| November 20 |
| 269 |
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Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor’s bodyguard. |
| 1695 |
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Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush. |
| 1700 |
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Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva. |
| 1903 |
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In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. |
| 1914 |
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Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War. |
| 1928 |
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Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole). |
| 1931 |
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Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva. |
| 1943 |
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U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific. |
| 1945 |
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The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg. |
| 1947 |
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Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey. |
| 1950 |
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U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria. |
| 1955 |
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The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated. |
| 1962 |
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President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing. |
| 1967 |
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U.S. census reports the population at 200 million. |
| 1971 |
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The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. |
| 1974 |
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The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT. |
| 1978 |
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In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide. |
| 1982 |
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South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia. |
| Born on November 20 |
| 1858 |
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Selma Lagerdorf, Swedish novelist (The Story of Gosta Berling). |
| 1889 |
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Edwin Hubble, American astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies far from our own. |
| 1908 |
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Alistair Cooke, English journalist, television host. |
| 1916 |
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Thomas McGrath, poet and novelist. |
| 1923 |
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Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist. |
| 1925 |
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Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, New York senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated while running for president. |
| 1936 |
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Don DeLillo, author (White Noise, Libra). |
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