2020

The following page includes events that have happened concerning the United States in **2020**:

## Events

### January

* January 3rd: Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is killed in a US drone strike. This would later cause fears of a "World War III."
* January 16th: The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins in the senate.
* January 21st: The first case of COVID-19 in the United States is reported.
* January 26th: A helicopter crashes into a mountain in Calabasas, California, killing 9, including former basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Bryant.
* January 29th: President Trump establishes the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

### February

* February 2nd: The Super Bowl LIV occurs, and the Kansas City Chiefs won.
* February 3rd: The 2020 Iowa Caucuses are held, and the democratic caucus results were delayed due to security threats on an app.
* February 5th: President Trump is acquited by the senate.
* February 11th: The 2020 New Hampshire Primaries take place, with it being a tie between Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Senator Bernie Sanders; both democratic candidates, Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and Senator Mike Bennet suspend their presidential campaigns.
* February 12th: Democratic candidate Deval Patrick suspends his presidential campaign.
* February 22nd: The 2020 Nevada Democratic Caucuses takes place, with Bernie Sanders winning. In the Republican Primary, all caucuses are cancelled, resulting President Trump to win the delegates by default.
* February 23rd: Ahmaud Arbery is killed in Gylnn County, Georgia. Nobody involved is arrested until May.
* February 29th:
	+ The Trump Administration and the Taliban sign a peace agreement in Qatar, to mark process in ending the Afghanistan War.
	+ The first death of COVID-19 in the United States is reported in Washington.
	+ The 2020 South Carolina Democratic Primary takes place, with Joe Biden winning; billionaire Tom Steyer suspends his presidential campaign.

### March

* March 1st: Former South Bend, Indiana mayor and democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg suspends his presidential campaign.
* March 2nd:
	+ A tornado outbreak occurs near Nashville, Tennessee, killing 26.
	+ Senator Amy Klobuchar suspends her presidential campaign.
* March 3rd: Super Tuesday takes place, with Joe Biden winning the majority of the Super Tuesday states in the democratic primaries.
* March 4th:
	+ A state of emergency is declared in California, after one person dies from COVID-19.
	+ Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg suspends his presidential campaign.
* March 5th:
	+ The Senate approves an $8.3 billion federal emergency aid package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, President Trump signs the bill the next day.
	+ Senator Elizabeth Warren suspends her presidential campaign.
* March 6th: Florida reports 2 deaths relating to COVID-19, the first confirmed COVID-19 deaths outside of the west coast.
* March 7th: Washington, D.C. announces its first case of COVID-19.
* March 9th: The US begins withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.

### April

* April 3rd: The CDC begins recommending people to wear cloth or fabric face coverings while in public.
* April 8th:
	+ Senator Bernie Sanders suspends his presidential campaign, resulting Joe Biden to become the presumptive democratic nominee.
	+ A riot occurs in a correctional complex in Monroe, Washington, after 6 inmates test positive for COVID-19.
* April 11th:
	+ The United States has the greatest amount of COVID-19 reported deaths, surpassing Italy.
	+ All 50 states, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico are all declared as "federal diasters.".
* April 12th: A tornado outbreak occurs in the south, leaving 30 dead, and 1.3 million without electricity.
* April 27th: The number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. surpass 1 million.

### May

* May 2nd: The 2020 Kansas Democratic Primary takes place, and Joe Biden wins in a mail-in primary.
* May 3rd: The Asian great hornets arrive in the United States, threatening honey bees.
* May 11th: The number of deaths relating to COVID-19 in the U.S. surpass 80,000.
* May 14th: Over 36 million Americans file for unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* May 15th:
	+ A 6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Nevada.
	+ The House passes a $3 trillion coronavirus aid package.
* May 16th:
	+ Severe storms hit the south, flooding the Greater Houston area.
	+ An oil factory explodes in Downtown Los Angeles, injuring 11, and setting multiple buildings on fire.
	+ Tropical Storm Arthur forms off the Florida coastline, the first storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.
* May 19th:
	+ The US surpasses 1,500,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and 90,000 deaths.
	+ 2 dams in Michigan fail, resulting in people evacuating and a state of emergency being declared.
* May 26th:
	+ George Floyd, an African-American man, is arrested and is later killed by a cop in Minneaspolis, Minnesota. 4 cops (including the cop that killed him) would later be fired after being involved in his death. This would later cause outrage on social media, and protests/riots would erupt in Minneaspolis, Los Angeles, Memphis, and other cities nationwide.
	+ For the first time ever, Twitter labels a tweet from President Trump as misleading, and includes a fact check link below it.
* May 27th:
	+ Tropical Storm Bertha forms off Charleston, South Carolina, and makes landfall there.
	+ The US surpasses 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.
* May 29th: One of the policemen who were involved in George Floyd’s death, is arrested, and is charged with third degree murder.
* May 30th: The first manned flight of Dragon 2 launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first ever manned spacecraft to take off since 2011.

### June

* June 3rd: All 4 police officers involved in George Floyd's death have been charged, and the officer that killed him has been charged with second degree murder.
* June 4th: Fencing for the White House is planned to expand, restricting public access to The Ellipse and President's Park.
* June 5th: Washington, D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser changes the name of a portion of 16th Street NW as "Black Lives Matter Plaza."
* June 8th: Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy says he is open to renaming 10 bases that are named after Confederate leaders.
* June 10th: The number of COVID-19 confirmed cases in the United States surpass 2 million.
* June 12th:
	+ The Minneapolis City Council votes on whether to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a community safety department, however they are prevented from doing such action by the city charter.
	+ Protesters in Nashville, Tennessee declare the Nashville Autonomous Zone.
	+ Protests erupt in Atlanta, Georgia, after an African-American man, Rayshard Brooks, is killed by a police officer in the parking lot of a Wendy's.
* June 13th: Erika Shields, The Police Chief of Atlanta, resigns during protests following the killing of Rayshard Brooks.
* June 14th: COVID-19 cases surge in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and South Carolina, mostly due to increased testing, and gatherings over the Memorial Day weekend.
* June 15th:
	+ The Supreme Court edicts that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it illegal for employers to discriminate those because of a person's sex, will now cover sexual orientation.
	+ The FDA withdraws the consent of emergency use for hydroxychloroquine to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients, claiming that the drug has too many risks.
* June 16th: The Trump administration requests that a federal judge should block publication of John Bolton's new book, *The Room Where It Happened*, a chronicle of the former national security adviser's time while serving for the Trump administration.
* June 20th: President Trump resumes campaign rallies, and holds one in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Attendance was much lower than expected.
* June 26th:
	+ President Trump signs an executive order that protects monuments, memorials, and statues from vandalism.
	+ Many sources report that a military intellegience unit belonging to Russia set bounties on US soldiers for the Taliban. It was also reported that President Trump was briefed about it but did not respond to it in any way. Trump later denied that he was ever briefed.
* June 30th: Mississippi governor Tate Reeves signs a bill that retires the Mississippi state flag, the last flag to have the Confederate Battle Flag in its design.

### July

* July 2nd: Florida reports 10,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, more than any European country has ever had.
* July 4th:
	+ Rapper Kanye West announces that he is running for president.
	+ The 2020 Salute to America event is held in Washington, D.C.
* July 7th: Primary elections in New Jersey are held.
* July 8th: Florida becomes an epicenter of COVID-19, with over 220,500 confirmed cases.
* July 12th: 18 sailors are injured by an explosion on the *USS Bonhomme Richard* in San Diego, California.
* July 14th:
	+ White supremacist and murderer Daniel Lewis Lee is executed in Terre Haute, Indiana, becoming the first federal execution since 2003.
	+ The Trump administration demands hospitals to elude the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all COVID-19 patient information to a central database in Washington.
	+ Pharmaceutical company Moderna announces that its vaccine for COVID-19 will now enter the final phase of testing, with approximately 30,000 human volunteers.
* July 15th:
	+ President Trump demotes his campaign manager Brad Parscale and chooses Bill Stepien to replace him.
	+ Georgia Governor Brian Kemp invalidates all of the state’s local face mask mandates.
* July 22nd:
	+ A 7.8-magnitude earthquake is reported off the coast of Alaska.
	+ President Trump announces a "surge" of federal officers into Democratic-run cities, following an earlier crackdown on rioters in Oregon.
* July 24th: The Trump administration announces that it is revoking the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing provision of the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act.
* July 25th: Hurricane Hanna makes 2 landfalls in South Texas with 90 mph winds (145 km/h).
* July 29th: Oregon Governor Kate Brown and Vice President Mike Pence agree to a phased withdrawal of deployed federal troops from Portland.
* July 30th:
	+ President Trump suggests delaying the 2020 presidential election, as he makes claims that mail-in voting would cause fraud and inaccurate results.
	+ Federal economic figures show a 32.9% annualized rate of GDP loss between April and June, the sharpest decline since records began in 1945.
* July 31st: The NBA resumes its season after suspension due to COVID-19.

### August

* August 3rd: Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in North Carolina.
* August 17th: The 2020 Democratic convention took place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* August 24th: The 2020 Republican convention took place in Charlotte, North Carolina for the first day, and took place in Washington, D.C. for the rest.

### November

* November 3rd: The Election takes place. Democrats keep control of the House of Representatives. The presidential election is still counting ballots. The senate majority hasn't been called yet.
* November 7th: Joe Biden defeats incumbent President Donald Trump, making Biden the president-elect and Trump a one term president. This also marks the first election where an incumbent has lost, since 1992.

### December

* December 1st:
	+ A group of bipartisan lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate unveil a $908 billion COVID-19 relief package.
	+ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledges Biden as the winner of the presidential election.
	+ Florida exceeds one million cases, the third state to have over a million cases, after Texas and California.
* December 2nd: Mark Kelly is sworn in as a Senator after defeating Senator McSally in a special election. This is the first time in more than 6 decades that Arizona has 2 democratic senators serving concurrently.
* December 3rd:
* December 25th: An RV explodes in Nashville, Tennessee, leaving 3 injured.