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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 2, 2020:
49th calendar week, 337th day of the year
29 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Bibiana, Luzius
HISTORICAL DATA
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2010 - Russia will host the 2018 World Cup, Qatar will be awarded the contract for 2022. The decision of the Executive Committee of the world football association FIFA is met with surprise and sometimes fierce criticism around the world.
2005 - Nine people are killed in a fire in a shelter for the homeless in Halberstadt (Saxony-Anhalt).
2000 - The history professor Eckhard Freise from Münster is the first to crack the multi-million jackpot on the RTL program “Wer wird Millionär”.
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1995 - British punter Nick Leeson is sentenced to six and a half years in prison for fraud after being extradited from Germany to Singapore.
1990 - The previous government coalition consisting of CDU / CSU and FDP wins the first all-German federal election.
1975 - The People's Republic is proclaimed in Laos after the communist guerrilla movement Pathet Lao came to power.
King Savang Vatthana has to abdicate, the new president is Prince Suvannuvong, known as the “red prince”.
1975 - South Moluccan terrorists raid a train in the Netherlands and take numerous passengers hostage.
The train driver and two passengers are shot.
The hostage-takers only surrender after 13 days.
1925 - Several large German chemical groups, including Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst and BASF, merge to form IG Farben, the largest chemical company in the world at the time.
1805 - The French Emperor Napoleon defeats a numerically superior Austro-Russian army near Austerlitz in Bohemia.
At least 15,000 men die, other sources speak of almost 30,000 dead.
BIRTHDAYS
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1960 - Justus von Dohnányi (60), German actor ("Herrenherzen")
1950 - Ursela Monn (70), German-Swiss actress ("A man wants to go up")
1945 - Lisa Kreuzer (75), German actress ("The American Friend")
1942 - Ulrich Wickert (78), German television journalist ("Tagesthemen") and author ("The honest is the stupid")
1925 - Julie Harris, American actress (“Beyond Eden”), won five Tony Awards on Broadway, died 2013
DAYS OF DEATH
1990 - Aaron Copland, American composer (“Appalachian Spring”) and conductor, b.
1900
1810 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter, main exponent of German early romanticism, b.
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