This Day in History for 20th November

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Events 1 - 100 of 180

284 - Diocletian is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his soldiers in the army of the east
762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.
1168 - Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
1272 - Edward I proclaimed King of England
1342 - Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1347 - Coke di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addressess a meeting of on the Capitol during people's revolt in Rome
1407 - A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
1431 - 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1520 - Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1583 - Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1616 - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 - Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed.
1719 - Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1755 - English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1759 - -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1789 - New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
British Prime Minister (The Great Commoner) William Pitt the Elder 1795 - Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1805 - Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 - 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies after 2nd defeat and abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1815 - Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" same day as Treaty of Paris
1817 - 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1829 - Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1852 - Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
1861 - Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
1862 - Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 - Howard University founded (Washington DC)
1866 - Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 - Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 - William Bundy patents timecard clock
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1889 - Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony
1890 - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Slavery in the Missions"
1894 - US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 - Opera "Grisélidis" is produced (Paris)
1902 - Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1906 - George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1909 - Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1911 - Gustav Mahler's &quot;Das Lied von der Erde&quot; (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich
1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1915 - 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
1917 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 - Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 - 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
Playwright George Bernard Shaw 1922 - Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1923 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
1928 - Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 - WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1929 - 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
1929 - Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1931 - Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1932 - Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1934 - Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, US beats Japan 1-0
1934 - Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1934 - New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 - Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.
1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
Painter Salvador Dali 1940 - German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 - Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
1941 - Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1942 - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 - British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 - NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 - Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1943 - U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1944 - 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 - Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
1944 - Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 - Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1946 - Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 - "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 - 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 - UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1948 - US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1951 - Snowdonia becomes a National Park
1952 - Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 - George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1952 - Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1953 - Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1954 - KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India v NZ
1955 - Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 v NZ
1957 - Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in NYC
1959 - UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 - WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1961 - WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 248

270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
1327 - Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)
1602 - Otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump)
1606 - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian
1620 - Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower
1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)
1625 - Artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised
1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1652 - Romanus Weichlein, composer
1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1726 - Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Decl of Independence [NS=Dec 1]
1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
1752 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1757 - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1759 - Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer
1761 - Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Italy, 253rd Pope (1829-30)
1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)
1765 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
1766 - John Wall Calcott, composer
1781 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian
1802 - James Lawrence Lardner, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1881
1830 - Patrick Henry Jones, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
1834 - Franjo Zaver Kuhac, composer
1836 - John Thomas Croxton, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)
1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)
1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1850 - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer
1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
Author/Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlof (1858) 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), (d. 1940)
1862 - Willem H Vliegen, Dutch typographer/co-founder/chairman (SDAP)
1863 - Maria H "Mina" Beersmans, Flemish actress (Black Griet)
1864 - Gerard W Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor (Groene Amsterdammer)
1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, judge/1st commissioner of baseball
1867 - Vicente Ripolles, composer
1869 - Clark Griffith, Mo, baseball player/manager (NY Yankees)
1871 - William H Kilpatrick, US mathematician/philosopher/educator
1873 - Daniel Gregory Mason, Brookline Mass, composer (Chanticker)
1874 - James Michael Curley, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1958)
1879 - Franz Pfemfert, writer
1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
1882 - Andy Coakley, baseball player and long-time coach at Columbia University (d. 1963)
1884 - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48)
1886 - Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973)
Astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889) 1889 - Edwin Hubble, astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift)
1890 - Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter
1890 - Robert Armstrong, Saginaw MI, actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong)
1891 - Leon Cadore, pitcher (pitched all of 26 inning game)
1891 - Reginald Denny Richmond England, actor (Rebecca, Cat Ballou, Batman)
1892 - James B Collip, Canadian biochemist/physiologist (insulin)
1894 - Carl Mayer, Graz, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise)
1896 - Mykhaylo Verikivsky, composer
1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)
1897 - Lores Bonney, aviator
1897 - Margaret Sutherland, composer
1899 - Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer
1900 - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy)
1902 - Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian
1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1904 - Alexandra Danilova, ballet great
1907 - Fran Allison, LaPorte City Iowa, actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director (Le salaire de la peur)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, Manchester England, TV host (Masterpiece Theatre)
1909 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74)
1910 - Pauli Murray, famous African
1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
1911 - Jean Shiley, US, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1932)
1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house
1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)
1915 - Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)
1916 - Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter
1916 - Judy Canova, Jacksonville Fla, comedienne/actress (Cannonball)
1916 - Robert A Bruce, MD, pioneer (exercise cardiology)
1916 - William John Elwyn Davies, painter
1916 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress
1917 - Max Georg Baumann, composer
1917 - Pam Henningen, [Cornelia CP Ingenegeren], Indonesian/Dutch dancer
1917 - Ram Gopal, Indies/English dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain)
1917 - Robert C Byrd, (Sen-D-WV, 1959- )/majority leader
1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
1918 - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
1919 - Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner)
1919 - Evelyn Keyes, Port Arthur TX, actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
1919 - Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician
1919 - John McCarthy, composer
1920 - Armin Schibler, composer
1920 - Douglas Dick, Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront)
1920 - Gene Tierney, Bkln, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Fort Worth), (d. 2012)
1921 - Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)
1923 - Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991)
1924 - Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
1925 - Judy Woodruff, news analyst & commentator
1925 - June [Shirley L] Christy, US, jazz singer (Tampico)
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
US Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy (1925) 1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), (d. 1968)
1926 - Kaye Ballard, Cleve Ohio, actress/comedienne (Kaye-Mothers-in-Law)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1947 - Future British Queen, Princess Elizabeth marries Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey
1986 - Comedian and actor Steve Martin (41) weds actress Victoria Tennant (36)
1994 - Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
2001 - ABC News political analyst George Stephanopoulos (40) weds actress Alexandra Wentworth (36) at Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan
2005 - Bollywood actor Zayed Khan (25) weds Malaika Parekh at the Grand Maratha Sheraton in Mumbai, India

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2007 - Linda Bollea (46) divorces professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (53) after 23 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 106

869 - King Edmund of East Anglia
967 - Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen), dies
1348 - Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle against Roman revolutionaries by Porta Tiburtina
1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)
1480 - Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies
1518 - Pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies
1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
1527 - Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio
1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)
1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)
1669 - Arnold Geulincx, South Neth philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45
1675 - Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Neth (1664-68)
1678 - Charles Dujardin, painter/etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56
1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
1713 - Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies
1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of Great-Britain, dies
1741 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies
1750 - Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, theologist (Christian religion), dies at 50
1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Finnish composer/violist, dies at 64
1764 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)
1827 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer, dies at 58
1851 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer, dies at 75
1856 - Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
1863 - James Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, governor Jamaica, dies at 52
1882 - Bela Albrecht Pal Keler, composer, dies at 62
1887 - Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver), dies at 77
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
1898 - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies
1899 - Carl A E Ahlqvist, [A Oksanen], Finnish translator, dies at 63
1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)
1910 - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]
1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS]
1925 - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
1927 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)
1936 - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed
1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1939 - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)
1950 - Francesco Cilea, composer, dies at 84
1951 - Thomas Quinlan (impresario) (b. 1881)
1952 - Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
1957 - Weldon Hart, composer, dies at 46
1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
1960 - Jacob Cohen, Hebrew poet/writer, dies
1962 - Jasper McLevy, socialist mayor of Bridgeport Ct, dies
1964 - John Tasker Howard, composer, dies at 73
1968 - Cathy Lewis, actress (Deidre-Hazel), dies of cancer at 50
1968 - Helen Gardner, silent film actress (Sandra), dies
1973 - Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), dies at 48
Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco (1975) 1975 - Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82
1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)
1977 - Maxie Wander, writer, dies
1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
1983 - Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at 83
1983 - Richard Loo, actor, (China Sky), dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest
1984 - Alexander Moyzes, composer, dies at 78
1985 - Bill Scott, cartoon voice (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies at 65
1989 - Lynn Bari, actress (Shock, Nocturne, 6 Gun Law), dies at 71
1991 - Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies
1992 - John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack
1993 - Christopher Frank, French writer, dies at 51
1993 - Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs
1993 - Heather Farr, golfer, dies of cancer at 28
1994 - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68
1994 - Saeedi Sirjani, poet, dies at 64
1995 - Ahmed Abel-Wadoud Karadawi, academic/activist, dies at 50
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, figure skater (Oly-gold), dies of heart attack at 28
1996 - Bert Geoffrey Achong, electron microscopist, dies at 67
1997 - Gary Burris, murderer (Kenneth Chambers), executed in Indiana
1997 - Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52
1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)
1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)
1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)
2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)
2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)
2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)
2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)
2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)
2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)
2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)
2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)
2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)
2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)
2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)
2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)
2007 - Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
2008 - Sven Inge, Swedish painter and modern artist (b. 1935)
2009 - Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)