52. Calendar week
364. Day of the year
1 day left until the end of the year
Zodiac sign: capricorn
Name day: felix, sabinus, germar
HISTORICAL DATA
2010 – germany experiences coldest december since 1969. The average temperature was 4.3 degrees below the long-term average, reports the german weather service (DWD) in its monthly report.
2002 – as a protest against the american presence in yemen, a 32-year-old yemeni invades a baptist hospital south of sanaa and executes three americans.
1999 – a mentally deranged man stabs ex-beatle george harrison at his home near london, but does not endanger his life. Harrison’s wife olivia can knock down the tater with a lamp.
1997 – in the worst massacres since the outbreak of the algerian civil war in 1992, more than 400 people died in the region of relizane alone
1967 – the catholic bishops of great britain lift the ban on eating meat on friday.
1947 – the rumanian government forces king michael I. To the abdication and proclaims the people’s republic of romania.
1922 – the soviet union (ussr) is founded by the merger of the russian socialist federative soviet republic (RSFSR) with the soviet republics of transcaucasia, ukraine and belarus.
1916 – members of the russian court assassinate the siberian monk rasputin, the confidant of tsar nikolaus II.
1812 – the preubian general yorck von wartenburg agrees on his own responsibility on a preubian-russian neutrality treaty, the so called convention of tauroggen (today taurage in lithuania).
ALSO
2016 – dpa reports: out of pure fear, a car driver stopped in front of a tunnel near minden and called the police. Reason was his tunnelphobia. Fear had made him unable to drive, the man explained. There was no possibility of turning around, the wife did not have a driver’s license. But the helpers knew what to do: they took the man through the tunnel in a patrol car, and a policewoman steered the car with his wife.
BIRTHDAYS
1927 – robert hossein (90), french actor ("the professional") and director ("les miserables – the legion of the damned")
1937 – gordon banks (80), british soccer player (73 appearances as goalkeeper for the english national team, world champion 1966)
1967 – thorsten schroder (50), german news anchor ("tagesschau") and TV presenter
1977 – laila ali (40), american boxer, daughter of muhammad ali
1819 – theodor fontane, german writer ("effi briest"), d. 1898
DEADLINE
2007 – hans ulrich kempski, german journalist ("suddeutsche zeitung"), born. 1922
1995 – heiner muller, german dramatist ("die schlacht"), director and intendant, born. 1929