Calendar page 2023: November 20
The current calendar page for November 20, 2023:
47th calendar week, 324th day of the year
41 days until the end of the year
Astrological sign: Scorpio
Name day: Korbinian, Bernward, Edmund
HISTORICAL DATES
2022 - The climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ends with a minimal consensus. Progress is only made on financial aid for poorer countries. The 200 or so countries make no progress in reducing greenhouse gases.
2008 - The EU has a joint digital library: almost three million documents, books, paintings, films and photographs from European collections are now available on the Internet portal "www.europeana.eu".
2003 - Islamist terrorists carry out suicide attacks in the European part of Istanbul, causing a bloodbath. 35 people die and hundreds are injured.
1998 - The first component of the International Space Station (ISS) is launched into space on board a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan.
1998 - The reform politician and member of parliament Galina Starovoitova is shot dead in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1993 - In Monte Carlo, the Court of Arbitration of the International Association of Athletics Federations confirms the two-year ban on the three German sprinters Katrin Krabbe, Grit Breuer and Manuela Derr for drug abuse.
1985 - Microsoft launches the first version of the Windows operating system.
1953 - The American Scott Crossfield is the first person to reach the speed of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound, with the D558-II, a rocket-powered supersonic airplane.
1913 - Kaiser Wilhelm II bans officers from dancing the tango in uniform because it is against good manners.
BIRTHDAYS
1948 - Barbara Hendricks (75), American-Swedish opera singer, soprano
1948 - John Bolton (75), American politician and diplomat, security advisor to President Donald Trump 2018-2019, UN ambassador 2005-2007
1942 - Joe Biden (81), American politician, 46th US President from 2021, Vice President 2009-2017
1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer ("Burger's Daughter", "The Household Weapon"), Nobel Prize for Literature 1991, died 2014
1913 - Libertas Schulze-Boysen, German film critic and resistance fighter, executed as a member of the "Red Cell" resistance group together with her husband Harro Schulze-Boysen in 1942
DAY OF DEATH
2021 - Ted Herold, German rock singer ("Da Doo Ron Ron", "Moonlight"), born 1942
2013 - Dieter Hildebrandt, German cabaret artist, (TV show "Scheibenwischer"), co-founder of the "Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft" 1956, born 1927
This calendar page marks significant historical events, such as the launch of the first component of the International Space Station in 1998 during the 47th calendar week. Studying history helps us understand these events better.
In 2022, the climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, ended with minimal consensus, highlighting the continued challenge of reducing greenhouse gases globally.
Source: www.dpa.com
