About December 20
December 20, 2024 is the 355th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 40 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 20
- 69 –Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor.
- 1192 –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 Third crusade.
- 1522 –Siege of Rhodes: 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.
- 1803 –The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
- 1860 –South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
- 1924 –Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
- 1942 –World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
- 1952 –United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
- 1955 –Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
- 1959 –The Walker family murders are committed.
- 1960 –National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed.
- 1971 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
- 1973 –The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.
- 1988 –The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna.
- 1989 –United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
- 1995 –NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
- 1999 –Macau is handed over to the People’s Republic of China by Portugal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2007 –Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
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