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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 10, 2020:
50th calendar week, 345th day of the year
21 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Angelina
HISTORICAL DATA
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2018 - At a UN conference in Marrakech, Morocco, representatives of 164 nations, including Germany, approve the United Nations Pact to Control Migration.
It is not legally binding and its effects are controversial.
2013 - Lower Saxony is the last federal state to abolish tuition fees at its universities.
2010 - A bank robbery in Karlsruhe ends with the death of the two robbers.
The couple with the nickname “gentlemen robbers” had made northern Baden and the southern Palatinate unsafe for 15 years.
In their bank robberies, they stole a total of around two million euros.
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2007 - With their first big live concert in almost three decades, the British rock band Led Zeppelin aroused around 20,000 fans in London.
2005 - At its federal party congress in Dresden, the Left Party sets the course for a merger with the electoral alternative work and social justice (WASG).
1997 - Deutsche Telekom officially completes the construction of the telephone network in East Germany with a ceremony in Neubrandenburg.
1950 - The German Sports Federation (DSB) is founded in Hanover as the umbrella organization of the state sports associations and professional sports associations.
Willi Daume becomes the first president.
1845 - The English manufacturer RW Thomson receives a patent for an air-filled rubber tire.
It was used for bicycles from 1888 and for motor vehicles from 1895.
1520 - Martin Luther solemnly burns the papal bull declaring him a heretic.
BIRTHDAYS
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1990 - Lenka Dürr (30), German volleyball player, 217 appearances in the national team
1960 - Kenneth Branagh (60), British director and actor ("Much Ado About Nothing")
1921 - Georg Stefan Troller (99), American television journalist, long-time Paris correspondent for ARD and ZDF
1920 - Alfred Dregger, German politician, chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group 1982-1991, d. 2002
1845 - Wilhelm von Bode, German art historian, general director of the state museums in Berlin 1905-1920, founded the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (today: Bode-Museum) in 1904, d. 1929
DAYS OF DEATH
2018 - Bernd Protzner, German politician, Secretary General of the CSU 1995-1998, b.
1952
2010 - Rüdiger Proske, German television journalist and science journalist, founder and director of the TV magazine «Panorama» 1961-1963, born.
1916
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