History for November 20

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Edwin Hubble 1889 - American astronomer, Alistair Cooke 1908 - British journalist, television personality. Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) 1925 - Politician


Joe Biden 1942 - U.S. Vice President, Duane Allman 1946 - Musician (Allman Brothers), Bo Derek 1956 - Actress ("10")


1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.


1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.


1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.


1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.


1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.


1980 - On Jefferson Island, Louisiana, an oil rig in Lake Pigneur pierced the top of the salt dome beneath the island. The freshwater lake completely drained within a few hours. The Delcambre Canal reversed flow and two days later the previous freshwater lake was a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake.


1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.


1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.