11-20-2004, 06:36 AM
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November 20th
1820 ~ An 80-ton sperm whale attacked the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Alistair Cooke, Journalist
1910 ~ Death of Leo Tolstoy, Novelist.
1917 ~ World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – The first successful use of tanks; the British attack ended as another failure.
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals of World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
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.
2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation.
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