About December 20
December 20, 2023 is the 354th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 52 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 20
- 217 –The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity.
- 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.
- 1808 –Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
- 1860 –South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
- 1924 –Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
- 1946 –The popular Christmas film It’s a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.
- 1952 –United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
- 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.
- 1977 –Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1996 –NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- 1999 –Macau is handed over to the People’s Republic of China by Portugal.
- 2005 –In Durrës, Albania was founded Aleksander Moisiu University.
- 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.
- 2007 –The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.
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