December 20

December 20, 2004

A gang of thieves steal £26.5 million worth of currency from the Northern Bank in Belfast, one of the largest bank robberies in British history

December 20, 1862

Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist, died

December 20, 1935

Martin O'Meara, VC, was an Irish-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Crossy, died

December 20, 1799

Nicholas Callan, priest, physicist, writer, and inventor of the induction coil, is born in Dromiskin, Co. Louth