December 20 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Human Solidarity Day.
🌏 International Wrinkled (Unironed) Shirt Day.
👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇲🇲 Myanmar – Bo Aung Kyaw Day.
🇵🇦 Panama – Mourning Day.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – State Courier Service Day.
🇷🇺 Russia, 🇦🇲 Armenia, 🇧🇾 Belarus, 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan – Security Service Employees Day.
🇷🇪 Réunion – Slavery Abolition Day.
🇲🇴 Macau – The day the Macau Special Administrative Region was established.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1398 – The name of Sahibkiran was read in the mosque of the city of Delhi, the capital of the Delhi Sultanate, which was captured during the campaign of Amir Temur to India.
– 1408 – Khan Edigei retreats from Moscow, ending the last major invasion of Russia.
– 1522 – The Ottomans capture the fortress of Rhodes.
– 1658 – Treaty of Valjesar.
– 1699 – Peter I issues a decree to move the celebration of the New Year from September 1 to January 1.
– 1792 – Postal service is established between the United States and Canada.
– 1828 – Canada establishes diplomatic relations with Russia.
– 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates the operation of the incandescent lamp.
– 1880 – The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit, one of the first clashes of the First Boer War.
– 1892 – Engineers Alexander Brown and George Stillman are granted a patent for the invention of the pneumatic automobile tire.
– 1917 – The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Sabotage and Counter-Revolution (VChK) was established.
– 1938 – The work book was introduced in the USSR.
– 1958 – The monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky was unveiled in Moscow.
– 1974 – Ethiopia was declared a socialist state.
– 1987 – The ferry “Donya Pas” sank in the Philippines, killing 4,375 people.
– 1989 – US troops invaded Panama.
– 1991 – The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of Romania recognized the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1996 – The grand opening of the Uzbek embassy in Tokyo was held.
– 1996 – NeXT merged with Apple Computer, and the development of Mac OS X began.
– 1999 – Portugal ceded the island of Macau to China.
– 2000 – Cloning for medical purposes was approved by the British Parliament.
– 2019 – In the United States, at the initiative of Trump, the Pentagon activated space troops.
