Today is 20 November and this happened on this date in the past:
1️⃣ On this date in 1815 which was the final phase of the Napoleonic Wars, Britain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia renewed the Quadruple Alliance to prevent further French aggression. I hope that this flag is maybe nice for @Sabri_KC and @Pennarossa2024!! 😛

2️⃣ The American whaling ship Essex was rammed by a sperm whale on 20 November 1820 and later sank, inspiring the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851).

3️⃣ Russian author Leo Tolstoy, suffering from pneumonia, died of heart failure on 20 November 1910 at the railroad station of Astapovo.

4️⃣ Native American activists began an occupation of Alcatraz Island on this date in 1969, protesting what they saw as the U.S. government's ongoing economic, social, and political neglect of Native Americans; they were forced off the island in June 1971.

5️⃣ Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain since his overthrow of the democratic government in 1939, died at age 82 on 20 November 1975.
6️⃣ On this day in 1992, a massive fire erupted at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England, causing the destruction of 115 rooms, though the priceless art collection was largely untouched; it took nearly five years to repair the damage.

7️⃣ American tobacco companies signed an agreement on 20 November 1998 with the governments of 46 U.S. states to settle the states' claims for reimbursement of Medicaid funds they had expended to treat smoking-related illnesses, the settlement costing the tobacco manufacturers $206 billion beyond the $40 billion they had agreed to pay four other states in 1997.
8️⃣ On this day in 1910, Francisco Madero launched a failed revolt that nonetheless sparked the Mexican Revolution by inspiring hope in such leaders as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, who then mobilized their ragged armies.

9️⃣ These people were born on this day: Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Polish-born French American mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (1924), American politician Robert F. Kennedy (1925), president of the United States Joe Biden (1942) and president of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan (1957).


Benoit Mandelbrot

Goodluck Jonathan