Portal:Current events/October 2020/Sidebar
Ongoing events
Business
Disasters
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2018–20 Southern Africa drought
- 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
- 2020 Central Vietnam floods
- Yemeni famine
Politics
- Afghan peace process
- Belarusian protests
- Bulgarian protests
- Chilean protests
- Colombian protests
- George Floyd protests (racial unrest)
- Hong Kong protests
- Indonesia omnibus bill protests
- Iraqi protests
- Kashmir lockdown
- Khabarovsk Krai protests
- Lebanese protests
- Libyan peace process
- Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
- Nicaraguan protests
- Nigerian protests
- Philippine protests
- Polish protests
- Post-Brexit diplomatic talks
- Sudanese protests
- Thai protests
- Venezuelan presidential crisis (protests)
- Yellow vests movement
Recent
- October
- 17: New Zealand, House of Representatives, cannabis and euthanasia referendums
- 18: Bolivia, President, Senate, Chamber of Deputies
- 18: Guinea, President
- 18: Northern Cyprus, President (2nd)
- 22–24: Seychelles, President, National Assembly
- 24–25: Egypt, Parliament (1st−1)
- 25: Chile, Referendum
- 25: Lithuania, Seimas (2nd)
- 28: Tanzania, President, National Assembly
- 31: Georgia, Parliament
- 31: Ivory Coast, President
Upcoming
- November
- 1: Algeria, constitutional referendum
- 1: Moldova, President (1st)
- 3: Palau, President, Senate, House of Delegates
- 3: United States, President, Senate (class 2), House of Representatives
- 5: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, House of Assembly
- 7–8: Egypt, Parliament (1st−2)
- 8: Myanmar, Assembly of the Union
- 10: Jordan, House of Representatives
- 11: Belize, House of Representatives
Recently concluded
- Greece: Nikolaos Michaloliakos
- Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai
- Slovakia: Marián Kočner
- Spain: Montano Morales
- Turkey: Remziye Tosun
Ongoing
- Argentina: Rodolfo Martín Villa
- Armenia: Serzh Sargsyan
- Colombia: Álvaro Uribe
- Israel: Benjamin Netanyahu
- Kyrgyzstan: Almazbek Atambayev
- Malta: Yorgen Fenech
- Russia: Mikhail Yefremov
- South Africa: Jacob Zuma
- Spain: Bárcenas affair
- Sudan: Omar al-Bashir
- United States: Fat Leonard scandal, Varsity Blues scandal
- International: The Gambia v. Myanmar
Upcoming
- Kosovo: Hashim Thaçi
- Lesotho: Maesiah Thabane
- Rwanda: Paul Rusesabagina
- Spain: Jordi Pujol, 2017 Catalonia attacks
- United States: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Elizabeth Holmes, Meng Wanzhou, R. Kelly, Ghislaine Maxwell, Steve Bannon
- Vanuatu: Charlot Salwai
- Zimbabwe: Ignatius Chombo
- Association football
- Women's association football
- American football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Golf
- Ice hockey
- Motorsport
- Rugby sevens
- Rugby union
- Tennis
- Other sports seasons
More details – current sports events
October 2020
- 31: Sean Connery
- 30: Madam Auring
- 30: Nobby Stiles
- 30: Mesut Yılmaz
- 29: Keshubhai Patel
- 28: Bobby Ball
- 28: Cecilia Chiang
- 28: Billy Joe Shaver
- 28: Tracy Smothers
- 27: Don Mazankowski
- 26: Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri
- 26: Diane di Prima
- 25: Lee Kun-hee
- 25: Robert E. Murray
- 25: Thomas Oppermann
- 24: Azim of Brunei
- 23: Jerry Jeff Walker
- 22: William Blinn
- 22: Shukur Hamidov
- 22: Richard A. Lupoff
- 21: Frank Bough
- 21: Marge Champion
- 21: J. Michael Lane
- 21: Viola Smith
- 20: James Randi
- 19: Spencer Davis
- 19: Tony Lewis
- 19: Enzo Mari
- 18: Alan S. Boyd
- 18: James A. Johnson
- 18: Jose Melo
- 18: Joseph Mar Thoma
- 16: Johnny Bush
- 16: Gordon Haskell
- 15: Bhanu Athaiya
- 15: Ed Benguiat
- 14: Fred Dean
- 14: Rhonda Fleming
- 14: Herbert Kretzmer
- 14: Kuniwo Nakamura
- 13: Edward C. Meyer
- 12: Conchata Ferrell
- 12: Roberta McCain
- 11: Joe Morgan
- 8: Jim Dwyer
- 8: Whitey Ford
- 8: Ali Khalif Galaydh
- 8: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian
- 7: Tom Kennedy
- 7: Mario Molina
- 6: Johnny Nash
- 6: Eddie Van Halen
- 5: Margaret Nolan
- 5: Monica Roberts
- 4: Kenzō Takada
- 4: Peregrine Worsthorne
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
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