November 20
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November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining after November 20 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 284 – Diocletian becomes Roman Emperor.
- 1272 – Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
- 1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 1902 – Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Cafe de Madrid in Paris.
- 1910 – From exile in Texas, Francisco I. Madero calls for a Revolution against the rule of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz, starting the Mexican Revolution.
- 1917 – Ukraine is declared a republic.
- 1929 – Salvador Dali, a Spanish artist opens his first one man show.
- 1940 – World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
- 1942 – The Alaska Highway is opened to traffic.
- 1945 – Nuremberg Trials begin: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals of World War II start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
- 1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1955 – Bo Diddley makes his TV debut on Ed Sullivan's Toast Of The Town show on CBS.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- 1975 – Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies, after more than three-and-a-half decades in power.
- 1977 – In a speech at the Knesset (Israel's parliament), Egypt's President Anwar Sadat recognises the state of Israel's right to exist.
- 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
- 1992 – Windsor Castle is destroyed by fire.
- 1994 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).
- 1998 – A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 2000 – Honda introduces the humanoid robot ASIMO.
- 2003 – A second set of bombings in five days hits Istanbul, with the British Consulate as one of the targets. 27 people are killed.
- 2011 – Mariano Rajoy is elected Prime Minister in Spain, as the Partido Popular wins the most seats in parliament.
[change] Births
- 270 – Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
- 1602 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
- 1750 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
- 1761 – Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)
- 1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
- 1851 – Margherita of Savoy, Queen of Italy (d. 1926)
- 1858 – Selma Lagerlof, Swedish writer (d. 1940)
- 1869 – Zinaida Gippius, Russian poet and author (d. 1945)
- 1886 – Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (d. 1982)
- 1889 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
- 1892 – James Collip, Canadian biochemist (d. 1965)
- 1896 – Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2011)
- 1902 – Gianpiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956)
- 1912 – Otto von Habsburg, Austrian aristocrat, nobleman and politician (d. 2011)
- 1915 – Kon Ichikawa, Japanese movie director (d. 2008)
- 1917 – Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1923 – Nadine Gordimer, South African writer
- 1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-born French-American mathematician (d. 2010)
- 1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)
- 1935 – Imre Makovecz, Hungarian architect (d. 2011)
- 1939 – Dick Smothers, American comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
- 1942 – Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States
- 1943 – Veronica Hamel, American actress
- 1956 – Bo Derek, American actress
- 1957 – Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria
- 1965 – Mike D, American hip hop musician
- 1970 – Matt Blunt, American politician, former Governor of Missouri
- 1971 – Joel McHale, American actor and comedian
- 1976 – Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
- 1978 – Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model
- 1979 – Dmitri Bulykin, Russian footballer
- 1981 – Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1984 – Justin Hoyte, English footballer
- 1985 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer
- 2000 – Connie Talbot, British singer
[change] Deaths
- 1559 – Lady Frances Brandon, mother of Jane Grey, Queen of England (b. 1517)
- 1737 – Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
- 1742 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
- 1894 – Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)
- 1907 – Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter (b. 1876)
- 1910 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)
- 1925 – Alexandra of Denmark, Queen of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
- 1936 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
- 1936 – Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
- 1938 – Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway (b. 1869)
- 1945 – Francis William Aston, British chemist (b. 1877)
- 1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (b. 1892)
- 1980 – John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b.1900)
- 1999 – Amintore Fanfani, Italian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
- 2003 – David Dacko, Central African politician (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Robert Altman, American director (b. 1925)
- 2007 – Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
