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This article covers daily news and events in December 2020 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .
Daily events
Tuesday 1st December 2020
- Arecibo / Puerto Rico : The instrument platform of the Arecibo observatory crashed.
- Trier / Germany : A rampage in a Trier pedestrian zone resulted in several deaths.
- Moon : The Chinese space probe Chang'e 5 has landed on the lunar surface.
Wednesday 2nd December 2020
- Moon : The moon rock samples from the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 5 were hermetically sealed in the transport container for the return flight to Earth.
Thursday 3rd December 2020
- ESA / DPAC : Publication of the Gaia EDR3 star catalog of the Gaia mission
Friday 4th December 2020
- Magdeburg / Germany : Holger Stahlknecht , Minister of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt , is dismissed by Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff . The reason for this are statements in an interview that was not agreed on about the coalition dispute over the increase in the radio license fee . He then announced his resignation as state chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt .
Saturday 5th December 2020
Sunday 6th December 2020
- Bucharest / Romania : parliamentary elections
- Caracas / Venezuela : general election
- Karlsruhe / Germany : Re-election of Frank Mentrup as Lord Mayor.
Monday 7th December 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Wednesday December 9, 2020
Thursday 10th December 2020
- Switzerland / Italy : As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , train connections between Switzerland and Italy will be suspended until further notice.
Friday 11th December 2020
- Kankara / Nigeria : The state high school of the Local Government Area in the northern state of Katsina is attacked at night by an armed gang on motorbikes; several hundred schoolboys at the boarding school are kidnapped or flee. The perpetrators are discovered the next day and engage in a shootout with the police. The Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram is said to have confessed to the act.
- Vilnius / Lithuania : The Šimonytė cabinet begins its work.
Saturday 12th December 2020
- Berlin / Germany : Final virtual award ceremony of the 33rd European Film Prize
- New York City / United States : The Secretary General of the United Nations has called on the heads of state and government of all countries to declare a climate emergency .
Sunday 13th December 2020
Monday 14 December 2020
- Solar eclipse of December 14, 2020 .
- The maximum of the Geminids can be easily observed all night due to the lack of moonlight due to the new moon .
- The Electoral College selects the next US president .
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Wednesday December 16, 2020
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- Bern / Switzerland : With Martha Niquille , a Federal Court President was elected for the first time in Switzerland .
- Inner Mongolia : The Chinese Chang'e 5 space probe landed on Earth with soil samples from the moon.
- Berlin / Germany : The Humboldt Forum opens in Berlin.
Thursday 17th December 2020
- Bonn / Germany : Festival concert on the occasion of the 250th day of Ludwig van Beethoven's baptism in the Bonn Opera House
Friday 18th December 2020
Saturday 19th December 2020
- The SETI Institute announced that BLC1 has been discovered as a candidate for a radio signal that may be from Proxima Centauri, our closest star.
Sunday 20th December 2020
Monday, December 21, 2020
- The Grand Conjunction can be seen in Central Europe at dusk.
- Brussels / Belgium : BNT162b2 is the first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to be approved in the European Union .
Tuesday 22nd December 2020
Wednesday December 23, 2020
- Moscow / Russia : With a change in the law, the Russian parliament decides to criminalize the blocking of the content of Russian state media in social networks.
Thursday December 24th 2020
- Brussels / Belgium : The EU and Great Britain agreed on a trade agreement during the Brexit negotiations.
Friday 25th December 2020
- Tokyo / Japan : When presenting its green growth strategy, the Japanese government announced that it would ban new cars with internal combustion engines from the mid-2030s and only allow the sale of electric cars and vehicles with hybrid or hydrogen drives.
Saturday 26 December 2020
Sunday December 27, 2020
- Washington, DC / United States : US President Trump signs a law that will result in sanctions if China interferes in the succession of the head of the Tibetans , the Dalai Lama .
Monday 28 December 2020
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : As part of a group restructuring, Commerzbank has announced that it has reached an agreement with the works council and the union on massive job cuts.
- Murmansk / Russia : When the fishing trawler Onega sank in the Barents Sea off Novaya Zemlya , 17 fishermen are missing and only two are rescued.
- China : Journalist and blogger Zhang Zhan was sentenced to four years in prison for reporting on the coronavirus in Wuhan.
Tuesday 29 December 2020
- Paris / France : In its annual balance sheet on freedom of the press , the organization Reporters Without Borders puts the number of journalists killed at at least 50.
- Petrinja / Croatia : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 M W shook Croatia, see Earthquake at Petrinja 2020 .
Wednesday December 30th 2020
Thursday December 31, 2020
- United Kingdom , European Union : End of the Brexit transition phase. The United Kingdom is thus also leaving the European internal market and the European Customs Union .
See also
- Nekrolog December 2020 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or days of action in December
Web links
Commons : December 2020 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Saxony-Anhalt: Prime Minister Haseloff dismisses Minister of the Interior Stahlknecht. In: Spiegel Online . December 4, 2020, accessed December 4, 2020 .
- ↑ The dismissed Interior Minister Stahlknecht gives up the CDU chairmanship. In: Augsburger Allgemeine . December 4, 2020, accessed December 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Connections between Switzerland and Italy suspended from December 10th. In: sbb.ch . Retrieved December 8, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/nigeria-entfuehrung-105.html
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55288114
- ↑ https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/krisen/id_89124530/tid_amp/nigeria-boko-haram-bebek-sich-zur-entfuehrung-von-hunderten-kinder.html
- ^ First Part of EFA Feature Film Selection Includes 32 Films. In: European Film Academy . Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Award due to Corona only virtual: No gala for the European Film Prize. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 13, 2020, accessed October 14, 2020 .
- ^ WDR: 250 Years of Beethoven: Anniversary Concert in Bonn. December 18, 2020, accessed December 18, 2020 .
- ↑ A Signal from Proxima Centauri? December 19, 2020, In: seti.org (accessed December 22, 2020)
- ↑ Russia forbids blocking government content. In: Zeit Online . December 23, 2020, accessed December 28, 2020 .
- ↑ SPON: EU and Great Britain agree on trade agreement dated December 24, 2020, accessed on December 24, 2020
- ↑ Japan wants to ban cars with internal combustion engines in 15 years. In: Zeit Online. December 25, 2020, accessed December 28, 2020 .
- ↑ If China interferes in the succession of the Dalai Lama, sanctions will follow. In: Spiegel Online. December 28, 2020, accessed December 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Austerity measures: Commerzbank cuts 2300 jobs. In: Spiegel Online. December 28, 2020, accessed December 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Anna Smolchenko: 17 Fishermen Feared Dead After Trawler Sinks in Arctic Russia. In: The Moscow Times . December 28, 2020, accessed December 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Tagesschau.de: Annual balance sheet "Reporters Without Borders" 50 journalists worldwide killed on December 29, 2020, accessed on December 29, 2020
- ↑ Strong earthquake shakes Croatia. In: orf.at . December 29, 2020, accessed December 29, 2020.