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This article covers daily news and events in April 2020.
Daily events
Wednesday April 1, 2020
- United States Census 2020 , the 24th census in the United States
- Mediterranean : Operation Irini , an EU military mission to enforce UN sanctions against Libya and the successor to Operation Sophia , begins.
- The German department store group Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof announced that protective shield proceedings had been applied for and approved.
Thursday April 2, 2020
- The number of known COVID-19 cases exceeds one million.
Friday 3rd April 2020
Saturday 4th April 2020
- Romans-sur-Isère / France : Two people are killed and five are injured in a knife attack.
Sunday 5th April 2020
Monday April 6, 2020
Tuesday April 7th 2020
Wednesday April 8, 2020
- Massa-Carrara / Italy : On Strada statale 330 (formerly known as Strada provinciale 70) a road bridge collapsed east of Albiano Magra .
Thursday April 9, 2020
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft takes off for the ISS with space travelers Anatoli Iwanischin , Iwan Wagner and Chris Cassidy .
Friday April 10, 2020
Saturday April 11, 2020
Sunday April 12th 2020
Monday April 13, 2020
- Warsaw / Poland : The parent company of the Polish airline LOT , Polska Grupa Lotnicza, has announced that it will waive the agreed purchase of the German vacation airline Condor .
Tuesday April 14, 2020
- Europe : Some European countries such as Denmark , Austria or the Czech Republic have started to relax their measures against the pandemic , while in France the curfew has been extended until May 11, 2020.
Wednesday April 15, 2020
- Seoul / South Korea : In the parliamentary elections , the ruling Deobureo-minju party won a landslide victory with the allied Deobureo-shimin party .
- Washington, DC / United States : US President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of US payments to the World Health Organization .
Thursday April 16, 2020
- Werdohl and Siegen / Germany : With the arrest of five Islamist Tajiks , the German constitutional protection agency was able to prevent terrorist attacks on US troops and on the Christian You-Tuber and ex-Muslim Amir Arabpour .
Friday 17th April 2020
- The number of known COVID-19 cases exceeds two million.
Saturday April 18, 2020
- Canada : At least 23 people are killed and five buildings are set on fire in a rampage in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia .
Sunday April 19, 2020
Monday April 20, 2020
- Herkenbosch / Netherlands : Due to the cross-border forest fire in the Dutch national park De Meinweg, the village of Herkenbosch has to be evacuated.
Tuesday April 21, 2020
- Langen / Germany : The Paul Ehrlich Institute has approved the first tests in Germany for a vaccine against COVID-19 .
- Hamburg / Germany : The City of Hamburg is demanding from the Warburg Bank 160 million euros for capital gains tax repayments wrongly received in the context of the cum / ex transactions , citing a ruling by the Bonn Regional Court on March 19. 2020.
Wednesday April 22, 2020
- Tehran / Iran : The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has announced the launch of a military satellite with the previously unknown Ghased missile type .
Thursday April 23, 2020
- Berlin / Germany : According to the German Nature Conservation Union ( NABU ), the bacterium Suttonella ornithocola is the cause of the massive deaths of blue tits .
- Koblenz / Germany : At the Court of Appeal which begins world's first criminal case against members of the Assad -Regimes for crimes against humanity.
Friday April 24th 2020
- Berlin / Germany : At the award ceremony of the German Film Prize the drama system Sprenger of Nora Fingscheidt named best movie and seven other categories. Originally planned as a prize gala in the Palais am Funkturm with a large audience, as in previous years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the event had to be conceived as a live TV show in the first with connected guests.
Saturday April 25, 2020
Sunday April 26, 2020
Monday April 27, 2020
- Germany : In all federal states there is now a prescribed mask requirement when using public transport, in all states except Berlin also when shopping in stationary retail.
- The Petersberg Climate Dialogue , which has so far been held in Berlin, will take place as an online video conference with a speech by Angela Merkel on climate goals and their implementation in times of the coronavirus pandemic on the second day - Europe should become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, Merkel said.
Tuesday April 28, 2020
- Paris / France : Colombia becomes the 37th member state of the OECD .
- Berlin / Germany : New versions of the road traffic regulations (StVO amendment) and the catalog of fines regulation come into force.
Wednesday April 29, 2020
- Berlin / Germany : Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government is extending its worldwide travel warning for unnecessary tourist trips until June 14, 2020.
Thursday April 30, 2020
- Berlin / Germany : The government of Germany bans the political arm of Hezbollah . Police raids take place in several mosques and club houses in Berlin, Bremen, Münster-Hiltrup and Dortmund.
See also
- Nekrolog April 2020 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
- Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April
Web links
Commons : April 2020 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The number of infected people worldwide rises to over a million, more than 50,000 dead - the latest developments on the corona virus worldwide. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Retrieved on April 2, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/messerangriff-frankreich-101.html
- ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2020/04/04/une-attaque-au-couteau-fait-deux-morts-a-romans-sur-isere-dans-la-drome_6035574_3224.html
- ↑ Zeit.de: Airline Lot does not take over Condor , accessed on April 17, 2020
- ↑ Tagesspiegel.de: Trump stops payments to the World Health Organization , accessed on April 17, 2020
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger: IS terrorist cell blown up: This is how residents experienced the anti-terrorist operation , accessed on April 17, 2020
- ↑ Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report - 88. (PDF; 802 kB) In: World Health Organization . April 17, 2020, accessed on April 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
- ↑ The presentation of the German Film Prize takes place with a new concept! (PDF) German Film Academy , April 8, 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Berlin Senate now wants to expand the mask requirement to retail . Tagesspiegel, April 27, 2020.
- ↑ Merkel for a climate-friendly restart , tagesschau.de on the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, April 28, 2020.
- ↑ Colombia's path towards OECD accession. OECD , April 28, 2020, accessed May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/neue-verkehrsrechte-101.html
- ↑ Cabinet extends worldwide travel warning. Federal Government, April 29, 2020, accessed on April 29, 2020 .