2020
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2020 (MMXX) is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Predictions relating to year 2020
- British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020
- George W. Bush stated on January 14, 2004 that humans should return to the moon no later than 2020, to prepare to eventually go on to Mars.
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Events
- Summer Olympic Games to be held (Cities that are already bidding for the summer games include New York, Paris, Melbourne and Berlin.)
- Stipulated completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in China
- Scheduled completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China
- Earliest year that power aboard the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 is expected to terminate (though either probe may function past this date).
- November 3 - scheduled presidential and congressional elections in the United States (117th Congress will be elected).
- All nuclear power plants in Germany are scheduled to be shut down by this year.
- The events of the Xbox 360 video game "Perfect Dark Zero" take place
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