Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2015. There are 41 days left in the year.
Today's birthdays: Comedian Kaye Ballard is 90. Actress Estelle Parsons is 88. Comedian Dick Smothers is 77. Singer Norman Greenbaum is 73. Vice President Joe Biden is 73. Actress Veronica Hamel is 72. Journalist Judy Woodruff is 69. Actor Samuel E. Wright is 69. Singer Joe Walsh is 68. Actor Richard Masur is 67. Opera singer Barbara Hendricks is 67. Former UN ambassador John Bolton is 67. Actress Bo Derek is 59. Former NFL player Mark Gastineau is 59. Pianist Jim Brickman is 54. Rapper Mike D (The Beastie Boys) is 50. Actor Joel McHale is 44. Olympic gold medal gymnast Dominique Dawes is 39.
In 1620, Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay; he was the first child born of English parents in present-day New England.
In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
In 1925, Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline.
In 1945, 22 ex-Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. (Twelve were eventually sentenced to death; seven received prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life; three were acquitted.)
In 1985, the first version of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows 1.0, was officially released.