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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 4, 2021:
18th calendar week, 124th day of the year
241 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Florian, Guido
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The Duisburg Regional Court will discontinue the Loveparade trial due to minor guilt of the remaining defendants without a verdict.
In July 2010, 21 people were trampled to death in Duisburg.
2016 - The Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decides that the issue of the 500 euro note will be discontinued "towards the end of 2018".
The gradual abolition of the purple note is intended to curb terrorist financing and illegal work.
2016 - NATO strengthens its ties to Israel.
The alliance wants to recognize an official representative of the state in Brussels.
Israel is a partner, but not a member of the international defense alliance.
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2001 - The first pilots strike in the history of Lufthansa leads to considerable disabilities at German airports.
2001 - Pope John Paul II arrives on a visit to Greece.
It is the first visit by a head of the Roman Catholic Church to Greece since the two churches separated in 1054. The Pope asks forgiveness for the crimes committed against the Orthodox Church.
1961 - The Bundestag passes the Federal Social Welfare Act to protect socially disadvantaged people and those in need.
It came into force on June 1, 1962.
1931 - The first car rolls off the assembly line at the new Ford plant in Cologne - an A-model.
1904 - A group of young people founds the football club "Westfalia Schalke" in the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen.
In 1924, “FC Schalke 04” was created.
1896 - The Daily Mail, founded by Alfred Harmsworth and his brother Harold, appears for the first time in London.
BIRTHDAYS
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1956 - David Guterson (65), American writer («Snow falling on cedars»)
1956 - Sharon Jones, American soul singer (album "It's a Holiday Soul Party"), died 2016
1956 - Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth (65), German athlete, gold medals in the high jump at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and 1984 in Los Angeles
1951 - Jackie Jackson (70), American musician, eldest brother of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson
1941 - Kay Nehm (80), German lawyer, federal prosecutor 1994-2006
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Peter Bachér, German journalist, editor of the magazine “Hörzu” (1984-92), born in 1927
2006 - Fritz Schenk, German television journalist, long-time co-moderator and editor-in-chief of “ZDF-Magazin”, born in 1930
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