20 November

The 20t o November is the 324t day o the year (325t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 41 days bidin.

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Events

2000: ASIMO

• 284 - Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
• 1194 - Palermo, Sicily, is conquered bi Henry VI, Haly Roman Emperor.
• 1316 - Daith o John I o Fraunce agit juist 5 days.
• 1789 - New Jersey becomes the first state tae ratify the Unitit States Bill o Richts.
• 1910 - The Mexican Revolution stairts.
• 1917 - Ukraine declares itself a republic.
• 1945 - The Nuremberg trials o leadin Nazi war criminals begin.
• 1947 - Marriage o the future Queen Elizabeth II an Prince Philip, Duke o Edinburgh.
• 1975 - Daith o Francisco Franco, dictator o Spain.
• 1992 - A fire heavily damages Windsor Castle.
• 1994 - Mexico's Communist Pairty is foondit.
• 2000 - Honda presents the ASIMO robot tae the warld.
• 2003 - Twa attacks on Breetish missions in Istanbul kill 27 fowk.
• 2011 - Mariano Rajoy's Popular Pairty wins elections in Spain.
• 2015 - 19 fowk are kilt in a terrorist attack on a hottle in Bamako, Mali.
• 2016 - A train crash near Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, Indie, kills at least 146 fowk.
• 2019 - Prince Andrew, Duke o York propales that he is steppin back frae public duties ower the controversy regairdin his relationship wi financier an sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
• 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: The hichest level o COVID-19 restriction is imposit on 11 Cooncil auries in the Central Belt o Scotland.

Births

Nadine Gordimer

Joe Biden

• 270 - Maximinus II, Roman emperor (d. 313)
• 1602 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor an politeecian (d. 1686)
• 1761 - Pape Pius VIII (d. 1830)
• 1776 - William Blackwood, Scots publisher (d. 1834)
• 1801 - Mungo Ponton, Scots inventor (d. 1880)
• 1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7t Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1919)
• 1851 - Margherita o Savoy, Queen o Italy (d. 1926)
• 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swadish writer (d. 1940)
• 1904 - John MacCormick, Scots lawyer an devolutionist politeecian (d. 1981)
• 1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrick ryal an politeecian (d. 2011)
• 1917 - Robert Byrd, American politeecian (d. 2010)
• 1923 - Nadine Gordimer, Sooth African writer (d. 2014)
• 1924 - Benoit Mandelbrot, Pols-born French-American mathemateecian (d. 2010)
• 1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politeecian (d. 1968)
• 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Roushie ballerina an choreographer (d. 2015)
• 1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Roushie actor (d. 2017)
• 1934 - Jimmy Millar, Scots fitbawer
• 1942 - Joe Biden, 46t Preses o the Unitit States (elect) an 47t Vice Preses o the Unitit States
• 1948 - John R. Bolton, American diplomat
• 1956 - Bo Derek, American actress
• 1957 - Goodluck Jonathan, umwhile Preses o Nigerie
• 1962 - Gerardo Martino, Argentine fitbawer an manager
• 1980 - Malachy Tallack, Scots muisicker, jurnalist an writer
• 1989 - Eduardo Vargas, Chilean fitbawer
• 2000 - Connie Talbot, Inglis sangster

Daiths

• 1316 - John I o Fraunce (b. 15 November 1316)
• 1633 - Walter Scott, 1st Yerl o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (b. 1606)
• 1737 - Caroline o Ansbach (b. 1683)
• 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Roushie pianist an componer (b. 1829)
• 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Roushie writer (b. 1828)
• 1925 - Alexandra o Denmark (b. 1844)
• 1945 - Francis William Aston, Inglis chemist (b. 1877)
• 1975 - Francisco Franco, Spaingie dictator (b. 1892)
• 2003 - David Dacko, Central African politeecian (b. 1930)
• 2007 - Ian Smith, Rhodesie politeecian (b. 1919)

Halidays

• Universal Childer's Day
• Transgender Day o Remembrance
• Teacher's Day (Vietnam)
• Revolution Day (Mexico)
• Naitional Sovereignty Day (Argentinae)
• 20-N (Spain)

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