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November 20, 2019
Wataru Misaka, American basketball player (born 1923)
Wat Misaka
Wataru Misaka was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The National Basketball Association (NBA), which was created in 1949 with the merger of the BAA and the NBL, later adopted the BAA's history and thus considers Misaka to be the first non-white player of the league.
November 20
November 20 is the 324th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 41 days remain until the end of the year.