About November 20
November 20, 2022 is the 324th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 20
- 284 –Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
- 762 –During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
- 1194 –Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
- 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.
- 1789 –New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 1945 –Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
- 1947 –The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1952 –Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
- 1962 –Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
- 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.
- 1979 –Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
- 1992 –In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- 1993 –Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
- 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.
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