TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2017

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain. 1860 - Burke and Wills first reach Cooper Creek.

1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.

1910 - Francisco I. Madero led a revolution in Mexico.

1926 - The 1926 Imperial Conference accords Australia the status of self-governing Dominion, of equal status to Great Britain.

1943 - During World War II, US Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.

1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

1947 - Britain’s Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the US ended its blockade of the island.

1970 - The majority in UN. General Assembly voted to give China a seat, but two-thirds majority required for admission was not met. 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel’s parliament.

1987 - Police investigating the fire at King’s Cross, London’s busiest subway station, said that arson was unlikely to be the cause of the event that took 31 lives.

1989 - More than 200,000 people rallied peacefully in Prague, Czechoslovakia, demanding democratic reforms.

1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.

1992 - A fire seriously damaged the northwest side of Windsor Castle in England.