Today in History - History - November 20th

2001In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

284Diocletian is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his soldiers in the army of the east

1982Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live

1975Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President

1833Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay

1755English minister William Pitt Sr resigns

1929Salvador Dali's first one-man show

19682nd Country Music Association Award: Glen Campbell & Tammy Wynette wins

1911The funeral of Paul and Laura (daughter of Karl Marx) Lafargue in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end

1976George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live

1925Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), (d. 1968)

1942Joseph biden Jr, Scranton Pennsylvania, 47th US Vice President

1929Dick Clark, Mt Vernon NY, TV host (American Bandstand), (d. 2012)

1841Wilfrid Laurier, (L) 7th Canadian PM (1896-1911)

1889Edwin Hubble, astronomer (discoverer of galaxies, red shift)

1858Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), (d. 1940)

1895Businessman Harvey Firestone (26) weds composer Idabelle Smith (21)

1947Future British Queen Princess Elizabeth II (21) weds Lt Philip Mountbatten (26) in Westminster Abbey, London

1932Blues musician Muddy Waters (19) weds Mabel Berry

1954NFL quarterback Johnny Unitas (21) weds his high school sweetheart Dorothy Hoelle

1937Actor Jackie Coogan (23) weds actress Betty Grable (20) at St. Brendan Catholic Church in Los Angeles

1993Actor Luke Perry (27) weds Minnie Sharp (24) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills

1903Tom Horn, American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death at 42

1975Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82