Koza riot: After a series of hit-and-runs and other vehicular incidents involving American service personnel, roughly 5,000 Okinawans take to the streets, clashing with American law enforcement in protest against the U.S. occupation of Okinawa. Date: December 20, 1970 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day…
Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco. Date: December 20, 1973 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1973 📅 On This Day (Today)
With the approval of the State Council, China's two largest newspapers, the People's Daily and the Guangming Daily, publish in full for the first time the Second Chinese Character Simplification Scheme. Date: December 20, 1977 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1977 📅 On…
Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 24 km (15 mi) southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head." Date: December 20, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in…
The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines. Date: December 20, 1984 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day…
Pope John Paul II announces the creation of World Youth Day. Date: December 20, 1985 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1985 📅 On This Day (Today)
In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). Date: December 20, 1987 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in…
War on drugs: The United Nations agrees upon and promulgates the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, one of three major drug control treaties currently in force. Date: December 20, 1988 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1988…
The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega. Date: December 20, 1989 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1989 📅 On This Day (Today)
A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. Date: December 20, 1991 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 20 📅 Events on this day in 1991 📅 On This Day (Today)