Do you love to read widely on interesting facts? We have compiled some historical facts of events that happened in history on December 20.
Here, add more knowledge to your history.
- 1699 – Peter the Great ordered that the Russian New Year be changed from September 1 to January 1.
- 1860 – South Carolina became the first state to secede from the American Union.
- 1803 – The United States was officially handed over the territory of Louisiana by the French.
- 1971 – Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigned.
- 1973 – Spanish Prime Minister Carrero Blanco was assassinated.
- 1974 – Ethiopia became a socialist one-party state.
- 1989 – The United States’ invasion of Panama began.
- 1963 – The Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners.
- 1990 – The first website to go live at CERN was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
- 1998 – In Houston, TX, a 27-year-old woman gave birth to the only known living set of octuplets.
- 1999 – Portuguese transferred its sovereignty of Macau to China.
- 2001 – The U.S. Congress passed a $20 billion package to finance the war against terrorism taking place in Afghanistan.
- 2001 – Argentina’s President, Fernando De la Rua, resigned after two years in power.
- 2001 – The first British peacekeepers arrived in Afghanistan to help the nation heal after decades of war.
- 2005 – The first same-sex civil partnerships in Scotland were celebrated.
- 2007 – Queen Elizabeth became the longest-living British monarch.
- 2009 – US President Barack Obama receives his vaccine jab against swine flu.
- 2017 – US House and Senate pass a $1.5 trillion tax and jobs bill, the biggest tax overhaul for decades.
- 2018 – US Defense Secretary, Jim Mattis, announced his resignation after disagreements with President Donald Trump.
- 2019 – United States Space Force founded, an armed forces branch dedicated to space warfare.