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20 November 1979 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 20 November 1979 was a Tuesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Still” by Commodores.
- Top Film of 1979
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1979 was Moonraker.
- Bestselling Novel of 1979
- “The Matarese Circle” by Robert Ludlum was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 1979.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “60 Minutes” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1979–80 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 20 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 20 November 1979 fell in the Year of the Goat.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 20 November 1979 was New Moon.
On this day: 20 November
- 1974 The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
- 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1980 Lake Peigneur in Louisiana drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
- 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0, the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.
- 1989 Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
Famous people born on November 20
- Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States (born 1942)
- Robert F. Kennedy, US Navy officer, lawyer, and politician, 64th United States Attorney General (1925–1968)
- Joe Walsh, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1947)
- Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress (born 1963)
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Events of 1979 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '1979 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- February 20 – This Old House premieres on PBS.
- March 29 – America's most serious nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
- April 1 – Nickelodeon debuts on cable television, playing children's television shows 24 hours a day. Pinwheel, which first premiered on the channel C-3 in 1977, was one of the first shows to be broadcast on the channel.
Life in the US in 1979
President
Jimmy Carter
Gas (per gallon)
$0.86
Loaf of Bread
$0.43
Average House
$62,900
Weekly Wage
$250
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