The December 20th is the 354e Jour of the Année (355e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 11 days before the end of the year.

Events

20th century

  • 1912 : Meeting with London of a conference of peace enters the Turkey and the Balkan States.

  • 1913 : This day the German Reichstag vote a law carrying the mobilization in time of war with 5.000.000 men.
  • 1915 : Failure of the Allied in the strait of the Dardanelles, in Turkey.
  • 1917 :
    • Opening of negotiations of Russian peaces between and German, with Brest-Litovsk
    • Creation by Lénine of the tcheka , ancestor of the KGB.
  • 1922 : in Russia, in the the Caucasus and elsewhere, fourteen territories are joined together under the name of Union of the socialist republics Soviet.
  • 1924 : Coming out of prison of Hitler. Locked up following the Putsch of the brewery.
  • 1928 : The Great Britain recognizes the government (Kuomintang) of Nankin.
  • 1938 : With Moscow, institution of the obligatory booklet of work .
  • 1943 : The Japanese are overcome by the Chinese with the Bataille of Changde.
  • 1950 : Felix Leclerc begins with the theater ABC , of Paris, in first part of the Compagnons of the song .
  • 1954 : 20.000 soldiers French are sent in Algérie
  • 1955: Independence of the Sudan
  • 1957: Creation of the European Agency of nuclear energy (AEEN)
  • 1961: Resolution of UNO on the statute of the Celestial body S: they can be freely explored by all the States and are not likely of national appropriation.
  • 1970 : Wladyslaw Gomulka is isolated direction of the Polish Communist party after riots caused by the rise of the food products.
  • 1973 : with Madrid, Shine Carrero Blanco, Prime Minister for the pro-Franco mode, is killed by an explosive load placed under the roadway; its limousine passes above a building of three floors.
  • 1978 : Reconciliation free - Guinea.
  • 1980 : in France, definitive adoption of the " bill; safety and liberté".
  • 1981 : with Washington, shortly after the prohibition of Solidarność in Poland, the ambassador Romuald Spasowski obtains the political asylum.
  • 1987 :
    • Shipwreck of the Filipino ferry Doña Paz after a collision with a tanker, making officially 1586 died, semi-officially more than 4000 victims.
    • the Swedish team of tennis gains the Coupe Davis against the India with Gothenburg.
  • 1989 :
    • Timisoara (Romania) is the first " city; libre" mode of Nicolae Ceauşescu
    • 22.500 American soldiers are engaged in the operation “ Just Cause ” with the Panama, driving out capacity the general Manuel Noriega.
    • the the United States install a new government with Panama; the president and narcotrafiquant Manuel Noriega will go, will be dispatched in Florida, will be considered and imprisoned.
    • the communist Lithuanians vote the independence of their party with regard to PCUS.
  • 1990 :
  • 1992 : Presidential elections in Serbia and with the Montenegro marked by irregularities: Slobodan Milosevic (ex-Communist) is re-elected president of the Serbia with 56,32% of the voices.
  • 1994 :
    • Brought into service of the smart cards in the phone boxes at Paris, then in all the France.
    • the champion of tennis Ivan Lendl puts an end to its professional path.
  • 1995 :
  • 1997 : Nelson Mandela bids its farewell with ANC, its dolphin Thabo Mbeki succeeds to him the presidency.
  • 1998 : A woman living with Houston with the Texas gives rise to Octuplés
  • 1999:
  • 2000 :
    • Five judges of the Supreme court of Chile vote the abandonment of the loads of murder carried against the former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
    • the Upper House of the Parliament Dutch extends the right to the Mariage and the Adoption to the couples Homosexuels.

21e century

  • 2002 :

    • Creation of the the Council French of the Moslem worship
    • the homologous Pope Jean-Paul II the miracle achieved by Mother Teresa.
    • the representatives of some five million French of Moslem confession manage an agreement on the composition of a future French Conseil of the Muslim cult (CFCM), at the end of a " Conclave " from two days to the castle of Nainville-the-Rocks (the Essonne).
  • 2004 :
    • Jean-Pierre Treider, the principal suspect in the investigation into the murder of Geraldine Giraud and Katia Lherbier, is put in examination at Sens.
    • Holdup of Northern Bank to Belfast (38 million euros).

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Abolition of slavery to the Meeting “Fêt kaf”

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

Catholic saints of the day

  • Holy Abraham

Orthodoxe saints of the day

External notes and references

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