Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 20
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- 1803 - As part of the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans was transferred from France to the United States.
- 1860 - South Carolina seceded from the United States, leading to the American Civil War.
- 1917 - Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (pictured) founded the Cheka, the first Soviet secret police.
- 1995 - The NATO-led IFOR began peacekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1999 - Portugal transferred sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China.
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