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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for December 31, 2020:
53rd calendar week, 366th day of the year
Last day of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Katharina, Melanie, New Year's Eve
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - China reports mysterious cases of illness to the World Health Organization (WHO): A lung disease has broken out in the central Chinese metropolis of Wuhan.
It later became known that the disease was caused by a novel coronavirus.
2015 - On New Year's Eve there are hundreds of attacks on women in front of Cologne Central Station, including theft, robbery and sexual offenses.
Many of the accused are refugees or live illegally in Germany.
The acts fuel the debate on how to deal with refugees who have committed criminal offenses.
2005 - The popular folk music presenter Karl Moik says goodbye to his television audience after 25 years on New Year's Eve with the “Silvesterstadl” from Klagenfurt am Wörthersee.
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2000 - London's Millennium Cathedral closes after a year.
The imposing giant tent on the Thames has attracted 6.5 million visitors.
At least twelve million had been expected.
1998 - One day before the start of the European Monetary Union, the EU finance ministers set the conversion rates from the euro to the currencies of the eleven euro countries.
1993 - The potash mine in Bischofferode, Thuringia, is closed after almost a year of industrial action.
1945 - In Frankfurt am Main, the US military government hands over the civil administration of the US zone to the German authorities on the lower levels.
1720 - A heavy storm surge tears Heligoland in two on New Year's Eve.
Since then, the sea has separated the “main island” from the large dune, which has now become a bathing island.
1600 - The English Queen Elizabeth I responds to an urgent request from her merchants and gives them the monopoly for trade in Asia with the establishment of the East India Company.
BIRTHDAYS
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1955 - Stephan Krawczyk (65), German songwriter and writer ("Das earthische Kind")
1940 - Imi Knoebel (80), German painter and installation artist
1935 - King Salman (85), Saudi Arabian king since 2015
1935 - Peter Herbolzheimer, German jazz trombonist and composer, composed the music for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, his band: Rhythm Combination & Brass, died 2010
1880 - George C. Marshall, American general and politician, Secretary of State 1947-1949, proposed an economic development program for Europe in 1947 - the "Marshall Plan", Nobel Peace Prize 1953, died 1959
DAYS OF DEATH
2015 - Natalie Cole, American singer, daughter of Nat King Cole, (“Unforgettable ... With Love”), b.
1950
1995 - Fritz Eckhardt, Austrian actor, director and author ("Hello - Hotel Sacher ... porter!"), B.
1907
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