November 20
Today in America's Present Past
1620 | Peregrine White, the first recorded English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1726 | Founder Oliver Wolcott was born.
1789 | New Jersey was the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1827 | Composer Edmond Dédé was born.
1830 | General Patrick Henry Jones was born.
1837 | Entrepreneur Lewis Waterman was born.
1848 | Inventor James Murray Spangler was born.
1855 | Philosopher Josiah Royce was born.
1866 | The veterans organization, the Grand Army of Republic convents nationally.
1866 | Howard University was founded in Washington, D.C.
1866 | Judge and Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born.
1871 | Mathematician William Heard Kilpatrick was born.
1882 | Astronomer Henry Draper died.
1888 | Willard Bundy patiented the timecard clock.
1888 | Lithographer Nathaniel Currier died.
1889 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born.
1890 | Actor Robert Armstrong was born in Saginaw, Michigan.
1903 | Outlaw Tom Horn was hanged.
1910 | SCOTUS: Justice William Henry Moody retired.
1910 | Poet Pauli Murray was born.
1910 | The Mexican Border War starts.
1914 | The U.S. State Department started requiring photos for passports.
1917 | Politician and Klan leader Robert Byrd was born.
1921 | Attorney Jim Garrison was born.
1923 | Garrett Morgan patented a traffic signal.
1925 | Politician Robert F. Kennedy was born.
1936 | Author Don DeLillio was born.
1939 | Entertainer Dick Smothers was born.
1942 | POTUS: President Joseph Biden was born.
1945 | The Nuremberg War Trials begin as National Socialist leaders are put on trial before judges representing victorious Allied powers.
1946 | Journalist Judy Woodruff was born.
1947 | Musician Joe Walsh was born.
1948 | Diplomat John Bolton was born.
1954 | Entrepreneur Clyde Cessna died.
1956 | Actress Bo Derek was born.
1965 | Raper Mike “D” Diamond was born.
1969 | Civil Rights: Kicking-off the “Red Power Movement,” 89 Indian (pre-contact) activists occupied the closed federal facility at Alcatraz for 19 months.
1972 | Poet Sheema Kalbasi was born.
1975 | Entertainer Frederick Dierks Bentley was born.
1993 | Congress: Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a censure of those involved with the scandal.
1993 | Director Emile Ardolino died.
2002 | Film: “Die Another Day” debuted.
2006 | Director Robert Altman died.