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This is a list of selected November 20 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
; Universal Children's Day needs cleanup
Black Awareness Day in Brazil; refimprove
; Teachers' Day in Vietnam refimprove
Revolution Day in Mexico; refimprove
1695Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed. needs more footnotes
1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale, an event which inspired Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. refimprove
1910Francisco I. Madero promulgated the Plan of San Luis Potosí, starting a revolt against President Porfirio Díaz that marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Plan: refimprove; Revolution: refimprove section
1936Spanish Civil War: Founder of the fascist Falange Española José Antonio Primo de Rivera was executed by the republican government. too many quotes
1943World War II: The Battle of Tarawa began with American forces landing on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffering heavy fire from the Japanese. unreferenced section
1945 – The Nuremberg trials of 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany. unreferenced section
1952 – The Slánský trial, a show trial against Czech General Secretary Rudolf Slánský and 13 other members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was held. lots of random inline tags
1968 – An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia, U.S., killed 78 people and served as the catalyst for several new laws that were passed to protect miners. unreferenced section
1980 – An oil platform drilling accident caused Lake Peigneur in the U.S. state of Louisiana to drain into a salt mine underneath, creating a whirlpool that sucked down the lake's entire contents. refimprove section
1998 – The assembly of the International Space Station began when Zarya, its first module, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. too long, unreferenced section
Anton Rubinstein |d|1894| >12 {cn} tags
John Gardner |b|1926 refimprove section
Irakli Tsereteli |b|1881| Date not cited
Transgender Day of Remembrance Tagged for balance, missing citations
National Sovereignty Day in Argentina (1845) Missing citations

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November 20

Bust of Diocletian
Bust of Diocletian
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