What Day of the Week

November 20, 2023 is the 324^th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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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.

• 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
• 1940

  World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 1945

  Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
• 1947

  The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 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.
• 1979

  Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
• 1989

  Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
• 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.

• 1841

  Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)
• 1882

  Andy Coakley, American baseball player and coach (d. 1963)
• 1892

  James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin (d. 1965)
• 1921

  Phyllis Thaxter, American actress
• 1937

  Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
• 1947

  Joe Walsh, American musician (Eagles, James Gang)
• 1954

  Steve Dahl, American radio personality
• 1963

  Wan Yanhai, Chinese AIDS activist
• 1972

  Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian poet
• 1976

  Jason Thompson, Canadian actor

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