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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 7, 2021:
18th calendar week, 127th day of the year
238 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Agostino, Gisela, Helga, Notker
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The Bundestag elects the SPD politician Eva Högl as the new defense commissioner and successor to Hans-Peter Bartels (SPD).
The budget politician Johannes Kahrs left the Bundestag on May 5 because his SPD parliamentary group had not nominated him for the post.
2001 - The Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis invests in competitor Roche.
2001 - After decades of fleeing, the British mail robber Ronnie Biggs returns to Great Britain.
There he is serving the remainder of his 30-year prison sentence.
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1996 - The UN war criminals tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague opens the main proceedings against the Serb Dusko Tadic, who was extradited from Germany on April 24, 1995.
1989 - Local elections take place in the GDR.
After obvious election fraud, members of the opposition publicly protest against the election fraud.
1971 - The credit institutions in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg decide to use uniform “Eurocheques” and “Eurocheque” cards.
1954 - French troops lose the decisive battle against the Viet Minh for the fortress Dien Bien Phu in northwest Vietnam in the French war in Indochina.
1933 - The painter Max Liebermann declares his resignation from the Prussian Academy of the Arts and resigns from the honorary presidency.
1866 - Otto von Bismarck is assassinated in Berlin.
The Prussian Prime Minister remains unharmed.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Bettina Eistel (60), German TV presenter and dressage rider, ZDF program “Menschen - das Magazin”, multiple medalist in dressage at the Paralympics in Athens and Beijing
1956 - Anne Dudley (65), British musician and film composer, member of the pop group The Art of Noise, film music for «All or not at all»
1946 - Carmen Thomas (75), German journalist, WDR broadcast “Hallo Ü-Wagen”;
was the first woman to present “The Current Sport Studio” on ZDF 1973-1974, books: “A very special juice - urine”, “Fear of contact?
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1901 - Gary Cooper, American actor (“For whom the hour strikes”, “12 noon”), d. 1961
1861 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, philosopher and composer, volume of poems "Gitanjali", the first Indian Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, d
DAYS OF DEATH
2018 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian director (“The Legend of the Holy Drinker”), born in 1931
1991 - Hans Bender, German parapsychologist, head of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene in Freiburg 1967-1975, born in 1907
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