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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 20
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Charlie Callas in Brooklyn, New York, USA; comedian/actor (High Anxiety, Hysterical).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Errol John in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; actor (PT-109, Assault on a Queen).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Inge[borg] Beekman; actress (Horizon).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Sam McKim in Canada; child actor, 20th Century Fox, Disney Studios, film storyboard artist, Walt Disney World, retires 1987, named Disney Legend 1996.
- 80th: 1944 - Abbas Hilmi II, viceroy of Egypt (1892-1914), dies at age 70.
- 80th: 1944 - Battle of Bastogne, Germans surround US 101st Airborne.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Robert Colomby in New York City, New York, USA; rock drummer (Blood Sweat and Tears - "When I Die").
- 70th: 1954 - James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at age 54.
- 60th: 1964 - Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government.
- 50th: 1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (L'eunuque), dies at age 69.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Augie Ojeda in Los Angeles, California, USA; baseball infielder (Olympics-bronze-1996).
- 50th: 1974 - Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (born 1946).
- 40th: 1984 - 33 unknown keyboard (piano) works of Johann Sebastion Bach are found in the Yale library.
- 40th: 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 30th: 1994 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69), dies at age 85.
- 30th: 1994 - J C "Jody" Bateman, fiddler, dies at age 75.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Hank Snow AKA Clarence Eugene Snow at age 85; country and western singing star (Hank The Yodeling Ranger, Grand Ole Opry, "I'm Movin' On", over 85 singles on the Billboard best seller list, sold nearly 90 million records).
- 25th: 1999 - Portugal returns Macau to the People's Republic of China.
- 25th: 1999 - The Vermont Supreme Court orders the state to legalize same-sex unions.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of American actress Brittany Murphy (Clueless, Sin City, 8 Mile, The Dead Girl) at age 32, in Los Angeles, California, possibly of cardiac arrest.
- 5th: 2019 - The United States founds the United States Space Force, a branch of the United States Air Force, dedicated to space warfare.
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