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269- 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- 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- Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva.

1943- U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific.

1945- The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg.

1947- Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.

1950- U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria.

1955- The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated.

1962- President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing.

1967- U.S. census reports the population at 200 million.

1971- The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies.

1974- The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT.

1978- South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia.

1981- Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.

1992- Fire in England's Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages.

1998- First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

2008- Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.


Born on November 20

1939- Dick Smothers, actor, singer; half of the Smothers Brothers whose controversial comedy-variety TV show challenged censorship boundaries in the 1960s, finally resulting in cancellation in 1969.