| November 20 | ||
| 269 | Diocletian is proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor by his soldiers. He had been the commander of the emperor's bodyguard. | |
| 1695 | Zumbi dos Palmares, the Brazilian leader of a 100-year-old rebel slave group, is killed in an ambush. | |
| 1700 | Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeats the Russians at Narva. | |
| 1903 | In Cheyenne, Wyoming, 42-year-old hired gunman Tom Horn is hanged for the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell. | |
| 1914 | Bulgaria proclaims its neutrality in the First World War. | |
| 1928 | Mrs. Glen Hyde becomes the first woman to dare the Grand Canyon rapids in a scow (a flat-bottomed boat that is pushed along with a pole). | |
| 1931 | Japan and China reject the League of Council terms for Manchuria at Geneva. | |
| 1943 | U.S. Army and Marine soldiers attack the Japanese-held islands of Makin and Tarawa, respectively, in the Central Pacific. | |
| 1945 | The Nazi war crime trials begin at Nuremberg. | |
| 1947 | Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) marries Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey. | |
| 1950 | U.S. troops push to the Yalu River, within five miles of Manchuria. | |
| 1955 | The Maryland National Guard is ordered desegregated. | |
| 1962 | President John F. Kennedy bars religious or racial discrimination in federally funded housing. | |
| 1967 | U.S. census reports the population at 200 million. | |
| 1971 | The United States announces it will give Turkey $35 million for farmers who agree to stop growing opium poppies. | |
| 1974 | The United States files an antitrust suit to break up ATT. | |
| 1978 | In Jonestown, Guyana, American Rev. Jim Jones leads his followers in a mass suicide. | |
| 1982 | South Africa backs down on a plan to install black rule in neighboring Namibia. | |
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