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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 29, 2020:
53rd calendar week, 364th day of the year
2 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Thomas
HISTORICAL DATA
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2015 - A former mayor from the Central African country is sentenced to life imprisonment in Frankfurt / Main for participating in the genocide in Rwanda.
2010 - Security forces thwart a terrorist attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen.
Five men are arrested.
They wanted to cause a bloodbath because the editorial staff published the cartoons with the Prophet Mohammed in 2005.
2005 - The South Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk, celebrated as a cloning pioneer, completely forged his study of tailor-made stem cells, said a commission of inquiry at Seoul National University.
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2000 - The Vatican also introduces the single currency, the euro.
A corresponding agreement is signed in Rome.
1987 - The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko returns to Earth from the “Mir” space station after a record time of 326 days.
1940 - After a two-hour German bombing raid, more than 1,400 fires rage in central London.
163 people die in the firestorm.
It is one of the heaviest German Air Force attacks on Great Britain in World War II.
1937 - The new constitution of Ireland, which has declared itself a sovereign republic under the Gaelic name of Eire, enters into force.
1890 - At the Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the American cavalry crushes the last great Indian revolt ("Wounded Knee Massacre").
1170 - In Canterbury Cathedral, four knights assassinate Archbishop Thomas Becket, who was fighting with King Henry II over jurisdiction over the clergy.
Historians see the monarch as the commissioner of the bloody act.
BIRTHDAYS
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1972 - Jude Law (48), British actor ("On the way to Cold Mountain", "AI-Artificial Intelligence", "The talented Mr. Ripley")
1947 - Ted Danson (73), American actor ("Three Men and a Baby", TV series "Cheers")
1940 - Brigitte Kronauer, German writer ("Errötende Mörder", "Teufelsbrück"), d. 2019
1938 - Jon Voight (82), American actor, Oscar for best leading actor in “Coming Home”, other films: “The Odessa Files” and “Asphalt Cowboy”
1800 - Charles Goodyear, American chemist, developed the process of vulcanizing rubber to make rubber, d. 1860
DAYS OF DEATH
1980 - Nadeschda Mandelstam, author ("The Century of Wolves");
Wife of the poet Ossip Mandelstam, b.
1899
1973 - Willy Birgel, German actor (“Rides for Germany”, “Closed season for foxes”), b.
1891
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