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On this day: November 20

POSTED: 09:19 AM PST Nov 19, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 19, 2012

The Nuremberg Trials begin, Princess Elizabeth gets married, "Terms of Endearment" premieres in New York City, Windows 1.0 is released, and Michael Jackson is arrested, all on this day.

OTD November 20 - Essex whaleship — 4 / 46

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1820: An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Nantucket, Mass., based whaling ship Essex in the southern Pacific Ocean 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this incident.

OTD November 20 - Peregrine White

OTD November 20 - Bill of Rights

OTD November 20 - Beethoven Fidelio

OTD November 20 - Essex whaleship

OTD November 20 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis

OTD November 20 - Hubble

OTD November 20 - Gustav Mahler

OTD November 20 - Leo Tolstoy

OTD November 20 - Robert Byrd

OTD November 20 - Robert F Kennedy

OTD November 20 - Richard Dawson

OTD November 20 - Smothers Brothers

OTD November 20 - Joe Biden

OTD November 20 - Norman Greenbaum

OTD November 20 - Nuremberg trials

OTD November 20 - Duane Allman

OTD November 20 - Princess Elizabeth and Philip

OTD November 20 - Joe Walsh

OTD November 20 - Bo Derek

OTD November 20 - Sean Young

OTD November 20 - Cuban Missile Crisis

OTD November 20 - DDT

OTD November 20 - Joel McHale

OTD November 20 - Allen Sherman

OTD November 20 - Francisco Franco

OTD November 20 - Dominique Dawes

OTD November 20 - Sadat and Begin

OTD November 20 - Grand Mosque

OTD November 20 - Drew Barrymore

OTD November 20 - The Day After

OTD November 20 - Terms of Endearment

OTD November 20 - Windows 1

OTD November 20 - Carly Rae Jepsen

OTD November 20 - Windsor Castle fire

OTD November 20 - David Crosby

OTD November 20 - Free as a Bird

OTD November 20 - AC Green

OTD November 20 - Osama bin Laden

OTD November 20 - tobacco

OTD November 20 - Zarya launch

OTD November 20 - Shenzhou 1

OTD November 20 - RFK Justice Department Building

OTD November 20 - Contraceptive patch

OTD November 20 - Michael Jackson

OTD November 20 - Robert Altman

OTD November 20 - Oprah Winfrey

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