20/12/0069 - General Vespasianus occupies Rome
20/12/1046 - Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
20/12/1046 - Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II
20/12/1192 - Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna
20/12/1448 - Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal
20/12/1585 - English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen
20/12/1600 - Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published
20/12/1606 - Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va
20/12/1626 - Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch G bor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg
20/12/1661 - Corporation Act enforced in England
20/12/1669 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery
20/12/1688 - Prince Willem III's troops pull into London
20/12/1694 - Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben
20/12/1699 - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
20/12/1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
20/12/1780 - England declares war on Netherlands
20/12/1790 - 1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
20/12/1803 - Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
20/12/1820 - Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50
20/12/1823 - Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna
20/12/1830 - England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium
20/12/1850 - Hawaiian post office established
20/12/1860 - SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede
20/12/1861 - Battle of Dranesville, VA
20/12/1862 - -Dec 20th] Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
20/12/1862 - -Jan 3rd] Vicksburg campaign
20/12/1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
20/12/1862 - Brig-gen Nathan B Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky
20/12/1864 - -Dec 27th] Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
20/12/1865 - De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens
20/12/1879 - Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
20/12/1880 - Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten
20/12/1880 - NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
20/12/1883 - Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
20/12/1891 - Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
20/12/1892 - Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
20/12/1892 - Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
20/12/1893 - 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
20/12/1894 - England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket
20/12/1894 - Day Six 1T Aus v Eng Australia need 177 to win, all out 166
20/12/1900 - Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
20/12/1906 - Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
20/12/1907 - Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
20/12/1912 - Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite … Marie," premieres in Paris
20/12/1912 - J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in NYC
20/12/1915 - Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
20/12/1917 - Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
20/12/1918 - Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in NYC
20/12/1919 - US House of Representatives restricts immigration
20/12/1919 - Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
20/12/1920 - Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
20/12/1920 - Bob Hope became an American citizen
20/12/1921 - AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7
20/12/1922 - Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
20/12/1922 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
20/12/1924 - Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
20/12/1926 - Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring
20/12/1926 - Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
20/12/1926 - Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in NYC
20/12/1928 - Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St NYC
20/12/1928 - 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montr‚al, QuŠ
20/12/1929 - Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
20/12/1929 - Mount Davidson dedicated as a SF city park
20/12/1930 - Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 mins WI v Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)
20/12/1932 - Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13
20/12/1933 - Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire
20/12/1935 - Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
20/12/1937 - Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia
20/12/1938 - Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
20/12/1939 - Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
20/12/1940 - Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000
20/12/1941 - Free France under adm Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miqu‚lon
20/12/1941 - Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
20/12/1942 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
20/12/1943 - "International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
20/12/1944 - Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market
20/12/1944 - Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
20/12/1944 - Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
20/12/1944 - Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London
20/12/1945 - Rationg of auto tires ends in US
20/12/1946 - Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres
20/12/1948 - Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia
20/12/1949 - Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres
20/12/1950 - "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY
20/12/1952 - KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
20/12/1953 - KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
20/12/1953 - KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
20/12/1956 - Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
20/12/1956 - Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses
20/12/1957 - Elvis Presley given draft notice to join US Army for National Service
20/12/1959 - Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India v Australia at Kanpur
20/12/1960 - Auschwitz-commandant Richard B„r arrested in German FR
20/12/1962 - D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
20/12/1962 - Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
20/12/1963 - Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
20/12/1963 - Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
20/12/1963 - Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
20/12/1964 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli govt
20/12/1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
20/12/1966 - Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
20/12/1966 - NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
20/12/1966 - Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
20/12/1967 - "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
20/12/1967 - 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
20/12/1967 - Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
20/12/1969 - Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1
20/12/1970 - Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader
20/12/1971 - Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns
20/12/1972 - Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in NYC
20/12/1973 - Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
20/12/1973 - Dutch Antillean govt of Evertsz forms
20/12/1973 - AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
20/12/1974 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state
20/12/1974 - George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
20/12/1975 - Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles
20/12/1975 - Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht
20/12/1976 - "Music Is" opens at St James Theater NYC for 8 performances
20/12/1976 - Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
20/12/1977 - RAF -terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years
20/12/1977 - 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
20/12/1978 - H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
20/12/1980 - NBC broadcasts NY Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio
20/12/1980 - USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
20/12/1981 - Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in NYC
20/12/1981 - Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
20/12/1981 - Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) and most turnovers (10)
20/12/1981 - "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1522 performances
20/12/1983 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
20/12/1983 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
20/12/1983 - Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
20/12/1983 - El Salvador adopts constitution
20/12/1984 - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
20/12/1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
20/12/1985 - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
20/12/1985 - Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC
20/12/1985 - Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
20/12/1986 - White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
20/12/1987 - Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship
20/12/1987 - Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die
20/12/1987 - 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0)
20/12/1987 - "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres
20/12/1988 - Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
20/12/1988 - NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
20/12/1988 - Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected pres of Sri Lanka
20/12/1989 - Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
20/12/1989 - US troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
20/12/1990 - Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
20/12/1990 - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
20/12/1990 - Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
20/12/1991 - NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators
20/12/1991 - Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia
20/12/1992 - Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
20/12/1992 - Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia
20/12/1993 - Donald Trump weds Marla Maples
20/12/1995 - "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 14 performances
20/12/1995 - American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive
20/12/1998 - Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge
20/12/1999 - Portugal returns Macau to China
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