At this time is Thursday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2025. There are 41 days left within the yr.
At this time in historical past:
On Nov. 20, 1945, 22 former Nazi officers went on trial earlier than a global struggle crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. (Virtually a yr later, the Worldwide Navy Tribune sentenced 12 of the defendants to demise; seven obtained jail sentences starting from 10 years to life; three had been acquitted.)
Additionally on this date:
In 1910, Francisco Madero led a revolt towards Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, marking the start of the decade-long Mexican Revolution.
1947, Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.
In 1969, Native American activists started an occupation of Alcatraz Island that may final 19 months earlier than they had been forcibly eliminated by federal authorities.
In 1982, the College of California, Berkeley, soccer workforce defeated Stanford College by scoring a landing on a lateral-filled kickoff return on the final play of the sport, regardless of the Stanford marching band getting into the sector of play, pondering Stanford had already gained. In faculty soccer lore, the weird end is commonly referred to easily as “The Play.”
In 1992, fireplace severely broken Windsor Fort, the favourite weekend house of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2003, music producer Phil Spector was charged with homicide within the taking pictures of actor Lana Clarkson at his California house. (After a primary trial ended with a hung jury in 2007, Spector was convicted of second-degree homicide in 2009 and sentenced to 19 years to life; he died in jail at age 81 on Jan. 16, 2021.)
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Actor Estelle Parsons is 98.
- Writer Don DeLillo is 89.
- Comic Dick Smothers is 87.
- Former President Joe Biden is 83.
- Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is 79.
- Musician Joe Walsh is 78.
- Actor Bo Derek is 69.
- Actor Ming-Na Wen is 62.
- Rapper Michael “Mike D” Diamond (Beastie Boys) is 60.
- Actor-comedian Joel McHale is 54.
- Nation singer Dierks Bentley is 50.
- Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Dominique Dawes is 49.
- Rapper Future is 42.
