What are the important events that happened on November 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 20: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 20 is the 325^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 7, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 481,128 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosapentagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 70 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,352 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 20 Historical Events

• 1194 –
  Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
• 1407 –
  A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
• 1789 –
  New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
• 1820 –
  An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).
• 1917 –
  Ukraine is declared a republic.
• 1947 –
  The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1952 –
  Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
• 1992 –
  In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
• 1993 –
  Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
• 1998 –
  A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Who were born on November 20?

• 1602 –
  Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)
• 1750 –
  Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)
• 1925 –
  Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer
• 1926 –
  Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (d. 2007)
• 1942 –
  Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
• 1949 –
  Thelma Drake, American politician
• 1961 –
  Dave Watson, English footballer
• 1975 –
  Davey Havok, American singer (AFI)
• 1976 –
  Cemal Yıldız, Turkish footballer
• 1981 –
  Sam Fuld, American baseball player

Who died on November 20?

• 1591 –
  Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
• 1662 –
  Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Austrian-born Spanish territorial governor (b. 1614)
• 1695 –
  Zumbi, Brazilian slave (b. 1655)
• 1742 –
  Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)
• 1925 –
  Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)
• 1957 –
  Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
• 2003 –
  Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)
• 2005 –
  James King, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2007 –
  Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)
• 2008 –
  Sven Inge, Swedish painter (b. 1935)