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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 18, 2020:
51st calendar week, 353rd day of the year
13 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Philipp
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Fiat Chrysler and PSA confirm their merger to become the fourth largest automaker in the world.
The new group with around 400,000 employees will produce 8.7 million cars annually.
2017 - In Vienna, the previous Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz is sworn in as the new Federal Chancellor of Austria.
At 31 years of age, Europe's youngest head of government heads a coalition of his conservative ÖVP with the right-wing FPÖ.
2005 - Leftist Evo Morales wins the presidential election in Bolivia.
As the first Indian in the history of the country, he took over the presidency on January 22, 2006.
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2000 - The British music newspaper "Melody Maker", which is connected with the genesis of a number of rock and pop bands, ceases to appear after 74 years.
1970 - The thalidomide trial against individual employees of the Chemie Grünenthal GmbH company is discontinued.
Their sleeping pill and sedative, "Contergan", had caused deformities in children.
1948 - The Römödamm, which connects the Danish island of Rømø (German: Röm) with the Jutian mainland, is inaugurated.
It's a good 9 km long.
1915 - The Gema ("Cooperative for the Exploitation of Musical Performance Rights") is founded in Berlin.
1866 - The Tyrolean Peter Mitterhofer presents the first functional typewriter made of wood and metal that he invented at the Ministry of Commerce in Vienna.
1118 - Alfonso I of Aragon conquers the capital of the Muslim kingdom of Saragossa.
The city becomes the new capital of Aragon.
BIRTHDAYS
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1980 - Christina Aguilera (40), American pop singer ("Genie In A Bottle")
1963 - Brad Pitt (57), American actor ("Seven Years in Tibet")
1950 - Gillian Armstrong (70), Australian director ("Oscar and Lucinda")
1943 - Alan Rudolph (77), American director, «Mrs.
Parker and her vicious circle »
1940 - Klaus Wennemann, German actor ("Der Fahnder"), died 2000
DAYS OF DEATH
2000 - Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher, CEO of Hearst Corporation 1973-96, and son of William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), b.
1915
1995 - Konrad Zuse, German scientist and inventor, designs the first program-controlled calculating machine in the world («Z1»), b.
1910
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