2020

This page lists news articles and events for the year 2020.

Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.

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Undated

• All Year Event: the COVID-19 global pandemic infects more than 50 million, kills more than a million, and results in widespread quarantine and "shelter at home" orders, and greatly damages the world economy.
• RPG/Fiction: Cyberpunk 2020 is, like it says on the tin, set in this year. (If I don't get all those enhanced cyborg parts they promised me installed before the year is out, I'm going to be really disappointed. Update: I was.)
• Event: An autonomous man-hunting drone is deployed on a battlefield for the first time. See The Age Of Killer Robots May Have Already Begun.

In terms of general "feel" or "theme", 2020 has been some serious dystopia-fodder. Lockdowns. Masks. Propaganda. Election anxiety. Police Brutality. Protests. Riots. Arson. Autonomous Zones. Mass graves. Acedia. It's objectively not the worst year ever, at least not in the history of mankind, but it sure felt like it at the time.

January

February

• February 3:
  • Advertisement posing as News: New Futuristic Patch Uses Breakthrough Nanotech To “Turn Down” Pain

March

April

• April 10:
  • News: Footage of Mass burials in New York emerges, helping to illustrate the gravity of the Coronavirus pandemic.

May

• May 3:
  • News: Mystery poison plot sends Czech mayors into hiding

June

July

• July 31:
  • Event/News: USDA Identifies Some Mysterious Unsolicited Seeds

August

• August 17
  • News: Police Seize Huge Haul of Radioactive Berries and Mushrooms

September

• September 13:
  • News: Phosphine Detected In The Atmosphere of Venus - An Indicator of Possible Life?

October

November

• November 3
  • Event/News: Russia's Sausage King killed with crossbow

• November 3 to November 7:
  • Event: Due to the high-volume of mail-in ballots, the US Presidential Election takes an agonizingly long time to be counted and called: Joe Biden defeats Donald Trump. (Aren't you supposed to call a doctor if your election lasts this long?)
• November 10
  • News: Can Trump Really Stage A Coup?
  • News: Chaotic transition could endanger national security
• November 23
  • News/Event: Helicopter pilot finds strange monolith in remote part of Utah
• November 27
  • News/Event: Mysterious metal monolith in Utah desert suddenly vanishes

December

• December 10
  • News/Interview: New Hampshire Libertarian Utopia Foiled By Bears
• December 15
  • News/Opinion: Facebook Is A Doomsday Machine
• December 16
  • News: Tank Meat to make its commercial debut in Singapore
• December 17
  • News: Ghostly circles appearing in universe puzzle astronomers
• December 22
  • News: Study Finds Galaxy May Be Full of Dead Alien Civilizations
• December 29 - December 31
  • News/Event: Aggressive squirrels terrorize NYC residents
• December 31
  • Event: The outgoing US Presidential Administration continues to make baseless claims about election fraud, despite having lost over 50 court cases about it. Despite this consistent and repeated failure in multiple courts of law, several Republican Party Congressmen are talking about trying to prevent their obligatory and mostly-ceremonial ratification of Electoral College votes scheduled to take place on January 6 2021.