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Simon Rattle 
 He has formed an educational programme so that young people in Berlin get used to hearing classical music.
Simon Rattle 
 Rattle was originally going to stay with the BPO until 2012, but in April 2008 the players decided they want him to stay until 2020
Simon Rattle 
 In 1979 he conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) and was their Principal Guest Conductor from 1981–1994.
Simon Rattle 
 He also guest-conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Simon Rattle 
 Rattle has conducted lots of different music, sometimes old music with period instruments, sometimes music by living composers.
2020 
 The year was also nominated by Time magazine to be one of "the worst years to be alive" in modern history.
2020 
 January 2 – The government of New South Wales, Australia, declares a state of emergency and the government of Victoria, Australia declares a state of disaster because of large bushfires that had killed up to 500 million animals
2020 
 January 3 — A U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport kills Iranian military general Qasem Soleimani, fueling the Persian Gulf crisis.
2020 
 January 5 – Second Libyan Civil War: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announces that Turkish troops will be deployed to Libya on behalf of the United Nations.
2020 
 Persian Gulf crisis: 56 people are reported killed and over 200 are crushed on by others at the funeral of Qasem Soleimani in the city of Kerman, Iran.
2020 
 Sebastian Kurz becomes the Chancellor of Austria for a second time following a coalition agreement with the environmentalist faction of the Austrian Parliament.
2020 
 January 8 — A plane bound for Ukraine crashes just after taking off from Tehran, Iran, killing all 176 on board.
2020 
 January 9 — ISIL militants assault a Nigerien military base at Chinagodrar, killing at least 89 Nigerien soldiers.
2020 
 January 16 – The impeachment trial of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, starts in the U.S. Senate.
2020 
 January 18 – Yemeni Civil War: 111 Yemeni soldiers and five civilians are killed in a drone and missile attack on a military camp near Ma'rib.
2020 
 January 26 – Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant, his 13 year-old daughter Gianna and seven others are killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
2020 
 January 28 — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce the Trump peace plan.
2020 
 January 30 — The World Health Organization declared the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak a public and national health emergency and concern.
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 February 11 — 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak: The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.
2020 
 February 13 — NASA publishes a detailed study of Arrokoth, the most distant body ever explored by a spacecraft, which New Horizons passed by on its journey through the Kuiper Belt.
2020 
 February 27 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges by 1,190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25,766.64, its largest one-day points decline in history.
2020 
 This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading coronavirus.
2020 
 February 28 – Ambassadors of all 29 NATO Allies meet in the North Atlantic Council expressing solidarity with Turkey after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike by the Syrian government forces during the ongoing Syrian civil war.
2020 
 Adisumarmo International Airport in Solo (Surakarta), Java, Indonesia, is closed after the eruption of Mount Merapi volcano.
2020 
 March 4 – Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and Prime Minister of Peru Javier Pérez de Cuéllar dies at the age of 100.
2020 
 March 5 – The I.C.C. approves the Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry to begin, allowing for the first time for U.S. citizens to be investigated.
2020 
 March 8 – Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.
2020 
 March 9 – Share prices fall sharply around the world due to an oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, caused by the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
2020 
 March 11 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
2020 
 March 12 – Global stock markets crash three days after Black Monday due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area.
2020 
 March 13 – The Government of Nepal announced that Mount Everest would closed off from the public and climbers for the rest of the season over concerns rising from the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 
 March 14 – Spain goes into lockdown after the country is hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic the day before declaring the Alarm Status.
2020 
 March 15 – New Zealand cancels the mass gathering marking the first anniversary of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque massacre due to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
2020 
 March 16 – Oil prices fall into the $20 range, down 10 percent from the previous day amid the coronavirus pandemic, as The Fed cuts interest rates to zero.
2020 
 The Iranian government says that "millions" may die from the coronavirus if people keep ignoring health guidelines and continue traveling.
2020 
 90% of the 18,000 coronavirus cases in the Middle East have taken place in Iran; 988 people have died in the country.
2020 
 European leaders close the EU's external and Schengen borders for at least 30 days, in an effort to slow the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: UEFA postpones the Euro 2020 association football tournament until summer 2021.
2020 
 March 18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 would be cancelled due to 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 passes 10,000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million.
2020 
 March 23 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The International Baccalaureate cancels the May 2020 IB Exams, affecting 200,000 students worldwide.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: 2.6 billion people, a third of the world's population, face some form of movement restrictions as India goes into lockdown for 21 days to curb the spread of COVID-19.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that "the spread of domestically transmitted epidemic has been basically blocked" and the outbreak has been controlled in China.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The United Kingdom goes into lockdown for three weeks to contain COVID-19.
2020 
 March 25 – American FBI official Robert Levinson was declared dead by his family after being missing for nearly thirteen years while on a CIA mission.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Global COVID-19 cases reach 500,000, with nearly 23,000 deaths confirmed.
2020 
 The United States surpasses China and Italy in total number of known COVID-19 cases, with at least 81,321 cases and more than 1,000 deaths.
2020 
 China temporarily suspends entry for foreign nationals with visas or residence permits, effective midnight March 28.
2020 
 Militants in the Philippines, Syria, Yemen, and Libya agree to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres's call for a cease fire; some accept medical aid for themselves and the noncobatants in their communities.
2020 
 Colombia and Venezuela discussed a common response to the globabl pandemic, and the UAE has airlifted aid to Iran.
2020 
 2020 Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war: The price of Brent Crude falls 9% to $23 per barrel, the lowest level since November 2002.
2020 
 2020 Summer Olympics: The International Olympic Committee announced of rescheduled Olympics will be July 23 to August 8, 2021.
2020 
 Former Premier of the Republic of China General Hau Pei-tsun dies of multiple organ failure, aged 100.
2020 
 April 3 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong announced a much stricter set of rules called "Circuit Breaker", starting 7 April until at least 4 May.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The first case of COVID-19 in a zoo animal is reported; a four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York.
2020 
 Mahmoud Jibril, interim Libyan Prime Minister who oversaw the 2011 civil war and the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, dies of COVID-19 at aged 67.
2020 
 April 7 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Japan declares a state of emergency in response to COVID-19, and passes a stimulus package worth 108 trillion yen ($990 billion), equal to 20% of the country's GDP.
2020 
 April 8 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: China ends the lockdown in Wuhan, with people allowed to leave the city for the first time in 76 days.
2020 
 April 10 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100,000 globally, a ten-fold increase from March 20.
2020 
 April 12–13 – At least thirty people are killed in an Easter Sunday tornado outbreak in the Southeastern United States.
2020 
 April 13 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain partially stops some lockdown rules, allowing around 300,000 non-essential workers, such as construction and manufacturing industries to return to their jobs.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Denmark partially lift some of its lockdown rules, allowing children up to age 11 returned to school.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: China fixes the coronavirus death toll upward in Wuhan, where the virus originated, adding 1,290 more fatalities to bring the country's reported deaths from COVID-19 to 4,632.
2020 
 April 18–April 19 – At least 23 people are killed at random at several places in Nova Scotia, Canada.
2020 
 April 20 – Oil prices reach a record low, falling into negative values, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the Russia–Saudi Arabia oil price war.
2020 
 April 24 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Ecuador revises its total confirmed cases to 22,719, doubled from previous day, caused by increased test capacity and presentation of delayed results.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain further partially eases its lockdown rules, allowing children up to 14 to go outside their home for at most one hour.
2020 
 April 27 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 3 million worldwide, while the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States passes 1 million.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorizes emergency remdesivir use to treat the sickest COVID-19 patients.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The total number of recovered COVID-19 patient reached 1 million worldwide, according data from Johns Hopkins University.
2020 
 May 2 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: Spain further eases the nationwide lockdown, allowing adults to go outside their homes from 6 to 10am and 8 to 11pm.
2020 
 Italians can now exercise outside of their home, visit relatives at the same regions, be part of a funeral with a 15 attendees minimum, and visit bike and scooter shops.
2020 
 May 5 – 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: The UK death toll from COVID-19 becomes the highest in Europe at 32,313 after exceeding the death toll of 29,029 in Italy.
2020 
 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic: New evidence indicates that an Algerian-born French fishmonger who had not traveled to China and did not have contact with any Chinese nationals was treated for pneumonia from an unknown source, now identified as COVID-19, on December 27, 2019.
2020 
 Astronomers announce the discovery of the first black hole located in a star system visible to the naked eye.
2020 
 COVID-19 pandemic: Wuhan, the original epicentre of the panndemic, reports its first coronavirus cases in more than a month.
2020 
 A 89-year-old man was confirmed positive, but his wife and several member of the community were recorded as asymptomatic cases.
2020 
 Gunmen storm a maternity hospital and kill 24 people, including two newborn babies in a majority-Shia neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan.
2020 
 The UN warns of a global mental health crisis caused by isolation, fear, uncertainty and economic turmoil.
2020 
 May 16 – Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman responsible for supporting the Rwandan genocide, is arrested in Asnières-sur-Seine, France after 26 years as a fugitive.
2020 
 May 21 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 5 million worldwide, with 106,000 new cases recorded over the past 24 hours, the highest single-day figure so far.
2020 
 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Karachi, killing 97 people, leaving two survivors from the plane and eight injuries on the ground.
2020 
 COVID-19 pandemic: Brazil overtakes Russia to become the country with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases, with over 330,000 reported.
2020 
 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Costa Rica, becoming the first Central American country to do so.
2020 
 Massive riots and protests break out in the United States following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2020 
 U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that Hong Kong is "no longer autonomous", as China backs a new security law that would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority in the territory.
2020 
 COVID-19 pandemic: The U.S. death toll passes 100,000 – more Americans then were killed in the Vietnam and Korean wars combined, and approaching that of the First World War, when 116,000 Americans died in combat.
2020 
 Abderrahmane Youssoufi, who was Prime Minister of Morocco for four years, dies of lung cancer at aged 96.
2020 
 May 30 – The first crewed flight of the Dragon 2 (initially scheduled for May 27 but delayed due to weather) is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first manned spacecraft to take off from U.S. soil since 2011.
2020 
 COVID-19 pandemic: The annual Tiananmen Square memorial in Hong Kong is banned for the first time since 1990 because of health concerns due to COVID-19.
2020 
 Kivu Ebola epidemic: The World Health Organization reports six new cases of Ebola, and UNICEF reports five deaths, in a renewed outbreak of the disease the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2020 
 Killing of George Floyd: After a week of rioting, U.S. President Donald Trump officially labels Antifa as a terrorist organisation.
2020 
 June 2 – A US$5 billion lawsuit is filed against Alphabet Inc. and Google, saying that the company violates users' right to privacy by tracking them in Chrome's private browsing Incognito mode.
2020 
 Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the United Kingdom will change immigration laws to offer a pathway to UK citizenship for all Hong Kong citizens.
2020 
 SpaceX successfully launches and deploys 60 satellites into a low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
2020 
 Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked near Siberia within the Arctic Circle on May 26, 2020.
2020 
 June 4 – The interim government of Libya says they are in full control of the capital, Tripoli, after army forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar retreat from the territory after months of intense fighting in the city.
2020 
 President of Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza, who ruled the country for fifteen years, dies of a heart attack while in office, aged 55.
2020 
 June 9 – COVID-19 pandemic: A Harvard University study suggests that COVID-19 may have been spreading in China as early as August 2019, based on hospital car park usage and web search trends.
2020 
 June 15 – At least 20 Indian soldiers and over 40 Chinese forces are killed or injured in skirmishes, the largest escalation along the Sino-Indian border in five decades.
2020 
 North Korea destroys the Inter-Korean Liaison Office with South Korea in Kaesong, created in 2018 to improve relations.
2020 
 June 18 – Kenya, Mexico, India, Ireland and Norway are elected as non-permanent members to the United Nations Security Council for the 2021 session.
2020 
 June 20 – Three people are killed and three more are injured during a terrorist knife attack at Forbury Gardens in Reading, Berkshire.
2020 
 Lazarus Chakwera is elected President of Malawi in a rerun election, defeating incumbent Peter Mutharika.
2020 
 June 27 – Micheál Martin succeeded Leo Varadkar as Taoiseach of Ireland in a three-party coalition government.
2020 
 The U.S. continues to have the highest number of any country as it reaches 2.5 million, a quarter of all cases globally.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 At least 180 bodies are found in mass graves in Burkina Faso, where soldiers are fighting jihadists.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 In Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is re-elected with a super majority and 61.24% of the vote.
2020 
 2020 Polish presidential election: Conservative incumbent President Andrzej Duda narrowly wins re-election against socially liberal challenger Rafał Trzaskowski.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 July 15 – The Twitter accounts of well known political figures, CEOs, and celebrities are hacked to promote a bitcoin scam.
2020 
 July 19 – Flooding of the Brahmaputra River kills 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal.
2020 
 July 21 – European leaders agree to create a €750 billion ($858 billion) recovery fund to rebuild EU economies impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 Hurricane Hanna makes 2 landfalls in South Texas with 90 mph winds (145 km/h) mainly in Kennedy County, Texas.
2020 
 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.
2020 
 July 30 –  Successful launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.
2020 
 August 3 – Former King of Spain Juan Carlos I goes into voluntary exile following a financial scandal.
2020 
 August 4 – Multiple explosions caused by unsafely stored ammonium nitrate kill over 220 people, injure thousands, and severely damage the port of Beirut, Lebanon.
2020 
 U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar travels to Taiwan, the highest U.S. official visit to the country in 40 years.
2020 
 August 7 – Air India Express Flight 1344 crashes after overrunning the runway at Calicut International Airport in Kerala, India killing 19 of the 191 persons on board.
2020 
 August 9 – President Alexander Lukashenko is controversially re-elected, with many saying the election system was rigged and unfair.
2020 
 Opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya declared victory, however fled to Lithuania due to fears of being arrested.
2020 
 In the aftermath of massive explosions in Beirut, Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced his resignation along with his government.
2020 
 August 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia has approved the world's first COVID-19 vaccine.
2020 
 It is reported that Britain's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 20.4% in the second quarter of 2020, the biggest quarterly decline since records began in 1955, and the worst economic figure of any G7 nation.
2020 
 A train derailment kills three people near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland caused by heavy rain triggering a landslide.
2020 
 August 13 – Israel and the UAE controversially agree to fix their national relations, marking the third Israeli–Palestinian peace deal.
2020 
 August 18 – A mutiny in a military base by soldiers of the Malian Armed Forces develops into a coup d'état.
2020 
 President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, among other senior governmental and military officers, are arrested.
2020 
 August 19 – The Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicts in absentia Salim Ayyash, a member of Hezbollah for the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
2020 
 August 25 – Africa is declared free of wild polio, the second virus to be eradicated from the continent since smallpox 40 years previously.
2020 
 August 26 – Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos becomes the first person in history to have a net worth of $200 billion, according to Forbes.
2020 
 August 30 – COVID-19 pandemic: The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 25 million worldwide.
2020 
 Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced a signed agreement to transition the country into a secular state.
2020 
 The skeletons of 200 mammoths and 30 other animals are unearthed at a construction site for the Mexico City Santa Lucía Airport.
2020 
 Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope at 93 years, four months, and 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
2020 
 The La Línea highway tunnel, the longest road tunnel in South America at a length of 8.65 kilometres (5.37 mi), is opened in Colombia after 14 years of construction and several delays.
2020 
 The two countries will also move their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem, becoming the third and fourth countries to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
2020 
 September 14 – The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.
2020 
 September 15 – Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain sign agreements to formally normalise diplomatic relations.
2020 
 September 16 – Yoshihide Suga is elected to replace Shinzo Abe as the next Prime Minister of Japan following the LDP leadership election.
2020 
 September 17 – France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issue a joint note verbale to the United Nations rejecting China's claims to the South China Sea.
2020 
 Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies of pancreatic cancer, aged 87.
2020 
 Former Canadian Prime Minister John Turner who supported free trade between Canada and the United States during his two and a half month tenure as prime minister, dies at 90.
2020 
 September 19 – A 1634 edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen, the last play by English playwright William Shakespeare, is discovered in Salamanca, Spain.
2020 
 September 20 – A collection of 2,657 documents are released describing over 200,000 suspicious transactions valued at over  trillion that occurred from 1999 to 2017 across multiple global financial institutions.
2020 
 September 21 – Microsoft agrees to buy video game holding company ZeniMax Media, including Bethesda Softworks and their following subsidiaries for US$7.5 billion, in what is the biggest and most expensive takeover in the history of the video game business.
2020 
 September 27 – Deadly clashes erupt in Nagorno-Karabakh between armed forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan forces.
2020 
 October 1 – The EU launches legal action against the UK, accusing it of breaking international law by overriding sections of the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
2020 
 October 5 – Massive protests breakout in Kyrgyzstan following accusations that the 2020 parliamentary election was "unfair".
2020 
 October 10 – Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to stop military action for a short time in the ongoing Nagorono-Karabakh conflict.
2020 
 The Government of Thailand declared a "severe" state of emergency with many arrests in response to the intense protesting.
2020 
 Following the intense protests in Kyrgyzstan, President Sooronbay Jeenbekov announces his resignation.