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Berlin.The current calendar page for Friday, May 6th, 2022: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events at a glance.
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Calendar sheet: Friday, May 6, 2022
- 18th calendar week, 126th day of the year, 239 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Taurus
- Name day: Antonia, Britto, Domitian, Gundula
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History: What happened on May 6th?
A look back into history can sharpen the view of the present. What events took place on May 6th?
2021 – The Bundestag decides to set up a Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation in Berlin. The foundation is intended to commemorate the political work of the long-standing CDU head of government with a view to German unity and European reconciliation.
2020 – A telephone conference between Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the Prime Minister relaxes the rules in the Corona crisis, for example in daycare centers, schools and restaurants. The countries determine the details themselves.
2017 – Islamist terrorist militia Boko Haram releases 82 of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped in northern Nigeria in 2014. In return, the government releases some rebels from prison.
2012 – The socialist François Hollande wins the presidential election in France with 51.6 percent. Conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy gets 48.4 percent.
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2002 – Burma’s military junta lifts the house arrest imposed on opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi 20 months earlier.
2002 – The Dutch right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn is shot dead on the street in Hilversum. In the parliamentary elections on May 15, his party will come in second.
1937 – The German airship Hindenburg explodes on approach to land over Lakehurst, New Jersey. 36 people die.
1932 – A Russian assassin shoots several times at French President Paul Doumer in Paris, who succumbs to his injuries the next day.
1527 – Emperor Charles V’s mercenary troops conquer Rome. The marauding lansquenets, who hadn’t received any pay for a long time, plundered the city for weeks and forced Pope Clemens VII to flee to Castel Sant’Angelo (“Sacco di Roma”).
Who was born on May 6th?
Celebrity Birthdays on May 6th:
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1952 – Alexander Radszun (70), German actor (“Everyone dies for themselves”, “The shadow man”)
1952 – Christian Clavier (70), French actor (TV series “Napoleon”, film “Monsieur Claude and his daughters”)
1942 – Ariel Dorfman (80), Chilean writer (“Death and the Maiden”)
1932 – Johannes Gross, German journalist and author, publisher of the magazine “Impulse” 1980-1999, moderation of the “Bonner Runde” 1977-1984, died 1999
1902 – Max Ophüls, German-French director (“Der Reigen”, “Lola Montez”), died 1957
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Who died on May 6th?
Prominent Todestage am 6. May:
1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (“The Blue Angel”, “The Red Lola”, “Witness for the Prosecution”) and singer, born 1901
1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian reform pedagogue and doctor, who gave her name to Montessori pedagogy, opened her first “children’s home” in a slum of Rome in 1907, born in 1870
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