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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 20
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Benoit Mandelbrot Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Valentine J Peter in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; priest (Boy's Town 1985-).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Anthea Stewart in Zimbabwe; field hockey coach/player (Olympic-1980).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Steve Dahl in California, USA; Chicago's anti-disco DJ (WLS-FM).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Ned Vaughn; actor (The Rescuer).
- 50th: 1974 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T, which leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Marisa Ryan; actress (Major Dad).
- 40th: 1984 - SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is founded.
- 30th: 1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of John Lucarotti, TV writer (born 1926).
- 25th: 1999 - The People's Republic of China launches the first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 15th: 2009 - Summit Entertainment releases the film The Twilight Saga: New Moon to theaters.
- 15th: 2009 - CERN restarts the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland; they had shut it down on September 19, 2008.
- 10th: 2014 - Death of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Spanish aristocrat (born 1926).
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