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This article covers news and events in January 2020 .

Daily events

Wednesday 1st January 2020

New Year fireworks in Thailand

Beginning of the new year in Berlin

• Augsburg / Germany : Public transport in the city center can now be used free of charge .
• Baghdad / Iraq : After riots, the USA closes its embassy in Iraq.
• Berlin / Germany : A binding debt brake comes into force in the German states .
• Berlin / Germany : Deutsche Bahn long-distance fare cut by 10 percent. After the value added tax (sales tax) for rail travelers has been reduced to 7 percent by the Climate Protection Tax Act , rail travel will be made a little more attractive.
• Bern / Switzerland : Simonetta Sommaruga takes office as Swiss Federal President . Guy Parmelin becomes vice-president .
• Krefeld / Germany : The ape tropical house in the Krefeld zoo burns down completely. At least 30 animals perish, only two chimpanzees survive the accident.
• Vienna / Austria : The New Years Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic will be conducted for the first time by Andris Nelsons .
• Vienna / Austria : Merging of the existing 21 into five social insurance carriers. The nine regional health insurance funds are merged to form the Austrian Health Insurance Fund , the Public Employees Insurance Company (BVA) and the Insurance Company for Railways and Mining (VAEB) to become the Insurance Company for Public Employees, Railways and Mining (BVAEB), the Farmers Social Insurance Institution (SVB) and the Commercial Social Insurance Agency Economy (SVA) to the social insurance institution for the self-employed (SVS).
• Vienna / Austria : Sabine Seidler takes up her post as President of the Austrian University Conference.
• Brussels / Belgium : Croatia takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union .

Thursday 2nd January 2020

• Hamburg / Germany : The Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC) publishes its annual ranking on flight safety . According to this index, Emirates was the safest airline in 2019 with a value of 95.48 (out of 100). The safest German airline was Eurowings in 24th place (90.61).
• London / United Kingdom : The Scot Peter Wright defeats the Dutchman Michael van Gerwen 7: 3 in the final of the PDC World Darts Championship 2020 and wins his first world title .
• Switzerland : In Switzerland, the trout was named Fish of the Year 2020 .
• Oberstdorf / Germany : German Figure Skating Championships (January 2-3)
• Vienna / Austria : Agreement on coalition between ÖVP and Greens

Friday 3rd January 2020

• Baghdad / Iraq : By air raid of the US Army is Iranian General Qassem Soleimani killed. The United States suspects that he was involved in the uprisings outside the US embassy in Baghdad. After the killing of the Iranian general Kassem Soleimani , the Bundeswehr suspends training in Iraq due to the risk of escalation.
• Barcelona / Spain : The Catalan regional president Quim Torra was removed from office and his mandate in the regional parliament of Catalonia by the electoral commission . The reason for this is the conviction of Torras by the higher court in Barcelona for disobedience and a ban imposed with it.

Saturday 4th January 2020

Burned Forest in the Blue Mountains (January 6th)

• Baghdad / Iraq : Rocket and mortar attack of unknown origin on the "Green Quarter", a military base and another district of Baghdad.
• Canberra / Australia : First mandatory deployment of Australian reservists to help put out the ongoing bush fires in Australia in 2019/2020
• Cologne / Germany : After the "Umweltsau" video there are demonstrations for and against the WDR and public broadcasting fees.
• Remscheid / Germany : Fire in a pet shop, several animals die
• Tripoli / Libya : Air raid on military school, 28 people die
• Vienna / Austria : Cyber ​​attack on Austrian Foreign Ministry

Sunday 5th January 2020

• Ahvas / Iran : Beginning of the funeral services for General Kassem Soleimani who were killed
• Baghdad / Iraq : The Iraqi parliament votes in a special session for the deportation of US troops.
• Beverly Hills / United States : The Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel is hosting the 77th Golden Globes ceremony, hosted for the fifth time by Ricky Gervais . Tom Hanks is with the Cecil B. DeMille Award honored for his life's work, Ellen DeGeneres receives the Carol Burnett Award .
• Caracas / Venezuela : The National Assembly of Venezuela confirms by a majority Juan Guaidó as President of Parliament and thus as interim head of state. However, the government denies the opposition majority access to the parliament building. In the building, Luis Parra proclaims himself as anti-parliamentary speaker.
• Croatia : runoff election for head of state
• Tehran / Iran : The Iranian government has announced that it will no longer adhere to the 2015 nuclear agreement after Soleimani has been killed and that it will enrich uranium indefinitely in the future.
• Zagreb / Croatia : The social democrat Zoran Milanovic wins with 52.7% in the runoff election of the presidential election against the incumbent President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović .

Monday 6th January 2020

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Completion of the Four Hills Tournament 2019/20 , winner is the Pole Dawid Kubacki

Tuesday 7th January 2020

Inauguration of the Federal Government Brief II on January 7 , 2020

• Brussels / Belgium : NATO is withdrawing some of its troops from Iraq, including armed forces .
• Caracas / Venezuela : The opposition MPs enter the building of the National Assembly of Venezuela in a tumultuous manner and swear in their elected Juan Guaidó as parliamentary president.
• Kerman / Iran : Over 56 people die in a mass panic during a funeral procession for the killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani
• Madrid / Spain : Pedro Sánchez is elected Prime Minister of the country . 167 of the 350 MPs voted for him (165 against, 18 abstentions).
• Vienna / Austria : For the first time in Austria an ÖVP-Greens coalition government has been sworn in with the Federal Government Kurz II under Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz .
• Vienna / Austria : Barbara Stelzl-Marx is named Austrian Scientist of the Year 2019 by the Club of Education and Science Journalists .

Wednesday January 8, 2020

• Al Asad Airbase and Erbil Airport / Iraq : The Iranian government, under the personal command of Mullah leader Ali Chamenei , is attacking US forces in Iraq at the Al Asad air base and the Erbil airport air base. The Iranian government is also threatening the destruction of Haifa in Israel.
• Baghdad / Iraq : Katyusha rockets hit again in the green zone . One bullet misses the US embassy by only 100 meters. The missiles set fire to the city. The attack came from the south of the city. The authorities assume an attack by militias loyal to Iran.
• Tehran / Iran : Crash of a Boeing 737-800 on Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 shortly after take-off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport . All 167 passengers and 9 crew members were killed. The Iranian authorities initially spoke of a technical defect. But three days after the crash, on January 11th, they then admitted to being shot down. Iran speaks of "human error".

Thursday January 9, 2020

• Cologne / Germany : Lufthansa resumes flights to Tehran . Other flights over Iranian or Iraqi soil will continue to be diverted.
• London / United Kingdom : The House of Commons voted for ratification of the Brexit Agreement with 330 votes to 231 .
• Norway , Austria and Sweden : Start of the European Handball Championship (until January 26th)
• Cyprus : US military troops from Iraq will be temporarily stationed in Cyprus.

Friday 10th January 2020

Moon with partial lunar eclipse in Sri Lanka

• A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs .
• Washington, DC / United States : After Iranian attacks on a US base in Iraq , new economic sanctions are imposed on Iran .

Saturday 11th January 2020

• Paris / France : After long protests, the French government made concessions to the unions in the conflict over pension reform. For example, raising the standard retirement age to 64 is temporarily abandoned.
• Taipei / Republic of China (Taiwan) : The China-critical President Tsai Ing-wen is re-elected with 57% of the vote.
• Tehran / Iran : The regime's leadership confesses to the accidental shooting down of the Ukrainian passenger plane PS752 on the way from Tehran to Kiev ( Ukraine ), as it was believed to be an American cruise missile .
• Tehran / Iran : In the capital of Iran, protests broke out after the announcement that flight PS752 had been shot down . The demonstrators are demanding that the head of state Ayatollah Ali Khamenei resign . The demonstration was broken up by the police after a while.
• Tehran / Iran : The British ambassador Rob Macaire was arrested by the police for a few hours. The British government is outraged by this "egregious violation of international law".
• Belfast / Northern Ireland : After a three-year hiatus, the Northern Ireland Assembly , the Northern Ireland Assembly , resumes work, elects a new Speaker of Parliament and appoints a new government.

Sunday January 12th 2020

• Dortmund / Germany : 13,000 people are evacuated from downtown Dortmund on suspicion of several aircraft bombs from the Second World War. The two duds, one British and one American 250 kg bomb, can be defused. After nine hours, the residents can go back to their apartments.
• Taal Volcano / Philippines : After the Taal volcano erupted on Saturday, over 45,000 people had to be brought to safety. A person dies in an ash rain accident.

Monday 13th January 2020

• Belfast / United Kingdom : In Northern Ireland , the last of the four great parts of the United Kingdom, marriages go into effect for everyone . The British House of Commons voted on July 9, 2019 to introduce the change in Northern Ireland, provided that the local parliament remains incapacitated until October 2019.
• Hamburg / Germany : NDR director Joachim Knuth takes up his post.
• Pau / France : Anti-terror summit of the G5-Sahel group of states.

Tuesday January 14, 2020

• Darmstadt / Germany : For word of the year 2019 "climate hysteria" will be crowned.
• Great Britain / Ireland : Storm Brendan hits Ireland and Great Britain with gusts of up to 130 km / h. More than 50,000 households were temporarily without electricity. In addition, many flights and ferry connections have been canceled.
• London and Edinburgh / Great Britain : Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejects a second Scottish independence referendum . "It is time we all worked to bring the whole of the UK together," he writes in the letter.
• Guatemala City / Guatemala : After the 2019 presidential election , Alejandro Giammattei will be sworn in as head of state and government for a four-year term. He succeeds Jimmy Morales .

Wednesday 15th January 2020

• Melbourne / Australia : The Australian bush fires are causing problems in the second largest city: For example at the Australian Open . More than 100 people had to be treated.

Thursday January 16, 2020

• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag votes on the objection regulation for organ donation .

Friday 17th January 2020

• Chicago / United States : The re-registration of the Boeing 737 MAX could be delayed. The reason for this are new software problems. The airplane received after the crash of Lion Air flight 610 and flight Ethiopian Airlines 302 worldwide with a total of 346 deaths in many countries a ban on flights .

Saturday 18th January 2020

Sunday 19th January 2020

• Berlin / Germany : At a Libya conference, the participants agree to an arms embargo .

Monday 20th January 2020

• Kitzbühel / Austria : 80th Hahnenkamm race (until January 26th)

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

• Davos / Switzerland : Start of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos (until January 24th)
• After months of political stalemate and ongoing protests, Lebanon has an incumbent government under Prime Minister Hassan Diab .

Wednesday 22nd January 2020

• The German share index (DAX) reached a new record high of 13,601.65 points.

Thursday January 23, 2020

• Canberra / Australia : Canberra is closing the airport due to the ongoing bush fires in Australia.
• Berka in front of the Hainich / Germany: a fully occupied school bus crashed. Two children die and 21 are injured in the accident.
• Beijing / China : Due to the epidemic in Wuhan due to the corona virus , all major events for the Chinese New Year are canceled in China .

Friday January 24th 2020

• Paris / France : The government passes the law reforming the pension system, which has been controversial for years.

Saturday 25th January 2020

• Bonn / Germany : The Bundeswehr resumes training Kurdish security forces in Northern Iraq . She was suspended earlier this year after the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani .
• Leipzig / Germany : 1,600 demonstrators protested against the ban on Linksunten.Indymedia , which led to riots with the police.
• Saarbrücken / Germany : Johannes Maria Schmit is honored for his debut film Neubau at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival . The Audience Award Feature Film goes to a bit we remain of Arash T. Riahi , the price of the Saarland prime minister of goods once revolutionaries of Johanna Moder , best young actors are Maresi Riegner and Mehdi Meskar.
• Seattle / USA : The first flight of the ultra-long-haul version of the Boeing 777-9 wide-body aircraft , which is scheduled for early summer 2019, will be carried out successfully.

Sunday 26th January 2020

• Baghdad / Iraq : Five rockets hit near the US embassy.
• Eisenstadt / Austria : State election in Burgenland 2020
• Lower Austria : Municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020
• Italy : regional elections in Emilia-Romagna 2020
• Peru : general election
• Los Angeles / United States : The 62nd Grammy Awards took place in the Staples Center .

Monday January 27, 2020

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The German Bundesbank is the under federal state for a 2-euro commemorative coin with the Potsdam Schloss Sanssouci out.
• Majuro / Marshall Islands : David Kabua is sworn in as President of the Marshall Islands and replaces Hilda Heine .

Wednesday January 29, 2020

Thursday January 30th 2020

• Berlin / Germany : Based on suspicion of tax evasion has German Bundestag to a request of the Frankfurt prosecutor's office the immunity of the AFD - members of parliament and AFD Group boss Alexander Gauland canceled.
• Berlin / Germany : Due to suspicion of corruption 'offices were CDU - members of parliament Karin Strenz and ex- CSU -Bundestagsabgeordneten Eduard Lintner by the police and the prosecutor Frankfurt searched. In addition, other rooms in Germany and Belgium were searched. The German Bundestag lifted the immunity of the MPs in advance .
• Brussels / Belgium : The Parliament of the European Union ratified the treaties for the United Kingdom to leave the EU .
• Geneva / Switzerland : In order to curb the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus , the WHO has declared an international health emergency.
• Grafenegg / Austria : Awarding of the Austrian Film Prize 2020 ; With a total of four awards - in the categories of Best Feature Film , Best Director , Best Screenplay and Best Female Actress - the film Joy by Sudabeh Mortezai received the most awards.
• Leipzig / Germany : The Federal Administrative Court has confirmed the ban on the organization Linksunten.Indymedia .

Friday 31st January 2020

• Canberra / Australia : Due to the ongoing bushfires , the government has declared a national emergency.
• London / United Kingdom : The agreed date for the United Kingdom to leave the EU , at 11 p.m. UK time the United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union.
• Washington, DC / United States : President Donald Trump is lifting a 2014 restriction on the use of anti-personnel landmines by his predecessor Obama , provided the mines have a mechanism to self-destruct or deactivate within 30 days.

See also

• Nekrolog January 2020 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January
• January 2020 in science

Web links

Commons : January 2020  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Culture: Nine premieres at the New Year's Concert. In: Vienna. ORF.at . October 31, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 . 
3. ^ Structural reform in the Austrian health insurance . Retrieved November 15, 2019.
4. ↑ Emirates top, Lufthansa is slipping. In: tagesschau.de. January 2, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ "Snakebite" conquers the darts throne. In: tagesschau.de. January 2, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
6. ↑ USA kill senior Iranian general. In: tagesschau.de. January 3, 2020, accessed January 4, 2020 . 
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8. ↑ After Soleimani was killed: New rocket fire in Iraq . In: Spiegel Online . January 4, 2020 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 4, 2020]).
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10. ↑ Numerous animals die in a fire in a pet shop in Remscheid. January 5, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
11. ↑ At least 28 dead in an air raid on military school in Libyan capital. January 5, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
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14. ↑ Iraq's parliament demands expulsion of US troops from the country. January 5, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Ricky Gervais returning to host the 2020 Golden Globe Awards. In: apnews.com. November 12, 2019, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Citizens of Croatia determine head of state in a runoff election. January 5, 2020, accessed January 5, 2020 . 
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20. ↑ Bundeswehr leaves central Iraq - NATO also withdraws troops. January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Mass panic during Soleimani funeral procession: At least 56 dead. January 7, 2020, accessed January 7, 2020 . 
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36. ↑ Protests after the plane was shot down: Angry Iranians demand Khamenei's resignation. Retrieved January 11, 2020 . 
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38. ↑ tagesschau.de: Duds defused in Dortmund - residents can go back. Retrieved January 13, 2020 . 
39. ↑ Accident in ash rain - volcanic eruption in the Philippines claims first death. January 13, 2020, accessed January 13, 2020 . 
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