Nam June Paik was a South Korean artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. He is credited with the first use (1974) of the term "electronic super highway" to describe the future of telecommunications.

1932Otto Schily, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior^[†]

Otto Georg Schily is a former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, his tenure was from 1998 to 2005, in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and was a founding member of the West-German Green Party.

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1932René Bazin, French author and academic (born 1853)^[†]

René François Nicolas Marie Bazin was a French novelist.

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1932In the Preußenschlag, German President Hindenburg places Prussia directly under the rule of the national government.^[†]

The 1932 Prussian coup d'état or Preußenschlag took place on 20 July 1932, when Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, at the request of Franz von Papen, then Reich Chancellor of Germany, replaced the legal government of the Free State of Prussia with von Papen as Reich Commissioner. A second decree the same day transferred executive power in Prussia to the Reich Minister of the Armed Forces Kurt von Schleicher and restricted fundamental rights.

Headlines from July 20, 1932

Mellon Sails Today for Month's Visit Here; Will Tell Hoover of European Developments

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PRUSSIAN DICTATOR DEMANDED BY NAZIS; President of Diet Formally Asks Reich to Replace Cabinet With a Commissioner. FEDERAL ACTION DEFERRED Government to Await Effect of Ban on Outdoor Meetings -- Six More Die in Clashes. PRUSSIAN DICTATOR DEMANDED BY NAZIS

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