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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• 284

  Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
• 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).
• 1917

  World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 1992

  In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
• 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).

• 1660

  Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
• 1884

  Norman Thomas, American political figure (d. 1968)
• 1908

  Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)
• 1927

  Estelle Parsons, American actress
• 1928

  Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
• 1932

  Richard Dawson, English-American actor and game show host
• 1936

  Don DeLillo, American author
• 1937

  René Kollo, German tenor
• 1968

  Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean actor
• 1976

  Theodoros Velkos, badminton player

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