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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: National Child's Day
(Universal Children's Day): November 20, 1959: The Declaration Of
The Rights Of The Child (The Geneva Declaration Of The Rights Of
The Child) -- The United Nations adopts an international document
promoting child rights drafted by Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the
Save The Children organisation at the end of the First World War
to relieve the effects of famine in Austria-Hungary and Germany.
The document was originally adopted by the League of Nations in
1924, and adopted in an extended form by the United Nations on
November 20, 1959. National Child's Day is an annual observance of
the UN's adoption of the document, and thereby recognizes all the
potential represented by our children's ambitions, dreams, and
goals. Through educational goals, STEAM projects, and academic
missions, educators and families join forces to provide an
excellence at all levels of education. Education begins at home,
and by providing parents with resources vital to growing minds, we
encourage curiosity and brain development. From the day they are
born their education begins. Language and social skills are
essential building blocks to any child's early education. Schools
and educators are investing in science, math, and arts programs.
As technology becomes a more integral part of our lives,
innovation drives education as well as nearly every career in the
world. No matter where our children's interests lie, technology
will advance the way we learn, heal, communicate, travel, change,
and protect the world. Our children will be the innovators of the
future. All we need to do is give them the education and the tools
to dream and learn to their fullest potential. National Child's
Day inspires communities, educators, and parents to do just that.
To observe National Child's Day: Get involved with your child's
school. Discover your child's passion. Support extra-curricular
activities. Encourage community endeavors that promote Science,
Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math because these areas of
focus support the way we live every day, and they are lacking in
education today. In 1995, Lee Rechter set out to create National
Child's Day. The retired school counselor wanted a day that
honored children. In 2001, she succeeded in her mission, and
President George W. Bush signed a one-time proclamation for the
nation to observe the day on June 3rd. The declaration proposed
supporting children in their endeavors from the very beginning.
And while it was initiated as a single-day observance, it aimed to
nurture and uphold the belief that all children deserve to have
the same opportunities. However, Rechter pursued a continuing
resolution for the observance. She succeeded, and for the next
seven years on a Sunday in early June, the President proclaimed
National Child's Day. Then, in 2009, when President Barak Obama
took office, the observance was changed to November. Each year
since National Child's Day has been observed on November 20th at a
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: Future Teachers Of America
Day: -- This day illuminates the vital role of teachers and
encourages those aspiring to join this noble profession as well as
recognizes the hard work and dedication of current and retired
educators who have significantly impacted their students and
communities. It's a day that highlights the importance of
education and the pivotal role teachers play in shaping our
future. The celebration is crucial because it addresses a growing
concern: the teacher shortage. With a reported decrease in
students choosing education as their major, Future Teachers of
America Day aims to inspire more individuals to step into teaching
roles. Teachers not only guide academic learning but also spend
countless hours ensuring the holistic development of their
students, making their role indispensable in society. By
celebrating this day, we also express our gratitude to teachers
for their relentless effort and commitment. Teaching is a
demanding profession that requires patience, dedication, and a
passion for nurturing young minds. Future Teachers of America Day
serves as a reminder of the incredible impact teachers have on our
lives and the need to support those who choose this rewarding
career path. Future Teachers of America Day has a rich history
that dates back to the late 1930s, beginning as a way to inspire,
recruit, and prepare students for careers in education. This
special day, celebrated on November 20th each year, acknowledges
teachers' crucial role in society and encourages more individuals
to pursue this noble profession. The day was initially established
to recognize teachers' importance and highlight their daily
impactful work. Sponsored by The Future Teachers of America, a
non-profit organization, it focuses on helping aspiring educators
by providing mentorship and teaching opportunities. This support
aims to enhance and integrate their skills into the professional
teaching community. The history of Future Teachers of America Day
is intertwined with efforts to address the challenges of teaching
and to celebrate the dedication of those entering the field. Over
time, it has become a significant occasion to honor aspiring
educators and underscore the critical need for passionate,
dedicated teaching professionals. The celebration serves as a
reminder of the hard work and commitment required to be a teacher,
from the necessary education and training to the personal
investment in classroom supplies and beyond. Moreover, the day is
about appreciating teachers' invaluable time with our children,
shaping them to be compassionate, knowledgeable, and fair
individuals. It highlights the essential need to fill the teacher
shortage and ensures that future generations receive the education
they deserve. By celebrating Future Teachers of America Day, we
acknowledge the hard work and dedication of future educators and
remind ourselves of their pivotal role in shaping society. It's a
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: Transgender Day Of
Remembrance: -- This holiday is meant to honor, commemorate, and
memorialize those who face discrimination and stigma (often on a
daily basis) across the nation. This holiday is also meant to
advocate for transgender people's rights as well as focus on the
persistent struggles they face in their everyday lives, and how
others can share their love, support, and hope. For generations,
the transgender population has suffered various forms of abuse
(and even death) for challenging the views, notions, and
stereotypes around "male" and "female"
identity. Transgender Day Of Remembrance is a solemn occasion that
honors the lives of transgender people lost to violence. The day
brings attention to the brutality faced by the trans community,
especially those targeted simply for living their truth. It's a
powerful reminder of the challenges many transgender individuals
encounter and serves as a way to keep their memories alive. People
across the world observe this day through vigils, moments of
silence, and community events, reflecting on the tragic losses and
the need for continued advocacy. Beyond mourning, this day stands
as a call for action. It encourages a collective effort to combat
hate, raise awareness, and push for a future where transgender
people can live without fear. Each year, the list of names
remembered grows, highlighting the urgent need for societal
change. Many who participate in these memorials feel a deep sense
of solidarity as the day unites people in honoring those who are
gone while supporting those still fighting for their rights.
Transgender Day Of Remembrance (TDoR) began in 1999, and it was
started by a transgender advocate named Gwendolyn Ann Smith. She
created the day to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender
woman who was murdered in 1998. Rita's death was one of many, and
Smith realized that these tragic stories were often ignored. The
first TDoR took place in San Francisco and Boston, bringing people
together to mourn and remember those lost to anti-transgender
violence. As time passed, the event grew. People around the world
began to participate, holding vigils and ceremonies to commemorate
the lives of transgender people who had been killed. The day
highlights the ongoing violence and discrimination faced by the
transgender community while also standing as a reminder to fight
for a safer, more accepting world. TDoR now includes events in
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: National Absurdity Day: --
An annual date where absurdity reigns supreme. Oddness and
weirdness take over. We're not sure why, but it does. Throughout
history, bizarre occurrences mark the calendar. It may seem absurd
today to send your child cross country by airplane, but people do.
There's a process, attendants, an adult on the other side waiting
to retrieve the precious package. When the postal service first
launched in 1913, children falling within the shipping
specifications were sent cross country by parcel service. Mailed
babies were shipped off to Grandma's house, some for as low as
0.15 USD plus insurance. This day was created as a day to recall
and note some of the entirely off-the-wall and ridiculous things
in history, in our country, and in our lives. Absurdity Day is
also a day to have fun and do crazy, zany, and absurd things. Use
the day as an excuse to let out the silly antics hidden inside
them. You can do things you have wanted to do that make absolutely
no sense at all, and it will be okay because you will be
celebrating this National Day. To mark the day, do whatever absurd
things (within moral and legal limits) that pop into your mind.
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: Revolution Day (Mexico): --
November 20, 1910: The Mexican Revolution: Plan de San Luis Potosi
(The Plan Of San Luis De Potosi): -- Presidential candidate
Francisco I. Madero, who was jailed prior to the elections,
escapes from prison and sparks the Mexican Revolution when he
issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, which exposes Mexico's
political dictatorship, calls for honest elections, denounces
Mexican President Porfirio Diaz and calls for a political and
social revolution to begin at 6 p.m. to overthrow the government
of Mexico. Originally published and secretly distributed on
October 5, 1910, The Plan of San Luis de Potosi further called for
nullifying the 1910 election of Porfirio Diaz and claimed a
provisional presidency for Madero. Dubbed "The Apostle Of
Democracy," he was elected president in 1911, but was
hampered by a lack of practical political experience. He was
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: Name Your PC Day: -- If you
think about it, your PC spends the most time with you from your
teenage years well into your adult years. Be it for school or
work, the PC remains our loyal companion. We spend hours sitting
in front of it trying to accomplish tasks, playing games,
listening to music, or playing around. So it's only fair that this
digital friend deserves a name, right? Whoever created this
out-of-the-box holiday has got to be someone who spent a whole lot
of time in front of their personal computer that they felt the
need to give it a name and make a personal connection. Well, we
don't mind because it makes us realize how much time we spend in
front of our computers for work, school, or watching television
series and movies. Many of us cannot live without our personal
computers now and often feel incomplete without them. In the
1970s, a microcomputer revolution catalyzed the positioning of
personal computers as mass-market consumer electronic devices. The
development of the microprocessor allowed personal computers to be
sold as affordable consumer goods. Early personal computers were
also called microcomputers and sold in an electronic kit form and
limited numbers. The target audience was generally hobbyists and
technicians, specifically inclined towards the Exidy Sorcerer, the
NorthStar Horizon, the Cromemco Z-2, and the Heathkit H8
computers. In 1977, three pre-assembled small computers hit the
markets. The Apple II and the PET 2001 were advertised as personal
computers, and they became a hit by 1978, taking the market by
storm. In the same year, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston created
VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet. This helped people use
the personal computer as a business tool rather than only a game
machine or a typewriter replacement. Since then, there has been no
turning back, and you can find a PC in many households worldwide.
Several computer brands have invested in research and development
to produce the best PCs possible. And on Name Your PC Day, we can
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1820: Watercraft: Whalers
(Whaling Ships): Maritime Incidents: Whale Attacks: The Sinking Of
The Whaler Essex: --An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the
Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts, while at sea
in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain George
Pollard Jr. 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) from the western coast
of South America; the tragedy attracted international attention,
and inspired Herman Melville to write his 1851 novel, Moby-Dick.
The 20-man crew was forced to make for land in three whaleboats
with what food and water they could salvage from the wreck. After
a month at sea the crew landed on the uninhabited Henderson
Island. Three men elected to stay on the island, from which they
were rescued in April 1821, while the remaining seventeen set off
again for the coast of South America. The men suffered severe
dehydration, starvation and exposure on the open ocean, and the
survivors eventually resorted to cannibalism. By the time they
were rescued in February 1821, three months after the sinking of
Essex, only five of the seventeen were alive. First mate Owen
Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the
ordeal. Essex, which had been launched in 1799, had sailed to
reach the whale hunting grounds some 1,000 miles (1,600 km) west
of the Galapagos Islands. At eight in the morning of November 20,
1820, the lookout sighted spouts, and the three remaining
whaleboats set out to pursue a pod of sperm whales. On the leeward
side of Essex, First mate Chase's whaleboat harpooned a whale, but
its tail struck the boat and opened up a seam, forcing the crew to
cut the harpoon line and return to Essex for repairs. Two miles
away off the windward side, the boats of Captain Pollard and
Second Mate Matthew Joy each harpooned a whale and were dragged
towards the horizon away from Essex. Chase was repairing the
damaged whaleboat on board Essex when the crew sighted an
unusually large sperm whale bull (reportedly around 85 feet (26 m)
in length) acting strangely. It lay motionless on the surface
facing the ship and then began to swim towards the vessel, picking
up speed by shallow diving. The whale rammed Essex, rocking her
from side to side, and then dove under her, surfacing close on the
ship's starboard side. As its head lay alongside the bow and the
tail by the stern, it was motionless and appeared to be stunned.
Chase prepared to harpoon it from the deck when he realized that
its tail was only inches from the rudder, which the whale could
easily destroy if provoked by an attempt to kill it. Fearing to
leave the ship stuck thousands of miles from land with no way to
steer it, Chase hesitated. The whale recovered, swam several
hundred yards forward of the ship, and turned to face the ship's
bow. In Chase's 1821 "Narrative Of The Most Extraordinary And
Distressing Shipwreck Of The Whale-Ship Essex", he wrote "I
turned around and saw him about one hundred rods [500 m or 550
yards] directly ahead of us, coming down with twice his ordinary
speed of around 24 knots (44 km/h), and it appeared with tenfold
fury and vengeance in his aspect. The surf flew in all directions
about him with the continual violent thrashing of his tail. His
head about half out of the water, and in that way he came upon us,
and again struck the ship." The whale crushed the bow,
driving the vessel backwards, and then finally disengaged its head
from the shattered timbers and swam off, leaving Essex quickly
going down by the bow. Chase and the remaining sailors retrieved
the spare whaleboat while the steward, William Bond, ran below to
gather the captain's sea chest and whatever navigational aids he
could find. The whaleboats of Pollard and Joy were about 2 miles
(3.2 km) from Essex when one of the boatsteerers looked back and
saw the ship falling on her beam-ends. The two boats hurriedly
released their whales and rowed back to Essex. Chase wrote "The
captain's boat was the first that reached us. He stopped about a
boat's length off, but had no power to utter a single syllable; he
was so completely overpowered with the spectacle before him. He
was in a short time, however, enabled to address the inquiry to
me, "My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?" I answered,
"We have been stove by a whale." The cause of the
whale's aggression is not known. In In the Heart of the Sea,
author Nathaniel Philbrick speculated that it may have first
struck the boat accidentally or have had its curiosity aroused by
the sound of a hammer as the damaged whaleboat was being repaired.
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1874: #BOTD: James Michael
Curley, American lawyer, politician, convicted criminal, 53rd
Governor of Massachusetts (d. November 12, 1958) is #born in
Boston's Roxbury neighborhood in 1874 to Michael and Sarah Curley
(nee Clancy). He was an American Democratic Party politician from
Boston, Massachusetts. One of the most colorful figures in
Massachusetts politics in the first half of the 20th century,
Curley served four terms as Democratic Mayor of Boston,
Massachusetts, including part of one while in prison. He also
served a single term as Governor of Massachusetts, characterized
by one biographer as "a disaster mitigated only by moments of
farce", for its free spending and corruption. Curley was
immensely popular with working-class Roman Catholic Irish
Americans in Boston, among whom he grew up and became active in
ward politics. During the Great Depression, he enlarged Boston
City Hospital, expanded the city's public transit system (now the
MBTA), funded projects to improve the roads and bridges, and
improved the neighborhoods with beaches and bathhouses,
playgrounds and parks, public schools and libraries, all the while
collecting graft and raising taxes. He became a leading and at
times divisive force in the state's Democratic Party, contesting
for power with its White Anglo-Saxon Protestant leadership at the
local and state levels, and with Boston's ward bosses. He served
two terms in the United States Congress, and was regularly a
candidate for a variety of local and state offices for half a
century. He was twice convicted of crimes, and notably served time
for a felony conviction related to earlier corruption during his
last term as mayor. Curley died of unspecified causes in Boston,
the city of his birth, at the age of 83. His body was viewed by
thousands in the rotunda of the State House in Boston. He was laid
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1917: The European Civil
War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of
World War I): The Western Front Of World War I: The Battle Of
Cambrai (The Battle Of Cambrai 1917, The First Battle Of Cambrai,
Schlacht Von Cambrai): -- Tanks are first used in combat on a
large scale (the first use being the September 15, 1916 Battle Of
Battle of Flers-Courcelette on a smaller scale during the Allied
offensive at The Battle Of The Somme) when a British attack is
followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British
Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the
departement of Nord, was an important supply point for the German
Siegfriedstellung (known to the British as the Hindenburg Line)
and capture of the town and the nearby Bourlon Ridge would
threaten the rear of the German line to the north. Major General
Henry Tudor, Commander, Royal Artillery (CRA) of the 9th
(Scottish) Division, advocated the use of new artillery-infantry
techniques on his sector of the front. During preparations, J. F.
C. Fuller, a staff officer with the Tank Corps, looked for places
to use tanks for raids. General Julian Byng, commander of the
British Third Army, decided to combine both plans. The French and
British armies had used tanks in mass earlier in 1917, although to
considerably less effect. After a big British success on the first
day, mechanical unreliability, German artillery and infantry
defences exposed the frailties of the Mark IV tank. On the second
day, only about half of the tanks were operational and British
progress was limited. In the History of the Great War, the British
official historian, Wilfrid Miles, and modern scholars do not
place exclusive credit for the first day on tanks but discuss the
concurrent evolution of artillery, infantry and tank methods.
Numerous developments since 1915 matured at Cambrai, such as
predicted artillery fire, sound ranging, infantry infiltration
tactics, infantry-tank co-ordination and close air support. The
techniques of industrial warfare continued to develop and played a
vital part during the Hundred Days Offensive in 1918, along with
replacement of the Mark IV tank with improved types. The rapid
reinforcement and defence of Bourlon Ridge by the Germans, as well
as their subsequent counter-strike, were also notable
achievements, which gave the Germans hope that an offensive
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( #JCKaelin here: I became friends with
Jim Hawthorne in his final years. You can read about our
friendship in the description of the below listed MP3 title. Those
years were some of the best of my life :) . Thanks Jim! )
========= November 20, 1918: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim Hawthorne, American
disc jockey, radio and television personality, and comic actor,
originator and pioneer of "free form" radio (d. November
6, 2007) is #born in Victor, Colorado. Hawthorne began his career
at a Denver radio station. He gained national attention for his
broadcasts on Pasadena, California, station KXLA in 1947. While in
Los Angeles, he also worked in early television and short films.
He also issued his own records such as "Turn Your Head,
Sweetheart". Hawthorne moved to Hawaii in the late 1960s and
developed the popular Checkers and Pogo children's show, which ran
from 1967 to 1982 (long after he passed the role of "Checkers"
to other actors). In 1950, he created, produced and starred in the
Saturday night coast-to-coast radio program, The Hawthorne Thing,
which was the final network radio show to originate in NBC's
Hollywood Radio City. At KLAC/Channel 13 in the early 1950s, he
created the first late evening talk show on television, This Is
Hawthorne. An article in the LA Times reflecting on early TV
described the show as "predecessor of NBC's Saturday Night
Live." On KNBH/Channel 4, beginning in 1952, he did a daily
five-minute weather show. In 1958, Jim traveled to KYA-San
Francisco and created Voice Your Choice, which he brought to KDAY.
In the early 1960s, while doing Instant Weather on KTTV/Channel
11, Hawthorne joined KFWB as assistant PD and morning DJ, and
eventually became VP, National Program Manager for Crowell-Collier
Broadcasting. While still at KFWB he joined Sherman Grinberg
Productions as a writer, producer, narrator. He produced Jim
Hawthorne's Funny World and Quicky Quiz television comedy shorts.
In 1965, "ol Weather Eyes" moved to Honolulu to "retire"
and ended up creating the Checkers and Pogo kids show for TV which
ran for 11 years. He was also involved with programming KGMB
-Honolulu and was creative consultant to morning legend Aku. As
one of his bits, since the TV weather was so short, he would hold
up cards and do a pantomime. He was elected president of the newly
formed Disc Jockey Association in 1960. In 1970, Hawthorne moved
back to his hometown, Denver, to help his ailing mother. He stayed
for 11 years and established a very successful career at KOA,
eventually becoming GM. In the late 1980s, Hawthorne returned to
Southern California. Hawthorne continued to entertain in
semi-retirement until his November 6, 2007 death caused by
congestive heart disease in Santa Barbara, California at the age
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November 20, 1921: #BOTD: #HBD! Jim
Garrison, American lawyer and judge, District Attorney of Orleans
Parish, Louisiana, from 1962 to 1973, Democratic Party member,
best known for his investigations into the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy and the arrest and trial of New Orleans
businessman Clay Shaw in 1969, to date the only trial to be
brought for the assassination of President Kennedy (d. October 21,
1992) is #born Earling Carothers Garrison in Denison, Iowa, the
first child and only son of Earling R. Garrison and Jane Anne
Robinson who divorced when he was two years old. His family moved
to New Orleans in his childhood, where he was raised by his
divorced mother. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during
World War II, having joined the year before the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. After the war he obtained a law degree from Tulane
University Law School in 1949. He then worked for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for two years where he was stationed
with the Seattle office. Leading up to the Korean War era Garrison
joined the National Guard, even applying for active duty with the
Army in 1951, but because of recurring nightmares of past missions
Garrison was then relieved of duty by the Army. Remaining in the
Guard when it became apparent that he suffered from shell shock
due to his numerous bombing missions flown during World War II,
leading one Army doctor to conclude that Garrison had a "severe
and disabling psychoneurosis" which "interfered with his
social and professional adjustment to a marked degree. He was
considered totally incapacitated from the standpoint of military
duty and moderately incapacitated in civilian adaptability."
Yet when his record was reviewed further by the U.S. Army Surgeon
General, he "found him to be physically qualified for federal
recognition in the national army." Upon returning again to
civilian life, Garrison worked in several different trial lawyer
positions before winning election as New Orleans District
Attorney, starting with his first of three terms in January 1962.
In the years prior to winning office as New Orleans District
Attorney in 1961, Garrison worked for New Orleans law firm of
Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles from 1954 to 1958, before he first
became an assistant district attorney. Garrison became a
flamboyant, colorful, well-known figure in New Orleans but was
initially unsuccessful in his run for public office. He lost a
1959 election for criminal court judge. In 1961, he ran for
district attorney and won against incumbent Richard Dowling by
6,000 votes in a five-man Democratic primary. Despite lack of
major political backing, his performance in a television debate
and last-minute television commercials facilitated his victory.
Once in office Garrison cracked down on prostitution and the
abuses of Bourbon Street bars and strip joints. He indicted
Dowling and one of his assistants for criminal malfeasance, but
the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence. Garrison did not
appeal. Garrison received national attention for a series of vice
raids in the French Quarter, staged sometimes on a nightly basis.
Newspaper headlines in 1962 praised Garrison's efforts, "Quarter
Crime Emergency Declared by Police, DA. - Garrison Back, Vows Vice
Drive to Continue - 14 Arrested, 12 more nabbed in Vice Raids."
Garrison's critics often point out that many of the arrests made
by his office did not result in convictions, implying that he was
in the habit of making arrests without evidence. However,
assistant DA William Alford has said that charges would more often
than not be reduced or dropped if a relative of someone charged
gained Garrison's ear. Alford said Garrison had "a heart of
gold." After a conflict with local criminal judges over his
budget, he accused them of racketeering and conspiring against
him. The eight judges charged him with misdemeanor criminal
defamation, and Garrison was convicted in January 1963. In 1964
the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction and struck down
the state statute as unconstitutional. At the same time, Garrison
indicted Judge Bernard Cocke with criminal malfeasance and, in two
trials prosecuted by Garrison himself, Cocke was acquitted.
Garrison charged nine policemen with brutality, but dropped the
charges two weeks later. At a press conference, he accused the
state parole board of accepting bribes, but could obtain no
indictments. Critical of the state legislature, Garrison was
unanimously censured by it for "deliberately maligning all of
the members". In 1965, running for reelection against Judge
Malcolm O'Hara, Garrison won with 60 percent of the vote. As New
Orleans D.A. in late 1966, Garrison began an investigation into
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after receiving
several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may
have been involved in the assassination. The result of Garrison's
investigation was the arrest and trial of New Orleans businessman
Clay Shaw in 1969, with Shaw being unanimously acquitted less than
one hour after the case went to the jury. Garrison was able to
subpoena the Zapruder film from Life magazine. Thus, members of
the American public - i.e. the jurors of the case - were shown the
movie for the first time. Until the trial, the film had rarely
been seen, and bootleg copies were made by assassination
investigator Steve Jaffe working with Garrison, which led to the
film's wider distribution by David S. Lifton. In 2015, Garrison's
lead investigator's daughter released his copy of the film, along
with a number of his personal papers from the investigation.
Garrison's key witness against Shaw was Perry Russo, a 25-year-old
insurance salesman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. At the trial,
Russo testified that he had attended a party at anti-Castro
activist David Ferrie's apartment. At the party, Russo said that
Lee Harvey Oswald (who Russo said was introduced to him as "Leon
Oswald"), David Ferrie, and "Clem Bertrand" (who
Russo identified in the courtroom as Clay Shaw) had discussed
killing President Kennedy. The conversation included plans for the
"triangulation of crossfire" and alibis for the
participants. Russo's version of events has been questioned by
some historians and researchers, such as Patricia Lambert, once it
became known that part of his testimony might have been induced by
hypnotism, and by the drug sodium pentothal (sometimes called
"truth serum"). An early version of Russo's testimony
(as told in Assistant D.A. Andrew Sciambra's memo, before Russo
was subjected to sodium pentothal and hypnosis) fails to mention
an "assassination party" and says that Russo met Shaw on
two occasions, neither of which occurred at the party. However, in
his book On the Trail of the Assassins, Garrison says that Russo
had already discussed the party at Ferrie's apartment before any
"truth serum" was administered. Scambria said that the
party information was simply accidentally left off the notes of
his encounter with Russo. Throughout his life, Russo reiterated
the same account of being present for a party at Ferrie's house
along with the Mr. Bertrand where the subject of Kennedy's
potential assassination had come up. Garrison defended his conduct
regarding witness testimony, stating: "Before we introduced
the testimony of our witnesses, we made them undergo independent
verifying tests, including polygraph examination, truth serum and
hypnosis. We thought this would be hailed as an unprecedented step
in jurisprudence; instead, the press turned around and hinted that
we had drugged our witnesses or given them posthypnotic
suggestions to testify falsely." In January 1968, Garrison
subpoenaed Kerry Wendell Thornley - an acquaintance of Oswald's
from their days in the military - to appear before a grand jury,
questioning him about his relationship with Oswald and his
knowledge of other figures Garrison believed to be connected to
the assassination. Thornley sought a cancellation of this subpoena
on which he had to appear before the Circuit Court. Garrison
charged Thornley with perjury after Thornley denied that he had
been in contact with Oswald in any manner since 1959. The perjury
charge was eventually dropped by Garrison's successor Harry
Connick Sr. During Garrison's 1973 bribery trial, tape recordings
from March 1971 revealed that Garrison considered publicly
implicating former United States Air Force General and Deputy
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Charles Cabell of
conspiracy in the assassination of Kennedy after learning he was
the brother of Earle Cabell, the Dallas mayor in 1963. Theorizing
that a plot to kill the president was masterminded out of New
Orleans in conjunction with the CIA with cooperation from the
Dallas police department and city government, Garrison tasked his
chief investigator, Pershing Gervais, of looking into the
possibility that General Cabell had stayed in the city's
Fontainebleau Motel at the time of the assassination. The
Washington Post reported that there was no evidence that Gervais
ever followed through with the request and that there was no
further mention of General Cabell in Garrison's investigation. US
talk radio host David Mendelsohn conducted a comprehensive
interview with Garrison which was broadcast in 1988 by KPFA in
Berkeley, California. Alongside Garrison, the program featured the
voices of Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Garrison explains that cover stories were circulated in an attempt
to blame the killing on the Cubans and the Mafia but he blames the
conspiracy to kill the president firmly on the CIA who wanted to
continue the Cold War. In 1973, Garrison was tried and found not
guilty by the jury for accepting bribes to protect illegal pinball
machine operations. The prosecutor was Gerald J. Gallinghouse the
United States Attorney for Eastern District of Louisiana, who was
seeking to halt public corruption. Pershing Gervais, Garrison's
former chief investigator, testified that Garrison had received
approximately 3K USD every two months for nine years from the
dealers. Acting as his own defense attorney, Garrison called the
allegations baseless and claimed that they were concocted as part
of a U.S. government effort to destroy him because of Garrison's
efforts to implicate the CIA in the Kennedy assassination. The
jury found Garrison not guilty. In an interview conducted by New
Orleans reporter Rosemary James with Pershing Gervais, Gervais had
admitted to concocting the charges. In the same year, Garrison was
defeated for reelection as district attorney by Harry Connick Sr.
On April 15, 1978, Garrison won a special election over a
Republican candidate, Thomas F. Jordan, for Louisiana's 4th
Circuit Court of Appeal judgeship, a position for which he was
later reelected and which he held until his death. In 1987,
Garrison appeared as himself in the film The Big Easy, and was
featured in The Men Who Killed Kennedy series, beginning in 1988.
After the Shaw trial, Garrison wrote three books on the Kennedy
assassination, A Heritage of Stone (1970), The Star Spangled
Contract (1976, fiction, but based on the JFK assassination), and
his best-seller, On the Trail of the Assassins (1988). A Heritage
of Stone, published by Putnam, places responsibility for the
assassination on the CIA and says the Warren Commission, the
Executive Branch, members of the Dallas Police Department, the
pathologists at Bethesda, and various others lied to the American
public. The book does not mention Shaw or Garrison's investigation
of Shaw. Garrison's investigation received widespread attention
through Oliver Stone's film, JFK (1991), which was largely based
on Garrison's book as well as Jim Marrs' Crossfire: The Plot That
Killed Kennedy. Kevin Costner played a fictionalized version of
Garrison in the movie. Garrison himself had a small on-screen role
in the film, playing United States Supreme Court Chief Justice
Earl Warren. Garrison also appears live and comments on the Shaw
Trial in the documentary The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison
Tapes, written and directed by actor John Barbour. Political
analyst Carl Oglesby was quoted as saying, "... I have done a
study of Garrison: I come out of it thinking that he is one of the
really first-rate class-act heroes of this whole ugly story [the
killing of John F. Kennedy and subsequent investigation]."
Others have stated that Garrison's persecution of Shaw was "one
of the great miscarriages of justice in US history" and
criticized Garrison for being reckless. At the time, Garrison came
under criticism from author and researcher Sylvia Meagher, who in
1967 wrote: "... as the Garrison investigation continued to
unfold, it gave cause for increasingly serious misgivings about
the validity of his evidence, the credibility of his witnesses,
and the scrupulousness of his methods." According to Shaw's
defense team, witnesses, including Russo, claimed to have been
bribed and threatened with perjury and contempt of court charges
by Garrison in order to make his case against Shaw. However, in a
later interview with public radio, Russo stated: "Well, the
truth of the matter was that Garrison was very sincere. Well, [NBC
News reporter and ex FBI Agent] Walter Sheridan tells me and
threatens me that he's gonna take Garrison out and take me with
him. ... And he says [if] you do that [revoke his testimony], we
won't go after you." Jim Garrison died of cancer in New
Orleans, Louisiana, aged 70. He is interred at Metairie Cemetery
in New Orleans. The author of five books, he was portrayed by
Kevin Costner in Oliver Stone's JFK, while Garrison himself
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Automobile
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1923: Great Inventions: --
Garrett Morgan, African American inventor, patents the
three-position traffic signal still in use today. The first
American-made automobiles were introduced to consumers just before
the turn of the twentieth century. At the time, pedestrians,
bicycles, animal-drawn wagons and motor vehicles all had to share
the same roads. To deal with the growing problem of traffic
accidents, a number of different versions of traffic signaling
devices began to be developed simultaneously, starting around
1913. Detroit Police Officer William Potts invented the modern-day
traffic light in 1920, however it only had two positions. Garret
Morgan, having witnessed an accident at an intersection, filed a
patent for a traffic control device which also had a third
"warning" position two years later, in 1922. The patent
was granted in 1923. There were several other such three position
systems invented prior to Morgan's, some of which had audible
warnings, but it is the Morgan traffic light that proved to be the
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EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Bobby
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Robert F.
Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK and occasionally by
the nickname Bobby, American sailor, journalist, lawyer, and
politician, 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961
to September 1964, U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965
until his assassination in June 1968 (d. June 6, 1968) is #born
Robert Francis Kennedy in Brookline, Mass. He was, like his
brothers John and Edward, a prominent member of the Democratic
Party and has come to be viewed by some historians as an icon of
modern American liberalism. Kennedy was born into a wealthy,
political family in Brookline, Massachusetts. After serving in the
U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946, Kennedy returned to his
studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1948. He received his
law degree from the University of Virginia, and was admitted to
the Massachusetts bar in 1951. He began his career as a
correspondent for The Boston Post and as a lawyer at the Justice
Department, but later resigned to manage his brother John's
successful campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1952. The following
year, he worked as an assistant counsel to the Senate committee
chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy. He gained national attention
as the chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee,
commonly known as the McClellan Committee, from 1957 to 1959,
where he publicly challenged Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa over
the union's corrupt practices. Kennedy resigned from the committee
to conduct his brother's campaign in the 1960 presidential
election. He was appointed United States Attorney General after
the election and served as his brother's closest advisor until his
1963 assassination. His tenure is best known for its advocacy for
the civil rights movement, the fight against organized crime and
the Mafia, and involvement in U.S. foreign policy related to Cuba.
He authored his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis in a book
titled Thirteen Days. After his brother's assassination, he
remained in office in the Johnson Administration for several
months. He left to run for the United States Senate from New York
in 1964 and defeated Republican incumbent Kenneth Keating. In
office, Kennedy opposed racial discrimination and U.S. involvement
in the Vietnam War. He was an advocate for issues related to human
rights and social justice and formed working relationships with
Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Walter Reuther. In 1968,
Kennedy became a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination
for the presidency by appealing to poor, African American,
Hispanic, Catholic, and young voters. His main challenger in the
race was Senator Eugene McCarthy. Shortly after winning the
California primary around midnight on June 5, 1968, Kennedy was
mortally wounded when shot with a pistol by Sirhan Sirhan, a
24-year-old Palestinian, allegedly in retaliation for his support
of Israel following the 1967 Six-Day War. Kennedy died the
following morning at age 42, he left behind his wife Ethel and
eleven children, the last one born after his death. He is buried
at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, next to the
gravesite of his brother John. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
declares a national day of mourning following the assassination.
Sirhan was arrested, tried, and convicted, though Kennedy's
assassination, like his brother's, continues to be the subject of
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1942: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of
World War II (The Mediterranean Theater Of War) The Battle Of The
Mediterranean: The Siege Of Malta (World War II): -- After having
been given by the George Cross by King George VI himself for its
gallantry on April 15, 1942, which is now an emblem on the Maltese
national flag, The Siege Of Malta (World War II) concludes with a
glorious Maltese, British and Allied victory. The Siege Of Malta
in the Second World War was a military campaign in the
Mediterranean Theatre from 1940-42. It was a fight for the control
of the strategically important island, then a British colony, and
pitted the air forces and navies of Italy and Germany against the
Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.The opening of a new front in
North Africa in June 1940 increased Malta's already considerable
value. British air and sea forces based on the island could attack
Axis ships transporting vital supplies and reinforcements from
Europe; Churchill called the island an "unsinkable aircraft
carrier". General Erwin Rommel, in de facto field command of
Axis forces in North Africa, recognised its importance quickly. In
May 1941, he warned that "Without Malta the Axis will end by
losing control of North Africa". The Axis resolved to bomb or
starve Malta into submission, by attacking its ports, towns,
cities, and Allied shipping supplying the island. Malta was one of
the most intensively bombed areas during the war. The Luftwaffe
(German Air Force) and the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Royal Air
Force) flew a total of 3,000 bombing raids over a period of two
years in an effort to destroy RAF defences and the ports. Success
would have made possible a combined German-Italian amphibious
landing (Operation Herkules) supported by German airborne forces
(Fallschirmjaeger), but this did not happen. In the event, Allied
convoys were able to supply and reinforce Malta, while the RAF
defended its airspace, though at great cost in material and lives.
In November 1942 the Axis lost the Second Battle Of El Alamein,
and the Allies landed forces in Vichy French Morocco and Algeria
under Operation Torch. The Axis diverted their forces to the
Battle of Tunisia, and attacks on Malta were rapidly reduced. The
siege effectively ended in November 1942. In December 1942, air
and sea forces operating from Malta went over to the offensive. By
May 1943, they had sunk 230 Axis ships in 164 days, the highest
Allied sinking rate of the war. The Allied victory in Malta played
a major role in the eventual Allied success in North Africa. The
George Cross (GC) is the second highest award of the United
Kingdom honours system. It is awarded "for acts of the
greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance
of extreme danger", not in the presence of the enemy, to
members of the British armed forces and to British civilians.
Posthumous awards have been allowed since it was instituted. It
was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which
have established their own honours systems and no longer recommend
British honours. It may be awarded to a person of any military
rank in any service and to civilians including police, emergency
services and merchant seamen. Many of the awards have been
personally presented by the British monarch to both recipients and
in the case of posthumous awards to next of kin. These
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20-23, 1943: World War II: The
Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater,
The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of
World War II: The Gilbert And Marshall Islands Campaign: Operation
Galvanic: The Battle Of Tarawa: -- An American invasion force, the
largest yet assembled for a single operation in the Pacific,
consisting of 17 aircraft carriers (6 CVs, 5 CVLs, and 6 CVEs), 12
battleships, 8 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 66 destroyers,
and 36 transport ships carrying the 2nd Marine Division and the
Army's 27th Infantry Division, for a total of about 35,000 troops,
attack the Japanese on the heavily fortified Gilbert Islands,
beginning The Battle Of Tarawa. It took eight days for the 5th
Amphibious Corps, 2nd Marine Division and the 27th Infantry
Division to take Tarawa and Makin Islands. Over 1,000 Americans
were killed with 2,311 wounded. The Japanese lost 4,700. The
Battle Of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theater of World War
II that was fought on November 20-23, 1943. It took place at the
Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation
Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400
Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on
and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of
Tarawa Atoll. The Battle Of Tarawa was the first American
offensive in the critical central Pacific region. It was also the
first time in the Pacific War that the United States had faced
serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. Previous
landings met little or no initial resistance, but on Tarawa the
4,500 Japanese defenders were well-supplied and well-prepared, and
they fought almost to the last man, exacting a heavy toll on the
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1945: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Holocaust (Shoah): The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Nuremberg Trials: -- 24 former leaders of Nazi Germany
are charged with conspiracy to wage wars of aggression, crimes
against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, marking
the beginning of The Nuremberg Trials. On August 8, 1945, The
London Charter, also referred to as the Nuremberg Charter, the
decree issued by the European Advisory Commission, set down the
laws, rules and procedures by which the Nuremberg trials were to
be conducted when it iss signed by France, the United Kingdom, the
Soviet Union and the United States. The Charter of the
International Military Tribunal - Annex to the Agreement for the
prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the
European Axis (usually referred to as the Nuremberg Charter or
London Charter) stipulated that crimes of the European Axis Powers
could be tried. Three categories of crimes were defined: crimes
against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Article 8
of the charter also stated that holding an official position was
no defense to war crimes. Obedience to orders could only be
considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal determined
that justice so required. The criminal procedure used by the
Tribunal was closer to civil law than to common law, with a trial
before a panel of judges rather than a jury trial and with wide
allowance for hearsay evidence. Defendants who were found guilty
could appeal the verdict to the Allied Control Council. In
addition, they would be permitted to present evidence in their
defense and to cross-examine witnesses. The Charter was developed
by the European Advisory Commission under the authority of the
Moscow Declaration: Statement on Atrocities, which was agreed at
the Moscow Conference (1943). It was drawn up in London, following
the surrender of Germany on VE Day. It was drafted by Robert H.
Jackson, Robert Falco, and Iona Nikitchenko of the European
Advisory Commission and issued on 8 August 1945. The Charter and
its definition of crimes against peace was also the basis of the
Finnish law, approved by the Finnish parliament on 11 September
1945, that enabled the war-responsibility trials in Finland. The
agreement enabled the prosecution and punishment of the major war
criminals of the European Axis. The Agreement and Charter were
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1952: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The
Socialist Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): Czechoslovakia: Antisemitism:
Show Trials: The Slansky Trial (Czech: Proces S Vedenim
Protistatniho Spikleneckeho Centra V Cele S Rudolfem Slanskym,
"The Trial Of The Leadership Of The Anti-State Conspiracy
Centre Headed by Rudolf Slansky"): -- The trial of Rudolf
Slansky and 13 other high-ranking Communists (11 of whom, the lead
prosecutor said, were "of Jewish origin") begins in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, charged with high treason and being
Titoists and Zionists and allegedly conspiring against the
Czechoslovak Republic. First Secretary of the KSC Rudolf Slansky
was the alleged leader of the conspirators. Those tried with
Slansky were Bedrich Geminder, Otto Sling, Andre Simone, Karel
Svab, Otto Fischl, Rudolf Margolius, Vladimir Clementis, Ludvik
Frejka, Bedrich Reicin, Artur London, Eugen Lobl, Josef Frank and
Vavro Hajdu. The trial lasted eight days. Many of the defendants
admitted their guilt and requested death. On the last day of the
trial, Rudolf Slansky, General Secretary of the KSC, and other
leading party members were pronounced guilty. Eleven, including
Slansky, were hanged at Pankrac Prison in Prague on December 3,
and three (Artur London, Eugen Lobl and Vavro Hajdu) were
sentenced to life imprisonment. The state prosecutor at the trial
in Prague was Josef Urvalek. After the deaths of both Soviet
Communist Party leader Joseph Stalin on March 5. 1953 and Czech
Communist Party leader Klement Gottwald on March 14, 1953, the
victims of the trial quietly received amnesty one by one,
including those who had survived the Prague Trial. Artur London,
with his wife Lise London, a French communist he had met in
Moscow, wrote the book L'Aveu (1968), an autobiographical account
of his ordeal in the Slansky Trial. The English translation The
Confession by Alastair Hamilton appeared in 1968. The book
resonated internationally, and was adapted by Costa-Gavras as the
French-Italian movie of the same name starring Yves Montand and
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1962: Housing (Living
Spaces): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Housing
Discrimination In The United States: Desegregation in the United
States: Fair Housing Laws And Presidential Executive Orders:
Executive Order 11063: -- President John F. Kennedy bans
segregation in federally funded housing when he signs and issues
Executive Order 11063, which "prohibits discrimination in the
sale, leasing, rental, or other disposition of properties and
facilities owned or operated by the federal government or provided
with federal funds." In 1962, President John F. Kennedy
recognized the need to expand the role of the federal government
in protecting the rights of Americans to access housing. Citing
the Housing Act of 1949, the last major federal law related to
housing, Kennedy issued Executive Order 11063 for "the
realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a
suitable living environment for every American family." In
it, he ordered every federal department to take action to protect
Americans of all races, religions, and nations of birth from
discrimination. The executive order's preambles states, among
other things, that "discriminatory policies and practices
based upon race, color, creed, or national origin now operate to
deny many Americans the benefits of housing financed through
Federal assistance and as a consequence prevent such assistance
from providing them with an alternative to substandard, unsafe,
unsanitary, and overcrowded housing." The order consisted of
four substantive parts: 1) Prevention of discrimination both in
the sale and the lending of residential property and land; 2)
Implementation by federal departments and agencies, including
submitting plans to the President within 30 days; 3) Enforcement,
including termination of federal contracts, withholding of future
federal aid, withholding of approval of lending institutions, and
civil or criminal prosecution; and 4) Creation of the President's
Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing, with members from the
President's cabinet, White House staff, and members of the public.
The executive order became effective immediately upon Kennedy's
signing. A press release accompanied the order, in which the
president declared, "Our national policy is equal opportunity
for all and the Federal Government will continue to take such
legal and proper steps as it may to achieve the realization of
that goal." At the press conference that day, Kennedy handled
questions about why he took so long to sign the order and his
assessment of the possible economic impact. He replied "Well,
I said that I would issue it at the time when I thought it was in
the public interest, and now is the time. _I don't think that its
immediate effect -- there may be some adverse reaction -- but I
think that we will be able to proceed in the development of our
housing industry, which is important to our economy. I know one
builder the other day in part of New York said that he would be
very much against the housing order because it would hurt his
development, and he was reminded that there was a more stringent
law in effect in New York at the time, so that I think that some
of the fears have been exaggerated. In any case, it's sound
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1962: Cuba: The History Of
Cuba: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War
(1962-1979): The Cuban Cold War: The Cuban Missile Crisis: --
President John F. Kennedy announces he had lifted the U.S. Naval
blockade of Cuba stating, "the evidence to date indicates
that all known offensive missile sites in Cuba have been
dismantled.", bringing to a conclusion the Cuban Missile
Crisis. Two weeks prior, on November 2, 1962: President John F.
Kennedy, in an Address To The Nation, announced during Oval Office
Address on television that "the Soviet bases in Cuba are
being dismantled, their missiles and related equipment being
crated, and the fixed installations at these sites are being
destroyed.". On October 28, 1962, a nuclear World War III was
narrowly averted with the announcement by Nikita Khrushchev that
the Soviet government was halting construction of bases in Cuba
and would remove offensive missiles. President Kennedy immediately
accepted the offer, then lifted the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba.
On October 22, 1962, President delivered an Oval Office Address on
television, an Address To The Nation to inform Americans of the
existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. The President demanded their
removal and announced a naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
Nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union was at
that point imminent, and it remained so until six days later, when
the Soviets announced via Radio Moscow that they would remove the
weapons. When President Kennedy was informed of Soviet medium
range R-12 Dvina theatre ballistic missiles (NATO reporting name:
SS-4 Sandal) and their launch facilities having been installed in
Cuba, he then convened a meeting of the nine members of the
National Security Council and five other key advisers in a group
that became known as the Executive Committee of the National
Security Council (EXCOMM). After consultation with them, Kennedy
ordered a naval blockade on October 22 to prevent further missiles
from reaching Cuba. The US announced it would not permit offensive
weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the weapons
already in Cuba be dismantled and returned to the Soviet Union.
After several days of tense and dangerous negotiations, an
agreement was reached between Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly,
the Soviets would dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and
return them to the Soviet Union, subject to United Nations
verification, in exchange for a US public declaration and
agreement to avoid invading Cuba again. Secretly, the United
States agreed that it would dismantle all US-built Jupiter MRBMs,
which had been deployed in Turkey against the Soviet Union; there
has been debate on whether or not Italy was included in the
agreement as well. When all offensive missiles and Ilyushin Il-28
light bombers had been withdrawn from Cuba, the blockade was
formally ended on November 21, 1962. The negotiations between the
United States and the Soviet Union pointed out the necessity of a
quick, clear, and direct communication line between the two
Superpowers. As a result, the Moscow-Washington hotline was
established. A series of agreements later reduced US-Soviet
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Anwar
Sadat: In Life And Death Documentary Set MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1977: The Cold War: The
Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Aftermath Of The Yom Kippur War: The
Arab-Israeli Peace Process: The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Process: --
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to
visit Israel officially when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin, and later speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem
about his views on how to achieve a comprehensive peace to the
Arab-Israeli conflict, which he said must include the full
implementation of UN Resolutions 242, which dealt with the
disposition of Israeli-occupied territories, and 338, which
effected the ceasefire of The Yom Kippur War. The Peace treaty was
finally signed by Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin in Washington, D.C., United States, on March 26, 1979,
following the Camp David Accords (1978), the series of meetings
between Egypt and Israel facilitated by US President Jimmy Carter.
Both Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
creating the treaty. In his acceptance speech, Sadat referred to
the long-awaited peace desired by both Arabs and Israelis: "Let
us put an end to wars, let us reshape life on the solid basis of
equity and truth. And it is this call, which reflected the will of
the Egyptian people, of the great majority of the Arab and Israeli
peoples, and indeed of millions of men, women, and children around
the world that you are today honoring. And these hundreds of
millions will judge to what extent every responsible leader in the
Middle East has responded to the hopes of mankind." On Sale @
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Heart Of
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1980: China: The History Of
China: The People's Republic Of China (PRC): The History Of The
People's Republic Of China (The History Of The PRC): Maoism (Mao
Zedong Thought): The Cultural Revolution (CR, The Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution): The Gang Of Four: -- In China,
Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, goes on trial with nine
others on charges of treason, charged with plotting a coup,
bringing to an end Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic Of
China. They were subsequently convicted of various crimes against
the state. The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place
in China from 1966 until 1976 that wet into motion by Mao Zedong,
then Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Its stated goal was
to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging
remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese
society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology
within the Party. The Revolution marked the return of Mao Zedong
to a position of power after the failure of his Great Leap
Forward. The movement paralyzed China politically and negatively
affected the country's economy and society to a profound degree.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Machine That Changed The World The Computer + Bonus 3 MP4s Or DVDs
Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1985: The Industrial
Revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The
Information Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital
Electronics Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The
Media Age): Product Launches: The Computer: The History Of The
Computer: The History Of The Computer Industry: The History Of The
Personal Computer (The History Of The PC): Computing Software: The
History Of Computing Software: Microsoft Windows: Windows 1.0: --
Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer
operating environment developed by Microsoft, is first released to
manufacturing in the United States, the first major release of
Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for
personal computer first introduced on November 10, 1983 by Bill
Gates, then chief software architect and co-founder of Microsoft;
the European version was released as Windows 1.02 in May 1986. Its
development began after the Microsoft co-founder and spearhead of
Windows 1.0, Bill Gates, saw a demonstration of a similar software
suite, Visi On, at COMDEX in 1982. The operating environment was
showcased to the public in November 1983, although it ended up
being released two years later. Windows 1.0 runs on MS-DOS, as a
16-bit shell program known as MS-DOS Executive, and it provides an
environment which can run graphical programs designed for Windows,
as well as existing MS-DOS software. It introduced multitasking
and the use of the mouse, and various built-in programs such as
Calculator, Paint, and Notepad. The operating environment does not
allow its windows to overlap, and instead, the windows are tiled.
Windows 1.0 also contains four releases, which contain minor
updates to the system. The system received lukewarm reviews;
critics raised concerns about not fulfilling expectations, its
compatibility with very little software, and its performance
issues, while it has also received positive responses to
Microsoft's early presentations and support from a number of
hardware- and software-makers. Its last release was 1.04, and it
was succeeded by Windows 2.0, which was released in December 1987.
Microsoft ended its support for Windows 1.0 on December 31, 2001,
making it the longest-supported out of all versions of Windows. On
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Today, November 20, 2025
November 20, 1998: The History Of
Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of
The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: Space Stations: The
International Space Station (ISS): Zarya (Russian: "Sunrise")
(ISS Module) (The Functional Cargo Block [Russian:
Funktsional'no-gruzovoy Blok]): -- The first space station module
component, Zarya, for the International Space Station, is launched
atop a Russian (previously Soviet) Proton-K carrier rocket at
06:40 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 81 in Kazakhstan.
Zarya served as the ISS's primary source of power, propulsion, and
guidance during its early years. As the ISS expanded, Zarya's role
shifted primarily to storage, both internally and in its external
fuel tanks. A descendant of the Soviet TKS spacecraft developed in
the late 1960s and used in their Salyut space station programme to
deliver crew, cargo, and fuel to the their highly secret military
Almaz space stations, Zarya was built in Russia but financed by
the United States. Its name "sunrise" symbolized the
beginning of a new era of international space cooperation. The
International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station that
was assembled and is maintained in low Earth orbit by a
collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA
(United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan),
and CSA (Canada). As the largest space station ever constructed,
it primarily serves as a platform for conducting scientific
experiments in microgravity and studying the space environment.
The station is divided into two main sections: the Russian Orbital
Segment (ROS), developed by Roscosmos, and the US Orbital Segment
(USOS), built by NASA, ESA, JAXA, and CSA. A striking feature of
the ISS is the Integrated Truss Structure, which connect the
station's vast system of solar panels and radiators to its
pressurized modules. These modules support diverse functions,
including scientific research, crew habitation, storage,
spacecraft control, and airlock operations. The ISS has eight
docking and berthing ports for visiting spacecraft. The station
orbits the Earth at an average altitude of 400 kilometres (250
miles) and circles the Earth in roughly 93 minutes, completing
15.5 orbits per day. The ISS programme combines two previously
planned crewed Earth-orbiting stations: the United States' Space
Station Freedom and the Soviet Union's Mir-2. The first ISS module
was launched in 1998, with major components delivered by Proton
and Soyuz rockets and the Space Shuttle. Long-term occupancy began
on 2 November 2000, with the arrival of the Expedition 1 crew.
Since then, the ISS has remained continuously inhabited for 25
years and 17 days, the longest continuous human presence in space.
As of August 2025, 290 individuals from 26 countries had visited
the station. Future plans for the ISS include the addition of at
least one module, Axiom Space's Payload Power Thermal Module. The
station is expected to remain operational until the end of 2030,
after which it will be de-orbited using the US Deorbit Vehicle. On
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James' Fame In The 20th Century TV Series DVD Set MP4 USB Drive
Today, November 20, 2025
November 20: International Hug A Runner
Day (Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day [GOHARD]): -- A day all
about appreciating runners and hugging them to bring unity. At
first, the holiday was created by a cross-country runner but
others quickly picked it up to spread the message globally. Today,
millions of people participate in the holiday. So get out your
running shoes and join thousands of runners all over the world on
this great day. And hug your fellow runners! The first-ever Hug A
Runner Day was named Hug A Cross Country Runner Day and was
created in 2010 by a cross-country runner. The runner missed the
next year, so Tim Catalano and Olympian Adam Goucher created
Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day for the very first time. From
then on, Hug A Runner Day has been observed every year. The
concept of Hug a Runner Day focuses on the emotional connection to
an individual's running journey. Sharing hugs within the running
community is a good morale booster. Hugs are great during
training, before or after a race, and every moment in between. On
International Hug A Runner Day, the walking and running community
donates thousands of dollars to several charities every year
through their "Hug A Runner 5K For 5K USD Challenge."
Participants have to walk or run a minimum of 3.15 miles for 10
consecutive days. Once they complete this, they enter a $500 draw.
One aim of this day is to raise money and awareness for
organizations that help children, such as Girls on the Run,
Playworks, the American Society for Deaf Children, and Shoes That
Fit. The money is raised through registration fees for an annual
running event that happens on the day and the days leading up to
it. Another goal of International Hug A Runner Day is a running
event where Run The Edge gives away 500 USD to participants on the
day and each of the nine days preceding it. The last objective of
the day is for runners to hug other runners. This spreads unity
and positivity in the community.
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Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1942: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe
Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States,
is #born Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. at St. Mary's Hospital in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. A member of the
Democratic Party, he previously served as the 47th vice president
from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, and represented
Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. Biden
moved with his family to Delaware in 1953 when he was ten years
old. He studied at the University of Delaware before earning his
law degree from Syracuse University. He was elected to the New
Castle County Council in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest
senator in U.S. history after he was elected to the United States
Senate from Delaware in 1972, at age 29. Biden was the chair or
ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12
years. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to
1995; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw
six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the
contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden
ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in
1988 and 2008. He was the fourth-most senior sitting senator when
he became Obama's vice president after they won the 2008
presidential election. Obama and Biden were reelected in 2012.
During his two terms as vice president, Biden leaned on his Senate
experience and frequently represented the administration in
negotiations with congressional Republicans. He also oversaw
infrastructure spending in 2009 to counteract the Great Recession.
On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to President Obama
and took a leading role in designing the withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Iraq in 2011. Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris,
defeated incumbent Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Upon inauguration, he became the oldest president in U.S. history
and the first to have a female vice president. Biden signed the
American Rescue Plan Act to help the U.S. recover from the
COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He proposed the
American Jobs Plan, aspects of which were incorporated into the
bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. He proposed the
American Families Plan, which was merged with other aspects of the
American Jobs Plan into the proposed Build Back Better Act. After
facing opposition in the Senate, the Build Back Better Act's size
was reduced and it was comprehensively reworked into the Inflation
Reduction Act of 2022, covering deficit reduction, climate change,
healthcare, and tax reform. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson
to the Supreme Court. In foreign policy, he restored the U.S. into
the Paris Agreement on climate change. He completed the withdrawal
of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, during which the Afghan
government collapsed and the Taliban seized control. He responded
to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on
Russia and authorizing foreign aid and weapons shipments to
Ukraine.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Search For Extraterrestrial Life And Aliens MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1889: #BOTD: #HBD! Edwin
Hubble, American astronomer and scholar who played a crucial role
in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and
observational cosmology (the study of the structure, evolution and
origin of the universe through observation using instruments such
as telescopes and cosmic ray detectors) (d. September 28, 1953) is
#born Edwin Powell Hubble in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble proved
that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas
and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies
beyond the Milky Way. Hubble confirmed in 1929 that the
recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from
Earth, a behavior that became known as Hubble's Law, although it
had been proposed two years earlier by Georges Lemaitre. The
Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. A decade
before, the American astronomer Vesto Slipher had provided the
first evidence that the light from many of these nebulae was
strongly red-shifted, indicative of high recession velocities.
Hubble's name is most widely known as the namesake of The Hubble
Space Telescope, of which a model is prominently displayed in his
hometown of Marshfield, Missouri. Edwin Hubble died aged 63 of
cerebral thrombosis (a blood clot in his brain) in San Marino,
California. No funeral was held for him, and his wife never
revealed his burial site.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Francisco Franco Documentary Set Spanish Civil War MP4 Download
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Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1975: #DOTD: Francisco
Franco, Spanish general who ruled over Spain from 1939 until his
death (b. December 4, 1892) #dies of heart failure at the age of
82 in Madrid, Spain. On October 30, 1975 he had fallen into a coma
and was put on life support. Franco's family agreed to disconnect
the life-support machines. Officially, he died a few minutes after
midnight on November 20, 1975 from heart failure, at the age of 82
- on the same date as the death of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera,
the founder of the Falange, in 1936. However, historian Ricardo de
la Cierva claimed that he had been told around 6 pm on November 19
that Franco had already died. Franco's body was interred at Valle
de los Caidos, a colossal memorial built by the forced labour of
political prisoners to honour the casualties of both sides of the
Spanish Civil War. The site was designated by the interim
government, assured by Prince Juan Carlos and Prime Minister
Carlos Arias Navarro, as the burial place for Franco. According to
his family, Franco did not want to be buried in the Valley, but in
the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid. Nonetheless, the family agreed
to the interim government's request to bury him in the Valley, and
has stood by the decision. This made Franco the only person
interred in the Valley who did not die during the Spanish Civil
War. Since Franco had restored the monarchy before his death, Juan
Carlos was proclaimed his successor as King two days later; it was
King Juan Carlos I who led the Spanish transition to democracy.
After a referendum, a new constitution was adopted, which
transformed Spain into a parliamentary democracy under a
constitutional monarchy. Francisco Franco was born Francisco
Franco Bahamonde in the Calle Frutos Saavedra in El Ferrol,
Galicia, Spain. Franco became military dictator of Spain beginning
in 1939, after the nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War.
This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist
Spain. As a conservative and a monarchist, Franco opposed the
abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a democratic
secular republic in 1931. With the 1936 elections, the
conservative Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups
lost by a narrow margin, and the leftist Popular Front came to
power. Intending to overthrow the republic, Franco followed other
generals in launching a coup that failed to take control of most
of the country and precipitated the Spanish Civil War. With the
death of the other generals, Franco quickly became his faction's
only leader. Franco gained military support from various
authoritarian regimes and groups, especially Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy, while the Republican side was supported by Spanish
communists and anarchists as well as the Soviet Union, Mexico, and
the International Brigades. In 1939, Franco won the war, which
claimed half a million lives. He established a military
dictatorship. Franco proclaimed himself Head of State and
Government under the title El caudillo. In April 1937, Franco
merged the fascist and traditionalist political parties in the
rebel zone (FE de las JONS and Traditionalist Communion), as well
as other conservative and monarchist elements, into FET y de las
JONS. At the same time he outlawed all other political parties,
and thus Spain became a one-party state. Upon his rise to power,
Franco implemented policies that repressed political opponents and
dissenters, as many as 400,000 of whom died through the use of
forced labor and executions in the concentration camps his regime
operated. He espoused neutrality as Spain's official wartime
policy. However, he provided military support to the Axis in
numerous ways: he allowed German and Italian ships and submarines
to use Spanish harbors and ports, the Abwehr operated in Spain,
and the Blue Division fought alongside the European Axis against
the Soviet Union until 1944. Although often identified as fascist,
few scholars of the matter consider Franco's Spain such, usually
recognizing it as conservative and authoritarian. Spain was
isolated by the international community for nearly a decade after
World War II. By the 1950s, the nature of his regime changed from
being openly totalitarian and using severe repression to an
authoritarian system with limited pluralism. During the Cold War,
Franco was one of the world's foremost anti-Communist figures: his
regime was assisted by the West, and it was asked to join NATO.
After chronic economic depression in the late 1940s and early
1950s, Franco presided over the Spanish miracle, abandoning
autarky (self-sufficiency of a political state or their economic
system) and pursuing economic liberalization, delegating authority
to liberal ministers.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Vietnam
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Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1969: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars:
The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict,
The Resistance War Against America): The United States In The
Vietnam War: War Crimes: War Crimes Of The Vietnam War: The My Lai
Massacre (The Pinkville Massacre, The Massacre At Songmy, Son My
Massacre): -- In the aftermath of Seymour Hersh's November 12,
1969 Associated Press wire service story on the My Lai Massacre,
media attention upon the massacre explodes as Time, Life and
Newsweek all cover the story, CBS televises an interview with a
soldier in Calley's unit during the massacre named Paul Meadlo,
and The Plain Dealer, the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio,
publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from massacre.
The My Lai Massacre, a war crime of the Vietnam War, a mass
killing of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in
South Vietnam, was committed on March 16, 1968 by U.S. Army
soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment,
11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division, led by Lieutenant
William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, under the
orders of his immediate superior, Captain Ernest Medina. Victims
included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were
gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Twenty-six soldiers were
charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant Calley was
convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally
given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years
under house arrest. The massacre, which was later called "the
most shocking episode of the Vietnam War", took place in two
hamlets of Son My village in Quang Ngai Province. These hamlets
were marked on the U.S. Army topographic maps as My Lai and My
Khe. The U.S. Army slang name for the hamlets and sub-hamlets in
that area was Pinkville, and the carnage was initially referred to
as the Pinkville Massacre. On November 12, 1969, independent
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the story of the My
Lai Massacre, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for
International Reporting. Later, when the U.S. Army started its
investigation, the media changed it to the Massacre at Songmy.
Currently, the event is referred to as the My Lai Massacre in the
United States and called the Son My Massacre in Vietnam. The
incident prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge
as a result of Hersh' story. The My Lai massacre increased
domestic opposition to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
when the scope of killing and cover-up attempts were exposed.
Initially, three U.S. servicemen who had tried to halt the
massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned, and even
denounced as traitors by several U.S. Congressmen, including
Mendel Rivers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Only after thirty years were they recognized and decorated, one
posthumously, by the U.S. Army for shielding non-combatants from
harm in a war zone. Along with the No Gun Ri massacre in Korea
eighteen years earlier, My Lai was one of the largest single
massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in the 20th century.
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Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1926: #BOTD: Ton That Dinh,
Vietnamese general who served in the Army of the Republic of
Vietnam (ARVN), best known as one of the key figures in the
November 1963 coup that led to the arrest and assassination of Ngo
Dinh Diem, the first president of the Republic of Vietnam,
commonly known as South Vietnam (d. November 21, 2013) is #born in
the central highlands resort town of Da Lat on November 20, 1926,
into the Ton That family of Hue that were relatives of the Nguyen
dynasty. Lieutenant General Ton That Dinh was a favorite of the
ruling Ngo family, and received rapid promotions ahead of officers
who were regarded as more capable. He converted to Roman
Catholicism to curry favor with Diem and headed the military wing
of the Can Lao party, a secret Catholic organization that
maintained the Ngos' grip on power. At the age of 32, Dinh became
the youngest ever ARVN general and the commander of the II Corps,
but he was regarded as a dangerous, egotistical, and impetuous
figure with a weakness for alcohol and partying. In 1962, Dinh,
whom Diem regarded as one of his most loyal officers, was
appointed commander of the III Corps that oversaw the region
surrounding the capital Saigon, making him important to the
prospects of any coup. In late 1963, as Diem became increasingly
unpopular, Dinh's colleagues recruited him into a coup plot by
playing on his ego and pitting him against Diem. Diem and his
brother and chief advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu were aware of the plot but
did not know of Dinh's involvement. Nhu planned a fake coup of his
own in an attempt to trap his opponents and strengthen the
family's regime. Dinh was placed in charge of the fake coup and
sabotaged it. On November 1 the rebels' actual coup proceeded and
the Ngo brothers were deposed and executed. After the coup, Dinh
became one of the 12 members of the Military Revolutionary Council
(MRC), but this lasted only three months before a coup by General
Nguyen Khanh. Dinh and his colleagues were put under house arrest
by Khanh and falsely accused of promoting a neutralist plot. The
subsequent military trial collapsed. The generals were convicted
of "lax morality", but were eventually allowed to resume
their military service, albeit in meaningless desk jobs. Following
Khanh's exile by another group of generals, Dinh was appointed to
command the I Corps in 1966 and ordered to put down the Buddhist
Uprising, but Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky disapproved of his
conciliatory policies. Ky launched a successful surprise attack
against Dinh, who fled, but was later captured and briefly
imprisoned by Ky. After his release, Dinh worked in the media and
was elected to the Senate in 1967. He served in the upper house
until the fall of Saigon in April 1975, when he fled Vietnam. Ton
That Dinh died aged 87 at Kindred Hospital Santa Ana in Santa Ana,
California where he had been treated for several weeks. His
funeral was conducted in accordance with Buddhist tradition. His
burial details are not publicly disclosed.
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Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1993: Scandals: Banking
Scandals: The Savings And Loan Crisis (The S & L Crisis): The
Keating Five: The Censure Of Alan Cranston: -- The United States
Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California
senator Alan Cranston for his what it called his "dealings"
with a savings-and-loan executive, Lincoln Savings And Loan
Association chairman Charles Keating, who himself was later
convicted of felony fraud, racketeering and conspiracy, and whose
financial contributions to, and requests for regulatory
intervention from, five sitting U.S. senators -- Alan Cranston
(Democrat of California), Dennis DeConcini (Democrat of Arizona),
John Glenn (Democrat of Ohio), John McCain (Republican of
Arizona), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Democrat of Michigan) -- led
to those legislators being dubbed the "Keating Five".
The Senate Ethics Committee ruled that Cranston had acted
improperly by interfering with the investigation by the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB). He had received more than 1M USD
from Keating, including 850K USD to the voter registration groups
closely affiliated with him; he had done more arm-twisting than
the other senators on Keating's behalf; and he was the only
senator officially rebuked by the Senate in this matter. Cranston
was given the harshest penalty of all five senators. In November
1991, the Senate Ethics Committee voted unanimously to reprimand
Cranston, instead of the more severe measure that was under
consideration: censure by the full Senate. Extenuating
circumstances that helped to save Cranston from censure included
the fact that he was suffering from cancer, and that he had
decided to not seek reelection, according to Heflin. The Ethics
Committee took the unusual step of delivering its reprimand to
Cranston during a formal session of the full Senate, with almost
all 100 Senators present. Cranston was not accused of breaking any
specific laws or rules, but of violating standards that Heflin
said "do not permit official actions to be linked with
fund-raising." Although the Ethics Committee stated "No
evidence was presented to the Committee that Senator Cranston ever
agreed to help Mr. Keating in return for a contribution," the
Committee officially found that Cranston's conduct had been
"improper and repugnant", deserving of "the
fullest, strongest and most severe sanction which the committee
has the authority to impose." The sanction was in these
words: "the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, on behalf of
and in the name of the United States Senate, does hereby strongly
and severely reprimand Sen. Alan Cranston." After the Senate
reprimanded Cranston, he took to the Senate floor to deny key
charges against him. In response, Rudman charged that Cranston's
response to the reprimand was "arrogant, unrepentant, and a
smear on this institution," and that Cranston was wrong to
imply that everyone does what Cranston had done. Alan Dershowitz,
serving as Cranston's attorney, alleged that other senators had
merely been better at "covering their tracks." The
Savings And Loan Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s (commonly dubbed
the S & L Crisis) was the failure of 1,043 out of the 3,234
savings and loan associations (S & Ls) in the United States
from 1986 to 1995. An S & L or "thrift" is a
financial institution that accepts savings deposits and makes
mortgage, car and other personal loans to individual members (a
cooperative venture known in the United Kingdom as a building
society). The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
(FSLIC) closed or otherwise resolved 296 institutions from 1986 to
1989, whereupon the newly established Resolution Trust Corporation
(RTC) took up these responsibilities. The RTC closed or otherwise
resolved 747 institutions from 1989 to 1995 with an estimated book
value between 402B and 407B USD. In 1996, the General Accounting
Office (GAO) estimated the total cost to be 160B USD, including
132.1B USD taken from taxpayers. In 1979, the Federal Reserve of
the United States raised the discount rate that it charged its
member banks from 9.5 percent to 12 percent in an effort to reduce
inflation. The building of S & Ls had issued long-term loans
at fixed interest rates that were lower than the interest rate at
which they could borrow. In addition, the S & Ls had the
liability of the deposits which paid higher interest rates than
the rate at which they could borrow. When interest rates at which
they could borrow increased, the S & Ls could not attract
adequate capital, from deposits to savings accounts of members for
instance, and they became insolvent. Rather than admit to
insolvency, some S & Ls took advantage of lax regulatory
oversight to pursue highly speculative investment strategies. This
had the effect of extending the period where S & Ls were
likely technically insolvent. These adverse actions also
substantially increased the economic losses for the S & Ls
than would otherwise have been realized had their insolvency been
discovered earlier. One extreme example was that of financier
Charles Keating, who paid 51M USD financed through Michael
Milken's "junk bond" operation, for his Lincoln Savings
and Loan Association which at the time had a negative net worth
exceeding 100M USD. Others, such as author and financial historian
Kenneth J. Robinson or the account of the crisis published in 2000
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), give multiple
reasons as to why the S & L crisis came to pass. In no
particular order of significance, they identify the rising
monetary inflation beginning in the late 1960s spurred by
simultaneous domestic spending programs of President Lyndon B.
Johnson's "Great Society" programs coupled with the
military expenses of the continuing Vietnam War that continued
into the late 1970s. The efforts to end the rampant inflation of
the late 1970s and early 1980s by raising interest rates brought
on a recession in the early 1980s and the beginning of the S &
L crisis. Deregulation of the S & L industry, combined with
regulatory forbearance, and fraud worsened the crisis.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Beethoven: The Composer As Hero DVD, Video Download, USB Flash
Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1805: Aesthetics: Performing
Arts: Premieres: Theatre Premieres: Musical Premieres: Opera
Premieres: -- Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio,
originally titled Leonore, Oder Der Triumph Der Ehelichen Liebe
(Leonore, Or The Triumph Of Marital Love), Op. 72, premieres at
the historic Theater An Der Wien (German: Theater On The Wien
[River]) in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was originally prepared
by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly.
The following year, Beethoven's friend Stephan von Breuning
rewrote the libretto, shortening the work from three acts to two.
After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke,
a final version was performed at the Karntnertortheater on May 23,
1814. As these libretto revisions were going on, Beethoven was
also revising some of the music. By convention, only the final
version is called Fidelio, and the others are referred to as
Leonore. The libretto tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison
guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan
from death in a political prison. Bouilly's scenario fits
Beethoven's aesthetic and political outlook: a story of personal
sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph. With its underlying
struggle for liberty and justice mirroring contemporary political
movements in Europe, such topics are typical of Beethoven's
"middle period". Notable moments in the opera include
the "Prisoners' Chorus" (O Welche Lust -- "O What A
Joy"), an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political
prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore who comes as an angel to
rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place.
The finale celebrates Leonore's bravery with alternating
contributions of soloists and chorus.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Czechoslovakia: The Long Wait For Revolution DVD, Download, USB
Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1989: The Aftermath Of World
War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The
Cold War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of
1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist
Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Velvet Revolution (Czech: Sametova
Revoluce) (The Gentle Revolution): -- The number of protesters
assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day
before to an estimated half-million. On November 17, the Velvet
Revolution began when thousands of student demonstrators marched
through the streets of Prague demanding an end to Communist rule
in Czechoslovakia. Riot police and army paratroopers then moved in
to crush the revolt. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing
the communist government that ultimately succeeds on December 29.
On November 17, 1989, The Velvet Revolution began when thousands
of student demonstrators marched through the streets of Prague
demanding an end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Riot police
and army paratroopers then moved in to crush the revolt. This
sparked an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government
that ultimately succeeds on December 29. The Velvet Revolution
(Czech: sametova revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: nezna
revolucia) was a non-violent transition of power in what was then
Czechoslovakia, occurring from November 17 to December 29, 1989.
Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older
dissidents. The result was the end of 41 years of one-party rule
in Czechoslovakia, and the subsequent dismantling of the command
economy and conversion to a parliamentary republic. On November
17, 1989, the semicentennial anniversary of International
Students' Day, riot police suppressed a student demonstration in
Prague. The event marked the 50th anniversary of a violently
suppressed demonstration against the Nazi storming of Prague
University in 1939 where 1,200 students were arrested and 9
killed. The 1989 event sparked a series of demonstrations from
November 17 to late December and turned into an anti-communist
demonstration. On November 20, the number of protesters assembled
in Prague grew from 200,000 the previous day to an estimated
500,000. The entire top leadership of the Communist Party,
including General Secretary Milos Jakes, resigned on November 24.
On November 27, a two-hour general strike involving all citizens
of Czechoslovakia was held. In response to the collapse of other
Warsaw Pact governments and the increasing street protests, the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it
would relinquish power and end the one-party state. Two days
later, the federal parliament formally deleted the sections of the
Constitution giving the Communist Party a monopoly of power.
Barbed wire and other obstructions were removed from the border
with West Germany and Austria in early December. On December 10,
President Gustav Husak appointed the first largely non-communist
government in Czechoslovakia since 1948, and resigned. Alexander
Dubcek was elected speaker of the federal parliament on December
28, and Vaclav Havel the President of Czechoslovakia on December
29, 1989. In June 1990, Czechoslovakia held its first democratic
elections since 1946. On January 1. 1993, Czechoslovakia split
into two countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Tolstoy
from Riches to Rags: Leo Tolstoy Biography DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1910: #DOTD: #RIP: Leo
Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (b. September 9, 1828)
#dies of pneumonia at Astapovo railway station, Ryazan
Governorate, Russian Empire, aged 82, after a day's train journey
south; renouncing his aristocratic lifestyle, he secretly left
home one winter night in an attempt to escape from his wife's
tirades; she had spoken out against many of his teachings, and in
recent years had grown envious of his attention to Tolstoyan
"disciples". Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life
preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers on
the train. The station master took Tolstoy to his apartment, and
his personal doctors arrived and gave him injections of morphine
and camphor. The police tried to limit access to his funeral
procession, but thousands of peasants lined the streets. He is
buried at The Tolstoy Home in Yasnaya Polyana, Tula Oblast,
Russia. Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually referred to in
English as Leo Tolstoy, is regarded as one of the greatest authors
of all time. He was born Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy into Yasnaya
Polyana, Tula Governorate, Russian Empire, into the distinquished
aristocratic Russian Tolstoy family. He is best known for the
novels War And Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited
as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary
acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy,
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856), and Sevastopol Sketches
(1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's
fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such
as The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Family Happiness, and Hadji Murad. He
also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays. In the 1870s
Tolstoy experienced a profound moral crisis, followed by what he
regarded as an equally profound spiritual awakening, as outlined
in his non-fiction work A Confession. His literal interpretation
of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the
Mount, caused him to become a fervent Christian anarchist and
pacifist. Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in
such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a
profound impact on such pivotal 20th-century figures as Mohandas
Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.. Tolstoy also became a
dedicated advocate of Georgism, the economic philosophy of Henry
George, which he incorporated into his writing, particularly
Resurrection.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Golden Age Of Comedy 5 Album Set CD, MP3, USB Stick
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1973: #DOTD: #RIP: Allan
Sherman, American actor, comedian, comedy writer, song parodist,
television producer and singer (b. November 30, 1924) #dies at his
home in West Hollywood, ten days shy of his 49th birthday. He is
entombed in Culver City, California's Hillside Memorial Park
Cemetery. Born Allan Copelon to the Jewish family of Rose Sherman
and Percy Copelon, an auto mechanic and race car driver who
weighed over 350 pounds and died while attempting a 100-day diet,
Allan adopted his mother's maiden name when his parents divorced
when he was in grade school. Allan Sherman became famous as a song
parodist in the early 1960s. His first album, My Son, the Folk
Singer (1962), became the fastest-selling record album up to that
time. His biggest hit single was "Hello Muddah, Hello
Fadduh", a comic novelty in which a boy describes his summer
camp experiences to the tune of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours.
In his final years, Sherman's alcoholism and weight gain caused
severe deterioration of his health; he later developed diabetes
and struggled with lung disease. In 1966, his wife Dee filed for
divorce and received full custody of their son and daughter.
Sherman lived on unemployment benefits for a time and moved into
the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for
a short time before his death to lose weight.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Rowan &
Martin's Laugh-In MegaSet 2 Albums 2 Blooper Sets MP3 MP4 DVD
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1939: #BOTD: #HBD! Dick
Smothers, American actor, comedian, composer, guitarist and
automobile racer, is #born Richard Remick Smothers in New York
City, the son of Ruth Smothers (nee Remick), a homemaker; and
Thomas B. Smothers, an Army officer who died as a prisoner of war
in April 1945. Dick Smothers was half of the musical comedy team
the Smothers Brothers, with his older brother Tom. After moving to
Southern California, Dick attended Verdugo Hills High School in
Tujunga, California, and graduated from Redondo Union High School
in Redondo Beach, California, and later attended San Jose State
University then called San Jose State College. At SJSC, Smothers
participated as a distance runner for the track team (coached by
Lloyd (Bud) Winter). The Smothers Brothers have appeared on
numerous television shows over the past three decades, including
two shows of their own: The Smothers Brothers Show, a sit-com from
1965 to 1966; and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, a variety
show from 1967 to 1969. In 1977, he appeared twice as a panelist
on the daytime TV game show Match Game. In 1993, he played one of
the characters on cartoon Christmas movie Precious Moments:
Timmy's Special Delivery. Without Tom, he also appeared in the
1995 Martin Scorsese-directed film Casino in an
uncharacteristically serious role as a dishonest Nevada State
Senator. His character and the dialogue in one scene was partly
based on the career of former United States Senator Harry Reid,
who once chaired the Nevada Gaming Commission. In December 2009,
Dick and Tom both guest starred in a 21st-season episode of The
Simpsons that also featured Cooper, Peyton and Eli Manning. In
February 2010, Smothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
protection. In May, he and his brother announced their retirement
from touring. Smothers has been active in amateur automobile
racing, both road racing and drag racing. He is the father of six
children: Dick Jr., Andrew, Steven, Sarah, Susan, and Remick. He
currently resides in Sarasota, Florida. The Smothers Brothers Show
is an American fantasy sitcom featuring the Smothers Brothers that
aired on CBS on Friday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET from September 17,
1965 to April 22, 1966, co-sponsored by Alberto-Culver's VO5
hairdressing products and American Tobacco's Tareyton cigarettes.
It was the first television show to feature the Smothers Brothers
as regulars, following a series of night club and guest
appearances. It lasted one season, consisting of 32 episodes. It
was also the network's last situation comedy filmed in
black-and-white; shortly after its final telecast, all CBS
prime-time series were transmitted in color. In 1986, two decades
after cancellation, reruns were seen on Nick at Nite. The Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show
television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially
airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. The series was a major success,
especially considering it was scheduled against the major NBC
television series Bonanza, with content that appealed to
contemporary youth viewership with daring political satire humor
and major music acts such as Buffalo Springfield, Pete Seeger,
Cream, and The Who. Despite this success, continual conflicts with
network executives over content led to the show being abruptly
pulled from the schedule in violation of the Smothers' contract in
1969.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Best Of Sunday Night Jools Holland & David Sanborn DVD, MP4,
USB
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Dr. John,
American singer, songwriter and pianist (d. June 6, 2019) is #born
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr.in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. John
combined blues, pop, jazz, boogie-woogie, and rock and roll.
Active as a session musician from the late 1950s until his death,
he gained a following in the late 1960s after the release of his
album Gris-Gris and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues
and Progressive Music. He typically performed a lively, theatrical
stage show inspired by medicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes, and
voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack recorded 30 studio albums and 9 live
albums, as well as contributing to thousands of other musicians'
recordings. In 1973 he achieved a top-10 hit single with "Right
Place, Wrong Time". The winner of six Grammy Awards,
Rebennack was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame by
singer John Legend in March 2011. In May 2013, Rebennack received
an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Tulane University. Dr.
John died at the break of day in his home town of New Orleans,
Louisiana of a heart attack at the age of 77. He is buried at
Saint Louis Cemetery Number 1 in his hometown of New Orleans,
Louisiana.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: FM 1978
Michael Brandon Eileen Brennan Martin Mull DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1947: #BOTD: Joe Walsh,
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and actor
is #born Joseph Fidler Walsh in Wichita, Kansas. Walsh's mother
was a classically trained pianist of Scottish and German ancestry,
and Walsh was adopted by his stepfather at the age of five after
his biological father was killed in a plane crash. In the 1950s,
it was common practice for Social Security, school registration,
and health records for children to take the name of their
stepfather, as Walsh's birth father's last name was Fidler, he
took that as his middle name. In a career spanning more than 50
years, he has been a member of three successful rock bands: The
James Gang, The Eagles, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.
Walsh was also part of the New Zealand band Herbs. In the 1990s,
he was a member of the short-lived supergroup The Best. Walsh has
also experienced success both as a solo artist and as a prolific
session musician, being featured on a wide array of other artists'
recordings. In 2011, Rolling Stone placed him at the No. 54 spot
on its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In
the mid-1960s, after attending Kent State University, Walsh played
with several local Ohio-based bands before reaching a national
audience as a member of the James Gang, whose hit song "Funk
#49" highlighted his skill as both a guitarist and singer.
Roger Abramson, a concert producer and artist manager, signed the
James Gang to a management agreement with BPI in Cleveland. After
leaving the James Gang in 1972, he formed Barnstorm with Joe
Vitale, a college friend from Ohio, and Kenny Passarelli, a
bassist from Colorado, where Walsh had moved after leaving Ohio.
While the band stayed together for three albums over three years,
its works were marketed as Walsh solo projects. The last Barnstorm
album, 1974's So What contained significant guest contributions
from several members of the Eagles, a group that had recently
hired Walsh's producer, Bill Szymczyk. At Szymczyk's suggestion,
Walsh joined the Eagles in 1975 as the band's guitarist and
keyboardist following the departure of their founding member
Bernie Leadon, with Hotel California being his first album with
the band. In 1998 a reader's poll conducted by Guitarist magazine
selected the guitar solos on the track "Hotel California"
by Walsh and Don Felder as the best guitar solos of all time.
Guitar World magazine listed it at eighth of the Top 100 Guitar
Solos. Besides his work with his several bands, he has released
twelve solo studio albums, six compilation albums and two live
albums. His solo hits include "Rocky Mountain Way",
"Life's Been Good", "All Night Long", "A
Life of Illusion" and "Ordinary Average Guy". As a
member of the Eagles, Walsh was inducted into The Rock And Roll
Hall Of Fame in 1998, and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in
2001. The Eagles are considered to be one of the most influential
bands of the 1970s, and they remain one of the best-selling
American bands in the history of popular music. His creative
contribution to music has received praise from many of the best
rock guitarists, including Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, who said,
"He has a tremendous feel for the instrument. I've loved his
style since the early James Gang." Eric Clapton said that
"He's one of the best guitarists to surface in some time. I
don't listen to many records, but I listen to his." The Who's
guitarist, Pete Townshend, said "Joe Walsh is a fluid and
intelligent player. There're not many like that around."
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Elizabeth R: A Year In The Life Of The Queen 1992 DVD, MP4, USB
Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1947: The United Kingdom:
The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United
Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British
Monarchy): Royal Weddings: -- England's Princess Elizabeth, the
future Queen Elizabeth II marries Prince Philip Mountbatten.
Elizabeth was the first child of King George VI and became Queen
Elizabeth II upon the death of her father in 1952. They received
2,500 wedding gifts from around the world. Because Britain had not
yet completely recovered from the devastation of the war,
Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material for her
gown, which was designed by Norman Hartnell. In post-war Britain,
it was not acceptable for Philip's German relations, including his
three surviving sisters, to be invited to the wedding. The Duke of
Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, was not invited either.
Elizabeth met her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece and
Denmark, in 1934 and 1937. They are second cousins once removed
through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through
Queen Victoria. After another meeting at the Royal Naval College
in Dartmouth in July 1939, Elizabeth - though only 13 years old -
said she fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange
letters. She was 21 when their engagement was officially announced
on July 9, 1947. The engagement was not without controversy;
Philip had no financial standing, was foreign-born (though a
British subject who had served in the Royal Navy throughout the
Second World War), and had sisters who had married German noblemen
with Nazi links. Marion Crawford wrote, "Some of the King's
advisors did not think him good enough for her. He was a prince
without a home or kingdom. Some of the papers played long and loud
tunes on the string of Philip's foreign origin." Later
biographies reported Elizabeth's mother had reservations about the
union initially, and teased Philip as "The Hun". In
later life, however, the Queen Mother told biographer Tim Heald
that Philip was "an English gentleman". Before the
marriage, Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles, officially
converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism, and adopted the
style Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, taking the surname of his
mother's British family. Just before the wedding, he was created
Duke of Edinburgh and granted the style His Royal Highness.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Annus
Horribilis: The British Royal Family In 1992 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1992: The United Kingdom:
The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United
Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British
Monarchy): The 1992 Windsor Castle Fire: -- On her 45th wedding
anniversary, fire erupts inside Queen Elizabeth's residence at
Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one
of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II, causing
extensive damage. It was fully repaired within the next few years
at a cost of_36.5M Pounds Sterling, in a project led by the
conservation architects Donald Insall Associates. It led to the
Queen paying tax on her income, and to Buckingham Palace, the
Queen's other official residence, being opened to the public to
help pay for the restoration work.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Bolshoi Ballet 2 Part TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! Maya
Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballet dancer, choreographer,
ballet director, actress and beauty who in post-Soviet times, she
held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship (d. May 2, 2015) is
#born Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet
Union. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre
under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury
Grigorovich; later she moved into direct confrontation with him.
In 1960, when famed Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova retired,
Plisetskaya became prima ballerina assoluta of the company. Her
early years were marked by political repression and loss. Her
father, Mikhail Plisetski, a Soviet official, was arrested in 1937
and executed in 1938, during the Great Purge. Her mother, actress
Rachel Messerer, was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned for a few
years, then held in a concentration camp together with her infant
son, Azari . The older children were faced with the threat of
being put in an orphanage but were cared for by maternal
relatives. Maya was adopted by their aunt Sulamith Messerer, and
Alexander was taken into the family of their uncle Asaf Messerer;
both Alexander and Azary eventually became solo dancers of the
Bolshoi. Plisetskaya studied ballet at The Bolshoi Ballet School
from age nine, and she first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when
she was eleven. She studied ballet under the direction of
Elizaveta Gerdt and also her aunt, Sulamith Messerer. Graduating
in 1943 at the age of eighteen, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet
company, quickly rising to become their leading soloist. In 1959,
during the Thaw Time, she started to tour outside the country with
the Bolshoi, then on her own. Her fame as a national ballerina was
used to project the Soviet Union's achievements during the Cold
War. Premier Nikita Khrushchev considered her to be "not only
the best ballerina in the Soviet Union, but the best in the
world". As an artist, Plisetskaya had an inexhaustible
interest in new roles and dance styles, and she liked to
experiment on stage. As a member of the Bolshoi until 1990, she
had international exposure and her skills as a dancer changed the
world of ballet. She set a higher standard for ballerinas, both in
terms of technical brilliance and dramatic presence. As a soloist,
Plisetskaya created a number of leading roles, including Juliet in
Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet; Phrygia in Yakobson's Spartacus
(1958); in Grigorovich's ballets : Mistress of the Copper Mountain
in The Stone Flower (1959); Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty (1963);
Mahmene Banu in The Legend of Love (1965); Alberto Alonso's Carmen
Suite (1967), choreographed especially for her; and Maurice
Bejart's Isadora (1976). Among her most acclaimed roles were Kitri
in Don Quixote, Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and The Dying Swan,
first danced as a pre-graduate student under the guidance of
Sulamith Messerer. A fellow dancer said that her dramatic
portrayal of Carmen, reportedly her favorite role, "helped
confirm her as a legend, and the ballet soon took its place as a
landmark in the Bolshoi repertoire". Her husband, composer
Rodion Shchedrin, wrote the scores to a number of her ballets.
Having become "an international superstar" and a
continuous "box office hit throughout the world",
Plisetskaya was treated by the Soviet Union as a favored cultural
emissary. Although she toured extensively during the same years
that other prominent dancers defected, including Rudolf Nureyev,
Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plisetskaya always
refused to defect. In 1991, she published her autobiography, I,
Maya Plisetskaya. Plisetskaya died in Munich, Germany from a heart
attack.According to her last will and testament, she was to be
cremated, and according to the mutual will of herself and her
widower, Rodion Shchedrin, who was also cremated after his August
29, 2025 death, their ashes were combined and spread over an
undisclosed location or locations in Russia.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Old
Time Radio Comedy MegaSet MP3 Collection DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1913: #BOTD: #HBD! Judy
Canova, American actress, comedian, singer and radio personality
who also appeared on Broadway, in films and on stage as a
country-western singer, best known for hosting her own self-titled
long-running network radio program, a popular series broadcast
from 1943 to 1955 (d. August 5, 1983) is #born Juliette Canova
(some sources indicate Julietta Canova) in Starke, Florida, one of
seven siblings, to Joseph Francis Canova (1873-1926), a
businessman, and Henrietta E. Canova (nee Perry; 1872-1930), a
singer. Young Juliette (or Julietta) became "Judy" and
began her show-business career with a family vaudeville routine,
joining her sister Annie and brother Zeke. Their performances as
the Three Georgia Crackers took them from Florida theaters to the
Village Barn, a Manhattan club. Canova sang, yodeled, and played
guitar, and she was typed as a wide-eyed likable country bumpkin,
often barefoot and wearing her hair in braids, sometimes topped
with a straw hat. Sometimes she was introduced as The Ozark
Nightingale or The Jenny Lind of the Ozarks. In an interview with
Rosemary Clooney she said that her family came from the Pyrenees
Mountains of Spain,[4] though other sources say the island of
Menorca. When bandleader Rudy Vallee offered the still-teenaged
Canova a guest spot on his radio show in 1931, The Fleischmann
Hour, the door opened to a career that spanned more than five
decades. The popularity of the Canova family led to numerous
performances on radio in the 1930s, and they made their Broadway
theater debut in the revue Calling All Stars. An offer from Warner
Bros. led to several bit parts before she signed with Republic
Pictures. She recorded for the RCA Victor label and appeared in
more than two dozen Hollywood films, playing leading roles as well
as supporting parts, including Scatterbrain (1940), Joan of Ozark
(1942), and Lay That Rifle Down (1955). In 1943, she began her own
radio program, The Judy Canova Show, that ran for twelve
years-first on CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a
love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and
Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that
included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro (using the accented voice
he later gave the cartoon character Speedy Gonzales) and Sylvester
(using the voice that later became associated with the Looney
Tunes character); Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie; Ruby Dandridge as
Geranium; Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford; and Sharon Douglas
as Brenda. Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, Gerald Mohr, and Hans
Conried also appeared sporadically. During World War II, she
closed her show with the song "Goodnight, Soldier"
("Wherever you may be... my heart's lonely... without you")
and used her free time to sell U.S. War Bonds. After the war, she
introduced a new closing theme that she once said she remembered
her own mother singing to her when she was a small child: By the
time her radio program ended in 1955, Canova made a smooth
transition to television with appearances on The Colgate Comedy
Hour, The Steve Allen Show, Matinee Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock
Presents, The Mickey Mouse Club, The Danny Thomas Show, and other
shows. In 1967, she portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot
adapted from Al Capp's Li'l Abner. She also worked on Broadway and
in Vegas nightclubs through the early 1970s, touring with No, No
Nanette in 1971. She appeared as a mystery guest on the TV show
What's My Line on July 18, 1954. Her hayseed character developed
as radio's female equivalent of her first husband, comedian Bob
Burns. A nationally known cracker-barrel radio and film
personality during the 1930s and 1940s, Burns was recognized by
his own hillbilly origins as "The Arkansas Traveler" and
"The Arkansas Philosopher." The couple were married in
1936, but the marriage lasted only three years. Briefly, Canova
then was married to James Ripley, but the union soon was annulled
during 1941. Her third marriage was to Chester B. England in 1943,
which ended in divorce by 1950. Her fourth and final husband was
musician Filberto Rivero in 1950. She lived in Palm Springs,
California from 1956 to 1959. The union produced a daughter Diana
(born 1953), but the marriage ended in 1964. Diana Canova is an
actress best known for her role as Corinne on Soap. In 1983, at
the age of 69, Judy Canova died from cancer and her ashes were
interred in the secluded Columbarium of Everlasting Light section,
at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Her
ashes are among those of her siblings Annie (1901-1994) and Zeke
Canova (1898-1980). Canova is honored with a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame for her contribution to the film industry (6821
Hollywood Boulevard) and a second star for her radio career (6777
Hollywood Boulevard). Judy Canova died of cancer in Hollywood,
California, aged 69. Her ashes are interred among those of her
siblings Annie and Zeke Canova in the secluded Columbarium Of
Everlasting Light section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in
Glendale, California. Canova is honored with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to the film industry
(6821 Hollywood Boulevard) and a second star for her radio career
(6777 Hollywood Boulevard).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
Thatcher The Final Days 1991 TV Docudrama DVD, MP4 Download, USB
Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1990: The United Kingdom:
The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United
Kingdom: Elections And Referendums In The United Kingdom: The 1990
Conservative Party Leadership Election: -- Following the decision
of Michael Heseltine, former United Kingdom Defence and
Environment Secretary, to challenge Margaret Thatcher, the
incumbent British Prime Minister, for leadership of the
Conservative Party, the 1990 Conservative Party Leadership
Election in the United Kingdom takes place. Thatcher failed to win
outright under the terms of the election on the first ballot.
After considerable politcal wrangling, she was persuaded to
withdraw from the second round of voting, and she announced her
resignation two days later on the morning of November 22 1990,
ending more than 15 years as Conservative leader and 11 years as
Prime Minister.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Kukla,
Fran And Ollie Children's TV Shows DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, November 20, 2025November 20, 1907: #BOTD: Fran Allison,
American television and radio comedienne, personality, singer and
puppeteer, best known for her starring role on the early American
television puppet show Kukla, Fran and Ollie (d. June 13, 1989) is
#born Frances Helen Allison to Jesse Louis (1871-1941) Allison and
Anna M "Nan" (nee Halpin; 1876-1957) Allison in La Porte
City, Iowa, where her father worked as a clerk in a grocery store
until his stroke in 1913. They then moved in with her paternal
grandparents, David Allison, a Civil War veteran, and Susan (nee
Booth) Allison. Their house still stands on Sycamore Street in
LaPorte City, IA. Fran Allison is best known for her starring role
on the early American television puppet show Kukla, Fran and
Ollie, aired weekdays originally on WBKB-TV in Chicago, Illinois
(as Junior Jamboree in the beginning), then WNBQ-TV (the
predecessor of Chicago's WMAQ-TV) and ultimately syndicated
throughout the NBC-TV network, and ran from 1947 to 1957, with
occasional returns to the air until the mid-1980s. It was created
for children, but soon watched by more adults than children. It
did not have a script and was entirely ad-libbed. The trio also
hosted The CBS Children's Film Festival, introducing international
children's films, from 1967 to 1977. Fran Allison died aged 81
from myelodysplasia (a form of bone marrow blood cancer) in
Sherman Oaks, California. She is buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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