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On This Day In History for November 20, 2013
This is the 324th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining in 2013.
- It was on this date in 1820 that an 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts)
2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this
story). - Also today in 1962, the 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. - Today in 1969 – Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on
June 11, 1971. - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released 28 years ago today.
- The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched on this date in 1998.
Happy Birthday goes out on this day to:
- German physicist Otto von Guericke born on this date in 1602
- Also born on this date in 1841 Belgian mathematician Victor D’Hondt
- The astronomer who observed that all galaxies are moving away from us and gave us to the big bang theory, astronomer Edwin
Hubble was born today in 1889. - Happy birthday to Dutch mathematician, Willem Jacob van Stockum, born 113 years ago
- The man for whom the Mandelbrot set is named after, Benoît Mandelbrot, was born today in 1924.
- And finally actress and producer Bo Derek turns 57.
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for November 20, 2013
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Hacks & Strange Stories
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Video Games Your Least Problematic Addiction - Guy makes
Game of Thrones’ Iron Throne with cheap plastic chair - You Probably
Shouldn’t Eat This Creepy, Cryogenically “Cooked” Egg
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- Saw Ender’s Game
- Chuck (the show) is on Netflix now
- Surprise from a friend
- Stabilized Footage of the JFK
Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real
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