20 November

See also: Category: Holidays November 20

International

•   UN - Africa Industrialization Day .
•   UN - World Children's Day .
• Transgender Memorial Day .

National

•   Great Britain - Queen Elizabeth II 's Wedding Day, the official flag day .
•   Mexico - Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution .

Professional

•   Vietnam - Teacher's Day .
•   Ukraine - Agricultural Worker Day.

  Religious

  In the catholic church

• memory of St. Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim ( 1022 );
• memory of the martyr Edmund, king of England ( 870 ).

  In the Orthodox Church ^{[2] [3]}

• the memory of the martyrs in Melitin: Jeron , Hesychia , Nicandra, Athanasius, Mamantha, Barachius, Kalinnik, Feagen, Nikon, Longin, Theodore, Valery , Xanthus, Theodulus, Kallimach , Eugene, Theodochus, Ostrichius, Epiphanius, Maximian, Clavim, , Giant, Dorotheus, Theodotus, Kastricius, Anikita, Femelia, Eutyches, Hilarion, Diodotus and Amonite ( III century );
• memory of the Monk Lazarus of Galicia ( 1053 );
• memory of the holy martyrs Kirill (Smirnov), Metropolitan of Kazan , Mikhail Adamontov, Alexander Ilyinsky, Alexander Kurmyshsky, Mikhail Gusev , Alexander Krylov, Nikolai Romanovsky, Alexy Molchanov, Pavel Borisoglebsky, Vasily Krasnov, Pavlin Starolev, presbyters, John Moshkovsky, Veni Martyr Nikolai Filippov, Martyr Elizabeth Sidorova ( 1937 );
• memory of the holy martyrs Sergius (Zverev), Archbishop of Yelets , Nikolai Troitsky, presbyter and martyr George Yurenev ( 1937 );
• memory of the Monk Zosima of Vorzob (about 1550 );
• the recollection of the relics of the Monk Cyril of Novyozersky (Novgorod) ( 1649 );
• memory of the martyr Theodotus of Ankirsky, the nurse ( 303 year );
• memory of the martyrs Melasippus and Casinia and their son Antoninus ( 363 year );
• memory of the martyrs Avkt, Tavrion and Thessaloniki ^[4] ;
• recollection of the relics of the holy martyr Konstantin Golubev, Bogorodsky , presbyter ( 1995 );
• the celebration of the icon of the Mother of God, called the “Leap back”, Ugreshskaya ( 1795 ).

Name Day

• Orthodox : Alexander , Alexei , Antonin , Athanasius , Bogdan , Valery , Benjamin , Gregory , Dorofei , Eugene , Elizabeth , Epiphanes , Zosima , Hilarion , Cyril , Lazarus , Maximian , Michael , Nikander , Nikon , Fedor , Fedot , Fedul .

See also: Category: November 20 events

Until the 20th century.

• 284 - Diocletian (Gaius Aurelius Galleries) becomes the Roman emperor .
• 1773 - the three-day battles near the village of Yuzeyeva ended , in which the government troops suffered the largest defeat in the outbreak of the Peasant War of 1773-1775
• 1864 - the adoption of the judicial statutes of the Russian Empire , which launched the judicial reform of 1864 and the jury system in Russia.

XX century

• 1910 - The Beginning of the Mexican Revolution
• 1917 - proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic
• 1935 - test pilot P. M. Stefanovsky, as part of the Link project , was the first in the world to fly a heavy TB-3 bomber with five fighters fixed to it.
• 1943
  • the battle for the makin atoll began.
  • the battle for Tarawa began .
• 1945 - the beginning of the Nuremberg trials - trial of war criminals of the Third Reich
• 1962 - end of the Caribbean crisis
• 1979 - for the first time, artificial blood is transfused for a patient
• 1985 - the first section of the Gorky Metro was launched.
• 1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 released .
• 1990 - serial killer Andrei Chikatilo was arrested .
• 1991 - Mi-8 disaster near the village of Karakend in Nagorno-Karabakh
• 1998 - Launch of the first module of the International Space Station ( Zarya module )

21st Century

• 2003 - terrorist attack in the center of Istanbul .
• 2004 - The Swift orbital observatory was launched from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome using the Delta-2 7320-10 launch vehicle .
• 2008 - The Swedish Parliament ratified the Lisbon Treaty .

See also: Category: Born on November 20

Until the 19th century

• 270 - Maximinus II (d. 313 ), Roman emperor (305-313).
• 1602 - Otto von Guericke (d. 1686 ), German physicist, engineer and philosopher.
• 1761 - Pius VIII (d. 1830 ), 253rd Pope (1829-1830).
• 1762 - Pierre Andre Latrail (d. 1833 ), French entomologist.
• 1782 - Georg Jacob Johann van Hos (d. 1861 ), a Dutch artist.

XIX century

• 1803 - Euthymius Putyatin (d. 1883 ), Russian admiral, statesman and diplomat.
• 1841 - Sir Wilfrid Laurier (d. 1919 ), Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911).
• 1847 - Mikhail Akimov (d. 1914 ), Russian statesman, chairman of the State Council (1907-1914).
• 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf (d. 1940 ), Swedish writer, first woman - Nobel laureate in literature (1909).
• 1859 - Sergey Volnukhin (d. 1921 ), Russian sculptor.
• 1869 - Zinaida Gippius (d. 1945 ), Russian poetess, writer, playwright and literary critic.
• 1880 - Mikhail Klimov (d. 1942 ), Soviet theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR .
• 1882 - Ernestas Galvanauskas (d. 1967 ), Lithuanian statesman, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1922-1924).
• 1886 - Carl von Frisch (d. 1982 ), Austrian ethologist , Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine (1973).
• 1889 - Edwin Hubble (d. 1953 ), American astronomer and cosmologist .
• 1890 - Robert Armstrong (d. 1973 ), American actor.

XX century

• 1903 - Alexandra Danilova (d. 1997 ), Russian and American ballerina, ballet teacher.
• 1907 - Henri-Georges Clouseau (d. 1977 ), French film director and screenwriter, master of the thriller .
• 1909 - Natalia Shpiller (d. 1995 ), opera singer, teacher, public figure, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1912 - Nikolai Abramchuk (d. 1974 ), Soviet military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1916
  • Charles Osgood (d. 1991 ), American psychologist, developer of the method of semantic differential.
  • Mikhail Dudin (d. 1993 ), Russian Soviet poet, translator, journalist, war correspondent.
• 1919 - Kirill Chistov (d. 2007 ), Soviet and Russian folklorist, ethnographer.
• 1924 - Yuri Davydov (d. 2002 ), Soviet and Russian writer, master of historical prose.
• 1925
  • Maya Plisetskaya (d. 2015 ), prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Robert Francis Kennedy (d. 1968 ), brother of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy , Senator, Attorney General of the United States.
• 1926 - Natalya Azhikmaa-Rusheva (d. 2015 ), Tuva Soviet ballerina.
• 1927 - Mikhail Ulyanov (d. 2007 ), Russian film and theater actor, director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1928
  • Alexey Batalov (d. 2017 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Heinrich Sapgir (d. 1999 ), Soviet and Russian poet, prose writer, screenwriter, translator.
• 1937 - Victoria Tokareva , Russian writer.
• 1938 - Mikhail Anikst , Soviet and British book designer, graphic artist, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1946 - Cyril , Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia ПRPC⟩ .
• 1947
  • Joe Walsh , American musician, composer, producer.
  • Renat Ibragimov , pop singer, actor, composer, film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1948 - John Bolton , American diplomat.
• 1948 - Gunnar Nilsson (d. 1978 ), a Swedish race car driver, a former participant in the Formula 1 championship.
• 1956 - Bo Derek , American film actress.
• 1959
  • Sean Young , American film actress.
  • Sergey Shevkunenko (killed in 1995 ), a Soviet film actor.
• 1973 - Amalia Belyaeva , Russian actress and radio host.
• 1975 - Davy Havok , American musician, vocalist of the rock band AFI .
• 1976 - Laura Harris , Canadian film actress, producer.
• 1981 - Yuko Kawaguchi , Japanese, American and Russian figure skater, two-time European champion.
• 1989 - Sergey Polunin , Russian ballet dancer.
• 2000 - Connie Telbot , British singer.

See also: Category: Dead on November 20

Until the 19th century

• 1316 - John I (b. 1316 ), king of France, who died five days after baptism.
• 1678 - Karel Dujardin (b. 1622 ), a Dutch artist and engraver.

XIX century

• 1815 - Jan Potocki (b. 1761 ), Polish romantic writer, archaeologist , traveler.
• 1827 - Alexey Titov (b. 1769 ), Russian composer.
• 1829 - Jean-Louis Voile (b. 1744 ), French portrait painter who worked in Russia.
• 1867 - Peter Klodt (b. 1805 ), Russian sculptor and foundry, representative of late classicism .
• 1885 - Nikolai Danilevsky (b. 1822 ), Russian sociologist, culturologist and geopolitician, publicist, ideologist of pan-Slavism .
• 1894 - Anton Rubinstein (b. 1829 ), Russian composer.
• 1898 - John Fowler (b. 1817 ), British railway engineer, author of several bridges and locomotives.

XX century

• 1907 - Paula Moderson-Becker (b. 1876 ), German expressionist painter .
• 1908 - George Voronoi (b. 1868 ), mathematician, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, professor at the University of Warsaw.
• 1910 - Leo Tolstoy (b. 1828 ), writer and philosopher, classic of Russian literature.
• 1918 - Yevgeny Kolbasyev (born 1862 ), a Russian scientist, inventor, one of the founders of telephony, was killed.
• 1925 - Alexandra of Denmark (b. 1844 ), Queen of Great Britain , wife of Edward VII .
• 1925 - Stefan Zheromsky (b. 1864 ), Polish writer.
• 1931 - David Bruce (b. 1855 ), an English microbiologist who discovered a number of bacteria and pathogens.
• 1936
  • Buenaventura Durruti (b. 1896 ), the hero of the Spanish Civil War, anarcho-communist.
  • shot by Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera (b. 1903 ), Spanish politician, founder of the Spanish phalanx .
• 1942 - Charles Schuhert (b. 1858 ), American geologist, paleontologist, paleographer, professor at Yale University.
• 1945 - Francis Aston (b. 1877 ), English physicist, chemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry (1922).
• 1947 - Wolfgang Borchert (b. 1921 ), German writer.
• 1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky (b. 1875 ), Russian artist.
• 1970
  • Nikolai Svetlovidov (b. 1889 ), Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Sergei Bekasov (b. 1906 ), Soviet opera singer (tenor).
• 1975 - Francisco Franco (b. 1892 ), Generalissimo, Caudillo of Spain (1939-1975).
• 1976 - Trofim Lysenko (b. 1898 ), Soviet agronomist and breeder, one of the propagandists of the so-called Michurin agrobiology.
• 1978
  • Vasilisk Gnedov (b. 1890 ), Russian poet.
  • Giorgio de Chirico (b. 1888 ), Italian artist.
• 1983 - Marcel Dalio (b. 1900 ), French actor.
• 1986 - Mark Maximov (b. 1918 ), Soviet poet, playwright, publicist, translator.
• 1995 - Sergey Grinkov (b. 1967 ), skater, two-time Olympic champion in pair skating.
• 1998
  • Galina Starovoitova (born 1946 ), a Russian politician, was killed.
  • Valentin Berezhkov (b. 1916 ), Soviet diplomat and publicist, translator V. M. Molotov and I. V. Stalin .
• 1999 - Amintore Fanfani (b. 1908 ), Italian politician and statesman.
• 2000 - Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin (b. 1927 ), Russian director, artist and animator.

21st Century

• 2003 - Heinrich Gabay (b. 1923 ), Soviet film director and screenwriter ("The Green Van", "In the Name of the Revolution").
• 2005 - Lazarus Karelin (b. 1920 ), Russian Soviet writer, playwright.
• 2006 - Robert Altman (b. 1925 ), American film director, screenwriter, producer.
• 2007 - Jan Douglas Smith (b. 1919 ), Rhodesian politician and statesman.
• 2008
  • Jan Makhulsky (born 1928 ), Polish film and theater actor, theater director, teacher.
  • Boris Fedorov (b. 1958 ), Russian economic and statesman, businessman, doctor of economic sciences.
• 2009 - Roman Trakhtenberg (b. 1968 ), Russian showman, television and radio host, actor, writer.
• 2016 - Konstantinos Stefanopoulos (b. 1926 ), President of Greece (1995-2005).
• 2018 - Eymuntas Nyakroshyus (b. 1952 ), Lithuanian theater director.

Fedot Ledostav .

• It is noted: on Fedot ice formation (Fedot - ice will lead to ice) and ice (Fedot - forehead will lead to ice) ^[5] .
• The first snow fell on the damp earth with a thick layer - you will be with rye .