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2020

The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed one million (1,002,159). 51,485 people have died from the virus.

According to a federal report, Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, with a 2.3% increase in the northern part of the country.

NASA announces that it will send astronauts to Mars by 2033 and return to the Moon in 2024.

Rita Johnson becomes the first woman to be elected premier of a Canadian province, British Columbia.

Argentina attacks the British Falkland Islands off its coast.

In his first full season in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky becomes the youngest player to score 50 goals at age 19 years and 2 months.

The CBS television network airs the first episode of the soap opera “Dallas.”

Fleetwood Mac’s album “Rumours” is released. It will remain at No. 1 for 31 weeks.

The Montreal Canadiens win their 34th consecutive home game, an NHL record.

Premiere of Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

Ludwig van Beethoven conducts his First Symphony in Vienna, Austria.

It happened on… April 2