Tukuk-OS📅 December 20
11 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on December 20? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2007 — Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.
Pablo PicassoPortrait of Suzanne BlochSão Paulo Museum of Art
- 1999 — Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China.
- 1995 — Mandated by the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the NATO-led Implementation Force (troops pictured) began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1995 — American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.
- 1987 — The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña Paz (pictured) sank after colliding with an oil tanker in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,385 deaths.
- 1984 — Twelve-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her home in Greeley, Colorado; her body was not discovered until 2019.
- 1980 — NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins without announcers.
- 1951 — Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, U.S., became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it became able to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs.
Experimental Breeder Reactor IArco, IdahoNuclear power plant
- 1940 — The superhero Captain America made his first published appearance in the comic book Captain America Comics #1.
- 1852 — Led by George Cathcart, British troops defeated Basuto and Taung forces at the Battle of Berea in present-day Lesotho, leading to an offer of peace from King Moshoeshoe I.
- 1248 — Attempting to form an alliance with the Mongol Empire, Louis IX of France met with two of their envoys while en route to the Seventh Crusade.
Births
- 2007 — Gavin McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
- 2001 — Facundo Pellistri, Uruguayan footballer
- 2000 — Gaboro, Assyrian Swedish rapper and songwriter (died 2024)
- 1998 — Kylian Mbappé, French footballer
- 1997 — De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player
- 1997 — Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
- 1996 — Jarrod Bowen, English football player
- 1995 — Anžejs Pasečņiks, Latvian basketball player
- 1994 — Calvin Ridley, American football player
- 1993 — Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer
- 1993 — Robeisy Ramírez, Cuban boxer
- 1992 — Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater
Deaths
- 2024 — Casey Chaos, American singer (born 1965)
- 2024 — George Eastham, English footballer (born 1936)
- 2024 — Rickey Henderson, American baseball player (born 1958)
- 2022 — Franco Harris, American football player (born 1950)
- 2020 — Fanny Waterman, British pianist (born 1920)
- 2020 — Ezra Vogel, American sociologist (born 1930)
- 2014 — Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (born 1929)
- 2014 — John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (born 1915)
John Freeman (British politician)List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States
- 2013 — Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (born 1930)
- 2012 — Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (born 1929)
- 2012 — Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (born 1929)
- 2012 — Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (born 1919)
Observances & holidays
- Abolition of Slavery Day, also known as Fête des Cafres (Réunion, French Guiana)
- Bo Aung Kyaw Day (Myanmar)
- Christian feast day: Dominic of Silos
- Christian feast day: Blessed Michał Piaszczyński
- Christian feast day: O Clavis
- Christian feast day: Philogonius
- Christian feast day: Ursicinus of Saint-Ursanne
- Christian feast day: Katharina von Bora (Lutheran)
- Christian feast day: December 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest date for Winter solstice's eve (Northern Hemisphere), and its related observances: Yaldā (Iran)
- International Human Solidarity Day (International)
- Macau Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Macau)
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