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
Source: www.dpa.com
