November 20

November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 41 days remaining.

Events:

• 1272 - Edward I of England becomes king
• 1700 - Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great
• 1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
• 1917 - Ukraine declared a republic
• 1940 - Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join Axis powers
• 1943 - Battle of Tarawa[?] begins
• 1945 - Nuremberg Trials begins
• 1947 - Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten
• 1957 - United States Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy[?] proposes ARPA
• 1984 - The 50-billionth McDonald's hamburger is made
• 1999 - Launch of the first Shenzhou spacecraft by China

Births:

• 1625 - Paulus Potter, painter (+ 1654)
• 1669 - Susannah Annesley[?], mother of Methodist founders John and Charles Wesley.
• 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1909 (+ 1940)
• 1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge and first baseball commissioner (+ 1944)
• 1879 - Albert S. Reitz[?], American Baptist evangelist
• 1884 - Norman Thomas, U.S. social reformer
• 1889 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer
• 1896 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada
• 1908 - Alastair Cooke[?], television host
• 1912 - Otto von Habsburg, scion of the Austrian imperial family
• 1913 - Judy Canova[?], actress (+ 1983)
• 1914 - Emilio Pucci[?], fashion designer (+ 1992)
• 1917 - Robert Byrd, U.S. politician
• 1919 - Evelyn Keyes[?], actress
• 1921 - Jim Garrison, assassination detective, author, politician (+ 1992)
• 1923 - Nadine Gordimer, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1992
• 1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, mathematician
• 1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. politician (+ 1968)
• 1927 - Estelle Parsons[?], actress
• 1932 - Richard Dawson, actor, game show host
• 1936 - Don DeLillo, U.S. author
• 1937 - René Kollo[?], tenor
• 1939 - Dick Smothers, comedian, half of the Smothers Brothers
• 1946 - Duane Allman[?], musician (+ 1971)
• 1947 - Joe Walsh[?], musician
• 1956 - Bo Derek[?], actress
• 1959 - Sean Young[?], actress
• 1960 - Cathy Moriarty[?], actress
• 1962 - Jodie Foster, actress
• 1970 - Delia Gonzalez, world champion boxer

Deaths:

• 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer
• 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, novelist
• 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom
• 1936 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera[?], activist, politician
• 1973 - Alan Sherman[?], comedian
• 1975 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain
• 1993 - Emile Ardolino[?], director, producer

Holidays and Observances:

• Bahá'í Faith:Holy Day, Birth of Bahá'u'llah

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