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Events on September 20

• 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, beginning the first circumnavigation of the world.
• 1792 The National Convention convenes for the first time during the French Revolution.
• 1870 The Bersaglieri shoot a breach in the city wall of Rome. Through the subsequent occupation of Rome, Italy achieves complete unity. Rome becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Italy two weeks later.
• 1904 With the Wright Flyer II, the Wright brothers achieve the first full-circle flight at Huffman Prairie near Dayton (Ohio).
• 1913 The Social Democratic Party of Germany elects Hugo Haase and Friedrich Ebert as its party chairs in Jena.
• 1963 Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds has its German premiere.
• 1966 The 995.2 kg spacecraft Surveyor 2 launches toward the Moon, but after a failed trajectory correction, it is unable to complete the mission successfully and crashes two days after launch.
• 1972 Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt puts the vote of confidence to the German Bundestag, which rejects it: Early elections are held.
• 1992 Ignatz Bubis is elected chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
• 2001 In a speech before Congress, US President George W. Bush announces the “war on terror” for the first time in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
• 2014 The 10th Bundesvision Song Contest (German music competition) takes place in Göttingen.
• 2019 Worldwide demonstrations by the Fridays for Future movement take place. In Germany alone, 1.4 million people take to the streets in more than 500 cities.

Born on September 20

• 1875 Matthias Erzberger, German publicist, politician, and assassination victim
• 1878 Upton Sinclair, American writer and politician
• 1893 Hans Scharoun, German architect
• 1916 Rudolf-August Oetker, German entrepreneur and shipowner
• 1934 Sophia Loren, Italian actress
• 1940 Tarō Asō, Japanese politician
• 1971 Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1971 Julia Westlake, German television presenter
• 1972 Henning Baum, German actor
• 1990 Jonas Nay, German actor and musician

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

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