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November 4, 2020

On November 4, 2020, the Tigray War begins with Tigrayan rebels launching attacks on Ethiopian command centers. The year's #1 song was "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd.

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2020 (MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade.

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  1. 2020 The Tigray War begins with Tigrayan rebels launching attacks on Ethiopian command centers.

    Armed conflict in Ethiopia (2020–2022)

    The Tigray war, also referred to in some academic and policy sources as the northern Ethiopia conflict, was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. It was a civil war primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied with the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.

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Ken Hensley English musician (1945–2020)

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