1985
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
| 269 | Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor’s bodyguard. | |
| 1695 | Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush. | |
| 1700 | Sweden’s 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva. | |
| 1903 | In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. | |
| 1914 | Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War. | |
| 1928 | Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole). | |
| 1931 | Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific. | |
| 1945 | The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg. | |
| 1947 | Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey. | |
| 1950 | U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria. | |
| 1955 | The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated. | |
| 1962 | President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing. | |
| 1967 | The U.S. census reports the population at 200 million. | |
| 1971 | The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. | |
| 1974 | The United States files an antitrust suit to break up AT&T. | |
| 1978 | South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia. | |
| 1985 | Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. | |
| 1992 | Fire in England’s Windsor Castle causes over £50 million in damages. | |
| 1998 | The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. | |
| 2008 |
The Dow Jones Industrial Average sinks to its lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.
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Born on November 20
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| 1858 | Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist (The Story of Gosta Berling). | |
| 1889 | Edwin Hubble, American astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies far from our own. | |
| 1908 | Alistair Cooke, English journalist, television host. | |
| 1916 | Thomas McGrath, poet and novelist. | |
| 1923 | Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist. | |
| 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General, New York senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was assassinated while running for president. | |
| 1936 | Don DeLillo, author (White Noise, Libra). | |
| 1939 | Dick Smothers, actor, singer; half of the Smothers Brothers whose controversial comedy-variety TV show challenged censorship boundaries in the 1960s, finally resulting in cancellation in 1969. | |
| 1942 | Joe Biden, politician; US Senator from Delaware (1973–2009); President Barack Obama’s vice-president, beginning in 2009 | |
| 1946 | Duane Allman, singer, songwriter, musician; co-founder and primary leader of the The Allman Brothers Band until his death in 1971. | |
| 1963 | Wan Yanhai, Chinese activist. | |
| 1975 | Dierks Bentley, country singer, songwriter (“What Was I Thinkin'”, “Every Mile a Memory”). | |
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