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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 24, 2020:
52nd calendar week, 359th day of the year
7 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Hanno, Irmina, Johannes, Joseph
HISTORICAL DATA
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2013 - In 2013, the Deutsche Bundesbank moved almost 37 tons of gold from its holdings in New York and Paris to its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main.
The reason for the relocation is a new storage concept.
2005 - In a politically controversial process, an Egyptian criminal court sentenced the prominent opposition activist Eiman Nur to five years in prison.
On February 18, 2009, it was announced that Nur was released on health grounds.
2002 - Freezing rain hampers road and rail traffic in large parts of northern and eastern Germany.
The trains stand idle for hours or leave the stations several hours late.
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2000 - At least 13 people are killed and 95 injured in a series of bomb attacks on Christian churches in Indonesia.
1990 - American film stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise get married in Telluride, Colorado.
The marriage lasted until 2001.
1968 - "Apollo 8" orbits the moon.
The three astronauts on board are the first people to fly around a strange celestial body.
1943 - American General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Allied Commander in Chief for the planned invasion of France.
1865 - The Ku Klux Klan is founded in Pulaski (Tennessee / USA).
The racist secret society is directed against people of different skin colors and religious minorities.
1777 - The British navigator James Cook discovers land in the central Pacific after passing the equator and calls it Christmas Island because of the date.
The island has been called Kirimati since 1979 and belongs to the island state of Kiribati.
BIRTHDAYS
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1964 - Bernd Michael Lade (56), German actor and director («Karniggels», role of the Leipzig «Tatort» commissioner Kain)
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British rock musician, singer and bassist for the hard rock band Motörhead (album "Kiss Of Death"), died 2015
1940 - Karin Junker (80), German politician, chairwoman of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP) 1992-2004, member of the European Parliament 1989-2004
1920 - Franco Lucentini, Italian writer, journalist and editor, with Carlo Fruttero the author duo Fruttero & Lucentini (works: "The Sunday woman", "The secret of the pineta"), d. 2002
1905 - Howard Hughes, American industrialist, film producer and aircraft designer (directed by “Hell's Angels”, “Scarface”), d. 1976
DAYS OF DEATH
2012 - Jack Klugman, American actor (TV series "Quincy"), b.
1922
1980 - Karl Dönitz, German Grand Admiral, President of the Reich for a short time after Hitler's suicide in 1945, b.
1891
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