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==Images==
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File:Louisiana purchase treaty.jpg|Louisiana Purchase treaty
File:It's A Wonderful Life.jpg|Donna Reed, James Stewart, and Karolyn Grimes in "It's a Wonderful Life"
File:EBR-1 2001.jpg|Experimental Breeder Reactor I
File:First four nuclear lit bulbs.jpeg|Four light bulbs were lit with electricity generated from the EBR-1 reactor.
File:KGB Symbol.png|The sword-and-shield emblem of the Cheka-KGB
File:Bandeira do Leal Senado.svg|Flag of Concelho de Macau, one of the two concelhos of Macau under Portuguese rule
File:BTR-80 and Bradley.jpg|Russian and US IFOR troops
File:Luis Carrero Blanco.jpg|Luis Carrero Blanco
File:Doña Paz at Tacloban (cropped).jpg|MV ''Doña Paz'' in port, 1984
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==Ineligible==
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| '''[[Yaldā Night]]''' (Iran)
| lots of CN tags (6)
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| [[1803]] – As part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], [[New Orleans]] in the [[Louisiana (New France)|French territory of Louisiana]] '''[[History of New Orleans|was officially transferred]]''' to the United States.
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| [[1917]] – The '''[[Cheka]]''', the first [[Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies|Soviet secret police]], was established by a decree issued by [[Vladimir Lenin]].
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| [[1941]] – [[World War II]]: The '''[[Flying Tigers]]''' of the [[Republic of China Air Force|Chinese Air Force]] engaged in its first combat missions.
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| [[1946]] – [[Frank Capra]]'s popular Christmas film '''''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''''' was first released in New York City.
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| [[1951]] – '''[[Experimental Breeder Reactor I|Experimental Breeder {{nowrap|Reactor I}}]]''' near [[Arco, Idaho]], U.S., became the world's first electricity-generating [[nuclear power plant]] when it became able to illuminate four 200-[[watt]] light bulbs.
| expansion
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| [[1957]] – The first flight of the '''[[Boeing 707]]''', the first commercially successful [[jet airliner]], took place.
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| [[1973]] – '''[[Luis Carrero Blanco]]''', the prime minister of Spain, '''[[Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco|was assassinated]]''' by a bomb planted by members of the [[Basque nationalist]] and separatist group [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]].
| Blanco: needs more footnotes; Assassination: refimprove
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| [[1989]] – American forces '''[[United States invasion of Panama|invaded Panama]]''' to overthrow the government of [[Manuel Noriega]].
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| [[2005]] – [[United States district court|U.S. district court]] Judge [[John E. Jones III|John E. {{nowrap|Jones III}}]] ruled against mandating the teaching of "[[intelligent design]]" in his ruling on '''''[[Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District]]'''''.
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==Eligible==
* [[1968]] – The first two confirmed murders by the '''[[Zodiac Killer]]''' occurred in [[Benicia, California]], in a case which remains unsolved.
* [[1980]] – [[NBC]] aired the [[American football]] match between the [[New York Jets]] and the [[Miami Dolphins]] '''[[Announcerless game|without announcers]]'''.
* [[1984]] – Twelve-year-old '''[[Murder of Jonelle Matthews|Jonelle Matthews]]''' disappeared from her home in [[Greeley, Colorado]]; her body was not discovered until 2019.
* [[1987]] – The deadliest peacetime [[List of maritime disasters|maritime disaster]] in history occurred when the '''{{MV|Doña Paz}}''' ''(pictured)'' sank after colliding with an [[oil tanker]] in the [[Tablas Strait]], Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,000 deaths.
* [[1988]] – The '''[[United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances]]''' governing international cooperation against the [[illegal drug trade]] was signed in [[Vienna]].
* [[1995]] – Mandated by the [[Dayton Agreement]] that ended the [[Bosnian War]], the [[NATO]]-led '''[[Implementation Force]]''' ''(troops pictured)'' began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* [[1999]] – Portugal [[Transfer of sovereignty over Macau|transferred the sovereignty]] of '''[[Macau]]''', which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China.
* [[2007]] – [[Pablo Picasso]]'s '''''[[Portrait of Suzanne Bloch]]''''' was stolen from the [[São Paulo Museum of Art]], before being recovered about three weeks later.
* Born/died this day: | '''[[Pope Zephyrinus]]''' |d|217| '''[[Ambroise Paré]]''' |d|1590| '''[[Jean Jannon]]''' |d|1658| '''[[Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon]]''' |d|1740| '''[[Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)|Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly]]''' |b|1905| '''[[Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau]]''' |d|1928| '''[[Murder of Evelyn Colon|Evelyn Colon]]''' |d|1976| '''[[Dawn Steel]]''' |d|1997
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'''[[December 20]]'''
{{main page image/OTD|File:Cardiff City Hall cropped.jpg|Cardiff City Hall}}
* [[1860]] – [[South Carolina]] became the first of eleven [[Slave states and free states|slave states]] to declare [[Secession in the United States|secession from the U.S.]], leading to the eventual creation of the '''[[Confederate States of America]]''' and later the [[American Civil War]].
* [[1948]] – [[Indonesian National Revolution]]: Dutch forces '''[[Operation Kraai|captured]]''' [[Yogyakarta]], the Indonesian Republic's temporary capital, and seized President [[Sukarno]].
* [[1955]] – '''[[Cardiff]]''' ''([[Cardiff City Hall|City Hall]] pictured)'' was recognised as the [[capital of Wales]].
* [[1971]] – Two groups of French doctors involved in [[humanitarian aid]] merged to form '''[[Médecins Sans Frontières]]'''.
* [[1995]] – '''[[American Airlines Flight 965]]''' crashed into a mountain in [[Buga, Valle del Cauca|Buga, Colombia]], killing 151 passengers and 8 crew members.
{{Born and died list| '''[[John Bell (farmer)|John Bell]]''' |d|1820| '''[[Kan'ichi Asakawa]]''' |b|1873| '''[[Beatrice Beeby]]''' |d|1991}}
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