Thirteen Days End: The Quarantine Lifts
On November 20, 1962, President Kennedy announced the end of the naval quarantine of Cuba, closing the book on the missile crisis that had brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
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A Wedding That Lifted a Nation
On November 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey, giving war-weary Britain its first great postwar celebration.
Sunk by a Whale: The Real Moby-Dick
On November 20, 1820, a sperm whale rammed and sank the Nantucket whaleship Essex in the Pacific, beginning an 83-day survival ordeal that inspired Moby-Dick.