December 20

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1522	Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.	XTC	Knights In Shining Karma	Apple Venus Vol. 1
2.	1803	The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.	Iron Maiden	To Tame a Land	Piece of Mind
3.	1941	World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China.	Hum	Roar, I'm a Tiger	Hello Kitty
4.	1951	The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.	Rainer Maria	Artificial Light	A Better Version of Me
5.	1968	The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California.	Van der Graaf Generator	Killer	H to He, Who Am the Only One
6.	1987	History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).	The Cure	Sinking	The Head on the Door
7.	1991	A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.	Boy Sets Fire	Our Time Honored Tradition Of Cannibalism	After the Eulogy
8.	1996	NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X.	xDisciplex AD	Candy Apple	Imitation of Love
9.	2005	US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District	Rites of Spring	By Design	Rites of Spring
10.	2007	Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days	Sister Elizabeth Phillips	A Little Old-Fashioned	Guitar Evangelists (1928-1951)

(Historical facts about December 20 are from Wikipedia.)