393 Historic Events for November 20
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter
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| 1916 |
Birth |
Judy Canova, Jacksonville Fla, comedienne/actress (Cannonball)
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Ram Gopal, Indies/English dancer (Blue Peter, Purple Plain)
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Pam Henningen, [Cornelia CP Ingenegeren], Indonesian/Dutch dancer
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| 1917 |
Event |
1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
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| 1917 |
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Ukrainian Republic declared
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Robert C Byrd, (Sen-D-WV, 1959- )/majority leader
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| 1917 |
Birth |
Max Georg Baumann, composer
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| 1918 |
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Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
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| 1919 |
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1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)
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| 1919 |
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Halka Grossman, resistance fighter/politician
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| 1919 |
Birth |
Evelyn Keyes, Port Arthur TX, actress (Adventure of Martin Eden)
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| 1919 |
Birth |
John McCarthy, composer
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| 1919 |
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Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner)
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| 1920 |
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Gene Tierney, Bkln, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost and Mrs Muir)
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Douglas Dick, Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront)
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| 1920 |
Birth |
Armin Schibler, composer
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| 1921 |
Birth |
Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Ft Worth)
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| 1922 |
Event |
Zo‰ Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
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| 1923 |
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Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)
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| 1923 |
Birth |
Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991)
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| 1924 |
Birth |
Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)
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| 1925 |
Death |
Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
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