1430: English capt. Joan, Joan of Arc captured at Compiegne Source: ToW

1498: Girolamo Savonarola executed, Domenican friar and reformer in Florence. Angered Pope Alexander VI and the Duke of Milan. Governed Florence briefly in the form of a democratic republic. Viciously persecuted, tried, tortured, and sentenced to death by papal commissioners on fabricated evidence.

1788: SC,

1700: Darien address rebuffed, The Scots Parliament assembles but the Duke of Queensberry, Commissioner, prevents the Company's party from pressing for an Address to the King. He adjourns Parliament on the 30th.

1738: Methodists,
Former Georgia Anglican minister John Wesley underwent a religious conversion at Aldersgate Chapel in London initiating what would become known as the Methodist Church.

2012: Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg Germany. 1945, 20 November