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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 11, 2020:
50th calendar week, 346th day of the year
20 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Arthur, David
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Saudi oil giant Aramco raises $ 25.6 billion through the sale of 1.5 percent of its shares, making it its largest IPO to date.
Valued at $ 1.88 trillion, the group will also become the largest publicly traded company ahead of tech giant Apple.
2018 - A 29-year-old kills five people at the Strasbourg Christmas market.
The perpetrator is committed to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist militia.
He is killed two days later in an exchange of fire with the police.
2015 - “Refugees” is chosen as Word of the Year 2015.
The German Language Society (GfdS) in Wiesbaden explains the decision.
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2005 - Paramount Pictures, the Hollywood studio division of the American media giant Viacom, takes over the film studio DreamWorks SKG, co-founded by Steven Spielberg.
2000 - The EU summit in Nice agrees on a new treaty for the European Union after tough negotiations.
This clears the way for Europe to grow closer together.
1998 - Former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (CDU) was awarded the title of “Honorary Citizen of Europe” at the EU summit in Vienna for his services to European unification.
1985 - In the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf, the clearing work for the controversial reprocessing plant begins under police protection.
1983 - For the first time a Catholic church leader preaches in a Protestant church.
Pope John Paul II takes part in a church celebration in the Luther Church in Rome.
1875 - 83 people are killed in an explosives attack on the steamship "Mosel" in Bremerhaven.
An explosive device equipped with a time fuse, which is supposed to sink the ship with 576 passengers on the high seas, explodes as soon as it is loaded in the port.
The motive for the act is insurance fraud.
BIRTHDAYS
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1960 - Rachel Portman (60), British composer, became the first woman to win a film music Oscar for her composition for the film "Emma"
1960 - Uwe Eric Laufenberg (60), German theater director and actor, director of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden since 2014
1950 - Christina Onassis, major Greek shipowner, d. 1988
1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant (90), French actor («Corpses pave his way», «Z»)
1445 - Duke Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg 1495-1496, founder of the University of Tübingen 1477, d. 1496
DAYS OF DEATH
2000 - Erhard Krack, German politician, Lord Mayor of East Berlin 1974-1990, b.
1931
1980 - Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, only daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II., B.
1892
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