How Many Days Until December 20?

This day in history: December 20

1. 1980

   NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins without announcers.

2. 1984

   Twelve-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her home in Greeley, Colorado; her body was not discovered until 2019.

3. 1987

   The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña Paz sank after colliding with an oil tanker in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,385 deaths.

4. 1995

   Mandated by the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the NATO-led Implementation Force began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

5. 1995

   American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.

6. 1999

   Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China.

7. 2007

   Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.

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