November 20
1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he was the first child born of English parents in present-day New England.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 - Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.
1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribunal sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; the others were acquitted.)
1947 - The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1967 - The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to the residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1969 - A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1975 - Spain's General Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule at age 82.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1984 - Pop star Michael Jackson was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with the unveiling of his star in front of a horde of screaming fans.
1985 - The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995 - Britain's Princess Diana admitted during an interview on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2000 - Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2003 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, California. (He was later acquitted.)
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of an actor, Lana Clarkson, at his home in Alhambra, California. (Spector’s first trial ended with a hung jury in 2007; he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.)
2009 - Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience that she would end her talk show in 2011 after 25 years on the air.
2010 - In comments released by the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI opened the door on the previously taboo subject of condoms as a way to fight HIV, saying male prostitutes who used condoms might be beginning to assume moral responsibility.
2015 - Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was released from prison after 30 years behind bars for spying for Israel.
2019 - Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging an Oval Office visit for political investigations of Democrats; he said it was his understanding that the president was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid.
2019 - Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was charged with fraud and tax evasion involving sales of her self-published children’s books to groups that did business with the government. (Pugh pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges and was sentenced to three years in prison.)
Birthdays
20 - Connie Talbot (singer)
25 - Michael Clifford (musician)
25 - Ann Marie (singer)
31 - Cody Linley (actor)
32 - Sean Michael (actor)
34 - Jaina Lee Ortiz (actress)
34 - Jared Followill (musician)
34 - Ashley Fink (actress)
35 - Dan Byrd (actor)
36 - Jeremy Jordan (actor)
39 - Kimberley Walsh (singer)
39 - Andrea Riseborough (actress)
41 - Jacob Pitts (actor)
42 - Nadine Velazquez (actress)
43 - Josh Turner (country singer)
44 - Dominique Dawes (gymnast)
44 - Laura Harris (actress)
45 - Joshua Gomez (actor)
45 - Dierks Bentley (country singer)
46 - Marisa Ryan (actress)
49 - Joel McHale (actor/TV host)
50 - Sabrina Lloyd (actress)
51 - Dabo Swinney (football coach)
51 - Callie Thorne (actress)
56 - Ned Vaughn (actor)
57 - Ming-Na Wen (actress)
61 - Sean Young (actor)
64 - Mark Gastineau (football player)
64 - Bo Derek (actress/model)
72 - Richard Masur (actor)
73 - Joe Walsh (singer)
74 - Samuel E. Wright (actor)
74 - Judy Woodruff (broadcast journalist)
77 - Veronica Hamel (actress)
78 - Norman Greenbaum (singer)
78 - Joe Biden (politician)
82 - Dick Smothers (comedian)
93 - Estelle Parsons (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 20
1909 - Nebraska defeats Denver 6-5.
1915 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 52-7 to end the season with a perfect 8-0 record and winning the Missouri Valley Conference (4-0).
1920 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 35-7.
1926 - Nebraska defeats New York University 15-7.
1937 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 28-0.
1942 - The National Hockey League (NHL) ended their regular season over-time until World War II was over.
1943 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 33-13.
1948 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 33-6. NU ends in fifth place in the Big 7 (2-4).
1954 - #3 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 55-7. NU ends as Big 7 runner-up (4-2).
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named American League MVP for the third time.
1966 - The Dallas Cowboys record an NFL record 12 sacks against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1977 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushes for an NFL single-season record 275 yards in a game against the Minnesota Vikings.
1983 - Butch Wollfolk of the New York Giants ties an NFL record with 43 rushing attempts.
1988 - Boston College defeats Army 38-24 in the "Emerald Isle Classic" in Dublin, Ireland, the first NCAA football game to be played in Europe.
1997 - A.C. Green of the Dallas Mavericks sets an NBA record by playing in his 907th consecutive game.
1997 - Eric Lindros (Philadelphia Flyers) tried to bite Marty McSorley (San Jose Sharks).
2010 - Notre Dame returned to the Bronx for the first time in 41 years and sent the subway alumni home happy as the Irish defeated Army 27-3 in the first football game played at the new Yankee Stadium.
2010 - #18 Texas A&M defeated #9 Nebraska 9-6.
1620 - Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he was the first child born of English parents in present-day New England.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 - Francisco Madero began an armed revolt against the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz.
1945 - The war crimes trials of 24 German World War II leaders began in Nuremberg, Germany. (Almost a year later, the International Military Tribunal sentenced 12 of the defendants to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; the others were acquitted.)
1947 - The future Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten, the Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy agreed to lift the American blockade of Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1967 - The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock at the Commerce Department ticked past 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to the residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1969 - A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1975 - Spain's General Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule at age 82.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1984 - Pop star Michael Jackson was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with the unveiling of his star in front of a horde of screaming fans.
1985 - The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995 - Britain's Princess Diana admitted during an interview on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2000 - Peru's president Alberto Fujimori resigned.
2000 - Lawyers for Al Gore and George W. Bush battled before the Florida Supreme Court over whether the presidential election recount should be allowed to continue.
2003 - Pop superstar Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, California. (He was later acquitted.)
2003 - Record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of an actor, Lana Clarkson, at his home in Alhambra, California. (Spector’s first trial ended with a hung jury in 2007; he was convicted of second-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.)
2009 - Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience that she would end her talk show in 2011 after 25 years on the air.
2010 - In comments released by the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI opened the door on the previously taboo subject of condoms as a way to fight HIV, saying male prostitutes who used condoms might be beginning to assume moral responsibility.
2015 - Jonathan Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was released from prison after 30 years behind bars for spying for Israel.
2019 - Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani explicitly sought a “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, leveraging an Oval Office visit for political investigations of Democrats; he said it was his understanding that the president was holding up nearly $400 million in military aid.
2019 - Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was charged with fraud and tax evasion involving sales of her self-published children’s books to groups that did business with the government. (Pugh pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges and was sentenced to three years in prison.)
Birthdays
20 - Connie Talbot (singer)
25 - Michael Clifford (musician)
25 - Ann Marie (singer)
31 - Cody Linley (actor)
32 - Sean Michael (actor)
34 - Jaina Lee Ortiz (actress)
34 - Jared Followill (musician)
34 - Ashley Fink (actress)
35 - Dan Byrd (actor)
36 - Jeremy Jordan (actor)
39 - Kimberley Walsh (singer)
39 - Andrea Riseborough (actress)
41 - Jacob Pitts (actor)
42 - Nadine Velazquez (actress)
43 - Josh Turner (country singer)
44 - Dominique Dawes (gymnast)
44 - Laura Harris (actress)
45 - Joshua Gomez (actor)
45 - Dierks Bentley (country singer)
46 - Marisa Ryan (actress)
49 - Joel McHale (actor/TV host)
50 - Sabrina Lloyd (actress)
51 - Dabo Swinney (football coach)
51 - Callie Thorne (actress)
56 - Ned Vaughn (actor)
57 - Ming-Na Wen (actress)
61 - Sean Young (actor)
64 - Mark Gastineau (football player)
64 - Bo Derek (actress/model)
72 - Richard Masur (actor)
73 - Joe Walsh (singer)
74 - Samuel E. Wright (actor)
74 - Judy Woodruff (broadcast journalist)
77 - Veronica Hamel (actress)
78 - Norman Greenbaum (singer)
78 - Joe Biden (politician)
82 - Dick Smothers (comedian)
93 - Estelle Parsons (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 20
1909 - Nebraska defeats Denver 6-5.
1915 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 52-7 to end the season with a perfect 8-0 record and winning the Missouri Valley Conference (4-0).
1920 - Nebraska defeats Michigan State 35-7.
1926 - Nebraska defeats New York University 15-7.
1937 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye 28-0.
1942 - The National Hockey League (NHL) ended their regular season over-time until World War II was over.
1943 - Cockeye defeated Nebraska 33-13.
1948 - Missouri defeats Nebraska 33-6. NU ends in fifth place in the Big 7 (2-4).
1954 - #3 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 55-7. NU ends as Big 7 runner-up (4-2).
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named American League MVP for the third time.
1966 - The Dallas Cowboys record an NFL record 12 sacks against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
1977 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears rushes for an NFL single-season record 275 yards in a game against the Minnesota Vikings.
1983 - Butch Wollfolk of the New York Giants ties an NFL record with 43 rushing attempts.
1988 - Boston College defeats Army 38-24 in the "Emerald Isle Classic" in Dublin, Ireland, the first NCAA football game to be played in Europe.
1997 - A.C. Green of the Dallas Mavericks sets an NBA record by playing in his 907th consecutive game.
1997 - Eric Lindros (Philadelphia Flyers) tried to bite Marty McSorley (San Jose Sharks).
2010 - Notre Dame returned to the Bronx for the first time in 41 years and sent the subway alumni home happy as the Irish defeated Army 27-3 in the first football game played at the new Yankee Stadium.
2010 - #18 Texas A&M defeated #9 Nebraska 9-6.