Portal:Current events/October 2020/Sidebar

Ongoing events

Business

• COVID-19 recession
• FinCEN Files leak

Disasters

• COVID-19 pandemic
• 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
• 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
• 2020 Central Vietnam floods
• Yemeni famine

Politics

• Afghan peace process
• Belarusian protests
• Bulgarian protests
• Chilean protests
• Colombian protests
• George Floyd protests (racial unrest)
• Hong Kong protests
• Indonesia omnibus bill protests
• Iraqi protests
• Kashmir lockdown
• Khabarovsk Krai protests
• Lebanese protests
• Libyan peace process
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
• Nicaraguan protests
• Nigerian protests
• Philippine protests
• Polish protests
• Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
• Sudanese protests
• Thai protests
• Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
• Yellow vests movement

Elections and referendums

Recent

• October
  • 17: New Zealand, House of Representatives, cannabis and euthanasia referendums
  • 18: Bolivia, President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
  • 18: Guinea, President
  • 18: Northern Cyprus, President (2nd)
  • 22–24: Seychelles, President, National Assembly
  • 24–25: Egypt, Parliament (1st−1)
  • 25: Chile, Referendum
  • 25: Lithuania, Seimas (2nd)
  • 28: Tanzania, President, National Assembly
  • 31: Georgia, Parliament
  • 31: Ivory Coast, President

Upcoming

• November
  • 1: Algeria, constitutional referendum
  • 1: Moldova, President (1st)
  • 3: Palau, President, Senate, House of Delegates
  • 3: United States, President, Senate (class 2), House of Representatives
    • American Samoa, Governor
    • Guam, Legislature
    • Puerto Rico, Governor, Legislative Assembly, referendum
  • 5: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, House of Assembly
  • 7–8: Egypt, Parliament (1st−2)
  • 8: Myanmar, Assembly of the Union
  • 10: Jordan, House of Representatives
  • 11: Belize, House of Representatives

Trials

Recently concluded

• Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
• Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai
• Slovakia: Marián Kočner
• Spain: Montano Morales
• Turkey: Remziye Tosun

Ongoing

• Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
• Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
• Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
• Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
• Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
• Malta: Yorgen Fenech
• Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
• South Africa: Jacob Zuma
• Spain: Bárcenas affair
• Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
• United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
• International: The Gambia v. Myanmar

Upcoming

• Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
• Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
• Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
• Spain: Jordi Pujol, 2017 Catalonia attacks
• United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon
• Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai
• Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo

Sport

• Association football
  • 2020–21 Premier League
  • 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
  • 2020 Major League Soccer season
  • UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
  • 2020–21 UEFA Nations League
  • 2020 Copa Libertadores
  • 2020–21 UEFA Champions League group stage
  • 2020–21 UEFA Europa League group stage
• Women's association football
  • 2020–21 Champions League
  • 2020–21 Division 1 Féminine
  • 2020–21 FA WSL
  • 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup
• American football
  • 2020 NFL season
  • 2020 NCAA Division I FBS
• Baseball
  • 2020 MLB season
  • 2020 NPB season
• Basketball
  • 2020 NBA Finals
• Golf
  • 2020 European Tour
  • 2020–21 PGA Tour
• Ice hockey
  • 2020–21 KHL season
• Motorsport
  • 2020 Formula One Championship
  • 2020 NASCAR Cup Series
• Rugby sevens
  • 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
• Rugby union
  • 2020 Six Nations Championship
  • 2019–20 European Rugby Champions Cup
  • 2019–20 Premiership Rugby
  • 2019–20 Pro14
  • 2019–20 Top 14
• Tennis
  • 2020 ATP Tour
  • 2020 WTA Tour
• Other sports seasons
  • 2019–20 international cricket season
  • 2019–20 snooker season
  • 2020–21 curling season

More details – current sports events

Recent deaths

October 2020

• 31: Sean Connery
• 30: Madam Auring
• 30: Nobby Stiles
• 30: Mesut Yılmaz
• 29: Keshubhai Patel
• 28: Bobby Ball
• 28: Cecilia Chiang
• 28: Billy Joe Shaver
• 28: Tracy Smothers
• 27: Don Mazankowski
• 26: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
• 26: Diane di Prima
• 25: Lee Kun-hee
• 25: Robert E. Murray
• 25: Thomas Oppermann
• 24: Azim of Brunei
• 23: Jerry Jeff Walker
• 22: William Blinn
• 22: Shukur Hamidov
• 22: Richard A. Lupoff
• 21: Frank Bough
• 21: Marge Champion
• 21: J. Michael Lane
• 21: Viola Smith
• 20: James Randi
• 19: Spencer Davis
• 19: Tony Lewis
• 19: Enzo Mari
• 18: Alan S. Boyd
• 18: James A. Johnson
• 18: Jose Melo
• 18: Joseph Mar Thoma
• 16: Johnny Bush
• 16: Gordon Haskell
• 15: Bhanu Athaiya
• 15: Ed Benguiat
• 14: Fred Dean
• 14: Rhonda Fleming
• 14: Herbert Kretzmer
• 14: Kuniwo Nakamura
• 13: Edward C. Meyer
• 12: Conchata Ferrell
• 12: Roberta McCain
• 11: Joe Morgan
• 8: Jim Dwyer
• 8: Whitey Ford
• 8: Ali Khalif Galaydh
• 8: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
• 7: Tom Kennedy
• 7: Mario Molina
• 6: Johnny Nash
• 6: Eddie Van Halen
• 5: Margaret Nolan
• 5: Monica Roberts
• 4: Kenzō Takada
• 4: Peregrine Worsthorne

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
  • Second Saudi–Yemeni War

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