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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 12, 2020:
50th calendar week, 347th day of the year
19 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Hartmann, Vizelin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - An EU summit in Brussels approves the EU Commission's “Green Deal” on climate protection.
The coal country Poland does not agree to the timetable until 2050.
Like the Czech Republic and Hungary, it requires commitments for financial aid.
2018 - In the dispute over the Brexit treaty, British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a vote of no confidence from her conservative group.
With that, May remains party and government leader.
2015 - A historic breakthrough is achieved at the Paris UN climate conference.
After two weeks of negotiations, almost all countries in the world agree on a climate protection treaty.
The main goal is to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
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2003 - The Bundestag decides against the votes of the Union to have a memorial erected in Berlin for the homosexuals persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era.
2000 - The US Supreme Court rejects the hand-counting of controversial votes in Florida in the November 7th legal battle over the presidential election.
This was seen as the last chance for Vice President Al Gore, the Republican Governor of Texas, to surpass George W. Bush and thus conquer the White House.
1985 - First red-green coalition at state level in Hesse.
Joschka Fischer becomes Environment Minister.
He wears sneakers to be sworn in.
1955 - The British engineer Christopher Cockerell files a patent for the model of the first hovercraft, the "Hovercraft".
1955 - Otto John, former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, returns to the Federal Republic as a surprise after defection to the GDR under mysterious circumstances the previous year.
In 1956 he was sentenced to four years in prison for treason.
1870 - South Carolina Republican Joseph Rainey is sworn in as the first black MP to the US House of Representatives.
BIRTHDAYS
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1970 - Jennifer Connelly (50), American actress, Oscar for best supporting actress in 2002 for "A Beautiful Mind"
1960 - Martina Hellmann (60), German athlete, gold medal in the discus throw for the GDR at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul
1960 - Volker Beck (60), German politician, First Parliamentary Managing Director of the Bundestag faction of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen 2002-2013
1940 - Dionne Warwick (80), American pop singer ("Walk on By")
1905 - Manès Sperber, Austro-French writer and philosopher (“Like a tear in the ocean”), d. 1984
DAYS OF DEATH
2005 - Gyula Trebitsch, German-Hungarian film and television producer, co-founder of the NDR subsidiary “Studio Hamburg” 1960, b.
1914
2000 - Götz Friedrich, German opera director, general director and chief director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin 1981-2000, b.
1930
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