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On this day - November 20
284 — Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
762 — During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of ...
1194 — Palermo is conquered by Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor.
1407 — John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and Louis of Valois, Duke ...
1441 — The Peace of Cremona ends the war between the Republic of ...
1695 — Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in ...
1739 — Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish ...
1776 — American Revolutionary War: British forces land at the ...
1789 — New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of ...
1805 — Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
1815 — The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French ...
1820 — An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ...
1845 — Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta ...
1861 — American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by ...
1873 — Garnier Expedition: French forces under Lieutenant Francis ...
1900 — The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the ...
1910 — Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San ...
1917 — World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make ...
1936 — José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is ...
1940 — World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite ...
1943 — World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: ...
1945 — Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start ...
1946 — Indonesian National Revolution: 96 Indonesian including I ...
1947 — The Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen) marries Lieutenant ...
1959 — The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the ...
1962 — Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union ...
1968 — A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the ...
1969 — Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize ...
1969 — Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes ...
1974 — The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa ...
1974 — The United States Department of Justice files its final ...
1977 — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader ...
1979 — Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi ...
1980 — Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt ...
1985 — Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer ...
1989 — Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in ...
1990 — Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific ...
1991 — An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping ...
1992 — In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly ...
1993 — North Macedonia's deadliest aviation disaster occurs when ...
1993 — Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics ...
1994 — The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka ...
1996 — A fire breaks out in an office building in Hong Kong, killing ...
1998 — The first space station module component, Zarya, for the ...
1998 — A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused ...
2003 — After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 ...
2015 — Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in ...
2016 — Jimmie Johnson wins his seventh NASCAR Cup Series championship ...
2022 — The 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first ...