This Day in History
      
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 Born on this day
| | 1925 - | Robert Kennedy, younger brother of assassinated President John F Kennedy, and who would himself be assassinated, is born. [more] | Australian Explorers
| | 1860 - | Burke and Wills first reach Cooper Creek. [more] | Australian History
| | 1926 - | The 1926 Imperial Conference accords Australia the status of self-governing Dominion, of equal status to Great Britain. [more] | World History
| | 1821 - | A whale attacks and sinks the whaling ship 'Essex', ultimately resulting in the deaths of 13 crewmen. [more] | | 1947 - | Princess Elizabeth, who became Elizabeth II, is married to Philip Mountbatten. [more] | | |
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