Portal:Speculative fiction/Anniversaries/December/December 20
Film releases
- 1978 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a science fiction film based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney and a remake of the 1956 film of the same name
Television series
- 2002 - Firefly, an American space western television series created by writer and director Joss Whedon, finishes airing on Fox
Deaths
- 1996 - Carl Sagan (b. 1934), an American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and cosmologist