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Events from History on November 20

1168 : Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope
1272 : Edward I proclaimed King of England
1342 : Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1347 : Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles
1431 : 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1520 : Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1521 : Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1583 : Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1616 : Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1637 : Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1719 : Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1755 : English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1759 : -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1780 : Britain declares war on Holland
1789 : New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1795 : Cura‡ao govt forbids slave work on Sunday
1805 : Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1815 : 2nd Peace of Paris: France & allies
1815 : Russia, Prussia, Austria & England signs Great Alliance
1817 : 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1829 : Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol Russia
1833 : Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1852 : Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks & Faces," premieres in London
1862 : Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
1862 : Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under Gen Braxton Bragg
1865 : Howard University forms in Washington DC
1866 : 1st natl convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 : Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 : Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1873 : Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1888 : William Bundy patents timecard clock
1889 : Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony
1890 : Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions
1894 : US intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1901 : Opera "Gris‚lidis" is produced (Paris)
1902 : Geo Lefevre & Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1906 : George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1909 : Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1910 : Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1911 : Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich
1914 : US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1917 : 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 : Ukrainian Republic declared
1919 : 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
1920 : Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
1922 : Zo‰ Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923 : Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal
1925 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1054 Forsytia
1928 : Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 : WGH-AM in Newport News VA begins radio transmissions
1929 : 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio
1929 : Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1931 : Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1932 : Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1934 : Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0
1934 : Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in NYC
1934 : New Belgian govt of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 : Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1938 : 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
1940 : German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 : Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1941 : Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 : German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1942 : 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 : British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 : Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding
1942 : NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 : Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1943 : U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 : US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1944 : 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 : Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
1944 : Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1945 : 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 : Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1946 : Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in NYC
1947 : "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 : 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 : Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1947 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 : UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1948 : US balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1949 : Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1951 : Snowdonia becomes a National Park
1952 : Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 : George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in NYC
1952 : Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1953 : Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1954 : KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 : Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in NYC
1959 : UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 : WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1961 : WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 : Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1962 : USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade
1964 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1965 : "Pickwick" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 56 performances
1965 : Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #2301 Whitford
1965 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2185 Guangdong
1965 : UN Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 : WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 : "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances
1966 : Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1967 : At 11 AM, Census Clock at Dept of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 : Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1968 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 : Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1969 : Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1969 : SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
1970 : UN General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1971 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 : Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
1974 : The US files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
1975 : Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Rep nomination for president
1976 : George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1977 : Egyptian Pres Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 : Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1979 : Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed
1979 : US's 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at U of Minn Hospital
1980 : Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Oakland A's)
1980 : Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 : UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1981 : Anatoly Karpov, USSR retains world chess championship
1981 : Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 : El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1981 : Ringo releases "Stop & Smell Roses" album
1982 : Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1983 : "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff NYC for 16 perfs
1983 : 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 : Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1984 : McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 : Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 : NY Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
1986 : Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 : UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1988 : "Les Miserables," opens a Bus & Truck tour in Tampa
1989 : K Suzuki & T Urata discover asteroid #4748 Tokiwagozen #6444
1989 : Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1989 : W Kakei & M Kizawa & T Urata discover asteroid #7574
1990 : Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1990 : R H McNaught discovers asteroid #7582
1990 : Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 : US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1991 : Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP
1992 : "Malcolm X" premieres
1992 : Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire
1993 : Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 : Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
1993 : Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1994 : "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes NYC for 50 perfs
1994 : "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 49 performances
1994 : Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1994 : Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
1995 : "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
1995 : "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 perfs
1995 : FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1995 : Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1995 : STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1997 : "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 51 performances
1997 : Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley
1997 : Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
1997 : NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak

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