Historical Events for 20th November 2022

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1901 - Opera "Grisélidis" by Jules Massenet, Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand premieres in Paris
1923 - Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety
1928 - Boston Gardens opens, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1966 - Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1977 - Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL record 275 yards
1980 - Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1989 - Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1990 - Soviet Union shows reluctance to endorse the use of force against Iraq
1998 - Court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania
2019 - Snakes lived with hind legs for 70 million years (Najash rionegrina), according to research from La Buitrera Palaeontological Area, Argentina, published in "Science Advances"

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Judy Garland performed at Boston Garden in 1961 for two and a half hours without an opening act