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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1991 –A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
- 1995 –NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.
- 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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