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.

## Events

* 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

* 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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