Template:On this day/20 Dizember

20 December:

• 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completit at a ceremony in New Orleans.
• 1860 – Sooth Carolina acomes the first state tae attempt tae secede frae the Unitit States.
• 1946 – The popular Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life is first released in New York Ceety.
• 1987 – In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz (picturt) sinks efter collidin wi the ile tanker Vector in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killin an estimatit 4,000 people (1,749 offeecial).
• 2007 – Elizabeth II acomes the auldest monarch o the Unitit Kinrick, surpassin Queen Victoria, that lived for 81 years, seiven months an 29 days.

Martin Schulz (b. 1955) · John Steinbeck (d. 1968) · Carl Sagan (d. 1996)