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Today in History: November 20

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.

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

1981 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released.

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

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.

b]1942[/b]Joe Biden, politician; US Senator from Delaware (1973–2009); President Barack Obama's vice-president, beginning in 2009


JOTD

This guy walks into a bar with his briefcase in hand and he’s mad. He sits at the bar, puts his case down and orders a drink. The bartender serves him right up and asks the man what’s got him down.
The man gives a disappointed grin and tells the bartender that he can just show him. He opens his briefcase and out pops a tiny person about a foot tall that begins to play his miniature piano.
Of course the bartender is amazed and is just about to ask where he found this little guy but is cut off by the man who informs him that there’s a genie outside his bar granting people wishes for free.
The bartender sprints outside but comes right back only minutes later followed by an army of quacking ducks that fill the whole place.
Angrily, the bartender says to the first man that the genie has: “ Gotta be deaf man! I ask for a million bucks and get a million ducks...”
First man says “ Bro, you think I asked for a twelve inch pianist?”