What happend on 20th December

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21.12
2004

The Miami Dolphins upset the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots in a fourth quarter comeback and scoring two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes of the game to win 29-28.

2002

US Senator Trent Lott resigns as majority leader.

1999

Vermont's Supreme Court rules that homosexual couples are entitled to same benefits and protections as married heterosexual couples

1999

Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal.

1995

NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia

1995

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

1989

Operation Just Cause: United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega

1988

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

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

1960

National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed