July 2020 was the seventh month of that leap year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Friday after 31 days. The opening ceremony for the 2020 Summer Olympics was postponed from July 24 of that year to July 23, 2021.
Portal:Current events[edit]
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from July 2020.
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Ongoing events
Business
Disasters
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
- 2019–20 European windstorm season
- 2019–20 locust infestation
- 2020 Atlantic hurricane season
- 2020 North Indian Ocean cyclone season
- 2020 Pacific hurricane season
- 2020 Pacific typhoon season
- 2020 wildfire season
- Yemeni famine
Politics
Recent
- July
- 19: Syria, Parliament
Upcoming
- August
- 5: Sri Lanka, Parliament
- 9: Belarus, President
- 10: Trinidad and Tobago, House of Representatives
- 11–12: Egypt, Senate (1st phase)
Recently concluded
- Congo DR: Vital Kamerhe
- France: François Fillon
- Iran: Fariba Adelkhah
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malaysia: Najib Razak
- Philippines: Maria Ressa
- Russia: Paul Whelan
Ongoing
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Cambodia: Kem Sokha
- Guatemala: Otto Pérez Molina, Roxana Baldetti, Juan Carlos Monzón and others
- Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
- Israel: Faina Kirschenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu
- Malta: Murder of Daphne Caruana
- Philippines: Leila de Lima, Marcos vs. Robredo electoral protest
- Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Bárcenas affair, Catalan police leadership
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal, North Korean Embassy in Madrid raid, 6ix9ine
- International: The Gambia v. Myanmar
Upcoming
- Guatemala: Álvaro Colom, Manuel Baldizón, Juan Alberto Fuentes
- Japan: Carlos Ghosn
- Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
- Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Nikolas Cruz, Ghislaine Maxwell
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Softball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby sevens
- Rugby union
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
July 2020
- 31: Alan Parker
- 30: Herman Cain
- 30: Lee Teng-hui
- 29: Joe E. Kernan
- 29: Perrance Shiri
- 28: Gisèle Halimi
- 27: Owen Arthur
- 25: Azimzhan Askarov
- 25: Olivia de Havilland
- 25: Francisco Frutos
- 25: Peter Green
- 25: Maurice Petty
- 25: John Saxon
- 24: Benjamin Mkapa
- 24: Regis Philbin
- 23: Stuart Wheeler
- 22: Charles Evers
- 21: Annie Ross
- 19: Emitt Rhodes
- 19: Nikolai Tanayev
- 18: Juan Marsé
- 18: Henrique Soares da Costa
- 17: Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya
- 17: John Lewis
- 15: Toke Talagi
- 14: Daniel Lewis Lee
- 13: Grant Imahara
- 13: Zindzi Mandela
- 12: Mohamed Hashi
- 12: Hassan Abshir Farah
- 12: Kelly Preston
- 11: Jack Charlton
- 11: Edward Kmiec
- 10: Vikas Dubey
- 10: Paik Sun-yup
- 9: Park Won-soon
- 8: Amadou Gon Coulibaly
- 8: Munah E. Pelham-Youngblood
- 8: Naya Rivera
- 7: Chynybaĭ Tursunbekov
- 6: Mary Kay Letourneau
- 6: Charlie Daniels
- 6: Ennio Morricone
- 5: Nick Cordero
- 5: Bettina Gilois
- 3: Earl Cameron
- 3: Saroj Khan
- 2: Ángela Jeria
Africa
- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
- Cameroon
- Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria
- Central African Republic
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Libya
- Mali
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
Americas
- Colombia
- Mexico
- Peru
Asia-Pacific
- Afghanistan
- China
- India
- India and Pakistan
- Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
- Indonesia
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
Europe
- Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Georgia
- Russia
- Ukraine
Middle East
- Egypt
- Iran and the Persian Gulf
- Iraq
- Iraq and Syria (map)
- Israel and Gaza
- Israel and Syria
- Syria
- Turkey
- Yemen and Saudi Arabia
