Holidays 19 December 2020 - Saturday

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day of the All-Russian research Institute (Institute) MIA

Events of the day:

December 20, 1879 in the United States held a presentation of the lamp filament

1154 - Henry II crowned English throne (photo)

1863 - English inventor Frederick Walton received a patent for linoleum (photo)

1917 - started the first season of the National Hockey League (photo)

1972 - with a landing ship "Apollo 17" concluded the American space program to the moon (photo)

1983 - Rio de Janeiro kidnapped cup Jules Rimet FIFA (photo)

1991 - held the last in the history of awarding the Order of the Red Star (photo)

1997 - the US premiere of the Oscar-winning film "Titanic" (photo)

Maxim, Nicholas

Albert A. Michelson

Leonid Brezhnev

Edith Piaf

Galina Volchek

Anastasia Vertinskaya

Vladimir Kristovskiy

Vitus Bering

Emily Bronte

William Turner

Michael Petrashevsky

Eugene Louis Lami

Lion Dovator

Emil Kio

James Gibson

Marcello Mastroianni