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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 8, 2021:
18th calendar week, 128th day of the year
237 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Désiré, Friedrich, Ulrike
HISTORICAL DATA
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1996 - The South African Parliament passes a constitution giving all citizens equal rights and forbidding any racial discrimination.
It comes into force on February 4, 1997.
1996 - A container with radioactive waste from the French reprocessing plant La Hague reaches the Gorleben interim storage facility.
In what was the largest police operation in the history of the Federal Republic to date, 19,000 police officers secure the two-day transport through four federal states.
1984 - In Great Britain, the largest flood barrier in the world to date is inaugurated below Greenwich on the Thames.
The "Thames Flood Barrier" is to protect London from storm surges from the North Sea.
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1978 - The South Tyrolean Reinhold Messner and the Austrian Peter Habeler are the first people to conquer Mount Everest without an oxygen mask.
1949 - The Parliamentary Council in Bonn approves the draft of the Basic Law.
1945 - With the capitulation of the German Reich, the Second World War comes to an end in Europe.
1886 - In Atlanta (USA) the pharmacist John Pemberton brings the drink "Coca Cola", which he invented, made from coca extract, caffeine, coca leaves and soda water, to the market as a medicine for headaches.
1629 - A slave cash register is set up in Lübeck for the ransom of sailors Lübeck ships from North Africa.
Muslim corsairs, the so-called barbarians, often hijacked ships in the Hanseatic city and took the seamen prisoner.
The cash register existed until 1861.
1429 - Joan of Arc, an eighteen-year-old peasant girl, leads a French army to victory against the English besiegers of the city of Orléans.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Rocko Schamoni (55), German musician and author, member of the comic ensemble Studio Braun, book «Dorfpunks», tenant of the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg
1961 - Bill de Blasio (60), American politician, Mayor of New York since 2013
1926 - David Attenborough (95), British documentary filmmaker and naturalist
1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director («Rome, open city», «Stromboli»), d. 1977
1521 - Petrus Canisius, German Jesuit, canonized in 1925, d. 1597
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Roy Horn, German-American magician and tamer, member of the magician duo "Siegfried & Roy", show with white tigers and lions in Las Vegas until 2003, born in 1944
1936 - Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (“Der Untergang des Abendlandes”), born in 1880
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