 10: Paik Sun-yup
• 9: Park Won-soon
• 8: Amadou Gon Coulibaly
• 8: Munah E. Pelham-Youngblood
• 8: Naya Rivera
• 7: Chynybaĭ Tursunbekov
• 6: Mary Kay Letourneau
• 6: Charlie Daniels
• 6: Ennio Morricone
• 5: Nick Cordero
• 5: Bettina Gilois
• 3: Earl Cameron
• 3: Saroj Khan
• 2: Ángela Jeria

Ongoing conflicts

Africa

• Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
  • Maghreb insurgency
• Cameroon
  • Anglophone Crisis
• Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
  • Boko Haram insurgency
• Central African Republic
  • Civil War
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • Allied Democratic Forces insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
• Libya
  • Second Civil War
  • American intervention in Libya
  • Turkish intervention in Libya
• Mali
  • Mali War
• Mozambique
  • Insurgency in Cabo Delgado
• Nigeria
  • Communal conflicts in Nigeria
• Somalia
  • Civil war
• South Sudan
  • Ethnic violence (South Sudanese Civil War)
• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict
  • Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Americas

• Colombia
  • Colombian conflict
• Mexico
  • Mexican War on Drugs
• Peru
  • Internal conflict in Peru

Asia-Pacific

• Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan War
• China
  • Xinjiang conflict
• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India
• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict
    • Border skirmishes
• Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah
• Indonesia
  • Papua conflict
• Myanmar
  • Internal conflict in Myanmar
    • Kachin conflict
    • Karen conflict
    • Rohingya conflict
• Pakistan
  • Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Insurgency in Balochistan
• Philippines
  • Communist rebellion in the Philippines
  • Philippine Drug War
• Thailand
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• Armenia and Azerbaijan
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict
• Russia
  • Chechen–Russian conflict
• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russo-Ukrainian War

Middle East

• Egypt
  • Sinai terror attacks
• Iran and the Persian Gulf
  • Iran–Israel proxy conflict
  • Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
• Iraq
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq
• Iraq and Syria (map)
  • International military intervention against ISIL
• Israel and Gaza
• Israel and Syria
  • Israeli-Syrian border conflict
• Syria
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
• Turkey
  • Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
  • Saudi Arabian–Yemeni border conflict

Further information: List of ongoing armed conflicts

2020 events and developments by topic

Arts

• Animation (Anime)
• Architecture
• Comics
• Film (Horror, Science fiction)
• Literature (Poetry)
• Music (Classical, Country, Hip hop, Jazz, Latin, Metal, Rock, UK, US, Korea)
• Radio
• Television (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, Scotland, US)
• Video games

Politics and government

• Elections
• International leaders
• Sovereign states
• Sovereign state leaders
• Territorial governors

Science and technology

• Archaeology
• Biotechnology
• Computing
• Palaeontology
• Quantum computing and communication
• Senescence research
• Space/Astronomy
• Spaceflight
• Sustainable energy research

Environment and environmental sciences

• Climate change
• Weather (Heat waves
• Tornadoes
• Wildfires)

Transportation

• Aviation
• Rail transport
• Transportation technology

Establishments and disestablishments categories

• Establishments
• Disestablishments

Works and introductions categories

• Works
• Introductions
• Works entering the public domain