One of the many representations of the corona virus. See also COVID-19 Map (John Hopkins)

In the year 2020, Chinese authorities publicly confirm human-to-human transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Jan 20), the United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union (Jan 31), the World Health Organization names the disease COVID-19 (Feb 11), WHO declares the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic (Mar 11), the death toll from COVID-19 exceeds 100,000 globally (Apr 10), fossils found in a Bulgarian cave belonging to Homo sapiens indicate that modern humans may have arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought (May 11), China passes the controversial Hong Kong national security law (Jun 30), Africa is declared free of wild polio (Aug 25), skeletons of 200 mammoths are unearthed in Mexico City (Sep 3), the worldwide death toll from COVID-19 exceeds one million (Sep 29), a NASA spacecraft briefly touches down on the asteroid Bennu, and retrieves historical samples (Oct 20), the United Kingdom becomes the first nation to begin a mass inoculation campaign using the fully tested Pfizer vaccine (Dec 8), followed by the United States and Canada (Dec 14) - and all these fine people were born:

2020-0510 Prince Charles of Luxembourg* second in the line of succession to the throne of Luxembourg - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Updated 18.7.2021
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