TODAY IN HISTORY – 20th Nov, 2025 – Africa World News
By Valentine Uchechukwu Ndukwu.
Asides referencing the past for proper equipping on how to manage and resolve attendant problems,18511851 you should have no business there. (Apologies to V. John Simeon)
Scroll down and feed your eyes with moments from the past recorded today.
On this day in 1820, an 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this incident.)
According to Today in History, on this day in 1974, the first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurred when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashed while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
Still on this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he met Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
In 1985, Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, was released.
Today in History also reveals that it was on this day in 1994 that the Angolan government and UNITA rebels signed the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.)
It was on this day in 2015 that following a hostage siege, at least 19 people were killed in Bamako, Mali.
Still on this day in 2022, the 2022 FIFA World Cup begins in Qatar. This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.
Today in History shows that earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent. (Roman Catholic Church)
Today is Africa Industrialization Day (international)
Today is Children’s Day (World Children’s Day)
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