THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025

284-Roman General Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by the armies of the East and West after the death of Carinus at the Battle of the Margus 762-Khan of the Uyghurs, Bögü Qaghan, conquers Luoyang, the capital of the Chinese Empire 1695-Zumbi, the last King of the Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil and a former slave, is executed and decapitated, his head displayed on a pike to dispel any legends of his immortality 1815-Second Treaty of Paris: France has its borders reduced to those of 1790 and agrees to pay 700 million francs in indemnities to end the Napoleonic Wars 1945-The Nuremberg war trials begin as 24 Nazi leaders are put on trial before judges representing the victorious Allied powers 1979-First artificial blood transfusion occurs at the University of Minnesota Hospital in the US when a patient refuses a conventional blood transfusion due to religious beliefs and receives the blood substitute Fluosol 1980-United Nations Gulf War mediator Olof Palme makes first unsuccessful peace shuttle between Tehran and Baghdad 1986-World Health Organization announces first global effort to cWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times