Timeline October 2020

Events in October 2020 10

• 1930 – 2020 Sean Connery (1930-2020) Died 31 October 2020, aged 90 Sean Connery was a Scottish actor who became the first to play James Bond on screen, starring in seven Bond films, and later won an Academy Award for The Untouchables. He died on 31 October 2020 in the Bahamas.
• 1955 – 2020 Eddie Van Halen (1955-2020) Died 6 October 2020, aged 65 Eddie Van Halen was the virtuoso guitarist and co-founder of the rock band Van Halen, celebrated for his innovative tapping technique. He died of cancer on 6 October 2020.
• 1963 – 2020 Brian "Licorice" Locking's later years Jehovah's Witness work After leaving the Shadows in 1963, Brian "Licorice" Locking devoted his life to work as a Jehovah's Witness, making occasional appearances at reunions and on recordings with former bandmates over the following decades. He died peacefully on 8 October 2020 at the age of 81.
• 2020 AMD RDNA 2 — challenging Nvidia in gaming GPUs AMD introduces its RDNA 2 GPU architecture in October 2020 with the Radeon RX 6000 series — the first AMD gaming GPUs to genuinely compete with Nvidia's RTX 3000 series across the entire performance range. The RX 6800 XT matches the RTX 3080 in gaming performance at equivalent pricing. AMD also licenses RDNA 2 to both Sony (PlayStation 5) and Microsoft (Xbox Series X/S) — meaning AMD GPU architecture powers both major gaming consoles simultaneously for the first time.
• 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for CRISPR Charpentier and Doudna honored for gene-editing tool Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 7 October 2020 for developing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, the first time the prize went to an all-female team. The technology has transformed biological research and holds promise for treating genetic disease.
• 2020 Fourth NBA championship in the Bubble In the NBA's Orlando Bubble amid the COVID-19 pandemic, LeBron leads the Lakers to the championship over the Miami Heat, winning his fourth title and fourth Finals MVP; he also wins Western Conference Finals MVP.
• 2020 Star Trek: Discovery — Season 3 Discovery arrives in the 32nd century, 930 years after its own time, to find the Federation in ruins after a catastrophic event called "The Burn." The show reinvents itself — the best season to date — exploring a Federation without power and without certainty.
• 2020 Chile votes to rewrite constitution Referendum approves replacing Pinochet-era charter Chileans voted overwhelmingly in a referendum on 25 October 2020 to draft a new constitution to replace the one enacted under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. The vote followed mass protests over inequality that began in late 2019.
• 2020 Lee Kun-hee dies — Lee Jae-yong inherits Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee dies on 25 October 2020, aged 78. His son Lee Jae-yong formally inherits the chairmanship — though the succession triggers an enormous inheritance tax bill estimated at 12 trillion won ($10 billion), which the Lee family pays over five years. Lee Jae-yong's leadership style is different from his father's: more international, more focused on technology partnerships.
• 2020 Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court Senate confirms Trump's third justice days before election The US Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on 26 October 2020, just eight days before the presidential election, to fill the seat left vacant by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Her confirmation cemented a 6-3 conservative majority on the court.