What are the important events that happened on November 20? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 20: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 20 is the 324^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 7, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 489,888 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosatetragon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 89 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,717 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 20 Historical Events

• 1407 –
  A truce between John the Fearless, 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.
• 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 is in part inspired by this story).
• 1861 –
  American Civil War: Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky’s Confederate government.
• 1910 –
  Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
• 1917 –
  Ukraine is declared a republic.
• 1940 –
  World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis Powers.
• 1952 –
  Slánský trials – a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
• 1974 –
  The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
• 1992 –
  In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.
• 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.

Who were born on November 20?

• 1765 –
  Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)
• 1781 –
  Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)
• 1896 –
  Chiyono Hasegawa, a Japanese supercentenarian. (d. 2011)
• 1948 –
  Richard Masur, American actor
• 1949 –
  Thelma Drake, American politician
• 1954 –
  Steve Dahl, American radio personality
• 1960 –
  Marc Labrèche, Canadian actor and television host
• 1967 –
  Teoman, Turkish rock singer
• 1979 –
  Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns)
• 1995 –
  Mariko Hill, International cricketer

Who died on November 20?

• 1651 –
  Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)
• 1662 –
  Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Austrian-born Spanish territorial governor (b. 1614)
• 1695 –
  Zumbi, Brazilian slave (b. 1655)
• 1704 –
  Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)
• 1936 –
  José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
• 1978 –
  Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b.1888)
• 1995 –
  Robie Macauley, American novelist and literary critic (b. 1919)
• 2004 –
  Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)
• 2005 –
  Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)
• 2007 –
  Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician (b. 1919)