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November 20th
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1975 ~ Death of Francisco Franco, Spanish Head of State (1936-1975).
1976 ~ Death of Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist.
1979 ~ Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the hajj and took about 6,000 hostages. Pakistani special forces were brought in to help put down the uprising.
1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a television interview.
1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2007 ~ Death of Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician.
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