November 20, 1900 (Tuesday)
- In a rare November tornado, 30 people in Mississippi and Tennessee were killed. Columbia, Tennessee, was struck by the fourth twister of the day, at 9:30 pm, killing 27 people and injuring 75. The most recent November tornado struck Southern Indiana on November 6, 2005.
- Born: Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy, in Pawnee, Oklahoma (d. 1985); and Billy Burch, first United States native to play in the National Hockey League, in Yonkers, New York; (d. 1950)
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“In that November off Tehuantepec,
The slopping of the sea grew still one night
And in the morning summer hued the deck
And made one think of rosy chocolate
And gilt umbrellas.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)