11-19-2009, 07:49 PM
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November 20th
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1975 ~ Death of Francisco Franco, Spanish Head of State (1936-1975).
1976 ~ Death of Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist.
1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a television interview.
1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2007 ~ Death of Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician.
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