November 20......

November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.

● 1407 - A solemn truce between John, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.

● 1490 - Joanot Martorell's book Tirant lo Blanc is published for the first time.

● 1541 - In Switzerland, French reformer John Calvin, 32, established a theocratic government at Geneva, thereby creating a home base for emergent Protestantism throughout Europe.

● 1572 - The first Presbyterian meeting house in England was established at Wandsworth, Surrey.

● 1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.

● 1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay. White was the first child to be born of English parents in present-day New England.

● 1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.

● 1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

● 1816 - First use of the term "scab," by the Albany (N.Y.) Typographical Society.

● 1817 - Attack by settlers on Florida Indians starts Seminole Wars, during which Gen, Andrew Jackson invades Spanish East Florida.

● 1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

● 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 was in part inspired by this story).

● 1850 - Blind Fanny Crosby underwent a dramatic spiritual conversion at age 30. Fifteen years later, she began writing her first of over 8,000 hymns texts. Many of these remain popular today, including "Rescue the Perishing," "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross," "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" and "Tell Me the Story of Jesus."

● 1858 - Birth of Selma Lagerlif. In 1909 the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

● 1872 - The hymn penned by Annie Sherwood Hawks, 36 __ "I Need Thee Every Hour" __ was first sung at a National Baptist Sunday School Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.

● 1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.

● 1884 - Birth of American socialist and CIA informant Norman Thomas, Marion, Ohio.

● 1889 - Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble discovered and developed the concept of an expanding universe. In 1924 he proved the existence of galaxies other than our own.

● 1894 - U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua to "protect U.S. Interests."

● 1896 - Birth of Rose Pesotta. Labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944, but returned to organizing, her real passion. Active in the defense of the anarchists Sacco and Venzetti.

● 1901 - The second Hay-Pauncefoot Treaty provided for construction of the Panama Canal by the U.S.

● 1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris.

● 1910 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, declaring himself president, and calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. This is not to be confused with the revolutions for independence from Spain or France as this commemorates revolt of people against poverty and dictatorship.

● 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, 82, author, Christian, anarchist, pacifist (and Gandhi's inspiration) dies of pneumonia contracted when he flees from his wife of 48 years and heads for the Caucasus, accompanied only by his doctor and his youngest daughter Alexandra. Astapovo train station, Russia.

● 1910 - Birth of Pauli Murray. Lawyer/author, also a powerful theologian and the first African-American woman priest to be ordained in the Episcopal Church.

● 1916 - James Guillaume dies. Anarchist militant and historian of the International.

● 1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

● 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 Papiermark

● 1925 - Robert Francis Kennedy was born in Brookline, MA.

● 1929 - The radio program "The Rise of the Goldbergs," later known as "The Goldbergs," made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.

● 1934 - Plan by Wall Street financiers to set up fascist regime in U.S. made public.

● 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish Anarchist, shot in the lung yesterday, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 200,000 people. All his belongings when he died were a few clothes, two pistols, sunglasses, and a pair of binoculars.

● 1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

● 1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi leaders as war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.

● 1947 - The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey in London.

● 1951 - British families leave Egypt's Canal Zone; More than 1,000 families of British service men have begun moving out of the Canal Zone town of Ismailia.

● 1951 - W.E.B. DuBois, a chief advocate of the Stockholm Peace Appeal (to ban atomic weapons), tried unsuccessfully in U.S. federal court as a "foreign agent," is released.

● 1952 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.

● 1955 - Bo Diddley becomes the first African American performer to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently Sullivan was infuriated when Diddley sang his self-titled song instead of Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit, "Sixteen Tons".

● 1955 - RCA offers a $35,000 contract for Elvis Presley.

● 1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden met to create the European Free Trade Association.

● 1961 - The Russian Orthodox Church joined the World Council of Churches.

● 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the Caribbean island nation.

● 1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.

● 1963 - United Nations issues declaration on ending racial discrimination.

● 1965 - Twenty thousand march against Vietnam War, Berkeley, California.

● 1966 - The musical ''Cabaret,'' with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre, New York.

● 1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

● 1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase out of the substance. (A cynic might say this was done to deflect attention from the My Lai pictures, above, and the occupation of Alcatraz, below.)

● 1969 - Alcatraz Island occupied by 78 Native Americans.

● 1970 - The majority in U.N. General Assembly voted to give China a seat, but two-thirds majority required for admission was not met.

● 1974 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.

● 1975 - After 36 years of absolute rule Spain's General Francisco Franco died.

● 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament, The Kensett.

● 1977 - Louis Mercier-Vega dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, propagandist, libertarian thinker who joined the movement at 16.

● 1978 - Guyanese troops found the bodies of over 900 people, mostly Americans, who, along with their crazy leader Jim Jones, committed suicide in a bizarre cult ritual.

● 1978 - Liberal MP accused of murder plot; Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused in court of plotting to kill his former homosexual lover.

● 1979 - About 1,500 Terrorists revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgramage and take about 6000 hostages in the Kaaba. The Saudi government received help from French special forces to put down the uprising.

● 1982 - Andy Kaufman was forever voted off Saturday Night Live by a live phone poll.

● 1982 - Cal executes The Play in a college football game against Stanford.

● 1983 - In the U.S., an estimated 100 million people watch the controversial anti-nuclear made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its subsequent effects on the United States.

● 1983 - German opposition Social Democratic Party opposes Cruise missile. Meanwhile, back in England, the Cruise has just been deployed.

● 1984 - SETI is founded.

● 1986 - Dr. Halfdan Maher, the director of the World Health Organization, announced the first coordinated global effort to fight the disease AIDS.

● 1986 - Police renew hunt for Moors victims; Police have begun a search for more victims of the Moors murderers, after receiving new information from Myra Hindley. Hindley and her partner, Ian Brady, were both jailed for life 21 years ago for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, John Kilbride and Edward Evans in the 1960s. But files were kept open on two more missing children, and a huge police search has been launched on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham, where the pair buried the bodies of two of their victims. Hindley recently confessed knowledge and involvement in the deaths of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett after receiving a letter from the boy's mother.

● 1987 - SANE and FREEZE merge at their first combined convention in Cleveland, becoming the largest U.S. peace organization.

● 1987 - Police investigating the fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station, said that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the event that took 31 lives.

● 1988 - Egypt and China announced that they would recognize the Palestinian state proclaimed by the Palestine National Council.

● 1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protestors assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million demanding democratic reforms.

● 1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.

● 1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.

● 1990 - Thatcher fails to win party mandate; Prime Minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher, fails to win outright victory in her battle for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

● 1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).

● 1993 - Alliance for Animals members protest at Wisconsin's Devils Lake State Park on the opening day of deer-hunting season. The activists spent part of last night hiking through woods in the area so their scent would scare deer away from the macho killing ritual.

● 1993 - Savings and Loan scandal: 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.

● 1993 - The U.S. Senate passed the Brady Bill and legislation implementing NAFTA.

● 1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (in 1995 localized fighting resumed).

● 1995 - Native Hawai'ian activist John Marsh is acquitted in Honolulu of tax evasion charges, using the defense that since the U.S. illegally colonized Hawai'i in 1898, the islanders' descendants are not legally subject to U.S. taxation.

● 1995 - Princess Diana admitted being unfaithful to Prince Charles in an interview that was broadcast on BBC Television. (This should have been no big deal after his long term affair with a married Camille.)

● 1996 - House Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be speaker for a second term.

● 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. Then Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating the two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa.

● 1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.

● 1998 - Forty-six states agreed to a $206 billion settlement of health claims against the tobacco industry. The industry also agreed to give up billboard advertising of cigarettes.

● 2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year run in office.

● 2001 - In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

● 2001 - Federal health officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch, Ortho-Evra.

● 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. At least 27 people have been killed and more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish city of Istanbul. One of the bombs went off at the British consulate, the other at the London-based bank, HSBC. The top British diplomat in the city, Consul-General Roger Short, was among at least 14 people killed at the consulate. The British Foreign Office also confirmed that another Briton, diplomatic staff member Lisa Hallworth, was among those who died.

● 2003 - Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquitted.)

● 2003 - Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif.

BIRTHS

● 270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)

● 1175 - St.Edmund of Abington, English archbishop (d. 1240)

● 1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)

● 1620 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1704)

● 1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)

● 1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)

● 1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)

● 1726 - Oliver Wolcott, American public official (d. 1797)

● 1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)

● 1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)

● 1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)

● 1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)

● 1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)

● 1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)

● 1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)

● 1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)

● 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)

● 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)

● 1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American federal judge and Major League Baseball Commissioner (1920-44) (d. 1944)

● 1869 - Clark Griffith, Baseball manager

● 1867 - Patrick Hayes, American archbishop of New York (1919-38) (d. 1938)

● 1874 - James M. Curley, American politician; mayor of Boston (1914-18, 1922-26, 1930-34, 1947-50) and governor of Massachusetts (1935-37) (d. 1958)

● 1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)

● 1884 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer; frequent Socialist Party candidate for U.S. president (d. 1968)

● 1885 - Albert Kesselring, German field marshal during World War II (d. 1960)

● 1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

● 1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)

● 1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Chester Gould, American cartoonist (“Dick Tracy”) (d. 1985)

● 1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)

● 1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)

● 1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)

● 1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)

● 1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian royal

● 1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)

● 1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)

● 1917 - Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator (D-WV)

● 1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)

● 1919 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress

● 1921 - Jim Garrison, American detective (d. 1992)

● 1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel laureate

● 1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician

● 1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician; U.S. attorney general (1961-64), U.S. senator from New York (1964-68 ), Democratic presidential candidate (1968) (d. 1968, assassinated night of CA primary)

● 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer

● 1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate

● 1926 - Kaye Ballard, American comic actress

● 1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress

● 1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor

● 1932 - Richard Dawson, British actor, Game Show Host (''Hogan's Heroes,'' ''Family Feud'')

● 1936 - Don DeLillo, American author

● 1937 - René Kollo, German singer

● 1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier

● 1939(38? NYT) - Dick Smothers, American comedian

● 1940 - Bob Einstein, American actor

● 1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright

● 1942 - Joseph Biden, U.S. Senator (D-DE)

● 1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer

● 1943 - Veronica Hamel, American actress (''Hill Street Blues'')

● 1944 - Louie Dampier, American basketball player

● 1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist. (Allman Brothers) (d. 1971)

● 1946 - Greg Cook, American football player

● 1946 - Judy Woodruff, Broadcast journalist (CNN)

● 1946 - Samuel E. Wright, Actor

● 1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician (The Eagles)

● 1948 - John R. Bolton, American ambassador

● 1948 - John Panozzo, American musician (STYX)

● 1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born singer

● 1948 - Richard Masur, American actor (''One Day at a Time'')

● 1949 - Thelma Drake, American politician

● 1951 - David Walters, American politician

● 1956 - Bo Derek, American actress

● 1956 - Mark Gastineau, American football player

● 1957 - Margaret Spellings, American cabinet officer

● 1957 - Jim Brown, Reggae musician (UB40)

● 1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician

● 1959 - Sean Young, American actress

● 1961 - Dave Watson, English footballer

● 1961 - Jim Brickman, Pianist

● 1962 - Todd Nance, Rock musician (Widespread Panic)

● 1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician

● 1963 - Ming-Na Wen, Macau-born actress

● 1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)

● 1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)

● 1965 - Sen Dog, Rapper (Cypress Hill)

● 1966 - Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)

● 1967 - Robert Ken Woo, Jr., the 200 millionth American

● 1969 - Callie Thorne, Actress

● 1970 - Sabrina Lloyd, Actress (''Sports Night'')

● 1970 - Q-Tip, Rapper (A Tribe Called Quest)

● 1970 - Matt Blunt, Governor of Missouri

● 1970 - Delia Gonzalez, American boxer

● 1971 - Joey Galloway, American football wide receiver

● 1971 - Joel McHale, American actor

● 1974 - Marisa Ryan, Actress

● 1975 - Dierks Bentley, American country singer

● 1975 - Tímea Vágvölgyi, Hungarian model

● 1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)

● 1975 - J.D. Drew, baseball player

● 1976 - Dominique Dawes, American gymnast

● 1976 - Laura Harris, Actress

● 1977 - Josh Turner, American singer

● 1977 - Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee

● 1978 - Nadine Velazquez, Actress (''My Name is Earl'')

● 1981 - Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)

● 1981 - Carlos Boozer, American Basketball player

● 1984 - Justin Hoyte, English footballer (Arsenal)

DEATHS

● 870 - King Edmund of East Anglia

● 1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)

● 1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)

● 1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier

● 1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer

● 1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio

● 1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)

● 1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)

● 1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)

● 1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)

● 1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave

● 1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

● 1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)

● 1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)

● 1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)

● 1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)

● 1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)

● 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)

● 1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)

● 1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

● 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)

● 1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)

● 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)

● 1936 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish fascist (b. 1903)

● 1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)

● 1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)

● 1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)

● 1960 - Chris Whitley, American musician (d. 2005)

● 1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)

● 1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)

● 1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)

● 1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)

● 1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)

● 1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926)

● 1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion, (b. 1967)

● 1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)

● 1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)

● 2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)

● 2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)

● 2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)

● 2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)

● 2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)

● 2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)

● 2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)

● 2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955

● 2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)

● 2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)

● 2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints:
● St. Bernward
● St. Ampelus
● St. Autbodus
● St. Bassus and Companions
● St. Benignus
● St. Dasius
● St. Edmund Rich
● St. Edmund the Martyr
● St. Felix of Valois, confessor
● St. Francis Xavier Can
● St. Leo of Nonantula
● St. Nerses
● St. Octavius, Solutor, and Adventor
● St. Maxentia of Beauvais

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 7 (Civil Date: November 20)
● Holy 33 Martyrs of Melitene:
● St. Hieron
● St. Hesychius
● St. Nicander
● St. Athanasius
● St. Mamas
● St. Barachius
● St. Callinicus
● St. Theogenes
● St. Nicon
● St. Longinus
● St. Theodore
● St. Valerius
● St. Xanthius
● St. Theodulus
● St. Callimachus
● St. Eugene
● St. Theodochus
● St. Ostrychius
● St. Epiphanius
● St. Maximian
● St. Ducitius
● St. Claudian
● St. Theophilus
● St. Gigantius
● St. Dorotheus
● St. Theodotus
● St. Castrychius
● St. Anicletus
● St. Theomelius
● St. Eutychius
● St. Hilarion
● St. Diodotus
● St. Amonitus
● St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt. Galesius near Ephesus.
● Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and 40 children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra.
● Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra.
● St. Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Cyril, abbot of Novoezersk (Vologda).

● Greek Calendar
● Martyr Athenodorus.
● Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica.
● St. Gregory, brother of St. Gregory the Wonderworker.

● Anglican Church:
● St. Edmund the Martyr

● Brazil - Zumbi Day (since 1978)

● United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day

● Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910)

● UNICEF - Universal Children's Day

● Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam)

● Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999)

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● U.S.: National Children's Book Week Begins ( Monday )


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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