December 20

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 20. From 1900 until now. December 20 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include JoJo (singer) (1990), Jonah Hill (1983) and Uri Geller (1946). Several movies were released around December 20 over the years, such as The General in 1926 directed by Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton and Andrei Rublev in 1966 directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
But much more happened on December 20 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

R.C. Saints - Saint Dominic of Silos
Also see December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The first All Faiths Day was celebrated in 2003 in Canandaigua, New York.

Events

2018 Parts of the Ventura Freeway in Southern California is renamed as “President Barack H. Obama Highway” in honor of former President Barack Obama. (Pasadena Star News) (ABC News)
2017 The European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that Uber is officially a transport company and not a digital service, thus requiring it to accept stricter regulation and licensing within the European Union. The case arose after Uber was told to obey local taxi rules in Barcelona. (The Guardian)
2016 Assassination of Andrei Karlov: Six people are arrested in Ankara for alleged involvement in the murder of Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
2015 Air France Flight 463 en route to Paris from Mauritius makes an emergency landing in Mombasa, Kenya, after a package, suspected to be a bomb is found in the toilet. Later, Air France CEO Frédéric Gagey says it was a false alarm; the package contained a mixture of cardboard, sheets of paper, and a timer. (AP via News24) (CNN) (Reuters)
2014 War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistan Armed Forces attacks two Pakistani Taliban positions near Peshawar, killing 5 militants. (BBC)
2013 A gunman opens fire outside a terminal at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, Philippines, killing four people, including the mayor of Labangan, Ukol Talumpa. (CNN)
2012 Syrian civil war:: The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says there is no prospect of an end to the conflict in Syria. (Al Jazeera)
2011 Syria says it will execute anyone who participates in ampquotterrorist actsampquot, under a new law. (CNN)
2010 7 people are killed in a roadside bomb and shooting incident in the Somali capital Mogadishu. (Reuters)
2009 Tanzania is hit by an earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude. (Xinhua) (Press TV)
2008 The Swedish Academy, the body that selects the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, announces that Horace Engdahl will be replaced as its permanent secretary by historian Peter Englund. (AP via Google News)
2007 A group of activist Lakota Indians send a letter to the United States State Department declaring their secession from the Union.
2006 The Home Office department of the United Kingdom Government announces plan to require foreign nationals living in Britain to have biometric ID cards. (Guardian Unlimited)
2005 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.
2004 A gang of thieves steal ?26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.
2003 Libya admits to building a nuclear bomb.
2002 Barbara Joyce Williams Ferrell, daughter of baseball player Ted Williams, has dropped her lawsuit to have the body of her father removed from a cryonics storage facility and cremated.
2001 The Argentine government of President Fernando De la Rúa collapses amidst rioting and violence throughout the country. See December 2001 riots (Argentina)
2000 Mirusuvil massacre: eight Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, including children,{{cite web |url=
1999 The Vermont Supreme Court orders the state to legalize same-sex unions.
1996 Apple Computer announces it will buy the NeXT Software company for about US$400 million in cash and Apple stock. NeXT Software CEO Steve Jobs will become an advisor to Apple chairman and CEO Gilbert Amelio.
1995 Paul Roebson opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
1994 Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69), dies at age 85.
1993 Donald Trump weds Marla Maples.
1992 Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability".
1991 Paul Keating installed as Premier of Australia
1990 Pentagon warns Saddam Hussein that US air power is ready to attack on January 15.
1989 American forces launch Operation Just Cause in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. 13,000 U.S. troops are sent to occupy Panama City, along with the 12,000 already there.
1988 NBC signs lease to stay in New York City for 33 more years.
1987 Nuts with Barbra Striesand premieres
1986 White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York
1985 Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points).
1984 33 unknown keyboard (piano) works of Johann Sebastion Bach are found in the Yale library.
1983 PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
1981 Dreamgirls opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
1980 USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin.
1978 Harry R Haldeman, President Richard Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail.
1977 Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
1976 Music Is opens at St. James Theater NYC for 8 performances
1975 Pope Paul VI namea J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht.
1974 George Harrison releases his Dark Horse album in the UK
1973 Montreal Canadiens' Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point.
1972 Neil Simons Sunshine Boys, premieres in New York City
1971 Roy Oliver Disney, co-founder of Walt Disney Company, dies of a massive brain hemorrhage, at age 78.
1968 The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
1967 Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
1965 WFP made a permanent UN agency.
1964 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government.
1963 Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville.
1962 D Sjostakovitz opera Katerina Ismailova, premieres in Moscow
1961 Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at age 57.
1960 National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
1959 Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India versus Australia at Kanpur.
1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
1956 Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra.
1955 Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
1953 KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
1952 KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1950 Harvey, starring James Stewart, premieres in New York
1948 Second Chamber accepts second Police Action in Indonesia.
1946 An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaido, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
1945 Rationing of auto tires ends in US.
1944 Archbishop De Young and Bishop Huibers condemn black market
1943 A military coup is staged in Bolivia.
1942 World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao.
1940 Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Kansas City Athletics for US$42,000.
1939 Radio Australia begins overseas short-wave service.
1938 Vladimir K Zworykin (Pennsylvania, USA) receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system.
1935 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
1933 Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire.
1932 Queensland all out 74 versus Victoria, Bert Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13.
1929 Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
1928 Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St, New York City
1926 Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1923 BEGGARS Fraternity (the first social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by nine men, who secured permission to do so from the Pope.
1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president.
1920 Bob Hope becomes an American citizen.
1919 US House of Representatives restricts immigration.
1918 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk returns to the Czechoslovak Republic.
1917 Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski.
1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia.
1907 Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91.
1906 Venezuela (under Vice-President Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet.
1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be first comet visited by spacecraft).
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