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Today in History: Tuesday, November 20, 2012
On Nov. 20, 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Mass.
1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico.
1917 Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, was born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr. in North Wilkesboro, N.C.
1945 Twenty-four Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1947 Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey in London.
1966 The musical "Cabaret," with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, opened on Broadway.
1969 The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phase-out.
1975 Spain's Gen. Francisco Franco died after nearly four decades of absolute rule.
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1985 The first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was released.
1995 Princess Diana admitted during an interview broadcast on BBC TV that she had been unfaithful to Prince Charles.
2003 Singer Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation in Santa Barbara, Calif. (He was later acquited.)
