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 begin
- 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
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
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:
See Also:
November 19 - November 21 - October 20 - December 20 -- listing of all days
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