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Fri, November 20th, 2009
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    Sun, November 20th, 1960: The Beatles perform at the Kaiserkeller Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.

    Tue, November 20th, 1962: The Beatles perform at Floral Hall, Southport, playing two shows.

    Wed, November 20th, 1963: The Beatles, on a tour of Britain, perform for two "houses" at the ABC Cinema in Manchester, Lancashire. Before the show they give a radio interview (for the BBC's "Voice of the North"), a television interview (for Granada TV's "Scene at 6:30"), and an interview for a short newsreel documentary being filmed by Pathe News. The Beatles permitted Pathe News to film two songs from their first show of the evening ("She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout") for the eight-minute documentary called "The Beatles Come to Town". The short film was distributed to theatres during the week of December 22. The footage of the Beatles performing "She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout" was later incorporated into a 70-minute movie known as "Pop Gear" (it was released in the US under the title "Go Go Mania").

    Mon, November 20th, 2000: Reuters new service announces that The Beatles' compilation album "1" has become the #1 UK album in its first week of release, on the strength of first-week sales of 319,000. "1" is the 15th Beatles album to reach #1 in the UK and is the first #1 album for the group since 1996's "Anthology 2".

    Mon, November 20th, 2000: The Beatles' compilation album "1" is #1 in Sweden.