What happened on 20 November?

21 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1910 Mexican Revolution Decade of upheaval that produced modern Mexico's constitution and political order.
2. 1945 Nuremberg Trials The International Military Tribunal tries 22 leading Nazis for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity; twelve later US-run trials at Nuremberg follow (1946–19
3. 284 Reign of Diocletian Soldier-emperor who ends the Crisis; reorganises empire into Tetrarchy with two senior Augusti and two junior Caesars.
4. 1975 Death of Franco Spanish dictator dies; democratic transition begins.
5. 1910 Madero calls Mexico to arms Cheated of an election he probably won and jailed by Díaz, the mild liberal landowner Francisco Madero escapes to Texas and proclaims the Plan of San Luis Potosí: rise on the 20th
6. 1975 Spanish transition to democracy Period from Franco's death to the first peaceful transfer of power after the 1982 election.
7. 1942 Born: Joe Biden 46th US President; long-serving senator and Obama's vice-president.
8. 1998 International Space Station assembly begins Conventional start of International Space Station assembled.
9. 1998 International Space Station assembled International Space Station modular assembly in low Earth orbit by NASA, Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and CSA; continuously crewed since 2 November 2000.
10. 1917 Battle of Cambrai Massed British tank attack; brief British breakthrough.
11. 1979 Grand Mosque seizure Armed zealots seize Mecca's Grand Mosque; the bloody siege pushes Saudi Arabia toward stricter religious conservatism.
12. 1889 Born: Edwin Hubble American astronomer who showed the universe is expanding and full of galaxies.
13. 1759 Battle of Quiberon Bay A decisive British naval victory that wrecked French invasion plans and confirmed naval supremacy.
14. 869 The martyrdom of King Edmund The King of East Anglia, defeated by the Great Heathen Army, dies at Viking hands — in the later legend, refusing to renounce Christ or rule as a Viking puppet, he is bound to a tr
15. 1962 Kennedy lifts the quarantine of Cuba After three more weeks of wrangling over the Il-28 bombers still in Cuba, Khrushchev agrees to withdraw those too; Kennedy announces the end of the naval quarantine the same evenin
16. 1947 Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten In austerity Britain, the heir to the throne marries the Greek-born naval officer at Westminster Abbey; she saves clothing coupons for her dress.
17. 1910 Tolstoy's flight and death at Astapovo Aged 82, Tolstoy flees his estate and his wife by night; he falls ill on the train and dies in a stationmaster's house as reporters crowd the platform.
18. 1911 Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde Six songs on Chinese poems, ending in the long farewell of 'Der Abschied'; Bruno Walter conducts the premiere in Munich six months after Mahler's death.
19. 1995 Diana's Panorama interview 'There were three of us in this marriage': Diana's BBC interview, watched by 23 million, leads the Queen to urge divorce; it is later found to have been obtained by deceit.
20. 1992 Windsor Castle fire Fire guts part of Windsor Castle at the end of the royal marriages' collapse — the Queen's 'annus horribilis', after which she agrees to pay income tax.
21. 2022 FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar First World Cup in the Arab world; Argentina win it.