The November 20th is the 324e Jour of the Année (325e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 41 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

  •    762: Bögü, third hâkan of the Ouïgour S seizes Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese empire, and conquers the China, where it intervened with the call of the Tang.

  •     870: Battle of Thetford, during which the Viking S, which have, under the control of Iva, invaded the East Anglia, putting the country at fire and blood, beat the king Edmond ( Saint Edmond ), who finds death there. The kingdom of East Anglia passes entire under the Danish domination.
  • 1614 : Louis XIII is major.
  • 1616 : The cardinal of Richelieu becomes minister of state, in charge of the foreign affairs and the war.
  • 1780 : The Great Britain declares the war with the Netherlands.
  • 1792 : Paris: The minister Roland, helped of the metal worker Gamain, opens an iron cupboard hidden under the woodworks with the Tuileries. He finds there the correspondence of the king with Calonne, leader of the emigration, and with the courses foreign. Its treason does not appear doubtful any more. But, more serious still, the trunk contains documents attesting the corruption of certain revolutionists. Names circulate, such that of the deputy Kersaint. The opprobrium concentrates on Mirabeau, whose ashes are with the the Pantheon. One discovers secret letters with the king and the proof of his venality. The scandal is enormous: one shouts with the infamy and its remainders are thrown in a common grave.
  • 1807 : The troops of Junot arrive at the Portuguese border .
  • 1811 : Germany: Friedrich Krupp (1787 - 1826) bases with Essen a metallurgical company on the English model.
  • 1815 : A second treated of Paris puts an end to the war between the France and united and creates a kind of organization in charge of the collective security in Europe, starting from the dialog between the four victorious great powers.
  • 1818 : The independence of the Venezuela is proclaimed by Simon Bolivar.
  • 1831 : The insurrection (begun, this day) with Lyon of the Canut S (workmen of silk) is broken. The soldiers occupy the city, the tariff is cancelled, nearly ten thousand workmen are returned.
  • 1834 : Creation of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles by Pierre-Theodore Verhaegen
  • 1873: The towns of Buda and Pest are linked to form the capital of Hungary
  • 1873: Fixing at seven years of the term of the office of the President of the French Republic by Mac-Mahon.

XXe century

  • 1917 : Proclamation of a Ukrainian Republic.

  • 1924 : Crushing of a Kurdish rising in Turkey.
  • 1936 : Died of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Spanish Phalange.
  • 1937 : general Strike in Tunisia.
  • 1945 : In front of the international military tribunal of Nuremberg, a lawsuit is brought against leaders Nazis and organizations of the Nazi Germany. The charges relate to war crimes, crimes against peace and of the crimes against humanity. The lawsuit will last nearly one year, until the verdict on October 1st 1946.
  • 1947 : Marriage of the Elisabeth princess of the the United Kingdom and lieutenant Philip Mountbatten to the Abbey of Westminster.
  • 1952 : election of Alphonse Juin ( the marshal June) (1888-1967) with the French Academy.
  • 1959 :
  • 1975 : Died of the General Free in Madrid.
  • 1977 :
    • In a speech made in front of the Knesset, the Egyptian president Anouar el-Sadate, that PLO shows humiliating capitulation, declares that its country aspires to peace in justice.
    • the Mexican Torero David Silveti takes the alternative in the plaza Revolución of Guanajuato.
  • 1979 : Extremists occupy the Grande Mosque, with Mecque.
  • 1980 : For the second time, the General meeting of the United Nations claims the departure of the Soviet forces of Afghanistan in a resolution that Moscow qualifies américano-Chinese initiative aiming at interfering into the Afghan businesses.
  • 1989 : Adoption of the first convention on the Right of the Child to UNO.
  • 1991 : Kampuchea: The prince Sihanouk is proclaimed Head of the State.
  • 1992 : A fire damages a private vault and the room of the banquets of the Château of Windsor.
  • 1993 :
    • Opening of the Wing Richelieu of the palate of Louvre. The Musée of Louvre to Paris is from now on the largest museum of the world.
    • For the first time at the the United States, a federal law imposing a control on the sale of the firearms is adopted by the Sénat.
  • 1994 :
    • Creation of the French political party Movement For France.
    • the Angolan government and the rebels of the UNITA sign fine peace treaty putting at a civil war which made more than five hundred and thousand died since 1975.
  • 1997 : Moscow succeeds, after three weeks of crisis, to convince Baghdad to accept the return of the American inspectors of the Special subcommittee of UNO in charge of Iraqi disarmament.
  • 1998 :
  • 1999 : Snowfalls paralyze the road traffic in the valley of the the Rhone.
  • 2000 : Israeli helicopters draw from the rockets on Palestinian targets with Gaza in reprisals with an bomb attack against an Israeli school bus, which had made two died.

XXIe century

  • 2001 : The Spaniard Francisco Arce Assemble, required by the French authorities for the rape and the murder of the English young person Caroline Dickinson in 1996, is extradited towards the France.

  • 2002 : The Ville of Paris deposits a complaint against X near the Court of Bankruptcy of Paris in the business known as of the expenditure of mouth of the Chirac couple dating from the time when Jacques Chirac was mayor of the capital.
  • 2003 :
    • After a warrant for arrest emitted against him the day before, Michael Jackson is accused of sexual abuses on minors of less than 14 years. Arrived handcuffed at the prison of Santa Barbara, it will arise free in exchange of a guarantee of three million dollars and will appear about it in front of a court the next January 9th.
    • Two new attacks with the truck trapped against the British consulate and the bank HSBC with Istanbul make at least 29 dead of which the British consul Roger Short and more than 450 wounded.
  • 2004 : Reopening with New York of the Museum off Modern Art, increased by the Architect Japan board Yoshio Taniguchi.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Saint (E) Catholic of the day

Holy Edmond : King d' Est-Anglie, lost a battle against the Danes and preferred to die rather than to accept their contrary conditions with his religion.

See too

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