It happenned on a… 20 November

“25” 3rd studio album by Adele is released (Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2017, 2016 Billboard Album of the Year).

First module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

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

The Cuban Missile Crisis ended. The Soviet Union removed its missiles and bombers from Cuba and the U.S. ended its blockade of the island.

Britain’s Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.

24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0, in the first NHL game played in the Boston Gardens.

1st successful tank (Mark IV) use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines.

Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race.

Sherlock Holmes’s first story “A Study in Scarlet” is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, his only opera, premieres in Vienna.