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History Events on December 20

By  Frankie Keller  20 Dec   119 Views

History Events on December 20

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The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

#Louisiana_Purchase

In 1803

HMS Clio under the command of Captain Onslow arrives at Port Egmont under orders to take possession of the Falkland Islands

#HMS_Clio_(1807)

In 1832

Cistercian Jacques Fournier is elected Pope Benedict XII.

#Pope_Benedict_XII

In 1334

Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

#Adolf_Hitler

In 1924

Indonesian National Revolution: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the temporary capital of the newly-formed Republic of Indonesia.

#Indonesian_National_Revolution

In 1948

World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.

#World_War_II

In 1941

The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.

#Experimental_Breeder_Reactor_I

In 1951

The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.

#Zodiac_Killer

In 1968

The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York City.

#It's_a_Wonderful_Life

In 1946

The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.

#Médecins_Sans_Frontières

In 1971

Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.

#Peninsular_War

In 1808

The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

#Virginia_Company

In 1606

A Pennsylvania Railroad Budd Metroliner exceeds 155 mph on their New York Division, also present day Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

#Pennsylvania_Railroad

In 1967

American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.

#American_Airlines_Flight_965

In 1995

The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

#Summit_Tunnel_fire

In 1984

Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.

#Richard_I_of_England

In 1192

NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia.

#NATO

In 1995

South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.

#South_Carolina

In 1860

The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.

#United_States_invasion_of_Panama

In 1989

The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight.

#Boeing_707

In 1957

The Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid.

#Prime_Minister_of_Spain

In 1973

In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

#MV_Doña_Paz

In 1987

Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.

#Cardiff

In 1955

Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, seven months and 29 days.

#Elizabeth_II

In 2007

World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.

#Imperial_Japanese_Army_Air_Service

In 1942

A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, one of the largest bank robberies in British history.

#Northern_Bank_robbery

In 2004

Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor.

#Vespasian

In 69

A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

#Missouri

In 1991

World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.

#World_War_I

In 1915

A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.

#United_States_Air_Force

In 1952

Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.

#Macau

In 1999

Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

In 1985

The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.

In 2007

Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.

In 1917

The original Covent Garden Theatre in London is destroyed by a fire, along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

In 1808

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