December 20 in history: • 1248 – Attempting to form an alliance with the Mongol Empire, Louis IX of France met with two of their envoys while en route to the Seventh Crusade. → go there • 1984 – Twelve-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her home in Greeley, Colorado; her body was not discovered until 2019. → go there • 1987 – The deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history occurred when the MV Doña Paz (pictured) sank after colliding with an oil tanker in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, resulting in an estimated 4,385 deaths. → go there • 1995 – American Airlines Flight 965 crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, killing 159 of the 163 people on board. → go there • 2007 – Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later. → go there Died 217: Pope Zephyrinus Wiki link Died 1740: Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon Wiki link Born 1990: Maya Lindholm Wiki link Died 1997: Dawn Steel Wiki link Pictured: MV ''Doña Paz'' in port, 1984.