December 20 All Events |
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| December 20th, 2069 (December 20 2069) | Event | Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor. | |
| December 20th, 2007 (December 20 2007) | Event | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. | |
| December 20th, 2007 (December 20 2007) | Event | The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, was stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Cafe, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari. | Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| December 20th, 2007 (December 20 2007) | Death | Nataline Sarkisyan, a seventeen-year-old leukemia patient whose insurer, Cigna HealthCare, refused to pay for treatment. | |
| December 20th, 2006 (December 20 2006) | Event | A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle. | |
| December 20th, 2006 (December 20 2006) | Death | Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer. Executed. | |
| December 20th, 2005 (December 20 2005) | Event | 2005 New York City transit strike: New York City s Transport Workers Union Local 100 goes on strike, shutting down all New York City Subway and Bus services. | |
| December 20th, 2005 (December 20 2005) | Event | US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. | |
| December 20th, 2005 (December 20 2005) | Event | The first same sex civil partnerships in Scotland are celebrated. | |
| December 20th, 2005 (December 20 2005) | Death | Maniam Moorthy, member of the first Malaysian team to summit Mount Everest | |
| December 20th, 2002 (December 20 2002) | Event | US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader. | Trent Lott Quotes |
| December 20th, 2001 (December 20 2001) | Event | Argentine economic crisis: President of Argentina Fernando de la Rua is forced out of office. | |
| December 20th, 2001 (December 20 2001) | Death | Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (born in 1912) | |
| December 20th, 2001 (December 20 2001) | Death | Leopold Sedar Senghor, first President of Senegal (born in 1906) | |
| December 20th, 2000 (December 20 2000) | Death | Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladesh statesman, politician, and philanthropist (born in 1920) | |
| December 20th, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Event | Macau is handed over to the People s Republic of China by Portugal. | |
| December 20th, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Death | Hank Snow, Canadian singer (born in 1914) | |
| December 20th, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Death | Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (born in 1909) | |
| December 20th, 1998 (December 20 1998) | Death | Irene Hervey, American actress (born in 1910) | |
| December 20th, 1998 (December 20 1998) | Death | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1916) | |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Denise Levertov, English-born poet (born in 1923) | Denise Levertov Quotes |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (born in 1933) | |
| December 20th, 1997 (December 20 1997) | Death | Dawn Steel, American film producer (born in 1946) | |
| December 20th, 1996 (December 20 1996) | Event | NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. | |
| December 20th, 1996 (December 20 1996) | Death | Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (born in 1934) | Carl Sagan Quotes |
| December 20th, 1995 (December 20 1995) | Event | NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. | |
| December 20th, 1995 (December 20 1995) | Event | American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160. | |
| December 20th, 1995 (December 20 1995) | Event | The Democratic Social Movement is founded in Greece. | |
| December 20th, 1994 (December 20 1994) | Death | Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (born in 1909) | |
| December 20th, 1991 (December 20 1991) | Event | A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. | |
| December 20th, 1991 (December 20 1991) | Death | Simone Beck, French chef (born in 1904) | |
| December 20th, 1990 (December 20 1990) | Birth | JoJo, American singer | |
| December 20th, 1989 (December 20 1989) | Event | United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. | |
| December 20th, 1989 (December 20 1989) | Birth | Virgilio Falco, Italian politician | Virgil Quotes |
| December 20th, 1989 (December 20 1989) | Death | Kurt Bohme, German bass (born in 1908) | |
| December 20th, 1988 (December 20 1988) | Event | The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna. | |
| December 20th, 1988 (December 20 1988) | Death | Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer, president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (born in 1908) | |
| December 20th, 1987 (December 20 1987) | Birth | Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka | |
| December 20th, 1986 (December 20 1986) | Death | Joe DeSa, baseball player (born in 1959) | |
| December 20th, 1984 (December 20 1984) | Event | The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines. | |
| December 20th, 1984 (December 20 1984) | Death | Gonzalo Marquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (born in 1946) | |
| December 20th, 1983 (December 20 1983) | Birth | Jonah Hill, American actor | |
| December 20th, 1983 (December 20 1983) | Birth | Lucy Pinder, British model | |
| December 20th, 1983 (December 20 1983) | Birth | Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer | |
| December 20th, 1983 (December 20 1983) | Birth | Lara Stone, Dutch model | |
| December 20th, 1983 (December 20 1983) | Birth | Adrian Varela, Mexican singer | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Birth | David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol. | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Birth | Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricket player | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Birth | Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Birth | David Wright, American baseball player | |
| December 20th, 1982 (December 20 1982) | Death | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist (born in 1887) | |
| December 20th, 1981 (December 20 1981) | Birth | Roy Williams, American football player | |
| December 20th, 1981 (December 20 1981) | Birth | James Shields, American baseball player | |
| December 20th, 1981 (December 20 1981) | Birth | Chris Edwards, British musician (Kasabian) | |
| December 20th, 1981 (December 20 1981) | Death | Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (born in 1899) | |
| December 20th, 1980 (December 20 1980) | Birth | Ashley Cole, English footballer | |
| December 20th, 1980 (December 20 1980) | Birth | Fitz Hall, English footballer | |
| December 20th, 1980 (December 20 1980) | Birth | Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer | |
| December 20th, 1979 (December 20 1979) | Birth | David DeJesus, American baseball player | |
| December 20th, 1979 (December 20 1979) | Birth | Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist | |
| December 20th, 1978 (December 20 1978) | Birth | Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer | |
| December 20th, 1978 (December 20 1978) | Birth | Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player | |
| December 20th, 1977 (December 20 1977) | Birth | Saukrates, Canadian rapper | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Birth | Jang Hyuk, Korean actor | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Birth | Aubrey Huff, American baseball player | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Birth | Adam Powell, Neopets creator | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Birth | Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author | |
| December 20th, 1976 (December 20 1976) | Death | Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1902) | Richard J. Daley Quotes |
| December 20th, 1975 (December 20 1975) | Birth | Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer | |
| December 20th, 1975 (December 20 1975) | Birth | Jaydy Michel, Mexican model | |
| December 20th, 1974 (December 20 1974) | Birth | Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) | |
| December 20th, 1974 (December 20 1974) | Death | Andre Jolivet, French composer (born in 1905) | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Event | The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid. | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Birth | Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Death | Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassinated) (born in 1903) | |
| December 20th, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Death | Bobby Darin, American singer (born in 1936) | |
| December 20th, 1970 (December 20 1970) | Birth | Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress | |
| December 20th, 1970 (December 20 1970) | Birth | Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Event | The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Birth | Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Birth | Joe Cornish, British comedian | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Birth | Phil Andrews, British racing driver | |
| December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Death | John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1902) | John Steinbeck Quotes |
| December 20th, 1966 (December 20 1966) | Birth | Matt Neal , British Race Driver | |
| December 20th, 1966 (December 20 1966) | Birth | Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes) | |
| December 20th, 1966 (December 20 1966) | Birth | Myrra Malmberg, Swedish singer | |
| December 20th, 1965 (December 20 1965) | Birth | Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor | |
| December 20th, 1965 (December 20 1965) | Birth | Rich Gannon, American football player | |
| December 20th, 1964 (December 20 1964) | Birth | Mark Coleman, American Mixed Martial Artist, UFC Hall of Famer | Martial Quotes |
| December 20th, 1963 (December 20 1963) | Birth | Infanta Elena of Spain | |
| December 20th, 1963 (December 20 1963) | Birth | Joel Gretsch, American actor | |
| December 20th, 1961 (December 20 1961) | Birth | Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor | |
| December 20th, 1961 (December 20 1961) | Death | Moss Hart, American dramatist (born in 1904) | |
| December 20th, 1961 (December 20 1961) | Death | Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (born in 1880) | |
| December 20th, 1960 (December 20 1960) | Event | National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. | |
| December 20th, 1960 (December 20 1960) | Birth | Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer | |
| December 20th, 1958 (December 20 1958) | Birth | Steve Sailer, American political commentator | |
| December 20th, 1957 (December 20 1957) | Birth | Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter | |
| December 20th, 1957 (December 20 1957) | Birth | Mike Watt, American bassist | |
| December 20th, 1957 (December 20 1957) | Birth | Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder and scholar (died in 2007) | |
| December 20th, 1957 (December 20 1957) | Birth | Joyce Hyser, American actress | |
| December 20th, 1957 (December 20 1957) | Birth | Anna Vissi, Greek-Cypriot singer | |
| December 20th, 1956 (December 20 1956) | Birth | Blanche Baker, American actress | |
| December 20th, 1956 (December 20 1956) | Birth | Junji Hirata, Japanese professional wrestler | |
| December 20th, 1956 (December 20 1956) | Death | Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist and Public Health minister (born in 1906) | |
| December 20th, 1955 (December 20 1955) | Event | Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. | |
| December 20th, 1955 (December 20 1955) | Birth | Ed Kuepper, German-born Australian musician (The Saints, Laughing Clowns) | |
| December 20th, 1954 (December 20 1954) | Birth | Michael Badalucco, American actor | |
| December 20th, 1954 (December 20 1954) | Birth | Sandra Cisneros, American writer | |
| December 20th, 1954 (December 20 1954) | Death | James Hilton, British author (born in 1900) | |
| December 20th, 1952 (December 20 1952) | Event | United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87. | |
| December 20th, 1952 (December 20 1952) | Birth | Jenny Agutter, English actress | |
| December 20th, 1951 (December 20 1951) | Event | The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for the first time. The electricity powered four light bulbs. | |
| December 20th, 1951 (December 20 1951) | Birth | Gilbert Montagne, French musician | |
| December 20th, 1951 (December 20 1951) | Birth | Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter | |
| December 20th, 1949 (December 20 1949) | Birth | Soumaila Cisse, Malian politician | |
| December 20th, 1949 (December 20 1949) | Birth | Cecil Cooper, American baseball player | |
| December 20th, 1948 (December 20 1948) | Birth | Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist | |
| December 20th, 1947 (December 20 1947) | Birth | Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer | |
| December 20th, 1946 (December 20 1946) | Birth | Uri Geller, Israeli psychic | |
| December 20th, 1946 (December 20 1946) | Birth | John Spencer, American actor (died in 2005) | |
| December 20th, 1946 (December 20 1946) | Birth | Dick Wolf, American television series creator | |
| December 20th, 1945 (December 20 1945) | Birth | Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss) | |
| December 20th, 1944 (December 20 1944) | Birth | Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears) | |
| December 20th, 1944 (December 20 1944) | Birth | Jean Fergusson, English actress | |
| December 20th, 1942 (December 20 1942) | Event | World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese. | |
| December 20th, 1942 (December 20 1942) | Birth | Rana Bhagwandas, Former Pakistani Chief Justice | |
| December 20th, 1941 (December 20 1941) | Event | World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. | |
| December 20th, 1941 (December 20 1941) | Death | Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (born in 1887) | |
| December 20th, 1938 (December 20 1938) | Birth | John Harbison, American composer | |
| December 20th, 1938 (December 20 1938) | Death | Annie Armstrong, US missionary leader (born in 1850) | |
| December 20th, 1937 (December 20 1937) | Death | Erich Ludendorff, German general (born in 1865) | Erich Ludendorff Quotes |
| December 20th, 1935 (December 20 1935) | Birth | Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket player | |
| December 20th, 1935 (December 20 1935) | Death | Martin O Meara, Australian soldier (born in 1882) | |
| December 20th, 1933 (December 20 1933) | Birth | Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator | |
| December 20th, 1933 (December 20 1933) | Birth | Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist | |
| December 20th, 1932 (December 20 1932) | Birth | John Hillerman, American actor, Magnum P.I. | |
| December 20th, 1931 (December 20 1931) | Birth | Mala Powers, American film actress (died in 2007) | |
| December 20th, 1929 (December 20 1929) | Death | Emile Loubet, 7th President of France (b.1838) | |
| December 20th, 1927 (December 20 1927) | Birth | Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea | |
| December 20th, 1926 (December 20 1926) | Birth | Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician | |
| December 20th, 1926 (December 20 1926) | Birth | Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician | |
| December 20th, 1925 (December 20 1925) | Birth | Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (died in 2007) | |
| December 20th, 1925 (December 20 1925) | Birth | Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia | |
| December 20th, 1924 (December 20 1924) | Birth | Charlie Callas, American comedian | |
| December 20th, 1924 (December 20 1924) | Birth | Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (died in 1980) | |
| December 20th, 1922 (December 20 1922) | Birth | George Roy Hill, American film director (died in 2002) | |
| December 20th, 1922 (December 20 1922) | Birth | Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter | |
| December 20th, 1921 (December 20 1921) | Death | Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (born in 1850) | |
| December 20th, 1918 (December 20 1918) | Birth | Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (died in 1988) | |
| December 20th, 1918 (December 20 1918) | Birth | Audrey Totter, American actress | |
| December 20th, 1917 (December 20 1917) | Event | Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded. | |
| December 20th, 1917 (December 20 1917) | Birth | David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (died in 1992) | David Bohm Quotes |
| December 20th, 1917 (December 20 1917) | Death | Lucien Petit-Breton, Argentine-French cyclist (born in 1882) | |
| December 20th, 1916 (December 20 1916) | Birth | Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader | |
| December 20th, 1915 (December 20 1915) | Event | World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli. | |
| December 20th, 1911 (December 20 1911) | Birth | Hortense Calisher, American author | |
| December 20th, 1909 (December 20 1909) | Birth | Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (died in 2000) | |
| December 20th, 1908 (December 20 1908) | Birth | Dennis Morgan, American actor (died in 1994) | |
| December 20th, 1907 (December 20 1907) | Birth | Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (died in 1984) | |
| December 20th, 1905 (December 20 1905) | Birth | Bill O Reilly, Australian cricket player | |
| December 20th, 1904 (December 20 1904) | Birth | Spud Davis, baseball player (died in 1984) | |
| December 20th, 1902 (December 20 1902) | Birth | Sidney Hook, American philosopher (died in 1989) | Philo Quotes |
| December 20th, 1902 (December 20 1902) | Birth | George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (died in 1942) | |
| December 20th, 1901 (December 20 1901) | Birth | Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (died in 1967) | |
| December 20th, 1898 (December 20 1898) | Birth | Irene Dunne, American actress (died in 1990) | |
| December 20th, 1894 (December 20 1894) | Birth | Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (died in 1978) | |
| December 20th, 1890 (December 20 1890) | Birth | Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (died in 1958) | |
| December 20th, 1890 (December 20 1890) | Birth | Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1967) | |
| December 20th, 1888 (December 20 1888) | Birth | Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (died in 1958) | |
| December 20th, 1886 (December 20 1886) | Birth | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (died in 1974) | |
| December 20th, 1881 (December 20 1881) | Birth | Branch Rickey, baseball executive (died in 1965) | |
| December 20th, 1873 (December 20 1873) | Birth | Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(died in 1948) | |
| December 20th, 1868 (December 20 1868) | Birth | Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (died in 1938) | |
| December 20th, 1865 (December 20 1865) | Birth | Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (died in 1950) | |
| December 20th, 1862 (December 20 1862) | Death | Robert Knox | |
| December 20th, 1861 (December 20 1861) | Birth | Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (died in 1926) | |
| December 20th, 1860 (December 20 1860) | Event | South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States. | |
| December 20th, 1860 (December 20 1860) | Birth | Dan Leno, English entertainer (died in 1904) | |
| December 20th, 1856 (December 20 1856) | Death | Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (born in 1820) | |
| December 20th, 1841 (December 20 1841) | Birth | Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died in 1932) | |
| December 20th, 1838 (December 20 1838) | Birth | Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (died in 1926) | |
| December 20th, 1835 (December 20 1835) | Event | First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas. | |
| December 20th, 1833 (December 20 1833) | Birth | Samuel Mudd, American physician (died in 1883) | |
| December 20th, 1812 (December 20 1812) | Death | Sacagawea, Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition | Osho Quotes |
| December 20th, 1803 (December 20 1803) | Event | The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. | |
| December 20th, 1792 (December 20 1792) | Birth | Nicolas Charlet, French painter (died in 1845) | |
| December 20th, 1786 (December 20 1786) | Birth | Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (died in 1853) | |
| December 20th, 1783 (December 20 1783) | Death | Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (born in 1729) | |
| December 20th, 1768 (December 20 1768) | Death | Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (born in 1692) | |
| December 20th, 1740 (December 20 1740) | Death | Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (born in 1675) | |
| December 20th, 1723 (December 20 1723) | Death | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (born in 1652) | |
| December 20th, 1722 (December 20 1722) | Death | Kangxi Emperor of China (born in 1654) | |
| December 20th, 1717 (December 20 1717) | Birth | Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (died in 1787) | |
| December 20th, 1629 (December 20 1629) | Birth | Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (died in 1684) | |
| December 20th, 1626 (December 20 1626) | Birth | Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (died in 1692) | |
| December 20th, 1606 (December 20 1606) | Event | The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. | |
| December 20th, 1590 (December 20 1590) | Death | Ambroise Pare, French physician (born in 1510) | |
| December 20th, 1579 (December 20 1579) | Birth | (baptized) John Fletcher, English playwright (died in 1625) | John Fletcher Quotes |
| December 20th, 1566 (December 20 1566) | Birth | Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (died in 1612) | |
| December 20th, 1539 (December 20 1539) | Death | Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer | |
| December 20th, 1537 (December 20 1537) | Birth | King John III of Sweden (died in 1592) | |
| December 20th, 1524 (December 20 1524) | Death | Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician | |
| December 20th, 1522 (December 20 1522) | Event | Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. | |
| December 20th, 1494 (December 20 1494) | Birth | Oronce Fine, French mathematician (died in 1555) | |
| December 20th, 1494 (December 20 1494) | Death | Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet | |
| December 20th, 1355 (December 20 1355) | Death | Stefan Dusan, Serb king and tsar (born in circa 1308) | |
| December 20th, 1192 (December 20 1192) | Event | Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the crusade. | |
| December 20th, 1022 (December 20 1022) | Death | Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (born in 996) | |
| December 20th, 0910 (December 20 0910) | Death | Alfonso III of Leon | |
| December 20th, 0860 (December 20 0860) | Death | King Ethelbald of Wessex | |
| December 20th, 0217 (December 20 0217) | Death | Pope Zephyrinus | |
