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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for November 25, 2020:
48th calendar week, 330th day of the year
36 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Katharina, Margareta
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Unknown steal jewelery sets of inestimable value during a break-in in Dresden's famous treasury, the Grünes Gewölbe.
2018 - The heads of state and government of the remaining 27 EU states approve the exit treaty with Great Britain after difficult negotiations.
2005 - In Iraq, a German is kidnapped for the first time since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
After 23 days of being held hostage, the archaeologist Susanne Osthoff is released again.
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2000 - The new Hundertwasser train station opens in Uelzen and was rebuilt according to the plans of the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser, who died in February 2000.
1995 - The Lebanese woman Souhaila Andrawes is extradited from Norway to Germany, where she is later sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for her involvement in the hijacking of the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" in 1977.
1975 - The military dictatorships of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia agree under the name "Operation Condor" to work closely together in the pursuit of political opponents.
In the course of the action, thousands of members of the opposition die or disappear in the 1970s and 1980s.
1973 - In Germany, a general driving ban applies for the first time.
The aim is to alleviate the consequences of the oil crisis on four consecutive Sundays.
1970 - The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima ("Confession of a Mask") commits ritual suicide after a failed appeal to overthrow the Japanese government.
1945 - In the first National Council election in Austria after the Second World War, the People's Party ÖVP wins an absolute majority.
Leopold Figl becomes the first Federal Chancellor.
BIRTHDAYS
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1950 - Eckhard Cordes (70), German manager, CEO of Metro 2007-2011
1940 - Reinhard Furrer, German astronaut and physicist, died in a crash at an air show in 1995
1930 - Friedhelm Farthmann (90), German politician (SPD), labor and social affairs minister in North Rhine-Westphalia 1975-1985
1920 - Hilde Sicks, German folk actress, long-time member of the ensemble at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater, died 2007
1895 - Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer, was considered one of the great German pianists of the 20th century, died 1991
DAYS OF DEATH
2005 - George Best, Northern Irish footballer, European Footballer of the Year 1968, b.
1946
1985 - Elsa Morante, Italian writer («La Storia»), b.
1912
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