Editing 2020

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== Events ==
*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 - [[José Ángel Ramos Betts|A shooting happens at a private school in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.]]
*January 10 - An [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant|Islamic State]] member commits a [[Suicide Bombing|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 [[Darfur Genocide|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 [[Floyd Rioters|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 [https://real-life-heroes.fandom.com/wiki/Maria_Ressa 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==
===Victim births===
*Unknown  - Anna Gimeno Zimmerman

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
*January 3 - [[Qasem Soleimani]] & [[Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis]]
*January 10 - [[José Ángel Ramos Betts]]
*January 26 - [[Glen Bloom]]
*January 29 - [[Qasim al-Raymi]]
*February 2 - [[Bernard Ebbers]]
*February 4 - [[Daniel Arap Moi]]
*February 6 - [[Jhon Jairo Velásquez]]
*February 9 - [[Jakrapanth Thomma]]
*February 13 - [[Coty Scott Taylor]]
*February 17 - [[Candace Muzny]]
*February 19 - [[Rowan Baxter]]
*February 24 - [[Lawrence Bittaker & Roy Norris | Roy Norris]] & [[John Franzese]]
*February 25 - [[Hosni Mubarak]]
*February 26 - [[Anthony Ferrill]]
*March 24 - [[Timothy Wilson]]
*March 25 - [[Travis Lewis]]
*March 28 - [[Lonnie David Franklin]]
*April 19 - [[Gabriel Wortman]]
*May 15 - [[George Greenshields]]
*June 8 - [[Pierre Nkurunziza]]
*June 26 - [[Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.]], [[Badreddin Abadlla Adam]]
*July 1 - [[Aaron Robinson]]
*July 3 - [[Scott Erskine]]
*July 14 - [[Daniel Lewis Lee]]
*August 7 - [[Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah]] 
*August 25 - [[Joseph Rosenbaum]] & [[Anthony Huber]]
*September 2 - [[Kang Kek Iew]] & [[Édouard Karemera]]
*September 3 - [[Michael Reinoehl]]
*September 6 - [[Dragoljub Ojdanić]]
*September 12 - [[Dieter Krombach]]
*September 15 - [[Moussa Traoré]]
*October 16 - [[Abdoullakh Anzorov]]
*October 25 - [[Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri]]
*November 2 - [[Kujtim Fejzullai]]
*November 4 - [[Tom Metzger]]
*November 13 - [[Peter Sutcliffe]]
*December 10 - [[Brandon Bernard]]
*December 11 - [[Alfred Bourgeois]]
*December 21 - [[Donzel Edward Owens, Jr.]]
*December 24 - [[Michael Alig]]
*December 25 - [[Anthony Warner]]
*December 30 - [[Samuel Little]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*January 14 - Autumn Lynn Short
*January 26 - Yasmin Ibrahim
*February 8 - Col. Anantharot Krasae
*February 10 - [[Coty Scott Taylor|Faye Marie Swetlik]]
*February 19 - Pop Smoke, [[Rowan Baxter|Hannah Clarke, Aaliyah Clarke, Laianah Clarke, and Trey Clarke]]
*February 23 - [[Gregory and Travis McMichael|Ahmaud Arbery]]
*March 13 - Breonna Taylor
*March 31 - Barbara Waite
*April 22 - Vanessa Guillén
*April 23 - Winston Ragos
*May 3 - Nina Pop
*May 25 - [[Derek Chauvin|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 - [[Michael Reinoehl|Aaron Danielson]]
*September 22 - Star Hobson
*September 28 - Joyce Echaquan 
*October 16 - [[Abdoullakh Anzorov|Samuel Paty]]
*November 6 - King Von
*December 12 - [[Jonel Nuezca|Sonya]] & [[Jonel Nuezca|Frank Gregorio]]