A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 20th!
| 69 | Vespians’s supporters enter Rome and discover Vitellius in hiding. He is dragged through the streets before being brutally murdered. |
| 1355 | Stephen Urosh IV of Serbia dies while marching to attack Constantinople. |
| 1790 | The first successful cotton mill in the United States began operating at Pawtucket, R.I. |
| 1802 | The United States buys the Louisiana territory from France.  |
| 1803 | The Louisiana Purchase was completed as the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States during ceremonies in New Orleans. |
| 1860 | South Carolina secedes from the Union. |
| 1861 | English transports loaded with 8,000 troops set sail for Canada so that troops are available if the “Trent Affair” is not settled without war. |
| 1864 | Confederate forces evacuated Savannah, Ga., as Union Gen. William T. Sherman continued his “March to the Sea.” |
| 1879 | Thomas Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, N.J.  |
| 1924 | Adolf Hitler is released from prison after serving less than one year of a five year sentence for treason. |
| 1930 | Thousands of Spaniards sign a revolutionary manifesto. |
| 1933 | The German government announces 400,000 citizens are to be sterilized because of hereditary defects. |
| 1938 | First electronic television system is patented. |
| 1941 | The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming.  |
| 1943 | Soviet forces halt a German army trying to relieve the besieged city of Stalingrad. |
| 1946 | Viet Minh and French forces fight fiercely in Annamite section of Hanoi. |
| 1946 | The Frank Capra film “It’s A Wonderful Life” had a preview showing for charity at New York City’s Globe Theatre, a day before its official premiere. |
| 1948 | U.S. Supreme Court announces that it has no jurisdiction to hear the appeals of Japanese war criminals sentenced by the International Military Tribunal. |
| 1960 | National Liberation Front is formed by guerrillas fighting the Diem regime in South Vietnam. |
| 1962 | In its first free election in 38 years, the Dominican Republic chooses leftist Juan Bosch Gavino as president.  |
| 1963 | The Berlin Wall was opened for the first time to West Berliners, who were allowed one-day visits to relatives in the Eastern sector for the holidays. |
| 1976 | Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley died at age 74. |
| 1989 | The United States sent troops into Panama to topple the government of Manuel Noriega. |
| 1999 | The Vermont Supreme Court ruled that homosexual couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as wedded couples. |
| 2002 | Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader two weeks after igniting a political firestorm with racially charged remarks. |
| 2005 | New York City transit workers began a three-day strike. |
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