Today, December 20, is the Day of Honoring Pensioners and Veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are 11 days left before the New Year.
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 11 days left before the end of the year.
What holidays are there in Ukraine and in the world?
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International Day of Human Unity.
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Day of respect for pensioners and veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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What happened on December 20
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1637 – after the surrender of the registers near Borovitsa, the hetman of the unregistered Zaporizhian Cossacks Pavlyuk was captured by the government troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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1803 – The United States formally becomes owner of the Louisiana Territory, acquired from France.
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1868 – the Ukrainian society “Prosvita” was founded in Lviv.
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1880 – The first electric lights go on on Broadway in New York.
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1892 – engineers Alexander Brown and George Stillman from the town of Syracuse (New York) in America received a patent for the pneumatic tire.
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1912 – The London Conference of Ambassadors and the London Peace Treaty, concluded after the first Balkan War, recognize the independence of Albania.
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1961 – The last execution took place in Northern Ireland.
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1984 – Bell Labs announced the completion of development of a megabit memory chip that could store more than a million pieces of electronic data – four times more than existing chips at the time.
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1989 – Operation Just Cause: American troops enter Panama.
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1991 – Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan recognize Ukraine’s independence.
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1995 – diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina are established.
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2000 – The British Parliament approves human cloning, but only for medical purposes.
Who was born on December 20
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1958 – Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine (1993), director (since 1986) and artistic director (1986-2015) of Kyiv Academic Puppet Theater, “voice” of Kyiv metro Nikolai Petrenko.
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1974 – Ukrainian opera singer, soloist of the Paris National Opera, volunteer, participant in combat operations during the war in Eastern Ukraine as part of volunteer formations (died from a sniper’s bullet on June 29, 2016) Vasyl Slipak.
What is today’s name day? Anton, Ignat, Daniel, Ivan.
What not to do on December 20
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You should not allow strangers into your home.
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You cannot borrow or lend money.
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Heavy physical labor is prohibited.
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