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This article covers daily news and events in May 2020 .

Daily events

Friday 1st May 2020

• Ottawa / Canada : The Canadian government bans the possession of various self-loading rifles by private individuals nationwide.

Saturday 2nd May 2020

Sunday 3rd May 2020

Monday 4th May 2020

Tuesday 5th May 2020

• Wenchang / China : The first Langer Marsch 5B rocket is successfully launched from the Wenchang Cosmodrome . It brings a prototype of the new generation manned spacecraft for an unmanned test flight into space .

Wednesday May 6, 2020

• Karlsruhe / Germany : At the end of the day, Andreas Voßkuhle's term of office as President of the Federal Constitutional Court ends .
• Zagreb / Croatia : As the highlight of the Croatian EU Council Presidency , a Western Balkans summit will take place in the run-up to the 7th Western Balkans Conference planned for July . At the meeting held in the form of a video conference because of the COVID-19 pandemic , the heads of state and government of the EU renew and strengthen the "European perspective" for the six states of Albania , Montenegro , North Macedonia , in view of offers from China, Russia and Turkey . Serbia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo .

Thursday May 7, 2020

• Baghdad / Iraq : Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister.

Friday 8th May 2020

Saturday May 9, 2020

Sunday May 10, 2020

Monday May 11, 2020

Tuesday May 12, 2020

Wednesday 13th May 2020

Thursday May 14, 2020

Friday 15th May 2020

• Germany : The federal board of the AfD has excluded the Brandenburg state and parliamentary leader Andreas Kalbitz from the party.
• Austria : State Secretary for Art and Culture Ulrike Lunacek ( The Greens ) announces her resignation.

Saturday 16 May 2020

• u. a. Dortmund / Germany : After more than two months of interruption, the Bundesliga wants to continue its game operations with six matches on the 26th match day of the 2019/20 season, excluding spectators. This would end the longest unscheduled break in the league's history. The Bundesliga will presumably be the first sports league in the world to resume games after being interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A few leagues, such as the Belarusian and Nicaragua leagues, had not interrupted the game.
• Asnières-sur-Seine / France : More than a quarter of a century after the genocide in Rwanda , businessman Félicien Kabuga was arrested, one of the alleged main culprits .

Sunday 17th May 2020

Monday, May 18, 2020

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Wednesday 20th May 2020

• Gitega / Burundi : presidential and parliamentary elections
• Maseru / Lesotho : Moeketsi Majoro is sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister.

Thursday May 21, 2020

• Budapest / Hungary : After a ruling by the European Court of Justice , Hungary cleared two transit camps for migrants .
• Michigan / United States : After heavy rains, large parts of the US state of Michigan were flooded after two dams were broken.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US administration under Donald Trump has announced that it will terminate the Open Skies Treaty within six months, as the US has considered the Russian government to have violated this agreement several times.

Friday 22nd May 2020

• India : Cyclone Amphan
• Pakistan : When Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes, an Airbus A320 crashes into a residential area, 97 of 99 passengers in the aircraft die.

Saturday 23rd May 2020

• Vienna / Austria : After the cancellation of the gala at the Vienna Hofburg because of COVID-19 pandemic that is awarded the TV and Film Awards Romy by Andi Knoll on ORF 2 presents the golden Romy statuettes were the winners of the Audience Awards in advance handed over to the shipment. The platinum romy for life's work goes to Cornelia Froboess and Peter Kraus as well as Elfie Donnelly and Rudolf Klingohr.

Sunday May 24, 2020

Monday, May 25, 2020

• Poland : Małgorzata Manowska is declared President of the Polish Supreme Court .
• Mojave / United States : The first attempt to launch the LauncherOne airborne launcher fails.
• Minneapolis / United States : The African American George Floyd dies in a police operation . A video of the incident caused a sensation worldwide.

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

• Washington, DC / United States : John Ratcliffe takes office as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump Cabinet .

Wednesday May 27, 2020

• Kyōto / Japan : Less than ten months after the arson attack on the animation studio Kyōto Animation , the main suspect was arrested by the police after doctors classified him as cured of his injuries.

Thursday May 28, 2020

Friday 29th May 2020

• Hong Kong / China : There are renewed protests in Hong Kong over a planned new security law.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court rejects an urgent motion by the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag to vote out MP Stephan Brandner .
• Minneapolis / United States : After the death of George Floyd , there are again demonstrations and clashes with the police. President Trump threatened to send armed forces.
• Minneapolis / United States : In the case of the death of George Floyd charges against the police officer Derek Chauvin because was manslaughter and murder of the third degree applicable ( "third degree murder").
• Amsterdam / Netherlands : On the early trading day of the shares of the world's second largest coffee company Jacobs Douwe Egberts Peet’s on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange , proceeds of 2.3 billion euros are achieved. It is the largest IPO in Europe so far this year.

Saturday 30th May 2020

In the Harmony ISS connection module after docking on May 31st

• Kennedy Space Center / United States : Launch of the first manned US spaceflight since 2011, the SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 with astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken

Sunday 31st May 2020

• United States : The collective Anonymous hacked into the police station in Minneapolis and Chicago and played pejorative music and polka against the police , so that the officers had communication problems. Moreover, they have documents that a relationship between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein having leaked .
• Washington DC / United States : In the capital, a curfew was imposed on Monday night due to ongoing protests .

See also

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

Web links

Spring in May 2020

Commons : May 2020  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reuters.com: Canada bans assault-style weapons in aftermath of mass shooting
2. ↑ Stephen Clark: China's first Long March 5B rocket launches on crew capsule test flight . Spaceflight Now, May 5, 2020.
3. ↑ https://eu2020.hr/Home/OneNews?id=272
4. ↑ https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/wenig-perspektiven-fuer-die-staat-beim-westbalkan-gipfel-16757394.html
5. ^ Right-wing extremism: AfD throws Andreas Kalbitz out of the party. In: Zeit Online , May 15, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020.
6. ↑ Resignation of Ulrike Lunacek: The curtain falls In: Der Standard Online , May 15, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020.
7. ↑ DFL decides to restart on May 15th , on kicker.de
8. ↑ Le Figaro avec Reuters et AFP: Génocide au Rwanda: la France annonce l'arrestation de Félicien Kabuga, en cavale depuis 25 ans. May 16, 2020, accessed on May 19, 2020 (French). 
9. ↑ BILD.de: Historical floods in the midst of the pandemic
10. ↑ BBC.com: Open Skies Treaty: US to withdraw from arms control deal
11. ^ Luzerner Zeitung.ch: Plane crash in Pakistan: no survivors
12. ^ John Maxwell: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 Crash Victims (2020). In: legacy.com. May 23, 2020, accessed on June 2, 2020 . 
13. ↑ ROMY despite (t) Corona: A TV evening full of surprises and emotions. In: Kurier.at . May 12, 2020, accessed May 12, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Christoph Silber: ROMY survives everything: These are the 2020 winners. In: Kurier.at . May 23, 2020, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
15. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: New Chairperson at Poland's Supreme Court - DER SPIEGEL - Politics. Retrieved May 25, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Test flight of the launcher failed . tagesschau.de, May 26, 2020.
17. ↑ tagesschau.de: Criticism of the Federal Government's China policy. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
18. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Constitutional Court rejects AfD application against Brandner's voting out - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
19. ↑ Trump threatens demonstrators: "If the looting begins, the shooting begins" . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 29, 2020]).
20. ↑ Minnesota: Charges against police officers - Trump rows back. Retrieved May 29, 2020 . 
21. ↑ Jacobs mother JDE Peet's: 130 billion cups of coffee and tea are successfully listed on the nzz.de stock exchange on May 29, 2020, accessed on May 30, 2020
22. ↑ https://twitter.com/CPerikles/status/1267062764788482048
23. ↑ https://twitter.com/CPerikles/status/1267080725582528513
24. ↑ Protests in front of the White House: Washington curfew imposed . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 1, 2020]).