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Today is Wednesday, November 20, the 325th day of 2024. There are 41 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On November 20, 1947, the future Queen of Great Britain, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.
Also on this date:
In 1910, Francisco Madero led a rebellion against Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, marking the beginning of the decade-long Mexican Revolution.
In 1945, 22 former Nazi officials were tried before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. (Nearly a year later, the International Military Tribune sentenced twelve of the defendants to death; seven received prison terms ranging from ten years to life; three were acquitted.)
In 1969, Native American activists began an occupation of Alcatraz Island, which would last nineteen months before they were forcibly removed by federal authorities.
In 1982, the University of California, Berkeley football team defeated Stanford University by scoring a touchdown on a laterally filled kickoff on the final play of the game, despite the Stanford marching band entering the field of play, thinking Stanford had already won . . In college football history, the bizarre finish is often referred to simply as “The Play.”
In 1992, a fire severely damaged Windsor Castle, the favorite weekend home of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2003, record producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting death of an actor, Lana Clarkson, in his home in Alhambra, California. (Spector’s first trial ended in 2007 with a hung jury; he was convicted of manslaughter in 2009.)
Today’s Birthdays:
- Actor Estelle Parsons is 97.
- Author Don DeLillo is 88.
- Comedian Dick Smothers is 86.
- President Joe Biden is 82.
- Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff is 78.
- Musician Joe Walsh is 77.
- Former National Security Advisor John Bolton is 76.
- Actor Bo Derek is 68.
- Actor Ming-Na Wen is 61.
- Rapper Michael “Mike D” Diamond (Beastie Boys) is 59.
- Actor-comedian Joel McHale is 53.
- Country singer Dierks Bentley is 49.
- Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast Dominique Dawes is 48.
- Rapper Future is 41.