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This Day in HistoryNovember 20
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1789
New Jersey becomes the first state to ratify the first ten
amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of
Rights
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1923
Ohio resident Garrett Morgan, the son of former slaves, patents
the first three-position traffic signal
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1942
President-elect Joe Biden is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania—when
he takes office on January 20, he will be the oldest U.S. president
in history (Ronald Reagan was 77 at the end of his 2nd term)
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1945
24 high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, for
atrocities committed during World War II
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1947
Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, marries her
distant cousin, Philip Mountbatten
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1968
Methane gas explosions in a West Virginia coal mine kill 78
people
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1976
Former-Beatle George Harrison appears as the musical guest on
Saturday Night Live
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1982
Cal defeats Stanford in a last-second victory when they complete
five lateral passes and weave through Stanford’s marching band,
which had come onto the field to celebrate prematurely
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1999
The first-ever Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day to honor
the memory of people who were killed in anti-transgender acts of
violence, is observed—it is now observed in cities and countries
across the world
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2006
Irish rock band U2 releases U2 18 Singles, a compilation album
paired with a music video DVD called U2 18 Videos that was released
a few days earlier—they contain 16 of the band’s biggest hits and 2
new songs
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2015
Adele’s 3rd studio album, 25, is released—it would win a Grammy
for Album of the Year
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2020
Pfizer applies for emergency use authorization from the FDA
(Food and Drug Administration) for its COVID-19 vaccine just two
days after announcing that preliminary results of its stage 3
global trials show it to be 95% effective—frontline healthcare
workers could get the vaccine as soon as December
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2020
The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is
recommending against travel for Thanksgiving, fearing an escalation
of the current surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and
deaths across the U.S.
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2020
Yesterday Mexicobecame the 4th
nation to reach100,000 reporteddeaths fromcoronavirus, joining
the United States, Brazil, and India
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2020
Georgia is expected to certify its election results after
completing its hand recount yesterday—the recount reaffirmed Joe
Biden as the winner of the state
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2020
Yesterday a Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed a
lawsuit seeking a recount of presidential election ballots and a
request to delay certification of election results
