The 20t o November is the 324t day o the year (325t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 41 days bidin.
2000 : ASIMO
284 - Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.
1194 - Palermo , Sicily , is conquered bi Henry VI, Haly Roman Emperor .
1316 - Daith o John I o Fraunce agit juist 5 days.
1789 - New Jersey becomes the first state tae ratify the Unitit States Bill o Richts.
1910 - The Mexican Revolution stairts.
1917 - Ukraine declares itself a republic.
1945 - The Nuremberg trials o leadin Nazi war criminals begin.
1947 - Marriage o the future Queen Elizabeth II an Prince Philip, Duke o Edinburgh .
1975 - Daith o Francisco Franco , dictator o Spain .
1992 - A fire heavily damages Windsor Castle .
1994 - Mexico 's Communist Pairty is foondit.
2000 - Honda presents the ASIMO robot tae the warld.
2003 - Twa attacks on Breetish missions in Istanbul kill 27 fowk.
2011 - Mariano Rajoy 's Popular Pairty wins elections in Spain .
2015 - 19 fowk are kilt in a terrorist attack on a hottle in Bamako , Mali .
2016 - A train crash near Kanpur , Uttar Pradesh , Indie , kills at least 146 fowk.
2019 - Prince Andrew, Duke o York propales that he is steppin back frae public duties ower the controversy regairdin his relationship wi financier an sex offender Jeffrey Epstein .
2020 - COVID-19 pandemic : The hichest level o COVID-19 restriction is imposit on 11 Cooncil auries in the Central Belt o Scotland .
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Joe Biden
270 - Maximinus II , Roman emperor (d. 313 )
1602 - Otto von Guericke , German scientist, inventor an politeecian (d. 1686 )
1761 - Pape Pius VIII (d. 1830 )
1776 - William Blackwood , Scots publisher (d. 1834 )
1801 - Mungo Ponton , Scots inventor (d. 1880 )
1841 - Wilfrid Laurier , 7t Prime meenister o Canadae (d. 1919 )
1851 - Margherita o Savoy , Queen o Italy (d. 1926 )
1858 - Selma Lagerlöf , Swadish writer (d. 1940 )
1904 - John MacCormick , Scots lawyer an devolutionist politeecian (d. 1981 )
1912 - Otto von Habsburg , Austrick ryal an politeecian (d. 2011 )
1917 - Robert Byrd , American politeecian (d. 2010 )
1923 - Nadine Gordimer , Sooth African writer (d. 2014 )
1924 - Benoit Mandelbrot , Pols-born French-American mathemateecian (d. 2010 )
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy , American politeecian (d. 1968 )
1925 - Maya Plisetskaya , Roushie ballerina an choreographer (d. 2015 )
1928 - Aleksey Batalov , Roushie actor (d. 2017 )
1934 - Jimmy Millar , Scots fitbawer
1942 - Joe Biden , 46t Preses o the Unitit States (elect) an 47t Vice Preses o the Unitit States
1948 - John R. Bolton , American diplomat
1956 - Bo Derek , American actress
1957 - Goodluck Jonathan , umwhile Preses o Nigerie
1962 - Gerardo Martino , Argentine fitbawer an manager
1980 - Malachy Tallack , Scots muisicker, jurnalist an writer
1989 - Eduardo Vargas , Chilean fitbawer
2000 - Connie Talbot , Inglis sangster