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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 15, 2021:
19th calendar week, 135th day of the year
230 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Isidor, Rupert, Sophia
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The federal board of the AfD cancels a majority of the party membership of the Brandenburg party and parliamentary group leader Andreas Kalbitz.
Kalbitz, who belongs to the right-wing AfD “wing”, has kept secret contacts with the far-right milieu.
2019 - The Austrian parliament decides to ban headscarves for girls in elementary schools.
This does not apply to headgear as protection from the weather.
The Jewish kippah is still allowed.
2013 - The Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen parted ways with their coach Thomas Schaaf after 14 years.
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2011 - The priest Georg Häfner is beatified for his death in the resistance against National Socialism.
2006 - The US announces normalization of relations with Libya.
The country is also to be removed from the US list of states that Washington believes support terrorism and are therefore subject to numerous sanctions.
2001 - Europe's smokers have to say goodbye to terms like “mild” or “light” on cigarette packets.
This provides for a tightening of the EU Tobacco Directive, which the EU Parliament approves.
The EU law comes into force at the end of September 2002.
1996 - With a 3-1 win in the final second leg at Girondins Bordeaux, Bayern Munich wins the UEFA Cup for the first and only time in the club's history.
1991 - Edith Cresson is appointed first French Prime Minister.
1891 - The engineer Gerard Philips founds the lamp factory Philips & Co. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with a start-up capital of 75,000 guilders - a loan from his father - thereby laying the foundation stone for one of the world's largest electronics groups today.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Ben (40), German pop singer and TV presenter ("The Dome")
1981 - Zara Tindall (40), British eventing rider, member of the British royal family, daughter of Princess Anne
1946 - Klaus-Peter Siegloch (75), German TV journalist and presenter (ZDF program “heute-journal”)
1931 - Hellmuth Matiasek (90), German-Austrian director and theater director, president of the Bavarian Theater Academy 2000-2003, director of the Munich Gärtnerplatztheater 1983-1996
1911 - Max Frisch, Swiss writer ("Homo faber") and playwright ("Biedermann und die Brandstifter"), d. 1991
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Wiglaf Droste, German journalist and songwriter, editor of the satirical magazine "Titanic", born in 1961
2016 - Erika Berger, German TV presenter (“A chance for love”), born in 1939
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