About December 20
December 20, 2025 is the 354th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 59 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 20
- 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.
- 1606 –The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
- 1803 –The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
- 1917 –Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded.
- 1924 –Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
- 1941 –World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the “Flying Tigers” in Kunming, China.
- 1951 –The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
- 1955 –Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
- 1959 –The Walker family murders are committed.
- 1971 –Zulfikar Ali Bhutto takes over as the fourth President of Pakistan.
- 1977 –Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1991 –A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
- 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.
- 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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