TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS MONDAY, NOV. 20, the 324th day of 2017. There are 41 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1947, Britain’s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey.

In 1620, Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he was the first child born of English parents in present-day New England.

In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

In 1910, the Mexican Revolution of 1910 had its beginnings under the Plan of San Luis Potosi.

In 1945, 22 former Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

In 1969, the Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. A group of American Indian activists began a 19-month occupation of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.

In 1975, after nearly four decades of absolute rule, Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco Franco died at 82.

In 1985, the first version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was officially released.

In 1992, fire seriously damaged Windsor Castle, the favorite weekend home of Queen Elizabeth II.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actresscomedian Kaye Ballard is 92. Actress Estelle Parsons is 90. Comedian Dick Smothers is 79. Former Vice President Joe Biden is 75. Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff and actor Samuel E. Wright are 71. Singer Joe Walsh is 70. Actor Richard Masur, opera singer Barbara Hendricks and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton are 69. Actress Bo Derek and former NFL player Mark Gastineau is 61. Actress Sean Young is 58. Pianist Jim Brickman is 56. Actress Ming-Na is 54. Actor Joel McHale is 46. Actress Laura Harris and Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes are 41.