What Day of the Week

November 20, 2019 is the 324^th day of the year 2019 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 French then this day of the week in French is mercredi.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1695

  Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed.
• 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).
• 1861

  American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky’s Confederate government.
• 1940

  World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 1943

  World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins – United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
• 1962

  Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
• 1974

  The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• 1985

  Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
• 1993

  Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.
• 1998

  The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

• 1892

  James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin (d. 1965)
• 1913

  Kostas Choumis, Greek footballer (d. 1981)
• 1921

  Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)
• 1937

  René Kollo, German tenor
• 1941

  Haseena Moin, Pakistani television writer and playwright
• 1967

  Teoman, Turkish rock singer
• 1976

  Jason Thompson, Canadian actor
• 1985

  Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver
• 1986

  Oli Sykes, English musician
• 1995

  Mariko Hill, International cricketer

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