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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for November 28, 2020:
48th calendar week, 333rd day of the year
33 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Berta, Gunther
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The Bundestag sets up a committee of inquiry to deal with the debacle surrounding the burst car toll with possible high damage for taxpayers.
2018 - The once world's largest computer fair Cebit is closed.
Most recently the event only attracted 120,000 people to the exhibition grounds in Hanover.
At the best of times around the turn of the millennium, the trade fair had up to 800,000 visitors.
2010 - The Internet platform Wikileaks starts publishing more than 250,000 confidential documents from US embassies.
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2000 - Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is the first German to be awarded the Turner Prize, the most important British prize for modern art.
1995 - The federal government decides to send around 4,000 German soldiers to the international peacekeeping force for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1983 - The European space laboratory “Spacelab” takes off into space for the first time with the space shuttle “Columbia”.
The German physicist and astronaut Ulf Merbold is the first non-American to be on board.
1960 - With the independence of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, French rule in West and Central Africa ends.
1925 - The first Westfalenhalle opens in Dortmund.
Erected as a wooden structure in just seven months, what was then the largest hall in Europe can seat 12,000 spectators and is soon to be considered a technical marvel.
1520 - The Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (Magellan) reaches the Pacific after circumnavigating South America on the sea route between Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, which was later named after him.
BIRTHDAYS
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1970 - Édouard Philippe (50), French politician, Prime Minister 2017-2020
1960 - John Galliano (60), British fashion designer (Dior, Maison Margiela)
1950 - Ed Harris (70), American actor ("Pollock", "Apollo 13", "The Rock")
1950 - Hans Fassnacht (70), German swimmer, 1970 European champion, twelve-time German champion, two world records (1969 and 1971)
1820 - Friedrich Engels, German politician, publicist and philosopher (“The Development of Socialism from Utopia to Science”, and together with Karl Marx “The Communist Party's Manifesto”), d. 1895
DAYS OF DEATH
2010 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (“The Naked Cannon”), b.
1926
1680 - Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italian builder and sculptor (colonnades at St. Peter's Basilica), b.
1598
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