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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for May 16, 2021:
19th calendar week, 136th day of the year
229 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Adelphus, Johannes
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - After a 63-day Corona break, the Bundesliga will start playing again - but in ghost games in front of empty spectator stands.
2011 - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague applies for international arrest warrants against the Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam and the head of the secret service, Abdullah Senussi.
They are charged with crimes against humanity.
2006 - For the first time since the start of monetary union, the EU refuses to accept the euro from a member state: Lithuania is not allowed to join at the turn of the year 2006/2007 due to excessive inflation.
Slovenia has been given the green light.
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1996 - The first Carnival of Cultures starts in Berlin.
The small multicultural festival of foreigner initiatives grows over the years into a big parade with street festival that now attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors.
1981 - The actor Karlheinz Böhm bets in the ZDF program "Wetten, dass ..?" That not every viewer will donate one mark, one franc or seven shillings for people in need in Africa.
Around 1.2 million marks come together.
With the money, Böhm founds the Ethiopia Aid “People for People”.
1966 - In the «Circular of May 16», the «Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution» is mentioned for the first time.
The ideological campaign (1966-1976) led by Mao Tsetung killed millions of people in China.
1946 - The first edition of the Handelsblatt appears in Düsseldorf.
It is the first German business newspaper after World War II.
1916 - In the Sykes-Picot Agreement, France and Great Britain define their spheres of interest in the Middle East.
1881 - The world's first electric tram is put into operation in Groß-Lichterfelde (now Berlin), initially as a test route.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Janet Jackson (55), American pop singer ("Unbreakable")
1951 - Christian Lacroix (70), French fashion designer, founded his fashion house in 1987
1936 - Karl Lehmann, German Cardinal, Archbishop of Mainz 1983-2016, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference 1987-2008, Cardinal since 2001, died 2018
1936 - Manfred Stolpe, German politician (SPD), Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Housing 2002-2005, Prime Minister of Brandenburg 1990-2002, d. 2019
1921 - Winnie Markus, German actress ("Melodie und Rhythmus", "Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram"), d. 2002
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Ieoh Ming Pei, American architect (glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre in Paris, extension of the German Historical Museum in Berlin), born in 1917
1926 - Sultan Mehmed VI., Last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire 1918-1922, born in 1861
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