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Day Of The Week: November 20
November 20, 2025 is the 324th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Scorpio is your zodiac sign. Topaz is your modern birthstone. Pearl is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: November 20
- 762 –During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
- 1789 –New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
- 1947 –The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1969 –Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- 1979 –Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
- 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.
- 1989 –Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
- 1992 –In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
- 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.
- 2003 –After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
Who were born on November 20?
- 270 –Maximinus II, Roman Emperor (d. 313)
- 1851 –Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)
- 1908 –Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)
- 1917 –Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)
- 1928 –Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
- 1956 –Mark Gastineau, American football player
- 1959 –James P. McGovern, American politician
- 1975 –J. D. Drew, American baseball player
- 1984 –Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver
- 1984 –Tashard Choice, American football player
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