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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 19, 2020:

51st calendar week, 354th day of the year

12 days until the end of the year

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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Name day: Konrad

HISTORICAL DATA

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2019 - The Bundestag approves the changes to the climate package presented by the mediation committee on December 16.

The price for harmful CO2 is expected to start at 25 euros per ton in 2021, rail travel will be cheaper, and flying will be more expensive.

The Federal Council approves it on December 20, 2019.

2018 - The federal government decides to ease the immigration of skilled workers from non-EU countries.

In addition, tolerated asylum seekers should be allowed to stay in Germany if they are suitable.

2005 - The Brazilian Ronaldinho and the German Birgit Prinz are named “World Footballer of the Year” by the world association FIFA.

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2000 - Airbus gives the go-ahead to build the largest commercial aircraft of all time.

The A380 should offer space for up to 656 passengers.

2000 - The Jehovah's Witnesses win an important victory before the Federal Constitutional Court and are given the status of a “public corporation”.

1995 - With a debate on the final report of the committee of inquiry into the “drawer affair”, the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament draws a parliamentary line under the affairs of the events in the state election campaign in 1987.

1887 - The German Colonial Society is created through the merger of the Society for German Colonization with the German Colonial Association.

Its aim is to promote German colonial policy.

1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol", which later became probably the most famous Christmas story in the world.

It is about the emotional and stingy businessman Ebenezer Scrooge, who changes fundamentally after the visit of three ghosts on Christmas night.

1692 - The Guelph Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg receives the electoral dignity in Vienna and becomes the first elector of the newly created electorate of Hanover.

BIRTHDAYS

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1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal (40), American actor ("Brokeback Mountain")

1970 - Ursina Lardi (50), Swiss actress ("The White Ribbon", "Under the Skin")

1963 - Jennifer Beals (57), American actress ("Flashdance")

1910 - Jean Genet, French writer («Notre-Dame des Fleurs», «Miracle of the Rose»), d. 1986

1900 - Géza von Cziffra, Austrian film director and screenwriter ("Nachtschwester Ingeborg", "Der müde Theodor", "Die Abenteuer des Graf Bobby"), d. 1989

DAYS OF DEATH

2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor, music director of the New York Philharmonic 1991-2002 and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra 1970-96, b.

1927

2012 - Peter Struck, German politician and lawyer, SPD parliamentary group chairman in the German Bundestag 2005-2009 and 1998-2002, Federal Minister of Defense 2002-2005, first parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag 1991-1998, born.

1943

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