september 20 in history: what happened that day

In 1862, the first Russian conservatory was founded in St. Petersburg.

In 1932, the photo “Lunch on a Skyscraper” was taken. The picture shows eleven workers sitting on one of the steel beams of the 69th floor at an altitude of more than 200 meters. It's a production, but with real workers. It was published on October 2 in the Sunday supplement to the New York Herald Tribune.

On this day, but in 1934, the Soviet icebreaker Litke completed the first voyage by the Northern Sea Route, made in one navigation.

In 1946, the first Cannes Film Festival opened.

On September 20, Russian navigator of German origin, one of the discoverers of Antarctica Thaddeus Bellingshausen (1778); Russian prose writer, poet, translator, playwright Nestor Kukolnik (1809); Scottish physicist and chemist, inventor of the first thermoses James Dewar (1842); Soviet mathematician, specialist in linear algebra, winner of the USSR State Prize Vera Faddeeva (1906).