2020 - Definition and Overview

2020 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. (see link for calendar)

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

Events

• 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).

Related article

• Joint Vision 2020
• Guardian Unlimited: "The world in 2020" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/2020/0,15047,1299021,00.html)