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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 22, 2020:
52nd calendar week, 357th day of the year
9 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Jutta, Marian
HISTORICAL DATA
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1995 - With the arrival of 116 German soldiers in the Croatian town of Split, the Federal Armed Forces begin their peacekeeping operations in Bosnia.
It is the Bundeswehr's largest foreign deployment to date.
The associations are part of the international peacekeeping force (IFOR).
1990 - The Soviet Union hands over the memorial for those who fell in World War II in Berlin-Tiergarten near the Brandenburg Gate to the state government.
1990 - In Poland, Lech Walesa is sworn in as the first democratically elected president since the end of the communist dictatorship.
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1942 - Harro Schulze-Boysen, Libertas Schulze-Boysen, Arvid Harnack and other members of the "Rote Kapelle" resistance group are hanged in Berlin-Plötzensee.
1920 - Post officials play Christmas carols on the Funkerberg in Königs Wusterhausen near Berlin.
The music is broadcast live via long wave.
This is considered to be the "hour of birth of German broadcasting".
For the first time, speech and music will be broadcast in the form of a moderated program.
1917 - In Brest-Litovsk, the seat of the German Commander-in-Chief in the east, the first round of official peace negotiations between Bolshevik Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) begins in the First World War.
1808 - Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th and 6th symphonies are premiered in Vienna.
1789 - During the revolutionary period in France, 75-85 départements are decided by decree instead of the historical provinces.
This should guarantee greater equality between the parts of the country.
On January 15, 1790, the number is fixed at 83.
1216 - Pope Honorius III.
(1216-1227) gives the Dominicans their certificate of confirmation with the bull "Religiosam Vitam".
BIRTHDAYS
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1980 - Chris Carmack (40), American actor and photo model ("Into the Blue 2", "Nashville")
1960 - Felicitas Hoppe (60), German writer («Pigafetta»)
1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist, is considered to be the first African-American artist to break through in the mostly white art world, d. 1988
1945 - Konrad Beikircher (75), German cabaret artist, actor and musician, cabaret program "Zwischen Himmel un Ääd" (Between Heaven and Earth)
1940 - Eberhard Schöler (80), German table tennis player and sports official, Vice World Champion 1969
DAYS OF DEATH
2018 - Alfred Mechtersheimer, German peace researcher and officer, founder of the Research Institute for Peace Policy in Starnberg 1982, b.
1939
2015 - Rolf Bossi, German defense lawyer, his clients included Romy Schneider, Ingrid van Bergen and the child murderer Jürgen Bartsch, b.
1923
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