Wednesday November 20, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

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 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.

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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)

762
During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.
1739
Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
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
World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1947
The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1952
Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1969
Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
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.
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).
2003
After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

Who were born on November 20?

1841
Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
1858
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
1880
George McBride, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1903
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)
1914
Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)
1949
Jeff Dowd, American film producer
1957
Mike Craven, English footballer
1965
Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)
1970
Geoffrey Keezer, American jazz pianist
1971
Joel McHale, American actor and comedian

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