11-20-2005, 04:06 PM
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November 20th
1820 ~ An 80-ton sperm whale attacked a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story.
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Alistair Cooke, Journalist.
1910 ~ Death of Leo Tolstoy, Novelist.
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden a man without a sin in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation.
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