
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining. ==Events== *1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. *1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed *1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States *1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli *1917 - Cheka, first Soviet Union secret police, founded *1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87 *1960 - Viet Cong is formed *1984 - 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 *1988 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. *1989 - Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega *1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia *1995 - An American Airlines American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160 *1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples *1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal. *2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as United States Senate Majority Leader. ==Births== *1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) *1579 - (baptized) John Fletcher (playwright), playwright (d. 1625) *1629 - Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684) *1792 - Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845) *1805 - Thomas Graham (chemist), Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869) *1833 - Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883) *1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster/theologian/author of Flatland (d. 1926) *1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (d. 1932) *1856 - Ferdinand Avenarius, author (d. 1923) *1860 - Dan Leno, England entertainer (d. 1904) *1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenes painter (d. 1926) *1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, aka Lady Mendl, actress & interior decorator (. 1950) *1868 - Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938) *1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965) *1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, United States tennis star (d. 1974) *1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, actress * 1890 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (d.1967) *1893 - Charlotte Buhler, psychologist *1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978) *1898 - Irene Dunne, actress (d. 1990) *1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967) *1902 - Sidney Hook, United States philosopher (d. 1989) * 1902 - Max Lerner, United States educator (d. 1992) * 1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) *1922 - George Roy Hill, film director (d. 2002) *1923 - James Leasor, writer, mystery *1924 - Friederike Mayrocker, author *1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician * 1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, politician *1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea *1930 - Noel Ferrier, producer and actress *1933 - Jean Carnahan, United States Senate *1942 - Bob Hayes, athletics star, American football star (d. 2002) *1946 - Dick Wolf, USA Television drama series creator *1946 - Uri Geller, psychic TV presenter *1952 - Jenny Agutter, actress *1954 - Michael Badalucco, actor *1955 - Lonesome Bob, singer, songwriter *1957 - Anna Vissi, Greek singer *1957 - Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter * 1957 - Mike Watt, bassist *1960 - Nalo Hopkinson, science fiction author *1965 - Rich Gannon, American football quarterback *1970 - Nicole DeBoer, actress (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''The Dead Zone'') *1980 - Ashley Cole, England football (soccer) *1990 - Joanna Levesque, AKA JoJo, singer ==Deaths== *217 - Pope Zephyrinus *860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex *910 - Alfonso III of Leon *1524 - Thomas Linacre, scholar and physician *1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) *1812 - Sacagawea, guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition *1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (b. 1865) *1954 - James Hilton, American author (b. 1900) *1961 - Moss Hart, author (b. 1904) * 1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) *1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902) *1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassination) (b. 1903) * 1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936) *1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) *1976 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902) *1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, musician (b. 1887) *1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Major League Baseball player (b. 1946) *1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908) *1994 - Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State (b. 1909) *1996 - Carl Sagan, astronomer, writer (b. 1934) *1997 - Denise Levertov, poet *1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933) *1998 - Irene Hervey, actress (b. 1910) *1999 - Hank Snow, country music singer (b. 1914) *2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bengali statesman, politician, and philanthropist. (b. 1920) *2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912) *2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal bs:Decembar 20 la:20 Decembris
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December 20
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining. ==Events== *1522 - Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually re-settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. *1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed *1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States *1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli *1917 - Cheka, first Soviet Union secret police, founded *1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87 *1960 - Viet Cong is formed *1984 - 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 *1988 - The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. *1989 - Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega *1995 - NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia *1995 - An American Airlines American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160 *1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples *1999 - Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal. *2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as United States Senate Majority Leader. ==Births== *1537 - King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) *1579 - (baptized) John Fletcher (playwright), playwright (d. 1625) *1629 - Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684) *1792 - Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845) *1805 - Thomas Graham (chemist), Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869) *1833 - Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883) *1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, schoolmaster/theologian/author of Flatland (d. 1926) *1841 - Ferdinand Buisson, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 (d. 1932) *1856 - Ferdinand Avenarius, author (d. 1923) *1860 - Dan Leno, England entertainer (d. 1904) *1861 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenes painter (d. 1926) *1865 - Elsie De Wolfe, aka Lady Mendl, actress & interior decorator (. 1950) *1868 - Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938) *1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965) *1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, United States tennis star (d. 1974) *1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, actress * 1890 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry (d.1967) *1893 - Charlotte Buhler, psychologist *1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978) *1898 - Irene Dunne, actress (d. 1990) *1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967) *1902 - Sidney Hook, United States philosopher (d. 1989) * 1902 - Max Lerner, United States educator (d. 1992) * 1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) *1922 - George Roy Hill, film director (d. 2002) *1923 - James Leasor, writer, mystery *1924 - Friederike Mayrocker, author *1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician * 1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, politician *1927 - Kim Young-sam, President of South Korea *1930 - Noel Ferrier, producer and actress *1933 - Jean Carnahan, United States Senate *1942 - Bob Hayes, athletics star, American football star (d. 2002) *1946 - Dick Wolf, USA Television drama series creator *1946 - Uri Geller, psychic TV presenter *1952 - Jenny Agutter, actress *1954 - Michael Badalucco, actor *1955 - Lonesome Bob, singer, songwriter *1957 - Anna Vissi, Greek singer *1957 - Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter * 1957 - Mike Watt, bassist *1960 - Nalo Hopkinson, science fiction author *1965 - Rich Gannon, American football quarterback *1970 - Nicole DeBoer, actress (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''The Dead Zone'') *1980 - Ashley Cole, England football (soccer) *1990 - Joanna Levesque, AKA JoJo, singer ==Deaths== *217 - Pope Zephyrinus *860 - King Ethelbald of Wessex *910 - Alfonso III of Leon *1524 - Thomas Linacre, scholar and physician *1722 - Kangxi Emperor of China (b. 1654) *1812 - Sacagawea, guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition *1937 - Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (b. 1865) *1954 - James Hilton, American author (b. 1900) *1961 - Moss Hart, author (b. 1904) * 1961 - Earle Page, eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) *1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902) *1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister of Spain (assassination) (b. 1903) * 1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936) *1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) *1976 - Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902) *1982 - Arthur Rubinstein, musician (b. 1887) *1984 - Gonzalo Márquez, Major League Baseball player (b. 1946) *1989 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908) *1994 - Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State (b. 1909) *1996 - Carl Sagan, astronomer, writer (b. 1934) *1997 - Denise Levertov, poet *1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933) *1998 - Irene Hervey, actress (b. 1910) *1999 - Hank Snow, country music singer (b. 1914) *2000 - Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bengali statesman, politician, and philanthropist. (b. 1920) *2001 - Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (b. 1912) *2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal bs:Decembar 20 la:20 Decembris
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