History at a glance

TODAY is Sunday November 20 the 324th day of the year. There are

41 days left in the year.

Highlights in history on this date:

1917 - A British force including 324 tanks struck at the German lines at Cambrai, the first big battle to

involve tanks. The British made no gains and lost 43,000 casualties.

1925 - Queen Alexandra, daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark and widow of King Edward VII of Britain,

died.

1928 - Hungary signs up with Axis powers.

1945 - Twenty-four German World War Two leaders went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg.

1947 - Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, married Prince Philip Mountbatten at Westminster

Abbey.

1962 - Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba,

U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

1975 - General Francisco Franco, who had ruled Spain since the end of the Civil War, died.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1992 - Fire swept through British Queen Elizabeth’s residence at Windsor Castle, extensively damaging its

ancient fabric.

1995 - Polish President Lech Walesa, seeking a second term, was defeated by ex-Communist Aleksander

Kwasniewski.

1998 - Russia launched the first module of the $60 billion International Space Station from the Baikonur

cosmodrome.

2000 - Embattled Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori formally submitted his resignation.

2015 - Hostage siege in a luxury hotel in Bamako, Mali leaves 20 dead, ends as commandos storm the

building and free 170 hostages.