^B{^#!16!20 November^N! Feast day of St Edmund the Martyr, St Maxentia of Beauvais, St Nerses of Sahgerd, St Bernward, St Felix of Valois, and St Dasius.
^B{1759^B} The British fleet under Admiral Hawke defeated the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay, thwarting an invasion of England. ^B{1818^B} Sim≤n Bolφvar, known as 'the Liberator', declared Venezuela to be independent of Spain. ^B{1917^B} The Battle of Cambrai began, in which the British deployed large numbers of tanks for the first time. ^B{1944^B} The lights of Piccadilly, the Strand, and Fleet Street were switched back on after five years of blackout. ^B{1945^B} The Nuremberg trials of 24 chief Nazi war criminals by an international military tribunal began. ^B{1979^B} Anthony Blunt, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, was stripped of his knighthood when his past work as a double agent was made public. ^B{1980^B} The ^I{Solar Challenger^I} was flown for the first time, entirely under solar power.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Edwin Powell Hubble, US astronomer, ^B{1889^B}; Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina and choreographer, ^B{1906^B}; Alistair Cooke, English, journalist and broadcaster, ^B{1908^B}; Dulcie Gray, English actress, ^B{1920^B}, Nadine Gordimer, South African novelist, ^B{1923^B}; Robert Kennedy, US politician, ^B{1925^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer, ^B{1894^B}; Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, ^B{1910^B}; Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, ^B{1925^B}; John Rushworth Jellicoe, British admiral, ^B{1935^B}; Francis William Aston, English physicist, ^B{1945^B}; Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator, ^B{1975^B}.
