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 324th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 7, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,763,596,800 seconds 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 ‘trihectaicosatetragon’ day.
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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 89 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 4,717 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 20 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1739 –Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
- 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).
- 1910 –Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
- 1923 –Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
- 1945 –Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
- 1980 –Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
- 1985 –Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
- 1994 –The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
- 2001 –In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.
Who were born on November 20?
- 1896 –Chiyono Hasegawa, a Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 2011)
- 1921 –Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)
- 1944 –Louie Dampier, American basketball player
- 1945 –Rick Monday, American baseball player
- 1957 –Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1959 –James P. McGovern, American politician
- 1968 –Tommy Asinga, Surinamese track star
- 1973 –Angelica Bridges, American actress, model, and singer
- 1976 –Laura Harris, Canadian actress
- 2000 –Connie Talbot, English singer
Who died on November 20?
- 1022 –Bernward of Hildesheim (b. 993)
- 1758 –Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)
- 1938 –Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
- 1951 –Thomas Quinlan (impresario), British opera impresario (b. 1881)
- 1957 –Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-born Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)
- 1978 –Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)
- 2003 –Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)
- 2010 –Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (b. 1931)
- 2010 –Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
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