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Events on November 20

• 1805 The premiere of Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• 1811 Friedrich Krupp establishes a factory in Essen for the production of cast steel, from which Friedrich Krupp AG will subsequently develop.
• 1896 The dock workers in Hamburg vote for a dockworkers' strike, which will subsequently develop into the first major work stoppage in the German Reich.
• 1906 Under the direction of Max Reinhardt, Frank Wedekind's drama Spring Awakening, which he had already completed in 1891, is premiered at the Berliner Kammerspiele in Berlin.
• 1945 At the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, the trial of twenty leading figures of the “Third Reich,” including Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Julius Streicher, begins with the reading of the indictment on war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 1956 In response to a planned Federal Press Act, the German Press Council is founded as a voluntary self-regulatory body.
• 1982 The completed transit motorway is opened to traffic between Hamburg and Berlin. On the GDR side, the intra-German border crossing at Zarrentin am Schaalsee opens.
• 1985 Microsoft releases the first version of the Windows operating system.
• 1989 The UN General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It will enter into force on September 20, 1990.
• 1998 Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station (ISS), is launched from Baikonur aboard a Russian Proton-K rocket.
• 2006 An 18-year-old former pupil of the Geschwister-Scholl secondary school in Emsdetten injures 37 people in a shooting rampage at his former school. He then kills himself.
• 2022 The Bündnis Deutschland party is founded in Fulda.

Born on November 20

• 1875 Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, German diplomat and resistance fighter
• 1912 Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, German-Austrian writer, publicist and politician
• 1920 Renate Mannhardt, German actress
• 1921 Jim Garrison, American prosecutor
• 1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, German film director
• 1942 Joe Biden, American politician
• 1961 Werner Kogler, Austrian politician
• 1970 Michael Altinger, German cabaret artist and author
• 1982 Shermine Shahrivar, German fashion model, Miss Germany 2004
• 1992 Juju, German singer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „20. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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