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November 20, 1943

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Notable Births

David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home

1943David Douglas-Home, British businessman and politician (died 2022)[†]

David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home, was a British banker and hereditary peer. He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his death in 2022.

Veronica Hamel

1943Veronica Hamel, American actress and model[†]

Veronica Hamel is an American actress and model. She was nominated five times for an Emmy Award for her role as attorney Joyce Davenport in the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.

Ivan Hrdlička

1943Ivan Hrdlička, Czechoslovak footballer[†]

Ivan Hrdlička is a former Slovak football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, playing 17 matches and scoring two goals. He was a participant at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

Suze Rotolo

1943Suze Rotolo, American artist (died 2011)[†]

Susan Elizabeth Rotolo, known as Suze Rotolo, was an American artist, widely known as Bob Dylan's girlfriend from 1961 to 1964. Dylan later acknowledged her strong influence on his music and art during that period. Rotolo is the woman walking with him on the cover of his 1963 album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, a photograph by the Columbia Records studio photographer Don Hunstein. In her book A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She discussed her upbringing as a "red diaper" baby; a child of Communist Party USA members during the McCarthy Era. As an artist, she specialized in artists' books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Historical Events

Battle of Tarawa

1943World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.[†]

The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died during the battle, mostly on and around the small island of Betio, in the extreme southwest of Tarawa Atoll. At the time, Betio was only 118 hectares.