History-making events that have happened in 2020

News on the outbreak of the coronavirus and its related developments, the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, the tragedy of the Ukrainian flight 752, US President Donald Trump's actions on the Palestinian issue, developments in Syria, Libya and Iraq, the death of George Floyd and its related developments in the US, the Beirut explosion, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the US Presidential Election, and the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh were among the major events in the West Asia and the world in 2020.

Here is a look at some of the shocking events that happened, some of which you may have forgotten about:

January

First cases of coronavirus seen in Wuhan

A man in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the current coronavirus outbreak