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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 20, 2020:
51st calendar week, 355th day of the year
11 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Name day: Holger
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The British House of Commons approves the treaty for the country to leave the European Union on January 31, 2020. A trade agreement is to be concluded with the EU by the end of 2020.
2015 - The TV entertainer Stefan Raab says goodbye to his audience after the last edition of the ProSieben show spectacle “Schlag den Raab”.
Raab had already announced in the summer that he would end his television career at the end of the year.
2010 - The Hungarian parliament passes a controversial media law.
It enables state intervention in the media and is seen by critics as a restriction of the freedom of the press.
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2000 - The EU labor ministers adopt Europa AG in Brussels.
It is intended to enable companies operating in several EU countries to merge under a uniform legal form and with uniform rules.
1995 - When an American Airlines (AA) Boeing 757 crashes shortly before landing in Cali, Colombia, 160 people are killed.
1990 - The first all-German Bundestag, elected on December 2nd, is constituted in Berlin.
The 77-year-old SPD honorary chairman Willy Brandt opens the new parliament as old-age president.
1960 - The various resistance groups in South Vietnam form the “National Liberation Front South Vietnam” (FNL), also commonly referred to as the “Viet Cong”.
Their goal was to overthrow the government of Ngo Dinh Diem and achieve the unity of South and North Vietnam.
1955 - The first Italian-German recruitment agreement for the employment of 100,000 Italian workers in the Federal Republic is signed in Rome.
1860 - South Carolina is the first southern state to leave the Union of the United States of America because of trade differences and the demand for the abolition of slavery by the central government in Washington;
Other states will follow.
The split leads to the American Civil War.
BIRTHDAYS
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1960 - Kim Ki Duk (60), South Korean director ("Pieta", "Samaria", "Hwal - the bow")
1955 - Martin Schulz (65), German politician, SPD chairman 2017-2018, SPD top candidate in the 2017 Bundestag election, President of the European Parliament 2012-2017
1945 - Jürg Laederach, Swiss writer ("Flugelmeyers Wahn"), d. 2018
1945 - Peter Criss (75), American musician, drummer and singer of the rock group KISS ("I Was Made For Loving You")
1920 - Bruni Löbel, German actress (TV series "Forsthaus Falkenau"), d. 2006
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Hermann L. Gremliza, German journalist and publisher, editor and author of the magazine «Konkret», b.
1940
2018 - FW Bernstein, German cartoonist and poet, co-founder of the “Neue Frankfurter Schule” and the satirical magazines “Pardon” and “Titanic”, b.
1938
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