November 20th is Universal Childrens Day by United Nations (UN) recommendation. The date selection is based on today being the anniversary of the day when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959.
Today is also National Adoption Day, the 12th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance in memory of those murdered because of anti-transgender prejudice, National Family Volunteer Day and Name Your PC Day. In Mexico, November 20th is Revolution Day, a national holiday to celebrate the anniversary of the social revolution launched by Francisco I. Madero 100 years ago in 1910.
With all of the talk about the upcoming royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton, it has almost become lost that today is the anniversary date of Queen Elizabeth's marriage to Philip Mountbatten, in 1947. Happy 63rd anniversary to the young couple!
On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the 10 amendments to the US Constitution that came to be known as the Bill of Rights. In 1945, the first session of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials started at Berlin, Germany.
This afternoon, Northwestern and Illinois will play the first NCAA football game at Wrigley Field since 1938, but, because of space constraints between the end zone closest to Wrigley Field's right field wall, both teams' will have to play all offensive possessions in the same direction, toward the stadium's third-base line. Army and Notre Dame will face off in Yankee Stadium tonight.
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