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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 6, 2020:
49th calendar week, 341st day of the year
25 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Dionysia, Nikolaus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) visits the former Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz in Poland for the first time.
Before her, the Chancellors Helmut Schmidt (SPD) and Helmut Kohl (CDU) had visited Auschwitz.
2017 - US President Donald Trump recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The Palestinians and their Arab neighbors are outraged.
For them, East Jerusalem is the capital of a future Palestinian state.
2015 - Against the background of a severe economic crisis, the conservative opposition in Venezuela wins a two-thirds majority in the general election after 16 years of socialist supremacy.
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2010 - Baden-Württemberg buys 45 percent of the shares of the energy supplier EnBW from Electricité de France (EDF) for 4.67 billion euros.
The State Court of Baden-Württemberg declared the 2011 deal unconstitutional as it was handled by the state parliament.
2005 - Britain's Conservative Party elects 39-year-old David Cameron as its new chairman.
2000 - The Federal Constitutional Court does not move to Potsdam.
The 15 constitutional judges are in favor of staying in Karlsruhe with a “clear majority”.
1995 - The Bundestag approves the German operation in Bosnia.
This means that 4,000 German soldiers can participate in the NATO peacekeeping force for Bosnia.
1865 - With the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution by the required majority of states, slavery is banned in the United States.
1240 - With the conquest and devastation of Kiev by the "Golden Horde", Russia comes under the rule of the Mongols, which can only be finally shaken off at the end of the 15th century.
BIRTHDAYS
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1970 - Ulf Ekberg (50), Swedish musician, member of the Swedish pop group Ace Of Base
1945 - Shekhar Kapur (75), Indian director ("Elizabeth - The Golden Kingdom")
1942 - Peter Handke (78), Austrian writer (“The goalie's fear of the penalty kick”), Nobel Prize for Literature 2019
1930 - Rolf Hoppe, German actor ("Three hazelnuts for Cinderella", "The break"), d. 2018
1920 - Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist (“Take Five”), died 2012
DAYS OF DEATH
2017 - Johnny Hallyday, French rock singer («Que je t'aime»), b.
1943
2005 - Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German cabaret artist and writer, b.
1925
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