December 20

Wednesday 20, 1995:

An American Airlines Flight 965 Boeing 757 crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160

Tuesday 20, 1988:

The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

Thursday 20, 1984:

The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines

Thursday 20, 1917:

Cheka, first Soviet secret police, founded

Monday 20, 1915:

Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli

More on December, 20

• December, 20 in History
• People Born on December, 20
• They left us on December, 20