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[edit] Scheduled events
March
Yahoo! Inc.'s 25th birthday; opening of the Yahoo! Time Capsule.
June
European Football Championship
July
July 16 Time capsule of Shelby, Iowa will be opened.
October
Halloween, on a Full Moon
November
3 - Presidential election and 117th Congressional election in the United States
[edit] Confirmed but unscheduled events
The following events will happen in 2020 but they haven't been scheduled yet.
XXXII summer Olympic Games to be held (bidding cities: Milan (Italy), New York City (U.S.), Paris (France), Warsaw (Poland), Melbourne (Australia), and Berlin (Germany))
Last nuclear power plant in Germany to be shut down
Schapelle Corby to be released from prison for drug trafficking in Indonesia
Former U.S. Major League Baseball players to become eligible for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Willie McGee, Jim Abbott, Darryl Strawberry, Jack McDowell, Chili Davis, Tom Candiotti, Jeff Montgomery, Tony Phillips, Terry Steinbach, Mark Langston, and Otis Nixon.
[edit] Predicted or expected events
The following events are predicted or expected to happen in 2020.
General predicitions
British newspaper The Guardian published a series of magazines in September 2004 predicting life in 2020 [1].
Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project was published in December 2004 with a long-term view of the future. The NIC is the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the US Government.
Space
According to current plans and workings for Project Constellation, NASA should be returning Humans to the Moon by 2020.
NASA plans to launch a manned mission to Mars by 2020.
The Russian Federal Space Agency says that they plan to be mining helium-3 from the moon by this year.
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).
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to fly beyond Pluto and Charon to the Kuiper Belt Objects.
Military
Future Force Warrior to be phased into United States armed forces.
Politics
Predicted proclamation of Malaysia as a developed country, under the Wawasan 2020 plan initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
India's 2020 Vision of becoming a developed, powerful, and influential nation-state is expected to be fulfilled.
People's Republic of China intends to take back Taiwan under Chinese rule at latest by 2020. The country is also predicted to become the world's most powerful economy by this time.
Construction
Completion of restoration works to the Forbidden City in the People's Republic of China.
Completion of the National Trunk Highway System in the People's Republic of China.
Completion of the construction of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.
Completion of the urban revitalization of downtown Lisbon, Portugal.
2006-12-13 23:58:36
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answered by FIRE § 4
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Mission (more accurately vision) 2020 , is a year by which India will be a developed country, if we continue to grwo by current pace. This is not just the economic consideration, but also includes quality of life, total infrastructure growth, education and much more. For understanding this concept you must read Vision 2020 By our beloved President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. That should clear your doubts.
2016-05-24 01:19:51
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answered by Anonymous
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Its a vision of what India should be in the year 2020 and what we need to do to get there. It was written by India's President APJ Kalam. But it isn't going to happen as the bureaucracy is lazy, corrupt, and inefficient.
Vision 2020 talks the talk but it won't be able to walk the talk.
2006-12-14 01:02:36
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answered by Souled Out 2
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