December 20
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December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days remaining.
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Events
- 1803 - Louisiana Purchase completed
- 1860 - South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the United States
- 1915 - Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli
- 1917 - Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded
- 1952 - United States Air Force C-124 crashs and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87
- 1960 - National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed
- 1989 - United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega
- 1995 - NATO begins peacekeping in Bosnia
- 1995 - An American Airlines Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160
- 1999 - Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples
- 2002 - US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.
Births
- 1579 (baptized) - John Fletcher, playwright (d. 1625)
- 1629 - Pieter de Hooch, painter (d. 1684)
- 1792 - Nicolas Charlet, painter (d. 1845)
- 1805 - Thomas Graham, Father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)
- 1833 - Samuel Mudd, physician, possible conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1883)
- 1856 - Ferdinand Avenarius, author (d. 1923)
- 1860 - Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904)
- 1868 - Harvey Firestone, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
- 1881 - Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965)
- 1886 - Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis star (d. 1974)
- 1890 - Yvonne Arnaud, actress
- 1893 - Charlotte B�hler, psychologist
- 1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, Australian politician (d. 1978)
- 1898 - Irene Dunne, actress (d. 1990)
- 1901 - Robert Van de Graaff, physicist, inventor (d. 1967)
- 1902 - George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942)
- 1902 - Max Lerner, American educator (d. 1992)
- 1902 - Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989)
- 1922 - George Roy Hill, film director
- 1923 - James Leasor, writer, mystery
- 1924 - Friederike Mayr�cker, author
- 1926 - Sir Geoffrey Howe (Lord Howe of Aberavon), UK politician
- 1926 - Otto Graf Lambsdorff, politician
- 1930 - Noel Ferrier, producer and actress
- 1942 - Bob Hayes, track and field star, American football star (d. 2002)
- 1946 - Uri Geller, illusionist
- 1952 - Jenny Agutter, actress
- 1957 - Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter
- 1957 - Mike Watt, bassist
- 1959 - Tracey Ullman, actress, comedienne
Deaths
- 1939 - Nazi Captain Hans Langsdorff (suicide)
- 1954 - James Hilton, author
- 1961 - Moss Hart, author
- 1968 - John Steinbeck, writer
- 1973 - Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish prime minister (assassination)
- 1973 - Bobby Darin, singer
- 1976 - Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago, Illinois
- 1982 - Artur Rubinstein, musician
- 1994 - Dean Rusk, former United States Secretary of State
- 1996 - Carl Sagan, astronomer, writer
- 1999 - Hank Snow, country music singer
See Also
December 19 - December 21 - November 20 - January 20 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "December 20" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_20 December 19, 2003
