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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