Real-Life Villains

2020

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Events edit

  • January 1 - Augustus Sol Invictus is arrested on charges of kidnapping, domestic violence, and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence.
  • January 10 - A shooting happens at a private school in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.
  • January 10 - An Islamic State member commits a suicide bombing at a mosque in Quetta, Balochistan, killing 15 and inuring 19.
  • January 23 - Christopher Cantwell is indicted by the FBI on charges of extortion and cyberstalking.
  • February - Mauricio Paredes Bugueño is arrested for alleged sexual abuse
  • February 3 - Four gunmen kill eight people, including four minors, in a shooting at a video arcade in Uruapan, Michoacan. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is suspected in the massacre.
  • February 8 to 9 - Jakrapanth Thomma kills three at an army base, nine at a Buddhist temple, then 17 at a mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, before being shot by police.
  • February 11 - The Sudanese government agree to hand over Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity in regards to the crisis in Darfur.
  • February 18 - Rod Blagojevich is released from prison after serving six years.
  • February 21 - Beginning of the 2020 Malaysian political crisis.
  • February 22 - End of the South Sudanese Civil War.
  • February 24 - Harvey Weinstein is convicted of serial rape and faces up to 25 years in prison.
  • February 29 - The Taliban begins peace negotiations with the United States.
  • March 1 - Muhyiddin Yassin is named Prime Minister of Malaysia after Mahathir Mohamad resigns.
  • March 31 - Ryan Grantham kills his mother and plans to assassinate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at his home in Rideau Cottage, or instead to carry out a mass shooting, possibly on the campus of Simon Fraser University or the Lions Gate Bridge, but instead turns himself in.
  • April 18 to 19 - Gabriel Wortman kills 18 people as part of the 2020 Nova Scotia killings.
  • May 16 - Felicien Kabuga, a major perpetrator of the Rwandan Genocide, is arrested in France after spending 26 years as a fugitive.
  • May 21 - Abdullah Qardash is captured by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
  • May 25 - George Floyd dies of asphyxiation while being arrested by Derek Chauvin. Major riots break out all over the United States in the following weeks.
  • June 1 - Sahmir Smokes shoots Nygel Allen-Lee Simmons in Carney, Maryland.
  • June 2 - Cole Carini,a Virginia man planned a bomb attack on a local mall but it failed and the bomb exploded at home.
  • June 12 - Rayshard Brooks is killed by Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan.
  • June 15 - Manila Court finds CEO and co-founder of Rappler Maria Ressa guilty for cyber-libel.
  • June 20 - Khairi Saadallah kills three people in a knife attack in Reading.
  • June 24 - Jeremy Joseph Christian is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison with no chance of parole for the 2017 stabbing murders of Ricky John Best and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche. 
  • June 26 - Badreddin Abadlla Adam goes on a stabbing rampage in Glasgow, wounding six people, before being shot by police.
  • July 2 - Ghislaine Maxwell is arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire by the FBI on charges of sex trafficking and procurement of minors in relation to the investigation into the activities of Jeffrey Epstein.
  • July 14 - Graham Clark was arrested for hacking twitter accounts.
  • August 2 - Tekashi 6ix9ine is released from prison.
  • August 5 - The Beirut harbour explodes, causing major damage to the city, and hundreds of deaths.
  • August 11 - The Islamic State's Central African Province captures the port town of Mocímboa da Praia in Mozambique.
  • August 19 - The Special Tribunal for Lebanon convicts in absentia Salim Ayyash, a senior member of Hezbollah, for the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri.
  • August 19 - Hashem Abedi is sentenced to a life sentence for 22 charges of murder, several more of attempted murder and plotting to cause an explosion to endanger life.
  • August 21 - Joseph James DeAngelo, the Golden State Killer, is sentenced to life in prison without parole.
  • August 25 - Kyle Rittenhouse kills two protesters, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and injures a third, Gaige Grosskreutz, during an Antifa protest in Kenosha, Illinois.
  • August 26 - Yaser Abdel Said is arrested in Justin, Texas.
  • August 31 - Ron Jeremy is indicted on over 20 counts of rape and sexual assault.
  • August 31 - A comprehensive peace agreement is signed between the Sudanese government and several Darfur rebel factions to formally end the War in Darfur.
  • September 9 - The former Paraguayan Vice President Óscar Denis is kidnapped by the Paraguayan People's Army.
  • September 27 - Beginning of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.
  • September 28 - Matias Oyarzo's YouTube channel (Peluchin Entertainment) is terminated.
  • October 11 - The Nigerian Special Anti-Robbery Squad is disbanded.
  • October 20 - The Lekki Massacre occurs in Nigeria when Nigerian Armed Forces shoot at End SARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, killing 12 people.
  • October 23 - Silentó was arrested for driving over the speed limit by driving 143 miles per hour on interstate 85.
  • October 24 - End of the Second Libyan Civil War.
  • October 31 - Carl Girouard disguised as a medieval knight kills 2 people with a sword during Halloween in Quebec, Canada.
  • November 2 - Kujtim Fejzullai kills 4 and injures 23 in Vienna, Austria, before being killed by the police.
  • November 2 - The American Identity Movement is disbanded.
  • November 4 - Beginning of the Tigray War.
  • November 7 - Donald Trump loses the election after his first term due to Joe Biden.
  • November 10 - End of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.
  • December 11 - Boko Haram kidnaps 520 students from Kankara, in northern Nigeria.
  • December 14 - Nathan Larson is arrested in Denver, Colorado, on felony charges of kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor, and meeting a child for the intention of sex, along with a misdemeanor charge of harboring a minor.
  • December 25 - An RV bomb detonates outside an AT&T exchange in Nashville, Tennessee, damaging the telephone systems and surrounding buildings and injuring 3. The bomber, Anthony Warner, is killed in the explosion.

Births edit

Victim births edit

  • Unknown - Anna Gimeno Zimmerman

Deaths edit

Villain deaths edit

Victim deaths edit

  • January 14 - Autumn Lynn Short
  • January 26 - Yasmin Ibrahim
  • February 8 - Col. Anantharot Krasae
  • February 10 - Faye Marie Swetlik
  • February 19 - Pop Smoke, Hannah Clarke, Aaliyah Clarke, Laianah Clarke, and Trey Clarke
  • February 23 - Ahmaud Arbery
  • March 13 - Breonna Taylor
  • March 31 - Barbara Waite
  • April 22 - Vanessa Guillén
  • April 23 - Winston Ragos
  • May 3 - Nina Pop
  • May 25 - George Floyd
  • May 27 - Tony McDade
  • June 1 - Nygel Allen-Lee Simmons
  • June 2 - David Dorn
  • June 12 - Rayshard Brooks
  • June 17 - Arthur Labinjo-Hughes
  • June 20 - James Furlong, David Wails, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett
  • July 5 - Jessica Doty Whitaker, Summer Taylor
  • August 9 - Cannon Hinnant
  • August 29 - Aaron Danielson
  • September 22 - Star Hobson
  • September 28 - Joyce Echaquan
  • October 16 - Samuel Paty
  • November 6 - King Von
  • December 12 - Sonya & Frank Gregorio
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