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.
- 1803 –The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
- 1808 –Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
- 1915 –World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
- 1917 –Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.
- 1924 –Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
- 1942 –World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.
- 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.
- 1968 –The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
- 1971 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
- 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.
- 1987 –History’s worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
- 1988 –The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna.
- 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 –In Durrës, Albania was founded Aleksander Moisiu University.
- 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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