On this day — November 20

This is the first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.

at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.

a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

Zarya, for the International Space Station is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

killing 41 people and injuring 81.

(Localized fighting resumes the next year.)

The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Ohrid Airport, killing all 116 people on board.

badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

he eventually confesses to 56 killings.

The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

the first graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft, is released.