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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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November 20 – A Day as Today

284: in Rome, Diocletian is elected emperor.
762: in China – within the framework of the An Lushan Rebellion (between 756 and 763) – An Lushan conquers Luoyang, capital of imperial China.
1114: in Urfa (northern Mesopotamia), present-day Turkey, an earthquake of magnitude 9 is recorded.
1194: Palermo (Sicily) is conquered by the Germanic Emperor Henry VI.
1248: In the Netherlands, a storm surge overtakes the coastal dunes at Callantsoog (Den Helder), flooding parts of northern Holland, Friesland and Groningen.
1407: Juan without Fear and Juan de Valois, order the murder of Luis de Valois, who would die three days later.
1461: In L’Áqüila (central Italy) an earthquake is registered (possibly the same earthquake as on November 27).
1490: in Valencia (Spain), the writer Joanot Martorell publishes his cavalry book Tirant lo Blanch in his Valencian language.
1500: to Cádiz (Spain) Christopher Columbus and his brothers arrive in chains, who had been arrested by the Governor of the Indies Francisco de Bobadilla.
1542: New Laws are promulgated in Spain, inspired by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas.
1588: 20 km west of Firuzabad (in south-central Iran), an earthquake is recorded.
1642: in Jiangsu (China) an earthquake of magnitude 5 on the Richter seismological scale (intensity 6) is registered.
1664: in Heraklion (Crete) an earthquake is recorded that shakes all of Greece.
1695: in Brazil Zumbi, the last of the leaders of the Quilombo dos Palmares, is executed.
1776: in the province of Buenos Aires (Argentina) the Magdalena chapel is founded (which will be the basis for the foundation of a village in this place).
1789: New Jersey becomes the first state in the United States to ratify the Constitution.
1820: 3700 km west of the coast of Antofagasta (Upper Peru Region), an 80-ton sperm whale attacks the ship Essex and sinks it. When three months later they collected the eight survivors, in two boats, they had eaten seven companions, to survive. The writer Herman Melville was inspired by this fact to write his flagship novel Moby-Dick in 1851.
1822: in Valparaíso (Chile), at 6:30 (local time) an earthquake of 8.5 degrees on the Richter seismological scale and intensity of 11 is recorded, which lifts the coast between Copiapó and Valdivia, generates a tsunami and leaves a balance of “many” dead.
1845: in Argentina, on the banks of the Paraná River, 20 km northwest of San Pedro (Buenos Aires province), Argentine forces under the command of General Lucio Norberto Mansilla interrupted the attack by British and French forces (Batalla de la Vuelta de Obliged). This day the National Sovereignty Day is celebrated in that country.
1861: In the United States, Kentucky joins the Confederate government.
1902: at the Café de Madrid (in Paris), Henri Desgrange and the journalist Géo Lefèvre dream of creating the Tour de France.
1903: in Panama the national flag is baptized.
1910: in Mexico, Francisco I. Madero publishes the Plan of San Luis Potosí, where he denounces President Porfirio Díaz, and proclaims himself president. The Mexican Revolution begins that tries to overthrow the government.
1917: in the framework of the First World War the battle of Cambrai begins: the United Kingdom makes the German positions fall back, which later counterattack.
1917: Ukraine becomes a republic.
1923: In Germany, the rentenmark replaces the papiermark as the official currency. One rentenmark equals one trillion papiermark.
1936: José Antonio Primo de Rivera (founder of the Spanish Falange) is shot in the Alicante prison. In addition, Buenaventura Durruti, an Iberian anarchist trade unionist and revolutionary, dies in defense of Madrid, for reasons that are not very clear.
1936: the airline company Pluna Lineas Aereas Uruguayas is founded in Uruguay.
1940: in the framework of World War II, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia allied with the Axis Forces.
1943: in the framework of World War II, the battle of Tarawa is fought. (Operation Galvanic) begins. Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer under heavy fire from entrenched Japanese forces.
1945: in the framework of the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials against the Nazi leaders begin.
1947: in Westminster Abbey (in London) Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.
1948: in Managua (Nicaragua) the dictator Anastasio Somoza García inaugurates the General Somoza National Stadium, now the Dennis Martínez National Stadium, during the X World Baseball Series.
1952: The Slánský Trials begin in Czechoslovakia, a series of trials against Stalinists and anti-Semites.
1952: the University Olympic Stadium is inaugurated in Mexico.
1953: American pilot Scott Crossfield reaches twice the speed of sound for the first time.
1959: the United Nations General Assembly approves the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
1960: in Trujillo (Peru) the National Marinera Contest is created.
1962: the Missile Crisis ends in Cuba, when John F. Kennedy (President of the United States) agrees not to invade the Caribbean nation, and the Soviet Union agrees to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.
1969: in the United States – in the context of the Vietnam War – the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper publishes explicit photographs of the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers killed several hundred civilians (including women and children) in Vietnam.
1970: the Club Atlético 3 de Febrero is founded in Paraguay.
1972: in Valencia, Spain, David Armendáriz Arauzo is born, eminent athlete at the national level, 4 times World Champion of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, representing Spain in Astana (Kazakhstan) in 2018, and Baku (Acerbayán) in 2019. Due to COVID -19 there has been no competition and he continues to be world champion (as of July 5, 2020).
1975: dictator Francisco Franco, Head of State after the Civil War, dies in Spain.
1976: In the mountains near San Juan Cotzal (Guatemala), the army assassinates the American Third World priest Guillermo Woods (1931-1976) and four other Americans in a small plane.
1979: in Mecca (Saudi Arabia), about 200 Sunni Muslims rebel during the pilgrimage to the Kaaba, taking 6000 hostages. The Arab monarchy receives the help of French forces.
1983: in the United States, nearly 100 million people watch the controversial telefilm The Day After, which describes the effects of a nuclear war in that country.
1984: SETI, the search service for extraterrestrial intelligence, is founded.
1984: the manga (comic magazine) Dragon Ball begins to be published in Japan.
1984: in Bilbao (Spain) Santiago Brouard, a pediatrician and elected deputy of the Basque Parliament, is assassinated in his office.
1985: Microsoft Windows version 1.0 goes on sale.
1985: on the island of Cuba, Hurricane Kate devastates several municipalities.
1989: in Prague (Czechoslovakia) the Velvet Revolution begins, where about half a million people gather demanding democracy.
1989: Josu Muguruza is assassinated in Spain during a dinner the day before he took office as Herri Batasuna’s deputy.
1989: Convention on the Rights of the Child was adapted.
1992: at Windsor Castle (United Kingdom), a private chapel burns for 15 hours, causing serious damage to the northwest of the building.
1993: near Ohrid (Republic of Macedonia) an Avioimpex Yak 42D crashes. All eight members of the crew and 115 of the 116 passengers die. The only survivor died a few days later.
1994: In Zambia, the Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol, ending 19 years of civil war.
1998: the International Space Station launches the Zaryá spacecraft (its first module).
1999: in the Chilean city of Concepción, the disappearance of the young student Jorge Matute Johns is reported after a confusing incident in a nightclub. His mortal remains will be found on February 12, 2004 on the banks of the Biobío River and his crime has not yet been solved until now.
2003: in Istanbul (Turkey) several bombs explode, destroying the branch of the British bank HSBC and the British consulate.
2004: the APEC summit begins in Chile.
2007: two articles are published in the magazines Science and Cell where two independent groups announce that they have managed to generate stem cells from human fibroblasts. This is considered one of the most important advances in this field of study.
2011: in Spain the General Elections of Spain of 2011 are held, won by the Popular Party with Mariano Rajoy at the head by an absolute majority, while the PSOE suffers the greatest electoral defeat in its history.
2014: Mexico and other parts of the world celebrate the first day of the “Global Action for Ayotzinapa”, in which thousands of Mexicans demand the resignation of President Enrique Peña Nieto due to his responsibility in the murder of the Ayotzinapa students.
2016: the Jubilee of Mercy concluded with the closing of all the doors.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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November 20 – A Day as Today

270: Maximino Daya, Roman Emperor (d. 313).
1562: Bernardo de Balbuena, Spanish poet (d. 1627).
1602: Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1682).
1620 or 1621: Avakúm, Russian bishop and writer (d. 1682).
1625: Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654).
1739: Jean François de La Harpe, French writer (d. 1803).
1750: Tipu Sultan, Indian legislator (d. 1799).
1758: Grimod de La Reynière, French gastronomer (d. 1838).
1760: José Félix de Restrepo, Colombian educator and magistrate (f. 1832).
1761: Pius VIII, Italian pope (d. 1830).
1762: Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833).
1788: Félix Varela, Cuban priest, teacher, writer, philosopher and politician (f. 1853).
1797: Remedios de Escalada, Argentine woman, wife of General José de San Martín (d. 1823).
1820: Antonio Aguilar y Vela, Spanish astronomer (d. 1882).
1841: Victor d’Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901).
1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919).
1850: José Mariano Astigueta, Argentine physician and politician (d. 1897).
1850: Alfredo Vicenti, journalist, doctor and Spanish poet (d. 1916).
1851: Margarita Teresa of Savoy, French aristocrat (d. 1926).
1858: Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Winner for literature in 1909 (d. 1940).
1860: José Figueroa Alcorta, Argentine politician, president between 1906 and 1910 (d. 1931).
1862: Georges Palante, French anarcho-individualist philosopher (d. 1925).
1864: Percy Cox, British administrator of the Colonial Office in the Middle East (d. 1937)
1866: Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (d. 1944).
1873: Ramón S. Castillo, Argentine politician (d. 1944).
1875: Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, German aristocrat and diplomat (d. 1944).
1880: Ricard Opisso, Spanish cartoonist (d. 1966).
1885: Isaac Ochoterena, Mexican biologist (d. 1950).
1886: Karl R. von Frisch, Austrian zoologist (f. 1982).
1889: Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953).
1891: Agapito Marazuela, Spanish musician (d. 1983).
1892: Tótila Albert Schneider, Chilean sculptor (f. 1967).
1900: Chester Gould, comic book artist, creator of Dick Tracy (d. 1985).
1902: Giampiero Combi, Italian footballer (d. 1956).
1903: Alexandra Danílova, Russian dancer (f. 1997).
1907: Henri-Georges Clouzot, French filmmaker (d. 1977).
1911: Jorge Rojas, Colombian poet (f. 1995).
1911: David Seymour, Polish photographer (d. 1956).
1912: Otto of Habsburg, Austrian aristocrat (d. 2011).
1913: Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983).
1914: José Revueltas, writer and Mexican political activist (d. 1976).
1915: Kon Ichikawa, Japanese filmmaker (d. 2008).
1915: Jorge Mayer, Argentine Archbishop (d. 2010).
1915: Silverio Pérez, Mexican bullfighter (d. 2006).
1917: Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987).
1917: Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010).
1921: Jim Garrison, US prosecutor for the assassination of John F. Kennedy (f. 1992).
1921: Dan Frazer, American actor (d. 2011).
1921: Phyllis Thaxter, American actress (d. 2012).
1923: Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2014).
1924: Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish mathematician (d. 2010).
1925: Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968).
1925: Maia Plisétskaia, Russian dancer (d. 2015).
1927: Estelle Parsons, American actress.
1928: Alekséi Batálov, Russian actor (d. 2017).
1930: Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (f. 2020).
1931: Josep Fontana, Spanish historian (d. 2018).
1932: Richard Dawson, British actor (d. 2012).
1932: Alfonso De Grazia, Argentine actor (f. 2000).
1932: Paulo Valentim, Brazilian soccer player (d. 1984).
1933: Marta Ecco, Argentine actress.
1934: Adamu Ciroma, Nigerian politician (d. 2018).
1934: Paco Ibáñez, Spanish singer.
1934: Enrique Macaya Márquez, Argentine sports journalist.
1936: Don DeLillo, American writer.
1937: René Kollo, German tenor.
1937: Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish skier (d. 2013).
1937: Viktoria Tókareva, Russian writer and screenwriter.
1938: Antonio Giménez-Rico, Spanish filmmaker.
1940: Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, American Indianologist.
1940: Arieh Warshel, Israeli physicochemist.
1941: Dino Armas, Uruguayan theater director and playwright.
1941: Gary Karr, American classical double bass player and teacher.
1942: Joe Biden, American politician.
1942: Norman Greenbaum, American singer.
1942: Meredith Monk, American composer, director, vocalist and choreographer.
1943: Veronica Hamel, American actress.
1944: Louie Dampier, American basketball player.
1946: Duane Allman, American guitarist, of the Allman Brothers Band (d. 1971).
1946: Jorge Polaco, Argentine filmmaker (d. 2014).
1947: Joe Walsh, American musician.
1948: Barbara Hendricks, American soprano.
1948: Ezio José Massa, Argentine politician and businessman.
1948: Richard Masur, American actor.
1948: Mario Wainfeld, Argentine journalist, lawyer, university professor, writer and intellectual.
1951: León Gieco, Argentine musician.
1951: David Walters, American politician.
1951: Rodger Bumpass, American actor.
1956: Bo Derek, American actress.
1957: Stefan Bellof, German Formula 1 driver (d. 1985).
1957: Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian President.
1958: Horacio Chofi Faruolo, Argentine musician, sound programmer and keyboardist of rock and jazz music.
1958: Rickson Gracie, Brazilian martial artist.
1959: Sean Young, American actress.
1960: Martín Seefeld, Argentine actor.
1962: Gerardo Martino, Argentine soccer player and coach.
1963: Ming-Na Wen, actress from Macau.
1963: Timothy Gowers, British mathematician.
1963: Wan Yanhai, Chinese AIDS activist.
1964: Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Mexican dubbing actor (f. 2020).
1965: Mike D (Michael Diamond), American musician, of the band Beastie Boys.
1965: Sen Dog, Afro-Cuban rapper, of the band Cypress Hill.
1965: Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician, of the band X Japan.
1965: Jimmy Vasser, driver and owner of American motorsport team.
1967: Chris Childs, American basketball player.
1971: Joel McHale, American actor.
1974: Jason Faunt, American actor.
1974: Carlos Ignacio Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player.
1975: Dierks Bentley, American singer.
1975: Davey Havok, American singer, of the band AFI.
1976: Paola Rojas, Mexican journalist.
1977: Josh Turner, American singer.
1978: Fran Perea, Spanish actor and singer.
1978: Nadine Velázquez, American actress and model.
1979: Lino Urdaneta, Venezuelan baseball player.
1981: Carlos Boozer, American basketball player.
1981: Kimberley Walsh, British singer, of the band Girls Aloud.
1982: Margo Stilley, American actress.
1984: Justin Hoyte, British footballer.
1984: Jeremy Jordan, American actor and singer.
1984: Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver.
1985: Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver.
1988: Dusan Tadic, Serbian footballer.
1989: Cody Linley, American actor.
1989: Eduardo Vargas, Chilean soccer player.
2000: Connie Talbot, British singer.
2002: Madisyn Shipman, American actress.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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November 20 – A Day as Today

870: Edmund of Anglia (14), English Christian king and martyr.
1212: Saint Felix de Valois, French religious and co-founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity.
1437: Thomas Langley, cardinal and chancellor (b.1363).
1518: Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer (b.1452).
1529: Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio.
1598: Alonso de Cabrera, Spanish preacher.
1612: John Harington, English writer (b. 1561).
1651: Mikołaj Potocki (56), Polish aristocrat (b. 1595).
1662: Leopold William, Austrian aristocrat, Governor of Flanders (b. 1614).
1695: Zumbi dos Palmares, Brazilian slave (b.1655).
1704: Charles Plumier, French botanist (b.1646).
1737: Carolina of Brandenburg-Ansbach, British aristocrat, married to King George II (b. 1683).
1758: Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b.1694).
1764: Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b.1690).
1778: Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726).
1816: Girvan Yudha Bikram Shah, Nepalese King (b.1797).
1820: Juan Escóiquiz, writer, tutor and Spanish canon (b. 1747).
1847: William II of Hesse-Kassel, Danish aristocrat and military man (b. 1777).
1856: Farkas Bolyai (81), Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775).
1862: Lino de Pombo, Colombian politician and diplomat (b. 1797).
1870: Donato Mármol, Cuban military man (b. 1843).
1882 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (b. 1837).
1893: María del Pilar Sinués, Spanish writer (b. 1835).
1894: Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829).
1908: Georgy Voronoi, Russian mathematician (b. 1868).
1910: Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and anarchist (b. 1828).
1918: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, British occultist and magician (b. 1854).
1925: Alexandra of Denmark, Danish aristocrat, married to King Edward VII of England (b. 1844).
1934: Joel Lehtonen, Finnish writer (b. 1881).
1934: Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872).
1935 – John Jellicoe, British admiral (b.1859).
1936: Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish trade unionist, revolutionary and anarchist (b. 1896).
1936: José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician, son of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera (b. 1903).
1936: Antonio Rivera Ramírez, Spanish politician (b.1916).
1945: Francis Aston, British physicist and chemist, 1922 Nobel Prize Winner (b. 1877).
1947: Wolfgang Borchert, German actor and writer (b.1921).
1950: Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866).
1952: Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1866).
1954 – Clyde Vernon Cessna, American aviation pioneer and businessman (b. 1879).
1959: Alfonso López Pumarejo, Colombian president (b. 1886).
1960: Ángel Ayala, Spanish priest (b. 1867).
1967: Paulette Christian, actress, singer and French starlet (b. 1927).
1972: Luis Alberto Despontín, Argentine jurist (b. 1897).
1973: Allan Sherman, American comedian (b.1924).
1975: Francisco Franco, Spanish military, dictator between 1939 (after winning the Civil War, which started in 1936) and 1975 (b. 1892).
1976: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, Soviet biologist (b.1898).
1978: Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888).
1978: Eduard Junyent, Spanish historian and archaeologist (b.1901).
1983: Marcel Dalio, French actor (b.1900).
1984: Santiago Brouard, pediatrician and Spanish politician (b. 1919).
1986: Roberto Parada, Chilean actor (b.1909).
1989: Josu Muguruza, Spanish deputy (b. 1958).
1995: Sergey Grinkov, Russian skater (b.1967).
1999: Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (b.1908).
1999: Jorge Matute Johns, Chilean student disappeared after a crime without guilty (b. 1976).
2000: Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b.1919).
2003: David Dacko, first president of the Central African Republic (b.1930).
2005: James King, American tenor (b.1925).
2005: Chris Whitley, American musician (b.1960).
2006: Robert Altman, American filmmaker (b.1925).
2007: Ian Smith, Rhodesian (Zimbabwean) racist politician, prime minister (b.1919).
2010: Chalmers Johnson, American writer and university professor (b. 1931).
2011: Karl Aage Præst, Danish footballer (b.1922).
2011: Álvaro Lara, Chilean soccer player (b.1984).
2011: Javier Pradera, writer and Spanish political analyst (b. 1934).
2013: Sylvia Browne, American psychic and con artist (b.1936).
2014: Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat of the House of Alba (b.1926).
2016: Gabriel Badilla, Costa Rican soccer player (b.1984).

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

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November 20 – A Day as Today

Children’s Day.
International Transsexual Memory Day (T-DoR).
Africa Industrialization Day.
Argentina: National Sovereignty Day.
Belgium: Saint-Verhaegen, a day of celebration for students of the Free University of Brussels and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Brazil: Black Awareness Day (Dia da Consciência Negra).
Colombia: Day of the Psychologist.
Mexico: Day of the Revolution.
Monaco: National Day.
Peru: Health Administrator’s Day and Health Administration Week.
United Kingdom: Her Majesty’s Wedding Anniversary.
Vietnam: Teacher’s Day (Ngày Nhà giáo Việt Nam).