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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 7, 2020:
50th calendar week, 342nd day of the year
24 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Ambrosius, Gerald
HISTORICAL DATA
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2018 - The previous CDU general secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is elected as the new party leader in Hamburg.
In a runoff election, she defeated the former Union faction leader Friedrich Merz with 517 to 482 votes.
2015 - For the first time, the Chinese authorities raise the highest level of red alert because of high levels of air pollution in Beijing.
2010 - For the first time there will be uniform regulations in the EU to make it easier to identify fattening foods when shopping.
From 2014, manufacturers will have to list the sugar, fat, salt and calorie content on packaging.
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2005 - Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) releases the last two sections of the Baltic A 20 motorway after eleven years of construction.
1988 - In the north-west of what was then the Soviet Republic of Armenia, earthquakes of magnitude 6.8 destroy almost 60 villages and cities.
The quake claims at least 25,000 lives.
1975 - Indonesian troops invade the former Portuguese East Timor after the independence party Fretilin declared a Republic of East Timor there.
1972 - Apollo 17 takes off from Cape Canaveral (Florida) with three astronauts for the last manned flight to the moon.
1970 - Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) kneels down in front of the memorial for the victims of National Socialism in the former Warsaw ghetto.
1835 - The first journey of the "Adler" steam locomotive between Nuremberg and Fürth heralds the age of railways in Germany.
BIRTHDAYS
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1980 - Clemens Fritz (40), German soccer player (Werder Bremen 2006-2017)
1980 - John Terry, 40, English football player (Chelsea FC 1999-2017)
1960 - Abdellatif Kechiche (60), French director (“Couscous with Fish”), Golden Palm 2013 for the film “La vie d'Adèle”
1940 - Klaus Tschira, German entrepreneur and physicist, co-founder of the Walldorf software company SAP, d. 2015
1930 - Dani Karavan (90), Israeli artist (works of art that can be walked on, such as Heinrich-Böll-Platz in Cologne and the “Passagen” memorial in Portbou / Spain)
DAYS OF DEATH
1985 - Robert Graves, British writer, (novel "Ich, Claudius, Kaiser und Gott"), b.
1895
1975 - Thornton Wilder, American writer ("Our Little Town"), b.
1897
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