Today in history, Nov 20th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 20th!

1695	Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush.
1700	Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva.
1789	New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1903	In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell.
1910	Revolution broke out in Mexico.
1914	Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War.
1917	Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. in North Wilkesboro, N.C.
1928	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	Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.
1943	U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.
1945	The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.
1947	Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
1950	U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.
1955	The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.
1962	President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.
1966	The musical “Cabaret,” with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway.
1967	U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.
1969	The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1971	The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.
1974	The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.
1975	Spain’s Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule.
1977	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel’s parliament.
1978	In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide.
1982	South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.
1985	The first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995	Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2003	Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.)

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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