What happened on 20 November?

16 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 Allies prosecute Nazi war criminals; foundation of modern international criminal law.
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 first democratic government.
7. 1942 Born: Joe Biden 46th US President; long-serving senator and Obama's vice-president.
8. 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.
9. 1998 International Space Station assembly begins Conventional start of International Space Station assembled.
10. 1917 Battle of Cambrai First mass use of tanks; 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 and captured, refuses to renounce Christ or rule as a Viking puppet — and is bound to a tree, shot full of arrows and beheaded. His cult makes him
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. 2022 FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar First World Cup in the Arab world; Argentina win it.