A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on November 20 throughout history.
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Roman General Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by the armies of the East and West after the death of Carinus at the Battle of the Margus
Khan of the Uyghurs, Bögü Qaghan, conquers Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese Empire
Zumbi, the last king of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and a former slave, is executed and decapitated; his head is displayed on a pike to dispel any legends of his immortality
Second Treaty of Paris: France has its borders reduced to those of 1790 and agrees to pay 700 million francs in indemnities to end the Napoleonic Wars
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies.
The Day After is a 1983 American television film directed by Nicholas Meyer. The war film postulates a fictional conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a...
Fidelio, originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set twelve world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres (21.950 mi) on 11 May 1893.
American businessman and tire maker Harvey Firestone (26) weds American composer Idabelle Smith (21)
Archaeologist Hiram Bingham (25) weds Tiffany heiress Alfreda Mitchell in Honolulu, Hawaii
American blues musician Muddy Waters (19 or 21) weds American Mabel Berry; divorce in 1935
Linda Bollea (46) divorces professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (53) after 23 years of marriage
Business magnate Rupert Murdoch (82) divorces Wendi Deng (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage
An antipope (Latin: antipapa) is a person who claims to be Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in opposition to the officially elected pope.
Henry VI (German: Heinrich VI.; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his...
Pope Clement VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
Cola di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addresses a meeting of on the Capitol during people's revolt in Rome
Astronomer Regiomontanus returns with Cardinal Basilios Bessarion to his house in Rome, home to one of largest libraries in Europe
Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
Duke of Parma conquers Aalst
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in...
Sweden & Hannover sign for peace Treaty of Stockholm
Battle of Quiberon Bay begins: British win crucial naval victory over the French, thwarting a planned French invasion of Britain
Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
Russia, Prussia, Austria and England sign an Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" on the same day as the Treaty of Paris
Whaling ship Essex attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific, only eight of the 20 crew men eventually survive (through cannibalism). Inspiration for the novel "Moby-Dick"
Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol, Russia
Charles Reade and Tom Taylor's historical comedy play "Masks & Faces" premieres in London
The Confederate government of Kentucky was a shadow government established for the Commonwealth of Kentucky by a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers and delegates sent by Kentucky...
Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was an American military officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War.
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S.
Sherlock Holmes's first story "A Study in Scarlet" is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25
Willard Bundy patents the timecard clock
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi).
Dramatic opera "Grisélidis" by Jules Massenet, Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand premieres the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France
Jack Williams of Canadian football team Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral work for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909.
The US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
First successful use of a tank in battle at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Arizona
Zoe Akins' play "Texas Nightingale" premieres in NYC
American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between "stop" and "go," an important development in automobile safety [1]
First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
Earthquake at Uden, Netherlands
1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
German submarine U-536 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 354 on 13 March 1942,...
1st Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
Lillian Hellman's play "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC
1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei (Mediator [between] God), the first devoted entirely to liturgy
A US balloon reaches a record height of 42.7 km
Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
Snowdonia, or Eryri, is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales. It contains all 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), which...
Henry John “Hank” Sauer (March 17, 1917 – August 24, 2001) was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout.
Scott Crossfield becomes the first person to break the Mach 2 barrier by flying the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket at 1,291 mph (2,076 km/h)
KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
The New Zealand national cricket team toured India in 1955–56 season. The teams played five Tests. India won the series 2–0 with three Tests drawn.
Morton Wishengrad's dramatic play "Rope Dancers", starring Art Carney, Siobhán McKenna, and Theodore Bikel, premieres at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 189 performances
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.
Australian driver Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship by 9 points from Bruce McLaren of New Zealand
Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census.
USSR agrees to remove remaining Ilyushin Il-28 bomber jets from Cuba, US lifts blockade
Dmitri Shostakovich's 9th/10th String Quartet premieres in Moscow
Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised country in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979.
Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball...
Farmington Mine Disaster: 78 miners are killed in a coal mining explosion in West Virginia, leading to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 [1]
Island Records releases "Emerson, Lake & Palmer", the debut album by progressive rock trio Emerson, Lake & Palmer, in the UK; featuring the hit single "Lucky Man", its US release comes two months later
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
2 British Army soldiers, William Watson (28) and James Strothers (31), are killed by a booby trap bomb set by the Provisional IRA in Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Ireland
Jeffrey Alan Burroughs is an American former professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1970 through 1985, for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers...
George Harrison appears on "Saturday Night Live": haggling with Lorne Michaels; performing "Here Comes the Sun" and "Homeward Bound" with Paul Simon; and airing two music videos
The 1977 Chicago Bears season was their 58th regular season completed in the National Football League.
First artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital in the US when a patient refuses a conventional blood transfusion due to religious beliefs and receives the blood substitute Fluosol
Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes the first solar-powered flight
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Stop and Smell the Roses is the eighth studio album by the English rock musician Ringo Starr.
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night.
McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Dwight Eugene Gooden, nicknamed "Dr. K" and "Doc", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, was the left-wing led Afghan state from 1978 to 1992.
Boston College beats Army 38-24 in the 'Emerald isle Classic' at Dublin's Lansdowne Road Stadium, the first NCAA American Football game to be played in Europe
Terry Lee Pendleton is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played primarily for the St.
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles (40 km) west of central London.
Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
Winnie Mandela's driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.
Iraq's Revolution Command Council formally endorses an agreement, arranged by Russia, that enables UN weapons inspection teams to resume operations in Iraq
Philadelphia Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose Sharks defenseman Marty McSorley
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.
After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997
The Mexican government declares its economy technically out of recession after 2.93% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009; Mexico had been in a severe economic crisis for over a year prior to its economic rebound
Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal "Sciences Advances"
Atlanta's Georgia Dome, once the world's largest covered stadium, is destroyed in a controlled implosion
Airbnb, Inc. (an abbreviation of its original name, "Airbed and Breakfast") is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays, experiences and services in...
South African golfer Gary Player receives PGA recognition for his 3 Senior British Open wins (1988, 90, 97) from before event recognised as a major title (2003); takes him to 9 Senior majors
Britain's Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of Zvěřinec in Czech Republic, claiming it as his hardest 9b+ and the second hardest route of his life
Elton John completes the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
Somalian authorities say 50 people have died in heavy rain and flooding, and 687,235 people displaced, amid large downpours across the Horn of Africa linked to El Nino [1]
Woman suspected to be Thailand's worst-ever serial killer convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, the first of 14 trials [1]
Don DeLillo, American writer, known for american writer, was born on 1937-11-20. Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist.
Joe Biden is born
Ming-Na Wen, American actress and model, known for american actress and model, was born on 1964-11-20. Ming-Na Wen is an American actress and model.
Dr. John musician, known for american singer-songwriter and pianist, was born on 1941-11-20. Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr.
Future [Nayvadius Wilburn], American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-11-20.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American athlete, known for american judge and first commissioner of baseball, was born on 1866-11-20.
Bobby Locke is born
Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician, known for chinese politician, was born on 1915-11-20.
John Bolton, American attorney and diplomat, known for american attorney and diplomat, was born on 1949-11-20.
Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer and conductor, known for russian pianist, composer and conductor, died on 1894-11-20.
Tom Horn dies
John Jellicoe, New Zealand royal navy admiral of the fleet, known for royal navy admiral of the fleet, died on 1935-11-20.
Francisco Franco dies
Roman General Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by the armies of the East and West after the death of Carinus at the Battle of the Margus
Khan of the Uyghurs, Bögü Qaghan, conquers Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese Empire
An antipope (Latin: antipapa) is a person who claims to be Bishop of Rome and leader of the Roman Catholic Church in opposition to the officially elected pope.
Henry VI (German: Heinrich VI.; November 1165 – 28 September 1197), a member of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, was King of Germany (King of the Romans) from 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1191 until his...
Pope Clement VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
Cola di Rienzo, later Roman Tribunal, addresses a meeting of on the Capitol during people's revolt in Rome
Astronomer Regiomontanus returns with Cardinal Basilios Bessarion to his house in Rome, home to one of largest libraries in Europe
Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
Duke of Parma conquers Aalst
Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in...
Zumbi, the last king of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and a former slave, is executed and decapitated; his head is displayed on a pike to dispel any legends of his immortality
Sweden & Hannover sign for peace Treaty of Stockholm
Battle of Quiberon Bay begins: British win crucial naval victory over the French, thwarting a planned French invasion of Britain
Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
Fidelio, originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Second Treaty of Paris: France has its borders reduced to those of 1790 and agrees to pay 700 million francs in indemnities to end the Napoleonic Wars
Russia, Prussia, Austria and England sign an Alliance "for the maintenance of peace in Europe" on the same day as the Treaty of Paris
Whaling ship Essex attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific, only eight of the 20 crew men eventually survive (through cannibalism). Inspiration for the novel "Moby-Dick"
Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol, Russia
Charles Reade and Tom Taylor's historical comedy play "Masks & Faces" premieres in London
The Confederate government of Kentucky was a shadow government established for the Commonwealth of Kentucky by a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers and delegates sent by Kentucky...
Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was an American military officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War.
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American athlete, known for american judge and first commissioner of baseball, was born on 1866-11-20.
Sherlock Holmes's first story "A Study in Scarlet" is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25
Willard Bundy patents the timecard clock
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising 130,370 km2 (50,340 sq mi).
Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist, composer and conductor, known for russian pianist, composer and conductor, died on 1894-11-20.
American businessman and tire maker Harvey Firestone (26) weds American composer Idabelle Smith (21)
Archaeologist Hiram Bingham (25) weds Tiffany heiress Alfreda Mitchell in Honolulu, Hawaii
Dramatic opera "Grisélidis" by Jules Massenet, Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand premieres the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France
Henri Desgrange was a French bicycle racer and sports journalist. He set twelve world track cycling records, including the hour record of 35.325 kilometres (21.950 mi) on 11 May 1893.
Tom Horn dies
Jack Williams of Canadian football team Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral work for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909.
The US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician, known for chinese politician, was born on 1915-11-20.
First successful use of a tank in battle at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
Bobby Locke is born
1st municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Arizona
Zoe Akins' play "Texas Nightingale" premieres in NYC
American inventor Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, adding a caution between "stop" and "go," an important development in automobile safety [1]
First broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
American blues musician Muddy Waters (19 or 21) weds American Mabel Berry; divorce in 1935
Earthquake at Uden, Netherlands
John Jellicoe, New Zealand royal navy admiral of the fleet, known for royal navy admiral of the fleet, died on 1935-11-20.
Don DeLillo, American writer, known for american writer, was born on 1937-11-20. Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist.
1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was the military coalition which initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
Dr. John musician, known for american singer-songwriter and pianist, was born on 1941-11-20. Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr.
26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
German submarine U-536 was a Type IXC U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. She was laid down at the Deutsche Werft (yard) in Hamburg as yard number 354 on 13 March 1942,...
Joe Biden is born
1st Japanese suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
Lillian Hellman's play "Another Part of the Forest" premieres in NYC
1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei (Mediator [between] God), the first devoted entirely to liturgy
A US balloon reaches a record height of 42.7 km
Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
John Bolton, American attorney and diplomat, known for american attorney and diplomat, was born on 1949-11-20.
Snowdonia, or Eryri, is a mountainous region and national park in North Wales. It contains all 15 mountains in Wales over 3000 feet high, including the country's highest, Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), which...
Henry John “Hank” Sauer (March 17, 1917 – August 24, 2001) was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout.
Scott Crossfield becomes the first person to break the Mach 2 barrier by flying the Douglas D-558-II Skyrocket at 1,291 mph (2,076 km/h)
KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
The New Zealand national cricket team toured India in 1955–56 season. The teams played five Tests. India won the series 2–0 with three Tests drawn.
Morton Wishengrad's dramatic play "Rope Dancers", starring Art Carney, Siobhán McKenna, and Theodore Bikel, premieres at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 189 performances
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.
Australian driver Jack Brabham finishes 4th in season-ending US Grand Prix at Riverside Raceway to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship by 9 points from Bruce McLaren of New Zealand
Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census.
USSR agrees to remove remaining Ilyushin Il-28 bomber jets from Cuba, US lifts blockade
Dmitri Shostakovich's 9th/10th String Quartet premieres in Moscow
Ming-Na Wen, American actress and model, known for american actress and model, was born on 1964-11-20. Ming-Na Wen is an American actress and model.
Rhodesia, officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised country in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979.
Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times
At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
George Thomas Seaver (November 17, 1944 – August 31, 2020), nicknamed "Tom Terrific" and "the Franchise", was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball...
Farmington Mine Disaster: 78 miners are killed in a coal mining explosion in West Virginia, leading to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 [1]
Island Records releases "Emerson, Lake & Palmer", the debut album by progressive rock trio Emerson, Lake & Palmer, in the UK; featuring the hit single "Lucky Man", its US release comes two months later
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
2 British Army soldiers, William Watson (28) and James Strothers (31), are killed by a booby trap bomb set by the Provisional IRA in Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Ireland
Jeffrey Alan Burroughs is an American former professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1970 through 1985, for the Washington Senators / Texas Rangers...
Francisco Franco dies
George Harrison appears on "Saturday Night Live": haggling with Lorne Michaels; performing "Here Comes the Sun" and "Homeward Bound" with Paul Simon; and airing two music videos
The 1977 Chicago Bears season was their 58th regular season completed in the National Football League.
First artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital in the US when a patient refuses a conventional blood transfusion due to religious beliefs and receives the blood substitute Fluosol
Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes the first solar-powered flight
Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
Stop and Smell the Roses is the eighth studio album by the English rock musician Ringo Starr.
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, and politician.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC's Saturday Night.
The Day After is a 1983 American television film directed by Nicholas Meyer. The war film postulates a fictional conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact over Germany that rapidly escalates into a...
McDonald's makes its 50 billionth hamburger
Dwight Eugene Gooden, nicknamed "Dr. K" and "Doc", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Future [Nayvadius Wilburn], American musician, known for american rapper, was born on 1984-11-20.
Windows 1.0 is the first major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, later known as the Republic of Afghanistan, was the left-wing led Afghan state from 1978 to 1992.
Boston College beats Army 38-24 in the 'Emerald isle Classic' at Dublin's Lansdowne Road Stadium, the first NCAA American Football game to be played in Europe
Terry Lee Pendleton is an American former third baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played primarily for the St.
Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, about 25 miles (40 km) west of central London.
Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
Winnie Mandela's driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
The Angolan Civil War (Portuguese: Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.
Iraq's Revolution Command Council formally endorses an agreement, arranged by Russia, that enables UN weapons inspection teams to resume operations in Iraq
Philadelphia Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose Sharks defenseman Marty McSorley
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.
Linda Bollea (46) divorces professional wrestler Hulk Hogan (53) after 23 years of marriage
After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997
The Mexican government declares its economy technically out of recession after 2.93% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009; Mexico had been in a severe economic crisis for over a year prior to its economic rebound
Toshiba unveils a robot designed to help in nuclear disasters
Business magnate Rupert Murdoch (82) divorces Wendi Deng (44) due to irreconcilable differences after 13 years of marriage
More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal "Sciences Advances"
Atlanta's Georgia Dome, once the world's largest covered stadium, is destroyed in a controlled implosion
Airbnb, Inc. (an abbreviation of its original name, "Airbed and Breakfast") is an American company operating an online marketplace for short-and-long-term homestays, experiences and services in...
South African golfer Gary Player receives PGA recognition for his 3 Senior British Open wins (1988, 90, 97) from before event recognised as a major title (2003); takes him to 9 Senior majors
Britain's Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
Adam Ondra completes the first ascent of Zvěřinec in Czech Republic, claiming it as his hardest 9b+ and the second hardest route of his life
Elton John completes the North American leg of his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour" at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
Somalian authorities say 50 people have died in heavy rain and flooding, and 687,235 people displaced, amid large downpours across the Horn of Africa linked to El Nino [1]
Woman suspected to be Thailand's worst-ever serial killer convicted and sentenced to death for poisoning a friend with cyanide, the first of 14 trials [1]