About November 20
November 20, 2023 is the 324th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 82 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 20
- 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.
- 1695 –Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed.
- 1789 –New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 1820 –An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
- 1845 –Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: Battle of Vuelta de Obligado.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky’s Confederate government.
- 1910 –Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
- 1917 –World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
- 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
- 1940 –World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
- 1943 –World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
- 1952 –Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- 1977 –Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1992 –In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- 1994 –The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
- 1998 –A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 1998 –The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.
- 2001 –In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
- 2003 –After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
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