Windows 1.0, the first version of the Microsoft Windows line, was released on November 20, 1985. It runs on top of an existing MS-DOS installation as a graphical, 16-bit multi-tasking shell. It provides a platform for running graphical programmes designed for Windows as well as legacy MS-DOS software.

India marked the 50th anniversary of IR8 on November 21, 2016. IR8 is a high-yielding semi-dwarf rice variety developed in the early 1960s by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). It was the work of Peter Jennings (not to be confused with the American journalist) and Henry Beachell. IR8 was first introduced in the Philippines and India in November 1966.  Promoters such as the IRRI and farmer benefactors of IR8 have dubbed it "miracle rice," and it has been credited with preventing famine.

Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope on his way to India for the first time in 1497. He was the first European to sail to India. His first voyage to India via the Cape of Good Hope (1497–1499) was the first to connect Europe and Asia via an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and Indian oceans, and thus the West and the Orient.

Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in New York City, New York, United States. She is an American actress and singer whose acting range has earned her popular acclaim in a variety of genres, ranging from period drama to thriller and action adventure. She received critical acclaim for her performance in The Horse Whisperer (1998) as a teenager who has suffered a disfiguring accident, and she gained further attention as the cynical teen outcast Rebecca in Ghost World (2001).

Zhou Enlai suggested a cease-fire and negotiated a compromise. Enlai proposed that India and China disengage and withdraw their soldiers 20 kilometres beyond the current lines of real control. Enlai recommended Chinese departure from Arunachal Pradesh (NEFA), while India and China should preserve the status quo in Aksai Chin. After occupying Aksai Chin and withdrawing from the northeastern provinces, where its soldiers had come down till Tezpur in Assam, China proclaimed a unilateral ceasefire, thereby ending the conflict.

Lionel Messi scored a hat trick in Barcelona's 5-1 win over Sevilla on November 22, 2014, to break the Spanish league's all-time scoring record. Messi, already Barcelona's all-time leading scorer, broke Athletic Bilbao legend Telmo Zarra's record of 251 goals, which had stood since 1955. Messi equaled Zarra's record in the 21st minute and added goals in the 72nd and 78th minutes to set his own.

Joe Biden, born Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S., is the 46th President of the United States and the 47th Vice President of the United States (2009–17) in President Barack Obama's Democratic administration. He previously served in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

The love story of Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello is straight out of a Hollywood film. On November 22, 2015, the stunning couple married for the first time. The wedding, held at The Breakers Palm Beach resort in Florida, was a huge success, attended by nearly 400 of their closest family and friends.

The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. When Lee Harvey Oswald, a former US Marine, shot Kennedy from a nearby building, he was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie.

Tipu Sultan was Hyder Ali's son, who founded the Mysore sultanate was born on November 20th in the year 1950, at Devanahalli in Bangalore. During their reign, the two ruled over the Mysore region and stood firm against British expansion.

Jennifer Love Hewitt married Brian Hallisay on November 21, 2013. Jennifer Love Hewitt and her actor-husband Brian Hallisay are expecting their third child. The 9-1-1 star already has a seven-year-old daughter Autumn and a five-and-a-half-year-old son Atticus with Brian.

In his own time, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718) was a legend. He was born in England and robbed ships moving to and from the American colonies, as well as ships in the Caribbean Sea. Despite the fact that his reign of terror lasted only two years, he became one of history's most well-known marine pirates. On November 22, 1718, a British naval expedition personally supported by Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood attacked Blackbeard and most of his men in a brutal fight near Ocracoke Island. As a warning to other lawbreakers, Blackbeard's skull was nailed to a piling off the coast of Hampton, Virginia.

Mulayam Singh Yadav is a well-known Indian politician who founded the Samajwadi Party. Mulayam Singh Yadav was born on November 22, 1939, in a poor peasant family, and has served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for three terms (1989 - 1991, 1993 - 1995 and 2003 - 2007). He also served as India's Union Defence Minister from 1996 to 1998, during the United Front Government, after being elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 1996.

Mark Ruffalo, born November 22, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, is an American actor who was a compelling performer in critically acclaimed movies and plays, though he was perhaps more widely known for portraying Bruce Banner/the Hulk in a series of superhero films.

Aarti Chhabria is an Indian actress and model who was born on November 21, 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra (India). She was crowned Miss India Worldwide 2000 in 1999. She has appeared in fewer advertisements such as Amul, Crack Cream, Farex, Freshna, and Liril. Aarti's film career began with the Hindi film Lajja, and she has since appeared in films such as Tumse Acha Kaun Hai, Awara Pagal Deewana, and others.

Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, PVSM, who died on November 22, 1963, was an Indian Army General Officer. When he died in the Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash in 1963, he was the General Officer Commanding XV Corps.

Billie Jean King (born) Billie Jean Moffitt, born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States, is an American tennis player whose influence and playing style elevated the status of women's professional tennis in the late 1960s. She won 39 major titles in her career, competing in both singles and doubles.

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis married on November 21, 1987, in the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas, barely four months after meeting, after Willis persuaded her to tie the knot during a weekend vacation they made while he was on leave from filming the now-classic Die Hard. Moore revealed that she became pregnant with Rumer on the night of their wedding.

Robert F. Kennedy was an American politician who was born on November 20, 1925, in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1952, he ran his brother John F. Kennedy's U.S. Senate campaign. He was appointed chief counsel to the Senate committee investigating labour racketeering in 1957, but resigned in 1960 to manage his brother's presidential campaign. As Attorney General of the United States (1961–64), he led a campaign against organised crime that resulted in the conviction of labour leader Jimmy Hoffa. He was elected to the United States Senate from New York in 1964.

Australian cricket coach and former player Justin Lee Langer AM was born on November 21, 1970. He served as the men's national team coach of Australia from May 2018 until February 2022, when he resigned from the position. As an opening batsman for Australia in test matches in the early and middle 2000s, Langer, a left-handed batter, is most known for his combination with Matthew Hayden, which is regarded as one of the most successful ever.

On November 22, 1998, the actress Kate Winslet married fiance Jim Threapleton in a low-key wedding at her family's local church in Reading, Berkshire.

Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy, —died on November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), was a renowned Russian author, a master of realistic fiction, and one of the world's greatest novelists.