page_title: 2020
section_title: July
hierarchical_section_title: 2020 / Events / July
caption_attribution_description: President Donald J. Trump participates in a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda Wednesday, June 24, 2020, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour)
context_page_description: 2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday in the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. It is the first year of the 2020s. It is the 20th year of the 21st century.
  The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic has led to severe global economic and social disruption.
context_section_description: July 1 – Russian voters support a constitutional amendment that would allow Vladimir Putin to seek two further six-year terms when his current term ends in 2024, potentially allowing him to remain in power until 2036.
  July 2 – A landslide in Myanmar results in at least 162 deaths.
  July 3 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 11 million worldwide.
  July 4 – After record breaking rain, a massive flood occurs in the prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima in the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, killing 49 people.
  July 7 – In China, 21 people are killed and 16 were injured in a bus crash in Anshun, Guizhou.
  July 8
  COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 12 million worldwide.
  At least 180 bodies are found in mass graves in Burkina Faso, where soldiers are fighting jihadists. It is suspected that the government forces were involved in mass executions.
  July 10
  The European Central Bank accepts Bulgaria and Croatia into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, a mandatory stage for countries that wish to adopt the euro. This is the currency bloc's first major expansion in half a decade.
  The Turkish government orders the Hagia Sophia to be turned back into a mosque following a supreme court annulment of a 1934 presidential decree that made it a museum.
  In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is re-elected with a super majority and 61.24% of the vote.
  July 12
  2020 Polish presidential election: Conservative incumbent President Andrzej Duda narrowly wins re-election against socially liberal challenger Rafał Trzaskowski.
  At least sixteen people are killed in border clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces.
  July 13 – C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) can be seen by the naked eye and becomes one of the brightest visible to observers in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.
  July 14 – The United States government passes the Hong Kong Autonomy Act.
  July 15 – The Twitter accounts of well known political figures, CEOs, and celebrities are hacked to promote a bitcoin scam.
  July 19 – Flooding of the Brahmaputra River kills 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal.
  July 21 – European leaders agree to create a €750 billion ($858 billion) recovery fund to rebuild EU economies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  July 22 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 15 million worldwide.
  July 25
  COVID-19 pandemic: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held an emergency meeting after a suspected case of COVID-19 detected on North Korean town of Kaesong. Then the city was put on lockdown.
  Hurricane Hanna makes 2 landfalls in South Texas with 90 mph winds (145 km/h) mainly in Kennedy County, Texas.
  July 28 – Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak found guilty on all seven counts of abuse of power, money laundering and criminal breach of trust, becoming the first Prime Minister of Malaysia to be convicted of corruption.
  July 30 –  Successful launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.
caption: In Poland, President Andrzej Duda narrowly wins re-election on July 12
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