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Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station
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Francisco I. Madero
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Bust of Diocletian
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British invasion of New Jersey
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José Antonio Primo de Rivera
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Philip Mountbatten and Princess Elizabeth (1950)
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Graffiti from the occupation of Alcatraz
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Nuremberg trial defendants
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| ; Universal Children's Day | needs cleanup |
| Black Awareness Day in Brazil; | refimprove |
| ; Teachers' Day in Vietnam | refimprove |
| Revolution Day in Mexico; | refimprove |
| Transgender Day of Remembrance | Tagged for balance |
| National Sovereignty Day in Argentina (1845) | Missing citations |
| 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed. | needs more footnotes |
| 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the blockade. | Too much uncited |
| 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto, sports journalist Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France. | Too much uncited |
| 1910 – Francisco I. Madero promulgated the Plan of San Luis Potosí, starting a revolt against President Porfirio Díaz that marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. | Plan: refimprove; Revolution: refimprove section |
| 1936 – Spanish Civil War: Founder of the fascist Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera was executed by the republican government. | too many quotes |
| 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Tarawa began with American forces landing on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffering heavy fire from the Japanese. | unreferenced section |
| 1952 – The Slánský trial, a show trial against Czech General Secretary Rudolf Slánský and 13 other members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was held. | lots of random inline tags |
| 1968 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia, U.S., killed 78 people and served as the catalyst for several new laws that were passed to protect miners. | unreferenced section |
| 1980 – An oil platform drilling accident caused Lake Peigneur in the U.S. state of Louisiana to drain into a salt mine underneath, creating a whirlpool that sucked down the lake's entire contents. | Date not cited |
| 1998 – The assembly of the International Space Station began when Zarya, its first module, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. | too long, unreferenced section |
| Giovanni Battista Agucchi |b|1570| | Could not verify birthday |
| Gervase Helwys |d|1615| | Too much cited |
| Irakli Tsereteli |b|1881| | Date not cited |
| Anton Rubinstein |d|1894| | >12 {cn} tags |
| Maya Plisetskaya |b|1925| | Six CN tags |
| John Gardner |b|1926| | refimprove section |
| Francisco Franco|d|1975| | refimprove section |
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- 284 – Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force arrived at the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main, capturing it the next day.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee saw the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.
- 1945 – The Nuremberg trials (defendants pictured) of 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1947 – Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King [[George VI|Template:Nowrap]], married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who was given the title Duke of Edinburgh.
- 1969 – A group of Native American activists began a 19-month occupation (graffiti pictured) of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
- 1979 – Armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
- 1991 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War: An Azerbaijani military helicopter carrying a peacekeeping mission team was shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh, disrupting ongoing peace talks.
- 1994 – In accordance with the Lusaka Protocol, the Angolan government signed a ceasefire with UNITA rebels in a failed attempt to end the Angolan Civil War.
- Born/died: | Thomas Chatterton |b|1752| Carl Axel Arrhenius |d|1824| Henri-Georges Clouzot |b|1907| Pauli Murray |b|1910| Leo Tolstoy |d|1910| Edgar Williams |b|1912| Alexandra of Denmark |d|1925| Izz ad-Din al-Qassam |d|1935| Maud of Wales |d|1938| I Gusti Ngurah Rai |d|1946| Bruno Retailleau |b|1960| Meredith Whitney |b|1969| Sam Fuld |b|1981| Margo Stilley |b|1982| Michael Reeves |b|1997| Commander X |d|2003| Ancel Keys |d|2004| Michael Artiaga |b|2007| Ian Smith |d|2007|
November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (Template:Nowrap) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale, an event which inspired the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (pictured).
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line.
- 1985 – Windows 1.0 was released, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public.
- 1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.
- 2003 – Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 31 people, including consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer.