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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 30, 2020:
53rd calendar week, 365th day of the year
1 more day until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Felix, Sabinus, Germar
HISTORICAL DATA
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2003 - The first European-Chinese satellite goes into space.
A rocket of the type “Long March 2C / SM” brings the satellite “Probe-1” from the space center in Xichang (southwest China) into orbit.
2002 - For the first time there is a woman at the head of Serbia
The 37-year-old parliamentarian Natasa Micic takes over the office of President of the Republic.
2000 - Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree confirming the new text for the Russian national anthem.
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1995 - The three-time murderer of women Thomas Holst, known as the “Heidemord”, surrenders to the police three months after his escape from a psychiatric hospital in Hamburg.
1947 - The Romanian government forces King Michael I to abdicate and proclaims the People's Republic of Romania.
1905 - The operetta "The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehar is premiered in Vienna.
1880 - Tahiti, the largest of the South Pacific Society Islands, is declared a French colony.
King Pomaré V had signed the annexation treaty in June 1880.
1812 - The Prussian General Yorck von Wartenburg agrees on his own responsibility a Prussian-Russian neutrality agreement, the so-called Convention of Tauroggen (today Taurage in Lithuania).
1066 - A group of Muslims storms the royal palace of Granada and murders Joseph ibn Naghrela, the Jewish vizier of the Berber king.
This is followed by a massacre of the Jewish community in which an estimated 4,000 Jews are killed.
BIRTHDAYS
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1975 - Tiger Woods (45), American golfer, becomes the first player to hold all four major titles at the same time (2001)
1970 - Kader Attia (50), French artist (exhibition "Sacrifice and Harmony")
1965 - Peter Lund (55), German director (“Axel an der Himmelstür”) and author (musical “Das Wunder von Neukölln”)
1935 - Wolfgang Dauner, German jazz pianist and composer (“Et Cetera”, “Changes”), died 2020
1910 - Paul Bowles, American writer and composer, novel "Heaven over the desert" (made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1990), died 1999
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Jan Fedder, German actor (“Großstadtrevier”), b.
1955
1995 - Heiner Müller, German playwright (“Die Schlacht”), director (“Hamlet / Hamletmaschine”) and artistic director, b.
1929
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