2020
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2020 (MMXX) will be a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the year 5780-5781 in the Hebrew Calendar. It is expected to be pronounced in two-digit intervals, "twenty–twenty" (20/20) as per years prior to and including 1999, and opposed to the 21st century year pronunciation from 2000 - 2009. Template:Year ED
Scheduled Bicentennial
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be celebrating the Bicentennial of the First Vision of Joseph Smith.
Scheduled Quadricentennial
November will mark 400 years since the landing of the Pilgrims and the settling of Massachusetts by the English.
Predicted events
- January 2 - Centennial of the birth of Isaac Asimov.
November
Unknown dates
- British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020.
- According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by this year along with simultaneous landings on Mars.
- Predicted proclamation of Malaysia as a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohamad.
- India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed, powerful, and influential nation-state is expected to be fulfilled.
- XXXII summer Olympic Games are going to be held (Cities that are already bidding for the summer games include New York, Paris, Warsaw, Melbourne and Berlin.)
- Stipulated completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in China
- Scheduled completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- November 3 - scheduled presidential and congressional elections in the United States (117th Congress will be elected).
- All nuclear power plants in Germany are scheduled to be shut down by this year.
- Schapelle Corby is to be released from prison for drug trafficking in Indonesia.
- The events of the documentary Supervolcano take place in Summer.
- The following former Major League Baseball players will become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, having fallen off the ballot of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), twenty years having past from their retirement dates, and based upon voting by the Veterans Committee: Willie McGee, Jim Abbott, Darryl Strawberry, Jack McDowell, Chili Davis, Tom Candiotti, Jeff Montgomery, Tony Phillips, Terry Steinbach, Mark Langston, and Otis Nixon.
- The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.
- New York City Subway Second Avenue Line construction scheduled for completion.
Fictional events
- The events of Perfect Dark Zero take place in this year.
- The events of Command & Conquer: Generals start in this year.
- Super Baseball 2020 takes place in this year.
- The events of the comic book 2020 Visions take place in this year.
- The events of the film V for Vendetta take place sometime around this year.
- The events of the TV series Terrahawks begin this year.
- The story of Monster Force is most likely set in this year.
- The Planet X mission from TimeSplitters takes place in this year.
- The story of Sealab 2020, with a permanent manned underwater research center constructed in the Emperor Seamounts, takes place in this year.