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| Today in History:
Friday,
November
20,
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AP Highlight in History:
On Nov. 20, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
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| 1620 | Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay - the first child born of English parents in present-day New England. |
| 1789 | New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. |
| 1889 | Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Mo. |
| 1910 | Revolution broke out in Mexico. |
| 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass. |
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| 1945 | Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. |
| 1947 | Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London. |
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| 1966 | The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway. |
| 1969 | The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out. |
| 1975 | Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule. |
| 1995 | Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles. |
| 1996 | House Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be speaker for a second term. |
| 2001 | Federal health officials approved sale of the world's first contraceptive patch, Ortho-Evra. |
| 2003 | Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.) |
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Highlights of This Day in History |
| Today's Birthdays: |
| Actor Joel McHale ("Community," "The Soup") turns 38 years old today. |
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| Name | Profession | Age |
| Robert Byrd | U.S. senator, D-W.Va. | 92 |
| Nadine Gordimer | Nobel Prize-winning author | 86 |
| Kaye Ballard | Actress | 84 |
| Estelle Parsons | Actress | 82 |
| Richard Dawson | Actor, game show host ("Hogan's Heroes," "Family Feud") | 77 |
| Dick Smothers | Comedian (The Smothers Brothers) | 71 |
| Joe Biden | Vice president | 67 |
| Norman Greenbaum | Singer | 67 |
| Veronica Hamel | Actress ("Hill Street Blues") | 66 |
| Judy Woodruff | Broadcast journalist (CNN) | 63 |
| Samuel E. Wright | Actor | 63 |
| Joe Walsh | Rock singer (The Eagles) | 62 |
| Richard Masur | Actor ("One Day at a Time") | 61 |
| Bo Derek | Actress ("10") | 53 |
| Jim Brown | Reggae musician (UB40) | 52 |
| Sean Young | Actress | 50 |
| Jim Brickman | Pianist | 48 |
| Todd Nance | Rock musician (Widespread Panic) | 47 |
| Ned Vaughn | Actor | 45 |
| Mike D | Rapper (The Beastie Boys) | 44 |
| Sen Dog | Rapper (Cypress Hill) | 44 |
| Callie Thorne | Actress | 40 |
| Sabrina Lloyd | Actress ("Sports Night") | 39 |
| Marisa Ryan | Actress | 35 |
| Dierks Bentley | Country singer | 34 |
| Joshua Gomez | Actor ("Chuck") | 34 |
| Laura Harris | Actress | 33 |
| Josh Turner | Country singer | 32 |
| Nadine Velazquez | Actress ("My Name is Earl") | 31 |
| Dan Byrd | Actor | 24 |
| Cody Linley | Actor ("Hannah Montana'' ''Dancing with the Stars") | 20 |
| Actress Ming-Na turns 46 years old today. |
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