December 20 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, 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, 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, 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, 1999 (December 20 1999) | Event | Macau is handed over to the People s Republic of China by Portugal. | |
December 20th, 1996 (December 20 1996) | Event | NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. | |
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, 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, 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, 1988 (December 20 1988) | Event | The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna. | |
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, 1973 (December 20 1973) | Event | The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid. | |
December 20th, 1968 (December 20 1968) | Event | The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. | |
December 20th, 1960 (December 20 1960) | Event | National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. | |
December 20th, 1955 (December 20 1955) | Event | Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. | |
December 20th, 1952 (December 20 1952) | Event | United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87. | |
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, 1942 (December 20 1942) | Event | World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese. | |
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, 1917 (December 20 1917) | Event | Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded. | |
December 20th, 1915 (December 20 1915) | Event | World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli. | |
December 20th, 1860 (December 20 1860) | Event | South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States. | |
December 20th, 1835 (December 20 1835) | Event | First signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence at Goliad, Texas. | |
December 20th, 1803 (December 20 1803) | Event | The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. | |
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, 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, 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. | |