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Today in History ~ November 20
Events1272 - Edward I proclaimed King of England
1347 - Roman tribune Cola di Rienzi defeats nobles
1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1616 - Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 - Peter Minuit & 1st Dutch/Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden. (Peter later purchased Manhattan Island for 60 guilders
1780 - Britain declared war on Holland.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1805 - Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 - 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies (Napoleon is involuntarily exiled to St. Helena)
1817 - 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1829 - Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 - Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1862 - Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1866 - 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
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
1889 - Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony premieres
1906 - George Bernard Shaw's "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1910 - Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1911 - Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" premieres in Munich
1914 - US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1920 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1923 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1929 - Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1929 - The radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs" debuted on the NBC Blue Network.
1931 - Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1934 - Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1938 - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1941 - Ambassadors Nomura & Kurusu hand over Japanese last diplomatic note
1942 - 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 - British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 - Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein to command
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 [H]
1943 - The Battle of Tarawa-Makin, marking the beginning of the U.S. World War II offensive against Japan in the Central Pacific, began.
1944 - 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany [H]
1945 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 9th Symphony premieres
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went on trial at Nuremberg before the International War Crimes Tribunal.
1946 - Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 - "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 - Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey.
1949 - Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1952 - George Axelrod's "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1959 - The United Nations issued its "Declaration of the Rights of the Child."
1962 - USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1965 - UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1966 - "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1966 - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1967 - At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 - The Census Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
1969 - Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Indians
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout.
1970 - UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1974 - The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
1975 - Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination. He lost to incumbent Gerald Ford, who was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.
1975 - After nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain's General Francisco Franco died, two weeks before his 83rd birthday.
1977 - Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset (parliament)
1977 - Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards against Minn Vikings
1979 - US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital
1980 - UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1982 - President Reagan announced U.S. Marines would go to Lebanon to assist in the evacuation of PLO fighters.
1984 - McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1986 - UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1986 - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane called the secret arms deal he arranged in Iran a "mistake" that failed to gauge public disapproval.
1986 - The World Health Organization announced a coordinated global effort against the disease AIDS.
1990 - British Prime Minister Thatcher failed to win a 65-percent majority in a Conservative Party vote, forcing a runoff against Michael Heseltine.
1991 - California Democrat Alan Cranston accepted a Senate reprimand for his dealings with former savings-and-loan chief Charles H. Keating Jr., but then denied he was guilty of many of the allegations, prompting an angry rebuttal by New Hampshire Republican Warren B. Rudman.
1991 - The United States provided $1.5 billion in food and technical assistance to the Soviet Union, about half of what was requested.
1992 - Fire erupted at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth's official residence west of London, causing much damage. The queen and Prince Andrew pitched in to help save priceless artworks and other valuables housed in the castle.
1993 - The U.S. Senate approved the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
1995 - FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1996 - House Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be speaker for a second term.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year reign.
Birthdays Today
1602 - Otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump)
1620 - Peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower [H]
1726 - Oliver Wolcott, (Ct-Gov)/signed Declaration of Independence
1752 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Christabel)
1757 - Giovanni Battista Gaiani, composer
1765 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (Von Himmel Hoch)
1884 - Norman Thomas, Marion Ohio, socialist (Pres Candidate 1928-48)
1889 - Edwin Powell Hubble, Marshfield, Mo, American astronomer;
1900 - Chester Gould (cartoonist: Dick Tracy)
1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director (Le salaire de la peur)
1908 - Alistair Cooke, Manchester England, journalist/author/TV host (Masterpiece Theatre)
1908 - Sir Alistair Cooke (author: America; TV host: Omnibus, PBS Masterpiece Theater)
1914 - Emilio Pucci, Naples, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1954)
1916 - Judy Canova (comedienne, actress: The Howdy Doody Show)
1920 - Gene Tierney (actress: Laura, The Pleasure Seekers)
1921 - Phyllis Thaxter (actress)
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991)
1925 - June Christy (singer: LPs: Fair and Warmer, The Misty Miss Christy; w/Stan Kenton Band: Tampico, Shoo-Fly Pie, How High the Moon)
1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY) AG; assassinated [6/05/68], JFK's brother
1926 - Kaye Ballard (Catherine Balotta) (actress, comedienne)
1927 - Estelle Parsons (actress)
1929 - Don January (golf: 1967 PGA Champion)
1929 - Kenneth DeWitt Schermerhorn, Schenectady NY, conductor (Amer Ballet)
1932 - Richard Dawson (actor: Hogan's Heroes; TV host: Family "Survey says!" Feud)
1939 - Dick Smothers (comedian: Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour)
1940 - Tony Butala (singer: group: The Letterman)
1942 - Meredith Monk, Lima Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist
1945 - Dan McBride (singer: group: Sha Na Na)
1945 - Jay Johnstone (baseball: Phillies, LA Dodgers)
1945 - Rick Monday (baseball: LA Dodgers; broadcaster)
1946 - Duane Allman (musician: group: The Allman Brothers Band)
1947 - Joe Walsh (musician, singer: group: The Eagles)
1952 - John Van Boxmeer (hockey)
1956 - Bo Derek (Cathleen Collins) (actress: 10, Bolero, Woman of Desire; wife of actor, John Derek)
Famous deaths
0967 - Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies
1347 - Stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle (SPQR)
1527 - Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1713 - Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies
1741 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat/clergyman, dies
1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
1927 - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56
1950 - Francesco Cilea, opera composer, dies at 84
1973 - Allan Sherman, parodist (Camp Granada, Harvey & Sheila), dies at 48
1975 - Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish generalissimo/dictator (1936-75), dies at 82 He's still dead.
1995 - Sergei Grinkov, figure skater (Oly-gold), dies of heart attack at 28
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