This Day In European History

20th November

Events
1719: Hanover buys Bremen and Verdun from the Sweden for a million thalers.
1780: Britain declares war on the Netherlands.
1917: The first mass tank attack, performed by the British at Cambrai in France.
1945: The Nuremberg War Crime trials begin in Nuremberg.
1947: The future Queen Elizabeth II of Britain marries Philip Mountbatten.

Births
1752: Thomas Chatterton, English poet.
1858: Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish novelist.
1885: Albert Kesselring, German field marshal.
1886: Karl von Frisch, German zoologist.

Deaths
870: King Edmund of East Anglia.
1657: Manasseh ben Israel, Spanish scholar.
1713: Thomas Tompion, wrist watch innovator.
1737: Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Queen Consort of King George II of Great Britain.

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