November 20 - Sweater

Sweater

This Day In History

284

Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor.

1789

New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1820

An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story).

1923

Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark.

1947

The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

1974

The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

1985

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1998

The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

Famous Birthdays

1620

Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)

1660

Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)

1765

Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)

1866

Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge and baseball commissioner (d. 1944)

1889

Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)

1892

James Collip, Canadian biochemist, co-discoverer of insulin (d. 1965)

1921

Jim Garrison, American attorney and judge (d. 1992)

1924

Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician (d. 2010)

1947

Joe Walsh, American musician (Eagles, James Gang)

1956

Bo Derek, American actress

1961

Jim Brickman, American pianist and songwriter
1963
Ming-Na Wen, Macau actress
1970
Sabrina Lloyd, American actress
1975
Dierks Bentley, American country singer and songwriter