Page 5: Historical Events In November - 20

1916  On November - 20 ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter   

1917  Lt. Harcus Strahan (The Fort Garry Horse - Cdn.) wins the Victoria Cross at Masnières, France on November - 20.   

1917  On this day in history ukrainian Republic declared   

1917  USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France on this day in history.   

1917  On November - 20 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)   

1917  On November - 20 max Georg Baumann, composer   

1918  By order in Council P.C. 2854 the management of the Canadian Government Railways is entrusted to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Northern Railway Co. On the same day the Government takes over the Canadian Northern Railway and appoints a new Board of Directors on November - 20.   

1918  On November - 20 dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)   

1919  First municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az on November - 20.   

1919  On November - 20 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az)   

1919  Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner) on November - 20.   

1920  On November - 20 nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson   

1920  On this day in history armin Schibler, composer   

1921  Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Ft Worth) on November - 20.   

1922  On this day in history zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC   

1923  Garrett Morgan invents & patents traffic signal on November - 20.   

1923  On this day in history beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers)   

1924  Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law) on this day in history.   

1925  On this day in history american politician Robert F. Kennedy is born   

1925  On November - 20 queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII and mother of King George V dies in England   

1925  On November - 20 the birth of Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina   

1925  On this day in history the birth of Robert Kennedy, American politician   

1925  Judy Woodruff, news analyst & commentator on November - 20.   

1925  Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

1927  On this day in history karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56   

1928  Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0 on November - 20.   

1929  On November - 20 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio   

1931  On November - 20 commercial teletype service begins   

1931  On this day in history the first commercial teletype service was inaugurated on this day   

1931  On November - 20 commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)   

1932  On this day in history earthquake at Uden Netherlands   

1933  On November - 20 navy crew (LCDR Thomas G. W. Settle, USN, and MAJ Chester I. Fordney, USMC) sets a world altitude record in balloon (62,237 ft.) in flight into stratosphere.   

1934  Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0 on this day in history.   

1936  On this day in history jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.   

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0270  On November - 20 birth of maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)   

1327  On this day in history birth of bassui Tokusho, Zen founder (Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan)   

1602  On November - 20 birth of otto von Guericke, inventor (air pump)   

1606  On this day in history birth of abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian   

1620  On November - 20 birth of peregrine White, son of Wm & Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower   

1621  Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1625  On November - 20 birth of artus II Quellinus "the Young", Flemish sculptor, baptised   

1625  On this day in history birth of paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)   

0869  Death of King Edmund of East Anglia on November - 20.   

0967  Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies on this day in history.   

1347  On November - 20 stefano Colonna, Roman senator, dies in battle   

1437  Death of Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363) on this day in history.   

1480  Eleonora van Austrian, translator, dies on November - 20.   

1518  On this day in history pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies   

1527  On November - 20 death of wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic   

1529  Death of Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio on this day in history.