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This article covers daily news and events in July 2020 .
Daily events
Wednesday 1st July 2020
- North America : The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), successor to NAFTA , comes into force.
- Berlin / Germany : Germany takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months and of the Security Council of the United Nations for one month .
- Beijing / People's Republic of China : Hong Kong National Security Protection Act enters into force.
- Moscow / Russia : The constitutional referendum in Russia is accepted.
Thursday 2nd July 2020
- Hpakant / Myanmar : At least 172 people are killed in a landslide on the spoil pile of a jade mine .
Friday 3rd July 2020
- Worldwide: Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) passed the point closest to the Sun in its perihelion and will be increasingly visible in the northwestern evening sky in the course of July 2020.
Saturday 4th July 2020
Sunday 5th July 2020
- Zagreb / Croatia : In the parliamentary elections in Croatia , the national-conservative ruling party Hrvatska demokratska zajednica will again be the strongest party in parliament,
- Santo Domingo / Dominican Republic : Opposition candidate Luis Abinader wins the presidential election in the Dominican Republic .
Monday 6th July 2020
Tuesday 7th July 2020
Wednesday 8th July 2020
Thursday 9th July 2020
Friday 10th July 2020
- Cologne / Germany : Start of ESL One Cologne 2020 (until July 12, 2020, subject to postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic ) [outdated]
- Singapore : The parliamentary elections in Singapore are won by the conservative ruling People's Action Party (PAP).
Saturday 11th July 2020
Sunday 12th July 2020
- A fire breaks out on the landing ship USS Bonhomme Richard during maintenance work. 21 people are injured; Serious damage to the ship is feared.
- Warsaw / Poland : The current incumbent Andrzej Duda wins the runoff of the presidential election in Poland .
Monday 13th July 2020
Tuesday July 14, 2020
- Tanegashima / Japan : The launch of the Mars probe Hope of the United Arab Emirates at 10:51 p.m. ( CEST ) is successful.
Wednesday 15th July 2020
- A hacker attack on Twitter results in numerous celebrity accounts - including Barack Obama , Bill Gates , Jeff Bezos , Warren Buffett and Elon Musk - being hacked . The accounts are used to publish messages that attempt to defraud Internet users of Bitcoin credit.
- Skopje / North Macedonia : General election in North Macedonia 2020
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Friday 17th July 2020
Saturday 18th July 2020
- Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) reaches its northernmost position after passing through the planet Mars and can be observed with an apparent brightness of 2.6 m in the northern hemisphere just above the horizon of the northern night sky. At 11:30 p.m. CEST it stands in conjunction just seven arc minutes above the star Talitha Borealis in the constellation Great Bear .
Sunday 19th July 2020
- Damascus / Syria : The parliamentary elections in Syria are won by the Baath party .
Monday 20th July 2020
Tuesday July 21, 2020
Wednesday July 22, 2020
- Brussels / European Union : The 27 heads of government of the member states of the EU agree on the multi-year financial plan for the next 7 years and decide on a financial aid package for member states that were particularly hard hit by the corona pandemic.
Thursday 23 July 2020
- Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) reaches its closest point to earth with less than 0.7 astronomical units and can be observed around midnight at an apparent brightness of 3 m and at a height of around 20 ° above the northwestern horizon.
- Porto Empedocle / Italy : Italian authorities arrest the ship " Ocean Viking " of the sea rescue organization SOS Méditerranée in the port of Porto Empedocle.
Friday 24th July 2020
Saturday 25th July 2020
- The cargo ship Wakashio runs aground on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius. More than 1000 tons of fuel leak out of the leaking tank.
Sunday 26th July 2020
- Texas / Mexico : Storm "Hanna" wreaked havoc in parts of Texas and northern Mexico. In Texas, 180,000 households were temporarily without electricity. There have been no reports of deaths so far.
Monday July 27, 2020
- Chengdu / China : Chinese authorities have taken over the US consulate in the city again after the deadline for eviction had expired.
- Kiev / Ukraine : The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists have agreed on a ceasefire that went into effect at midnight.
Tuesday 28th July 2020
- Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia : The former Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak is now found guilty of abuse of power and money laundering after a financial scandal at a state fund. His sentence will be announced at a later date. A total of five trials with 42 counts are pending against him.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The Goethe Tower in the Frankfurt city forest has been rebuilt.
Wednesday 29th July 2020
- Tempe / Arizona : On the south side of the Union Pacific Salt River Bridge, several wagons of a freight train derailed in the early morning hours. Parts of the bridge collapsed and several wagons loaded with wood caught fire that spread across large parts of the bridge.
Thursday 30th July 2020
- Cape Canaveral / United States : Planned start of the US Mars 2020 mission between 1:50 and 3:50 p.m. (CEST)
Friday 31st July 2020
See also
- Nekrolog July 2020 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in July
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in July
Web links
Commons : July 2020 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into force on July 1st . FAZ.NET , April 25, 2020.
- ↑ Zeit.de: Putin's Russia will remain until 2036, July 2, 2020
- ↑ Mine disaster in Myanmar: death toll rises to 172. In: orf.at . July 3, 2020, accessed July 5, 2020.
- ↑ Seiichi Yoshida: C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) , aerith.net, July 7, 2020, accessed on July 12, 2020
- ↑ Croatia elects new parliament on July 5th. In: ORF.at . May 20, 2020, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Handelsblatt.de: Opposition candidate leads after election in Dominican Republic , July 6, 2020
- ↑ These German esports events have to reschedule . Westdeutsche Zeitung, April 17, 2020.
- ^ Zeit.de: Governing party wins parliamentary elections , July 11, 2020
- ↑ NZZ.ch: Andrzej Duda wins the election battle in Poland - with the closest result in decades , July 13, 2020
- ↑ a b Launch Schedule . Spaceflight Now, accessed May 19, 2020.
- ^ Rishi Iyengar: Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and others apparently hacked (en-US) . In: CNN Business , July 15, 2020.
- ↑ Coordinates of Comet NEOWISE (C / 2020 F3) , calsky.com from July 17, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020
- ↑ Spiegel.de: Syria holds parliamentary elections - success for Baath party expected , July 21, 2020
- ↑ FAZ.net: New Power Relations , July 22, 2020
- ↑ Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) visible to the naked eye in the evening sky , Informationsdienst Wissenschaft eV from July 13, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Mediterranean: Italy sets "Ocean Viking". Retrieved July 23, 2020 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Atlantic storm "Hanna" leaves traces of devastation. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ n-tv NEWS: China has taken over US consulate again. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine entered into force. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Financial scandal: Malaysia's ex-prime minister found guilty - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Goetheturm is back - hundreds are watching the spectacle , Frankfurter Rundschau , July 29, 2020, accessed on July 31, 2020.
- ↑ Stephen Clark: NASA delays Mars rover launch to no earlier than July 30. In: Spaceflight Now. June 30, 2020, accessed on July 17, 2020 .