On this day 20th November

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Facts

284 Roman soldier Diocletian proclaimed Emperor by the army

762 Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire

1695 Zumbi last leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and ex-slave, is executed

1815 2nd Treaty of Paris: France & her allies agree France pay indemnities after Battle of Waterloo, ending Napoleonic Wars

1969 Brazilian soccer icon Pele scores his 1,000th goal

1986 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS

Deaths

869 King Edmund of East Anglia

1713 Thomas Tompion, English clock maker (cylinder tunnel), dies at 74

1882 Henry Draper, American amateur astronomer (photos of the Moon, Orion Nebula), dies of pleurisy at 45

1903 Tom Horn, American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death at 42

1910 Leo Tolstoy[Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War & Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82

1935 John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet, dies of pneumonia at 75

1975 Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82

1993 Heather Farr, golfer, dies of cancer at 28

2006 Robert Altman, American film director (MAS*H, Gosford Park), dies at 81

Born on this day

1968 Jeff Tarango, California, tennis star (defaulted 1995 Wimbledon)

1981 Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)

Leo Tolstoy

Heather Farr