Nov. 20
1910: Francisco Madero led a revolt against Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, marking the beginning of the decade-long Mexican Revolution.
1945: Twenty-two former Nazi officials went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany; 12 were sentenced to death, seven imprisoned and three acquitted a year later.
2003: Music producer Phil Spector was charged with murder in the shooting of actor Lana Clarkson.
Nov. 21
1920: On “Bloody Sunday,” the IRA killed 14 suspected British agents in Dublin; British forces retaliated, killing 14 civilians at a soccer match.
1964: New York City’s Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, then the longest suspension bridge in the world, opened to traffic.
1980: An estimated 83 million TV viewers tuned in to the CBS prime-time soap opera Dallas to find out “who shot J.R.”
Nov. 22
1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during a Dallas motorcade. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was wounded, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, and Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
1718: English pirate Edward Teach — better known as “Blackbeard” — was killed during a battle with British naval forces near Ocracoke Island in North Carolina.
1935: A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
Nov. 23
1863: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Union forces drove Confederates from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in a key Civil War victory.
1939: The British cruiser HMS Rawalpindi was sunk by German warships near Iceland, killing over 200.1984: Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie completed one of the most famous passes in college football history, connecting with Gerald Phelan for a 48-yard touchdown as time expired to beat Miami 47-45.
Nov. 24
1859: British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, outlining his theory of evolution through natural selection.
1963: Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, in a scene broadcast live on television.
1971: Hijacker “D.B. Cooper” parachuted from a Northwest Orient jet with a $200,000 ransom and was never found.
Nov. 25
1783: Following the end of the Revolutionary War, the last British troops in the United States were evacuated from New York City.
1963: The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery after a funeral procession through Washington, D.C.
1986: The Iran-Contra affair broke when President Reagan revealed profits from secret Iran arms sales were sent to Nicaraguan rebels.
1999: Elian Gonzalez, a 5-year-old Cuban boy, was rescued by two sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle that eventually saw him repatriated to his father in Cuba.
Nov. 26
1791: President George Washington held his first full cabinet meeting with Jefferson, Hamilton, Knox and Randolph.
1864: English mathematician Charles Dodgson presented “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” to 12-year-old Alice Liddell, later published as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
1942: The film “Casablanca,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered in New York City.
