On This Day:
Wednesday November 20, 2013 This is the 324th day of the year, with 41 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: seasons As the earth orbits the sun, the temperatures and weather conditions change. Spring, summer, fall (autumn), and winter come because the earth is tilted toward the sun for part of the year and away from the sun for the rest of the year. The seasons north of the equator are the opposite of the seasons south of the equator. The farther you are from the equator, the more extreme are the differences between the seasons. In spring, plants start to grow, animals bear their young, and the air warms. In summer it is hot, and when it turns to fall the air cools again and the leaves change color and fall from the trees. Winter brings colder air and, often, snow. Not all places on the earth have four equal, full seasons. In some places, the temperature does not change much but there is a long rainy season and a long dry season. At the poles there is only summer, when the sun shines all the time, and winter, when the sun never rises.
Holidays Feast day of St. Edmund the Martyr, St. Maxentia of Beauvais, St. Nerses of Sahgerd, St. Bernward, St. Felix of Valois, and St. Dasius.
Mexico: Revolution Anniversary (by Francisco Madero, 1910).
United Nations: Universal Children's Day.
Events 269 - Diocletian was proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor.
1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, approving 10 of the 12 amendments.
1818 - Simón Bolívar, declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1820 - The whaler Essex, from Nantucket, Massachusetts, was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale near the western coast of South America. It was the first American vessel sunk by a whale.
1866 - Howard University, the first university for African-American students, was founded in Washington, D.C. as the Howard Theological Seminary.
1914 - Bulgaria proclaimed its neutrality in World War I.
1945 - The Nuremberg Trials began for 24 top Nazis accused of war crimes and atrocities.
1947 - Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth II, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey.
1967 - The U.S. census reported the population at 200 million.
1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT.
1974 - The United States filed an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.
1980 - In China, Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, went on trial on charges of treason and government subversion.
2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year reign.
Births 1858 - Selma Lagerlof, Swedish author, first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
1889 - Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer.
1908 - Sir Alistair Cooke, English journalist and TV host.
1914 - Emilio Pucci (Marchese Di Barsento), fashion designer.
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist.
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American senator, attorney general, and presidential candidate.
1954 - Bo Derek, American film actress and model.
Deaths 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist.
1973 - Allan Sherman, American musician, parodist, satirist, and television producer.
1975 - General Francisco Franco, Spain's dictator, after nearly four decades of rule.
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