| November 20 |
| 269 |
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Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in
Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard. |
| 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. |
| 1903 |
|
In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom
Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. |
| 1914 |
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Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World
War. |
| 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 |
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Japan and China reject the League of Council terms
for Manchuria at Geneva. |
| 1943 |
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U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held
islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific. |
| 1945 |
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The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg. |
| 1947 |
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Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey. |
| 1950 |
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U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five
miles of Manchuria. |
| 1955 |
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The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated. |
| 1962 |
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President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial
discrimination in federally funded housing. |
| 1967 |
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U.S. census reports the population at 200 million. |
| 1971 |
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The United States announces it will give Turkey
$35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. |
| 1974 |
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The United States files an antitrust suit to break
up ATT. |
| 1978 |
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In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads
his followers in a mass suicide. |
| 1982 |
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South Africa backs down on a plan to install black
rule in neighboring Namibia. |
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