November 20, 1945

1945Deborah Eisenberg, American writer, actress and teacher^[†]

Deborah Eisenberg is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She was a professor of writing at Columbia University.

1945Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1877)^[†]

Francis William Aston FRS was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

1945Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.^[†]

The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in World War II.