Talk:November 20

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November 20: Zumbi Day in Brazil; Revolution Day in Mexico; Teacher's Day in Vietnam 284 – Diocletian became Roman Emperor, eventually establishing reforms that brought an end to the Crisis of the Third Century. 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII (pictured) defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great in the Battle of Narva. 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto during a lunch meeting in Paris, sports journalists Henri Desgrange and Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that became known as the Tour de France. 1910 – Francisco I. Madero promulgated the San Luis Plan, starting a revolt against President Porfirio Díaz that marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. 1945 – The Nuremberg Trials against 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany. 1998 – Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station, was launched on a Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. More events: November 19 – November 20 – November 21 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 19:35, June 9, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Not sure where this goes -- I hope here's a good place. Does it really make sense to list Trofim Lysenko as a "biologist"? I mean, he proclaimed to be one, but mostly he seemsed to be a charlatan and politically expedient media-darling. Shouldn't terms like "biologist" (or "scientist" in general) be reserved for folks who actually study biology, allow data to refute ideas, perform controlled experiments etc? The closest term to Lysenko I can come up with is "mage", and I think for 20th-century characters we should have more stringent requirements before they can be called "(any kind of) scientist", no? I don't feel strongly enough about this to edit it myself, though; just some food for thought. Iron Condor 20:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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Jodie Foster's November 19th birthday is mistakenly listed on the November 20th page. --Anon

She's removed now. :-) And next time, feel free to be bold and make the change yourself! Happy editing, Jwrosenzweig 00:43, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

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Removed:

• 1957 - United States Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy proposes ARPA.

Could not be confirmed. --mav 01:21, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Removed:

• 1978 - A military coup, dubbed Operación Galaxia is foiled in Spain (The exact day is questionable).

The date isn't the only problem; I couldn't confirm it even happened! --mav 01:21, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

It didn't happen. It was foiled! But real military people was arrested. I don't remember the dates. It is named after the Cafetería Galaxia near the Universidad Complutense. It is told that the coup planners met at that cafe. -- Error 02:14, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Removed:

• 1984 - The 50-billionth McDonald's hamburger is made.

Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type pages (very bad source). It is trivia anyway (1 billion and 100 billion would be OK, I guess). --mav 01:21, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)