What events happened on November 20?

What events happened on November 20?

👉 HOLIDAYS;

🇺🇳 UN – African Industrialization Day.

🇺🇳 UN – Universal Children’s Day.
🌏 World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
🌏 Pediatricians’ Day.

👉 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:

🇷🇺 Russia – Transport Workers’ Day.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Royal Thai Navy Day.
🇻🇳 Vietnam – Teachers’ Day.
🇦🇷 Argentina – National Sovereignty Day.
🇲🇽 Mexico – Revolution Day.

👉 EVENTS:

– 284 – Diocletian becomes Roman Emperor.
– 1695 – The last ruler of the Quilombodos Palmeras tribe in Brazil is executed by the Portuguese.
– 1818 – Simon Bolivar declares the independence of Venezuela.
– 1873 – Buda and Pest merge into Budapest.
– 1910 – Mexican Revolution begins.
– 1917 – Ukrainian Republic is established.
– 1940 – Hungary joins the fascist bloc in World War II.
– 1945 – Nuremberg trials begin in Germany against 24 war criminals.
– 1959 – UN General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
– 1962 – Caribbean crisis ends.
– 1969 – Native Americans occupy Alcatraz Island.
– 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
– 1979 – The first artificial blood transfusion was given to a patient.
– 1979 – 200 rebels took about 6,000 pilgrims hostage at the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
– 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 operating system was launched.
– 1989 – The Velvet Revolution began in Prague.
– 1994 – The Angolan government signed an agreement with the rebels to end the civil war.
– 1998 – The first module of the International Space Station (the “Zarya” module) was launched.
– 2003 – A terrorist attack in the center of Istanbul.
– 2008 – The Swedish parliament ratified the Lisbon Treaty.
– 2010 – The NATO summit in Lisbon ended, the last summit to which Russia was invited.
– 2015 – Civilians were taken hostage in Bamako.
– 2022 – The 22nd FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar.