Today's Almanac

Nov 20, 2013
 
Sunrise6:56 AM
 
Sunset4:55 PM
 
9h 59m 23s of daylight today
− 1m 36sless than yesterday
 
Africa Industrialization Day (international)
 
Black Awareness Day (Brazil)
 
 
Christian Feast Day:  Bernward of Hildesheim
 
 
Edmund the Martyr (Anglicanism)
 
 
Day of National Sovereignty (Argentina)
 
 
Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; 
celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)
 
 
Revolution Day (Mexico)
 
 
Teachers' Day or Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam (Vietnam)
 
 
Transgender Day of Remembrance (LGBT community)
 
 
Universal Children's Day (International)
 
 
Wedding day of Elizabeth II (United Kingdom)
 
 
on this day
 
 
1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins
 
 
1975: Spanish dictator Franco dies
 
 
1977Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
 
 
1985The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
 
 
If today is your birthday, you get to share birthday cake with:
 
 
1900 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist (d. 1985) he drew the Dick Tracy comic strip
 
 
1908 – Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist (d. 2004) we remember him well here on KALW and the BBC
 
 
1917 – Robert Byrd, American politician (d. 2010) not a bad fiddle player as well
 
 
1925 – Kaye Ballard, American actress and singer
 
 
1925 – Robert F. Kennedy, former Attorney General (d. 1968)
 
 
1936 – Don DeLillo, American author
 
 
1939 – Dick Smothers, American actor and singer (Smothers Brothers)
 
 
1942 – Joe Biden, Vice President of the United States
 
 
1942 – Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer
 
 
1946 – Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist  (d. 1971)
 
 
1946 – Judy Woodruff, American journalist
 
 
1947 – Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Eagles, James Gang, and
Barnstorm)
 
1956 – Bo Derek, American actress and producer