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'''[[December 20]]''' is the 354th day of the year (355th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian calendar]]. There are 11 days remaining.
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==Events==
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*[[1522]] - [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] accepts the surrender of the surviving [[Knights of Rhodes]], who are allowed to evacuate.  They eventually re-settle on [[Malta]] and become known as the [[Knights of Malta]].
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*[[1803]] - [[Louisiana Purchase]] completed
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*[[1860]] - [[South Carolina]] becomes first state to secede from the [[United States]]
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*[[1915]] - Last [[Australia]]n troops evacuated from [[Gallipoli]]
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*[[1917]] - [[Cheka]], first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] secret police, founded
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*[[1952]] - [[United States Air Force]] C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, [[Washington]] killing 87
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*[[1960]] - [[Viet Cong|National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam]] is formed
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*[[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]]
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*[[1988]] - The [[United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances]] is signed at [[Vienna]].
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*[[1989]] - [[Operation Just Cause]]: United States sends troops into [[Panama]] to overthrow government of [[Manuel Noriega]]
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*[[1995]] - [[NATO]] begins peacekeeping in [[Bosnia]]
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*[[1995]] - An [[American Airlines]] [[American Airlines Flight 965|Flight 965]] [[Boeing 757]] crashes into a mountain 50 km north of [[Cali]], [[Colombia]] killing 160
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*[[1999]] - [[Vermont]]'s Supreme Court rules that [[homosexuality|homosexual]] couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married [[heterosexual]] couples
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*[[1999]] - [[Macau]] is handed over to the [[People's Republic of China]] by [[Portugal]].
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*[[2002]] - US Senator [[Trent Lott]] resigns as [[United States Senate Majority Leader|majority leader]].
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*[[2004]] - The [[Miami Dolphins]] upset the defending Super Bowl Champion [[New England Patriots]] in a fourth quarter comeback and scoring two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes of the game to win 29-28.
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==Births==
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*[[1537]] - King [[John III of Sweden]] (d. [[1592]])
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*[[1566]] - [[Edward Wightman]], English Baptist preacher (d. [[1612]])
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*[[1579]] - (baptized) [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]], English playwright (d. [[1625]])
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*[[1626]] - [[Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff]], German statesman (d. [[1692]])
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*[[1629]] - [[Pieter de Hooch]], Dutch painter (d. [[1684]])
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*[[1786]] - [[Pietro Raimondi]], Italian composer (d. [[1853]])
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*[[1792]] - [[Nicolas Charlet]], French painter (d. [[1845]])
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*[[1805]] - [[Thomas Graham (chemist)|Thomas Graham]], Scottish chemist (d. [[1869]])
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*[[1833]] - [[Samuel Mudd]], American physician (d. [[1883]])
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*[[1838]] - [[Edwin Abbott Abbott]], English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. [[1926]])
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*[[1841]] - [[Ferdinand Buisson]], French pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1932]])
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*[[1860]] - [[Dan Leno]], English entertainer (d. [[1904]])
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*[[1861]] - [[Ivana Kobilca]], Slovenian painter (d. [[1926]])
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*[[1868]] - [[Harvey Firestone]], American automobile pioneer (d. [[1938]])
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*[[1881]] - [[Branch Rickey]], baseball executive (d. [[1965]])
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*[[1886]] - [[Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman]], American tennis player (d. [[1974]])
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*[[1890]] - [[Yvonne Arnaud]], French-born actress (d. [[1958]])
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*  1890  - [[Jaroslav Heyrovský]], Czech chemist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (d.[[1967]])
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*[[1894]] - Sir [[Robert Menzies]], twelfth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. [[1978]])
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*[[1898]] - [[Irene Dunne]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
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*[[1901]] - [[Robert Van de Graaff]], American physicist and inventor (d. [[1967]])
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*[[1902]] - [[Sidney Hook]], American philosopher (d. [[1989]])
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*  1902  - [[George Edward Alexander Windsor]], Duke of Kent (d. [[1942]])
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*[[1917]] - [[David Bohm]], American-born physicist, philosopher and neuropsychologist (d. [[1992]])
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*[[1922]] - [[George Roy Hill]], American film director (d. [[2002]])
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*[[1926]] - Sir [[Geoffrey Howe]], British politician
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*  1926  - [[Otto Graf Lambsdorff]], German politician
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*[[1927]] - [[Kim Young-sam]], [[President of South Korea]]
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*[[1933]] - [[Jean Carnahan]], U.S. Senator
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*[[1942]] - [[Bob Hayes]], American football player (d. [[2002]])
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*[[1946]] - [[Dick Wolf]], American television series creator
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*[[1946]] - [[Uri Geller]], Israeli psychic
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*[[1949]] - [[Soumaïla Cissé]], Malian politician
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*[[1952]] - [[Jenny Agutter]], English actress
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*[[1954]] - [[Michael Badalucco]], American actor
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*[[1957]] - [[Anna Vissi]], Greek singer
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*[[1957]] - [[Billy Bragg]], English singer and songwriter
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*  1957  - [[Mike Watt]], American bassist
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*  1957  - [[Joyce Hyser]], American actress
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*[[1960]] - [[Nalo Hopkinson]], Canadian writer
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*[[1965]] - [[Rich Gannon]], American football player
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*[[1970]] - [[Massimo Ellul]], Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
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*[[1970]] - [[Nicole DeBoer]], Canadian actress
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*[[1980]] - [[Ashley Cole]], English footballer
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*[[1990]] - [[JoJo]], American singer
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==Deaths==
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*[[217]] - [[Pope Zephyrinus]]
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*[[860]] - King [[Ethelbald of Wessex]]
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*[[910]] - [[Alfonso III of Leon]]
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*[[1022]] - [[Elvira Menéndez]], queen of [[Alfonso V of Castile]] (b. [[996]])
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*[[1494]] - [[Matteo Maria Boiardo]], Italian poet
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*[[1524]] - [[Thomas Linacre]], English scholar and physician
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*[[1539]] - [[Johannes Lupi]], Flemish composer
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*[[1590]] - [[Ambroise Paré]], French physician (b. [[1510]])
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*[[1722]] - [[Kangxi Emperor]] of China (b. [[1654]])
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*[[1740]] - [[Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon]], English military officer and statesman (b. [[1675]])
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*[[1768]] - [[Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni]], Italian poet (b. [[1692]])
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*[[1812]] - [[Sacagawea]], Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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*[[1929]] - [[Émile Loubet]], 7th [[President of France]] (b.[[1838]])
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*[[1937]] - [[Erich Ludendorff]], German general (b. [[1865]])
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*[[1941]] - [[Igor Severyanin]], Russian poet (b. [[1887]])
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*[[1943]] - [[Sergei Tretyakov]], Russian writer (b. [[1894]])
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*[[1954]] - [[James Hilton]], American author (b. [[1900]])
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*[[1961]] - [[Moss Hart]], American author (b. [[1904]])
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*  1961  - [[Earle Page]], eleventh [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1880]])
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*[[1968]] - [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])
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*[[1973]] - [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (assassinated) (b. [[1903]])
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*  1973  - [[Bobby Darin]], American singer (b. [[1936]])
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*[[1974]] - [[André Jolivet]], French composer (b. [[1905]])
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*[[1976]] - [[Richard J. Daley]], Mayor of Chicago (b. [[1902]])
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*[[1982]] - [[Arthur Rubinstein]], Polish-born pianist (b. [[1887]])
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*[[1984]] - [[Gonzalo Márquez]], Venezuelan [[Major League Baseball]] player (b. [[1946]])
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*[[1989]] - [[Kurt Böhme]], German bass (b. [[1908]])
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*[[1994]] - [[Dean Rusk]], [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. [[1909]])
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*[[1996]] - [[Carl Sagan]], American astronomer and writer (b. [[1934]])
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*[[1997]] - [[Denise Levertov]], English-born poet (b. [[1923]])
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*[[1997]] - [[Juzo Itami]], Japanese actor and director (b. [[1933]])
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*[[1998]] - [[Irene Hervey]], American actress (b. [[1910]])
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*[[1999]] - [[Hank Snow]], Canadian singer (b. [[1914]])
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*[[2000]] - [[Mirza Ghulam Hafiz]], Indian statesman, politician, and philanthropist (b. [[1920]])
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*[[2001]] - [[Foster Brooks]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1912]])
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*2001 - [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], first [[President of Senegal]] (b. [[1906]])
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== External links ==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20 BBC: On This Day]
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[[December 19]] - [[December 21]] - [[November 20]] - [[January 20]] -- [[historical anniversaries|listing of all days]]
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