On This Day:
Thursday November 20, 2014 This is the 324th day of the year, with 41 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: rubber bands Stephen Perry, of the rubber manufacturer Messrs. Perry & Co., patented his design for vulcanized rubber bands on March 17, 1845. They were designed to secure "papers, letters, etc."
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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