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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1808 –Peninsular War: The Siege of Zaragoza begins.
- 1860 –South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States.
- 1915 –World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.
- 1999 –Macau is handed over to the People’s Republic of China by Portugal.
- 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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