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November 20: Day of the Week
November 20, 2024 is the 325th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
November 20 Historical Event(s)
1789
New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1820
An 80-ton sperm whale attacks 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 is in part inspired by this story).
1917
Ukraine is declared a republic.
1923
Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
1936
José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
1969
Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
1980
Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole. The resulting whirlpool sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet down to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.
1994
The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumes the next year).
1998
A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2008
After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
Who were born on November 20?
1841
Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
1889
Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)
1912
Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman (d. 2011)
1913
Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
1929
Don January, American professional golfer
1937
Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
1937
Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1966
Thanasis Kolitsidakis, Greek footballer
1970
Joe Zaso, American actor
1976
Tusshar Kapoor, Indian actor
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