20 December

The 20t o December is the 354t day o the year (355t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 11 days bidin.

 Events 
 69 - Vespasian enters Roum tae claim the title o Emperor.
 1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is completit.
 1860 - Sooth Carolina becomes the first state tae secede frae the Unitit States.
 1915 - Warld War I: The last Australie troops are evacuatit frae Gallipoli, Turkey.
 1946 - The film "It's a Wonderful Life" has its premiere in New York Ceety.
 1946 - A yirdquauk in Japan kills 1,300 fowk.
 1955 - Cairdiff is proclaimed the caipital ceety o Wales.
 1977 - Djibouti an Vietnam jyn the Unitit Naitions.
 1989 - Unitit States invasion o Panama: The Unitit States sends troops intae Panama tae overthrow the govrenment o Manuel Noriega.
 1991 - Paul Keating becomes the 24t Prime Meenister o Australie.
 1999 - Portugal hands Macau back tae Cheenae.
 2007 - Elizabeth II becomes the auldest Breetish monarch, overtakin Queen Victoria's age o 81 year, 7 month, 29 days.
 2015 - Spain haulds its general election, wi an inconclusive result.
 2016 - A fireworks mercat splosion near Mexico Ceety kills ower 30 fowk.

 Births 
1537 – John III o Swaden (d. 1592)
1789 – William Burn, Scots airchitect (d. 1870)
1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, French academic an politeecian, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1894 – Robert Menzies, 12t Prime Meenister o Australie (d. 1978)
1914 – Harry F. Byrd, Jr., American lieutenant, publisher, and politician (d. 2013)
  1914   – Robert Colquhoun, Scots penter (d. 1962)
1926 – Geoffrey Howe, Breetish politeecian (d. 2015)
1927 – Kim Young-sam, Sooth Korean sodger an politeecian, 7t Preses o Sooth Korea (d. 2015)
1942 – Jean-Claude Trichet, French economist an banker
1950 – Billy Brown, Scots fitbawer
1951 – Lynne Featherstone, Inglis blogger an politeecian
  1951   – Peter May, Scots writer
1952 – Jenny Agutter, Inglis actress
1955 – Binali Yıldırım, Turkis lawyer an politeecian, Prime meenister o Turkey
  1955   – Martin Schulz, German politeecian
1957 – Anna Vissi, Cypriot sangster-sangwriter an actress 
  1957   – Billy Bragg, Inglis sangster-sangwriter
1961 – Keith Brown, Scots politeecian
1980 – Ashley Cole, Inglis fitbawer
  1980   – Martín Demichelis, Argentinian fitbawer
1981 – Julien Benneteau, French tennis player
1983 – Jonah Hill, American actor
1990 – JoJo, American sangster

 Daiths 
 217 – Pape Zephyrinus
1722 – Kangxi Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1654)
1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
1968 – John Steinbeck, American novelist an short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
1971 – Roy O. Disney, American banker an businessman, co-foondit The Walt Disney Company (b. 1893)
1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astropheesicist, an cosmologist (b. 1934)
2001 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet an politeecian, 1st Preses o Senegal (b. 1906)
2009 – Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977)
2017 – Archie Duncan, Scots historian (b. 1926)
2019 – Matti Ahde, Finnish politeecian (b. 1945)

 Halidays 
 Internaitional Day o Human Solidarity

Category:Days o the year