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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for November 24, 2020:
48th calendar week, 329th day of the year
37 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Andreas, Flora, Modestus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - In the Hong Kong district elections, the pro-democracy camp wins a clear victory.
Almost 80 percent of the seats and thus 17 of the 18 district councils go to the opposition.
2017 - At least 305 people died in an attack on a mosque in the north of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Islamists set off explosives and shot at believers.
2015 - Turkish interceptors shoot down a Russian Su-24 fighter bomber in the border area with Syria.
Moscow denies that the machine violated Turkish airspace.
The incident puts a strain on relations between the two countries.
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2005 - In France, the parliament decides that after serving their prison sentence, dangerous serial offenders should in future wear an electronic armband to determine their whereabouts.
1998 - America Online (AOL) purchases Internet pioneer Netscape Communications for $ 4.2 billion.
1995 - The people of Ireland vote in a referendum with a narrow majority in favor of divorce.
In 1997, the legal ban on divorce, which has existed for 60 years, comes into force.
1985 - When a car bomb explodes on the grounds of the PX department store of the US armed forces in downtown Frankfurt am Main, 35 people - mostly Americans - are injured.
1977 - Spain becomes the 20th member state of the Council of Europe after the end of the Franco dictatorship
1965 - The more than 30-year rule of the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko begins with a coup in the Central African Congo.
BIRTHDAYS
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1970 - Jens Keller (50), German soccer player (VfL Wolfsburg 1996-98, VfB Stuttgart 1998-2000)
1950 - Axel Beyer (70), German journalist, WDR entertainment director 2003-2009
1940 - Hermann Otto Solms (80), German politician, long-time treasurer of the FDP, Vice President of the Bundestag 1998-2013
1940 - Reinhard Münchenhagen (80), German journalist and presenter (NDR TV show "DAS!")
1880 - Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabian king, founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and king from 1927-53, d. 1953
DAYS OF DEATH
1991 - Freddie Mercury, British rock singer, member of the group Queen ("We Will Rock You"), b.
1946
1990 - Helga Feddersen, German actress and writer (screenplay and leading role in the television play "Four Hours of Elbe 1"), founded the Theater am Holstenwall in Hamburg, b.
1930
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