- 1939 20 Nov Police are ordered to arrest all Gypsies in Germany and transport them to concentration camps.
- 1944 20 Nov The blackout ends in London as the lights of Piccadilly, the Strand and Fleet Street are switched on.
- 1962 20 Nov The United States raises its naval blockade of Cuba, in the last act of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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