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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 10, 2021:
19th calendar week, 130th day of the year
235 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Gordian, Juan
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The US driver service provider Uber goes public in New York.
However, investor interest has lagged behind expectations.
The proceeds are around 8.1 billion dollars (7.2 billion euros).
2011 - According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, gays and lesbians who live in a registered partnership have the same pension rights as men and women in a marriage.
2001 - 56 years after the end of Nazi rule, the Jewish community in Germany resumes the training of rabbis.
At a ceremony in Heidelberg, the Ignatz Bubis Chair is officially established for the basic training of prospective rabbis at the College for Jewish Studies
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1996 - The SPD opens its new party headquarters in Berlin, the Willy Brandt House.
1991 - During a visit to Halle / Saale, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pelted with tomatoes, eggs and bags of paint.
1981 - In the French presidential election, François Mitterrand prevails against incumbent Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in the second ballot and is elected France's first socialist president after the Second World War.
1941 - Adolf Hitler's deputy in the NSDAP, Rudolf Hess, flies to Scotland and parachutes, supposedly to hold peace talks.
He is interned as a prisoner of war.
1906 - Tsar Nicholas II opens the State Duma, the first Russian parliament, in St. Petersburg.
1871 - Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the French Foreign Minister Jules Favre sign the "Peace of Frankfurt am Main".
This ended the Franco-German War.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Katja Woywood (50), German actress ("Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei")
1951 - Petra Hammesfahr (70), German writer (numerous crime bestsellers) and screenwriter
1946 - Donovan (75), British folk singer and songwriter ("Catch The Wind", "Mellow Yellow", "Colors")
1931 - Ettore Scola, Italian film director (“The family”, “What time is it”), died 2016
1886 - Karl Barth, Swiss Protestant theologian ("Church Dogmatics"), d. 1968
DAYS OF DEATH
2006 - Alexander Zinoviev, Russian writer and philosopher (“Yawning Heights”), born in 1922
1977 - Joan Crawford, American actress (“People in the Hotel”), born in 1908
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