The initial production version of the Boeing 707 makes its first flight. The Boeing 707 was a groundbreaking aircraft that helped usher in the modern…
Tag: 20 December
20 December 1989
The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega. The United States invasion of Panama, code-named Operation Just Cause, took place in December 1989 and…
20 December 2007
The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen…
20 December 1192
Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after the Third Crusade.
20 December 1968
The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.
20 December 1924
Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler’]
20 December 1995
American Airlines Flight 965 crashes north of Cali, Colombia killing 159. American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in…
20 December 1995
NATO starts peacekeeping in Bosnia. SARAJEVO – NATO forces formally began their year-long peacekeeping mission in Bosnia on Wednesday, taking over from the United Nations…
20 December 1985
Pope John Paul II announces support for World Youth Day. At the very beginning, during the Jubilee Year of Redemption, and then again for the…