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Today In History - November 20 |
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1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1327 Bassui Tokusho 1602 Otto von Guericke 1606 Abraham de Wicquefort 1620 Peregrine White 1726 Oliver Wolcott 1752 Thomas Chatterton 1757 Giovanni Battista Gaiani 1759 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall 1765 Friedrich Heinrich Himmel 1766 John Wall Calcott 1781 Karl F. Eichhorn 1802 James Lawrence Lardner 1819 Edouard Joseph Stevens 1830 Patrick Henry Jones 1834 Franjo Zaver Kuhac 1836 John Thomas Croxton 1841 Wilfrid Laurier 1850 Arthor Goring Thomas 1858 Selma Lagerlof 1864 Gerard W. Kernkamp 1866 Kenesaw Mountain Landis 1867 Vicente Ripolles 1869 Clark Griffith 1871 William H. Kilpatrick 1873 Daniel Gregory Mason 1873 Willem Roell 1879 Franz Pfemfert 1884 Norman Thomas 1886 Karl von Frisch 1889 Edwin Hubble 1890 Jean-Jacques Gailliard 1890 Robert Armstrong 1891 Leon Cadore 1897 Lores Bonney 1897 Margaret Sutherland 1899 Juan Vicente Lecuna 1900 Chester Gould 1902 Wolfgang Kunkel 1904 Alexandra Danilova 1907 Fran Allison 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1908 Alistair Cooke 1909 Alan Bible 1910 Pauli Murray 1911 Jean Shiley 1914 Emilio Pucci 1915 Kon Ichikawa 1916 Judy Canova 1916 Robert A. Bruce 1917 Robert Byrd 1918 Dora Ratjen 1919 Dulcie Gray 1919 Evelyn Keyes 1919 Halka Grossman 1919 John McCarthy 1920 Armin Schibler1920 Douglas Dick, Charlestown, West Virginia, actor, Carl-Waterfront 1920 Gene Tierney 1921 Jim Garrison 1921 Phyllis Thaxter 1923 Beryl Sprinkel 1923 Nadine Gordimer 1924 Benoit Mandelbrot 1925 Judy Woodruff 1925 Robert Francis Kennedy 1926 Kaye Ballard 1927 Estelle Parsons 1928 Franklin Cover 1928 Rex Reason 1929 Dick Clark 1929 Donald Ray January 1929 Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn 1932 John Barnes Chance 1932 Richard Dawson 1934 Valentine J. Peter 1936 Don DeLillo 1937 Eero Mantyranta 1937 Jack Linkletter 1937 Ruth Laredo 1938 Tony White 1939 Dick Smothers 1940 Bob Einstein 1942 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. 1942 Meredith Monk 1942 Norman Greenbaum 1943 Lindsay Thomas 1943 Veronica Hamel 1944 Anthea Stewart 1945 Dan McBride 1945 Rachid Mimouni 1946 Duane Allman 1946 John "Blackfoot" Colbert 1946 Judy Woodruff 1946 Ray Stiles 1947 George Grantham 1947 Joe Walsh 1947 Mardell Wilkins 1948 John Bolton 1948 Richard Masur 1948 Samuel E. Wright 1949 Juha Mieto 1949 Ray Vitte 1950 Gary Green 1953 Greg Gibson 1954 Steve Dahl 1955 Bo Derek 1955 Thea Vidale 1959 Sean Young 1962 Steve Alexander 1964 John Maclean 1964 Ned Vaughn 1965 Andrew Stewart 1967 Alex Arias 1967 Chris Childs 1967 Chris Patton 1967 Jeff Cotler 1968 Jeff Tarango 1968 Keith Rucker 1968 Richard Clarke 1969 Chris Harris 1969 Konstantin Semyonov 1969 Malvin Hunter 1970 Matt Blunt 1970 Sabrina Lloyd 1970 Trevor Cobb 1971 Dion Nash 1971 Joey Galloway 1971 Robert Wijnands 1972 Riddick Parker 1972 Trent Pollard 1972 Yanick Dupre 1973 Brad Keeney 1973 Matthew Smith 1974 Brad Williams 1974 Drew Ginn 1974 Jerald Moore 1974 Kirk Reynolds 1974 Marissa Ryan 1976 Dominique Dawes 1976 Elisa Blair 1981 Jilen Siroky |
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1168 Giovanni di Struma is elected anti-Pope 1272 Edward I is proclaimed King of England 1342 Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as the Bishop of Utrecht 1347 The Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles 1431 The first meeting of the Order of Guilder Flies 1520 Friesland is hit by a heavy hail storm 1521 Arabs attribute the shortage of water in Jerusalem to the Jews making wine 1583 The Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst 1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes the French Minister of Foreign Affairs/War 1637 Peter Minuit and the first Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden 1719 Sweden and Hannover sign the Treaty of Stockholm 1755 English Minister William Pitt, Sr. resigns 1759 Battle in Bay of Quiberon 1780 Britain declares war on Holland 1789 New Jersey is the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights 1795 The Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday 1805 Beethoven's "Fidelio" premieres in Vienna 1815 The second Peace of Paris: France and allies 1815 Russia, Prussia, Austria and England sign the Great Alliance 1817 The first Seminole War begins in Florida 1829 The Jews are expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda and sees Rio Uruguay 1862 The armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as the Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg 1865 Howard University forms in Washington D.C. 1866 The first national convention of Grand Army of Republic 1866 Pierre Lalemont patents the rotary crank bicycle 1873 Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form Budapest - the capital of Hungary 1888 William Bundy patents the timecard clock 1889 Gustav Mahlers first Symphony 1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create the Tour de France bicycle race 1910 A revolution broke out in Mexico: led by Francisco I Madero 1914 The U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports 1917 The first tank battle (Britain breaks through the German lines) 1917 The Ukrainian Republic is declared 1919 The first municipally owned airport in the U.S. opens in Tucson, AZ 1920 The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1923 Garrett Morgan invents and patents the traffic signal 1929 The first broadcast of the "Goldbergs" on U.S. radio 1929 Salvador Dali's first one-man show 1931 Commercial teletype service begins: AT&T 1932 Earthquake at Uden, Netherlands 1934 Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour" premieres in New York City 1938 The first documented anti-Semitic remarks over U.S. radio: spoken by Father Coughlin 1940 The German air raid on Birmingham fails 1942 The 26th Russian Armored Corps recaptures Perelazovski 1942 The British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya 1942 The NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over 1942 Soviet army offensive: 1 million Russians breach the German lines 1943 U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island 1944 The first Japanese suicide submarine attack 1945 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany 1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens the Parliament in Hague 1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC 1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten 1947 The first permanent TV is installed on a seagoing vessel 1947 The U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps 1948 A U.S. balloon reaches a record height of 42.7 km 1949 The Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000 1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales 1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins the NL MVP 1952 George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in New York City 1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begins 1953 Scott Crossfield in the Douglas Skyrocket becomes the first to break Mach 2: 1,300 MPH 1959 U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights 1962 Mickey Mantle wins the AL MVP 1962 The U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba and the U.S. lifts its blockade 1965 The U.N. Security council calls for a boycott of Rhodesia 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins the LPGA Success Golf Open 1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage 1967 At 11 AM, the Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million 1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1969 Alcatraz Island is seized by militant Native Americans 1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal 1970 The U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR 1971 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1974 The U.S. files an antitrust suit to break-up AT&T 1975 Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for Republican nomination for president 1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live 1977 Egyptian President Sadat became first Arab leader to address the Israeli Knesset 1979 The U.S.'s first artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital 1980 Steve Ptacek, in the Solar Challenger, makes the first solar-powered flight 1981 Anatoly Karpov of the U.S.S.R. retains the world chess championship 1981 Burundia adopts its constitution 1981 The El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens a "limited offensive" 1982 Drew Barrymore, at age 7, hosts Saturday Night Live 1983 100 million people watch the ABC-TV movie "Day After" (about nuclear war) 1984 McDonald's made its 50 BILLIONTH hamburger 1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees the coountry 1986 UN's WHO announces the first global effort to combat AIDS 1992 Queen Elizabeth's home, Windsor Castle, catches fire 1993 A Jakovlev-42 crashes into a mountain at Ohrid, Macedonia: 116 people are killed 1993 Mandela's driver and bodyguard is murdered in Johannesburg 1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes New York City 1994 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland 1995 FDA approves a new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment: 3TC 1995 Princess Di admits that she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview |
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