📜 This Day in History
December 20
1248Attempting to form an alliance with the Mongol Empire, Louis IX of France met with two of their envoys while en route to the Seventh Crusade.- 1940The superhero Captain America made his first published appearance in the comic book Captain America Comics #1.
- 1980NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins without announcers.
- 1987The 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.
- 1995American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board.
- 2007Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.
