Nov. 20, Children’s Rights Day

1815 – Treaty of Paris was signed following the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo Battle.

1940 – Romania joins the Axis Powers .

1945 –Nuremburg trials against 24 Nazi war criminals starts following the end of the World War II.

1989 – UN adopts Convention on the Rights of the Child

1923 – South African Writer and Nobel-Laureate Nadine Gordimer was born.

1935 –Sheikh Izzeddin Al-Qassam , who led the first Palestinian unit resisting British forces, passes away.

-Children’s Rights Day .

H. Zain/ Ghossoun