Today is Tuesday, November 20, the 324th day of 2007. There are 41 days left in the year.
1272 _ Edward I proclaimed the king of England
1780 _ Britain declares war on Holland
1789 _ New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights
1805 _ The opera ``Fidelio" is produced in Vienna
1910 _ Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1917 _ The Ukrainian Republic declared
1945 _ 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1947 _ Britain's Princess Elizabeth marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1959 _ The U.N. adopts the declaration of children's rights
1962 _ The U.S. lifts a blockade of Cuba
1969 _ Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1977 _ Egyptian President Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1986 _ WHO announces first global effort to combat AIDS
1990 _ Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership