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

• 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.

• 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

• 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)

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