2020

OIL CRISIS EXPECTED THIS YEAR (2020) LIKELY DUE TO LACK OF OIL IN MIDDLE EAST!
 * May 17 – Dominican Republic presidential election.
 * July 24 – August 9 – The 2020 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo, Japan.[1]
 * October 18 – The 2020 ICC T20 World Cup will be held in Australia in 8 cities.
 * October 20 – The 2020 World Expo will open in Dubai.[2]
 * November 3 – United States presidential election. (It will be likely democrat due to Trumps popularity decreasing slowly as of Half Elections in 2018)
 * December 31 – The Brexit transition period will expire.

OTHER DATES:


 * ESA's ExoMars Rover launches from Earth.[3]
 * Planned initial observations by the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope.
 * Planned launch of NASA's Mars 2020 mission to study the habitability of Mars and prepare for future human missions.[4]
 * Planned launch of the unmanned Euclid spaceprobe to study dark energy.
 * The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository was scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.[5]
 * 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).
 * Estimated completion date for the Compass navigation system.[6]
 * Liberia will become the first nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid – Norway will pay the impoverished country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020.[7]
 * According to UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres, 2020 is a critical year to limit climate change and avoid irreversible effects.[8]
 * The Large Hadron Collider will be substantially upgraded.
 * Estimated completion date for the Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which is expected to become the tallest building in the world and the first to reach 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in height.[9]
 * Estimated completion of the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland.[10]
 * According to Indian government report, 21 cities' groundwater will run out by 2020.[11]
 * Britain will withdraw troops from Germany for the first time since WWII.[12]