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On This Day: November 20, 2009

Birthdays:
  1908Alistair Cooke, Journalist and broadcaster
  1917Bobby Locke, South African golfer who won the British open four times
  1920Dulcie Gray, Actress,playwright and authoress
  1920Michael Alexander, Writer and explorer
  1922Johnny Leach, Former world table-tennis champion
  1925Robert Kennedy, Younger brother of the Assassinated J F Kennedy
  1940Tony Butalo, Of the Pop group 'The Lettermen'
  1965Mike D, Of the Pop group 'The Beastie Boys'

Events:
  1805In Vienna, Beethovens 'Fidelio' was performed for the first time
  1910Leo Tolstoy, author of the epic book 'War And Peace', died
  1945The Nuremburg war crimes tribunal began it's hearings, with 24 Nazi leaders on trial, including Hess & Goering
  1947The then Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey
  1990Margaret Thatcher failed by four votes, to gain outright victory over Michael Heseltine, for leadership of the Conservative Party
  1992Fire severely damaged the 'Brunswick Tower', at Windsor Castle
  1999Federal Government deploys thousands of soldiers to Odi in Bayelsa State, to arrest those who killed a total of 12 policemen in and around the town earlier in the month; entire community destroyed and
  1999Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) holds its first post-election national convention; elects Barnabas Gemade as new party chairman.




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