Hisdates•Com
HomePage 2: Historical Events In 2020
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Feb 09 92nd Academy Awards: "Parasite" 1st non English film to win Best Picture, Best Director Bong Joon-ho, Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix , Best Actress Renée Zellweger 
Feb 11 [COVID-19 pandemic] The World Health Organization (WHO) names the disease COVID-19.
Feb 13 In this year, 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
Feb 17 Amazon boss Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to help fight climate change
Feb 17 Laureus World Sports Awards, Berlin, Germany: Sportsman: Lewis Hamilton and Lionel Messi ; Sportswoman: Simone Biles ; Team: South Africa National Rugby Union team.
Feb 20 New Bank of England £20 note with painter JMW Turner released, replacing earlier one with economist Adam Smith
Feb 22 Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo marks his 1000th senior appearance by scoring in Juventus' 2-1 Serie A win over SPAL; 725 career goals in 836 club games and 164 internationals.
Feb 23 China's Supreme Leader Xi Jinping describes the country's coronavirus outbreak as the China's largest health emergency since 1949.
Feb 23 President Moon Jae-in puts South Korea on high alert, empowering the government to lock down cities after 602 cases of Coronavirus reported with six deaths.
Feb 24 Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein are discovered guilty of rape and a criminal sexual act in landmark case that ignited #MeToo movement.
Feb 24 Malaysia's 94-year old Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad steps down only to be reinstated later in the day as interim Prime Minister
Feb 24 The Pakatan Harapan coalition government of Malaysia collapses and is replaced by the Perikatan Nasional coalition. On 1 March 2020, Muhyiddin Yassin is sworn as 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Feb 24 US President Donald Trump begins a 2 day trip to India meeting Indian PM Narendra Modi.
Feb 27 2020 stock market crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges by 1190.95 points, or 4.4%, to close at 25766.64, its largest one-day point decline at the time. This follows several days of large falls, marking the worst week for the index since 2008, triggered by fears of the spreading COVID-19
Feb 27 Dow Jones Index suffers its biggest points fall in history closing down 1190.95 in New York amid concerns about coronavirus Learn More
Feb 28 Syrian Civil War: Ambassadors of all 29 NATO allies meet in the North Atlantic Council to express solidarity with Turkey after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike by pro-Syrian government forces
Feb 29 A conditional peace agreement is signed between the U.S. and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, leading the U.S. to begin gradually withdrawing troops from Afghanistan on March 10.
Feb 29 Luxembourg is recorded as becoming the inaugural country in the world to make all public transport free to use.
Mar 02 American rap group Public Enemy part ways with Flavor Flav after 35 years over playing for free at Bernie Sanders rally.
Mar 02 Amy Klobuchar drops out of the US Democratic presidential race and endorses Joe Biden
Mar 02 Russian President Vladimir Putin proposes constitutional amendment banning gay marriage
Mar 02 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey can not longer enforce 2016 deal with EU to stop migrants entering Europe, warns millions may try.
Mar 04 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces all sport in Italy will be played behind closed doors for at least a month in an effort to contain coronavirus.
Mar 05 The International Criminal Court authorizes the Afghanistan War Crimes inquiry to proceed, reportedly allowing for the inaugural time for U.S. citizens to be investigated.
Mar 05 US senator Elizabeth Warren drops out of the Democratic presidential race.
Mar 08 [COVID-19 pandemic] Italy places 16 million people in quarantine, more than a quarter of its population, in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Mar 09 International share prices fall sharply in response to a Russo-Saudi oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges more than 2000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point.
Mar 09 Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to spike in coronavirus COVID-19 cases with 10040 cases and 630 deaths Learn More.
Mar 10 New York governor Andrew Cuomo deploys the national guard to New Rochelle after one-mile radius zone established as 108 cases of coronavirus COVID-19 detected
Mar 10 Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths.
Mar 11 Coronavirus COVID-19 declared a pandemic by the head of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus , with 121564 cases worldwide and 4373 deaths
Mar 11 Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for a criminal sex act and rape in New York
Mar 11 [COVID-19 pandemic] The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
Mar 12 Global stock markets crash due to continued concerns over COVID-19 and the U.S. travel ban on the Schengen Area. The DJIA goes into free fall, closing at over −2300 points, the worst losses for the index since 1987.
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next Page »
