November 20 in history: • 1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale, an event which inspired the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (pictured). → go there • 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line. → go there • 1985 – Windows 1.0, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public, was released. → go there • 1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk. → go there • 2003 – Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 31 people, including consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer. → go there Died 855: Theoktistos Wiki link Born 1925: Clytus Gottwald Wiki link Born 1925: Robert F. Kennedy Wiki link Born 1983: Cri-Zelda Brits Wiki link