Editing November 20 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Mexican Revolution]]: [[Francisco I. Madero]] issues the [[Plan of San Luis Potosí|Plan de San Luis Potosí]], denouncing Mexican President [[Porfirio Díaz]], calling for a [[revolution]] to overthrow the [[Federal government of the United Mexican States|government of Mexico]], effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: [[Battle of Cambrai (1917)|Battle of Cambrai]] begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[José Antonio Primo de Rivera]], founder of the [[Falange Española|Falange]], is killed by a republican execution squad.
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungary]] becomes a signatory of the [[Tripartite Pact]], officially joining the [[Axis powers#Hungary|Axis powers]].
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: [[Battle of Tarawa]] ([[Operation Galvanic]]) begins: [[United States Marines]] land on [[Tarawa Atoll]] in the [[Gilbert Islands]] and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Nuremberg trials]]: Trials against 24 [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[war crime|war criminals]] start at the [[Palace of Justice, Nuremberg|Palace of Justice]] at [[Nuremberg]].
*[[1946]] – [[Indonesian National Revolution]]: 96 Indonesian including [[I Gusti Ngurah Rai]] were killed during the [[Battle of Margarana]] with Dutch forces.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Media |first=Kompas Cyber |date=2022-07-23 |title=Puputan Margarana: Tokoh, Penyebab, Kronologi, dan Dampak Halaman all - Kompas.com |url=https://regional.kompas.com/read/2022/07/23/185325878/puputan-margarana-tokoh-penyebab-kronologi-dan-dampak?page=all |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20220729222732/https://regional.kompas.com/read/2022/07/23/185325878/puputan-margarana-tokoh-penyebab-kronologi-dan-dampak?page=all |archive-date=2022-07-29 |access-date=2025-01-19 |work=KOMPAS.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth II|The Princess Elizabeth]] marries [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten]], who becomes the [[Duke of Edinburgh]], at [[Westminster Abbey]] in London.
*[[1959]] &ndash; The [[Declaration of the Rights of the Child]] is adopted by the [[United Nations]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] ends: In response to the [[Soviet Union]] agreeing to remove its missiles from [[Cuba]], U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]] ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
*[[1968]] &ndash; A total of 78 miners are killed in an explosion at the Consolidated Coal Company's No. 9 mine in Farmington, West Virginia in the [[Farmington Mine disaster]].
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: ''[[The Plain Dealer]]'' (Cleveland, Ohio) publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the [[My Lai Massacre]] in [[Vietnam]].
*  1969   &ndash; [[Occupation of Alcatraz]]: Native American activists seize control of [[Alcatraz Island]] until being ousted by the U.S. Government on [[June 11]], [[1971]].
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[United States Department of Justice]] files its final anti-trust suit against [[AT&T Corporation]]. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its [[Bell System]].
*  1974   &ndash; The first fatal crash of a [[Boeing 747]] occurs when [[Lufthansa Flight 540]] crashes while attempting to takeoff from [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]] in [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Egypt]]ian President [[Anwar Sadat]] becomes the first [[Arab]] leader to officially visit [[Israel]], when he meets Israeli prime minister [[Menachem Begin]] and speaks before the [[Knesset]] in [[Jerusalem]], seeking a permanent peace settlement.
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Grand Mosque seizure]]: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in [[Saudi Arabia]] at the site of the [[Kaaba]] in [[Mecca]] during the pilgrimage and take about 6,000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Lake Peigneur]] in [[Louisiana]] drains into an underlying [[Salt mining|salt deposit]]. A misplaced [[Texaco]] oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Microsoft]] [[Windows 1.0]], the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.<ref>{{cite book|author=Adda247 Publications|title=Computer Aptitude For Banking and Insurance eBook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4treDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|publisher=Adda247 Publications|page=44|edition=English Printed}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Velvet Revolution]]: The number of protesters assembled in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]], swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris Kostov|title=The Communist Century: From Revolution To Decay: 1917 to 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iek_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT108|year=2015|publisher=Andrews UK Limited|isbn=978-1-78538-218-5|page=108}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Andrei Chikatilo]], one of the [[Soviet Union]]'s most prolific [[serial killer]]s, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mikita Brottman|title=Meat is Murder!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWAbAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Creation|isbn=978-1-84068-040-9|page=42}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; An [[Azerbaijan]]i [[Mil Mi-8|MI-8]] helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Azerbaijan]] is [[1991 Azerbaijani Mil Mi-8 shootdown|shot down by Armenian military forces]] in [[Khojavend District]] of Azerbaijan.
*[[1992]] &ndash; In England, [[1992 Windsor Castle fire|a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle]], badly damaging the castle and causing over £50&nbsp;million worth of damage.
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Savings and loan crisis]]: The [[United States Senate Ethics Committee]] issues a stern censure of [[California]] senator [[Alan Cranston]] for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive [[Charles Keating]].
*  1993   &ndash; [[North Macedonia]]'s deadliest aviation disaster occurs when [[Avioimpex Flight 110]], a [[Yakovlev Yak-42]], crashes near [[Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle Airport|Ohrid Airport]], killing all 116 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19931120-1|title=ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-42D RA-42390 Ohrid Airport (OHD)|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-10-25}}</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; The [[Angola]]n government and [[UNITA]] rebels sign the [[Lusaka Protocol]] in [[Zambia]], ending 19 years of [[Angolan Civil War|civil war]]. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)<ref>{{cite book|author=Global Witness (Organisation)|title=A Rough Trade: The Role of Companies and Governments in the Angolan Conflict|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e8uAQAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=Global Witness|pages=1991–98|isbn=9780952759355}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[1996 Garley Building fire|A fire breaks out]] in an office building in Hong Kong, killing 41 people and injuring 81.
*[[1998]] &ndash; 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]].
*  1998   &ndash; The first space station module component, [[Zarya (ISS module)|Zarya]], for the [[International Space Station]] is launched from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]].
*[[2003]] &ndash; After the [[November 15]] bombings, a second day of the [[2003 Istanbul bombings]] occurs in [[Istanbul]], Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of [[HSBC Bank (Turkey)|HSBC Bank AS]] and the British consulate.
*[[2015]] &ndash; Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are [[2015 Bamako hotel attack|killed in Bamako, Mali]].
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Jimmie Johnson]] wins his seventh [[NASCAR Cup Series]] championship to tie [[Richard Petty]] and [[Dale Earnhardt]] for the most all-time.<ref>{{cite news | title = Jimmie Johnson wins the 2016 Sprint Cup Series championship | author = Jordan Bianchi | date = November 20, 2016 | url = https://www.sbnation.com/2016/11/20/13692630/nascar-sprint-cup-series-championship-2016-jimmie-johnson | quote = Johnson passed Kyle Larson on the final restart to claim the race victory and his seventh title.}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; The [[2022 FIFA World Cup]] begins in [[Qatar]]. This is the first time the tournament was held in the [[Middle East]]. <ref>{{Cite web |title=World Cup 2022: Dates, draw, schedule, kick-off times, final for Qatar tournament |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11096/12354033/world-cup-2022-dates-draw-schedule-kick-off-times-final-for-qatar-tournament |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=Sky Sports |language=en}}</ref>