The current calendar page for November 21, 2022:
47th calendar week, 325th day of the year 40 days left until the end of the yearZodiac sign: ScorpioName day: Amalberg
HISTORICAL DATA
2021 – Alexander Zverev wins the season finale of the best tennis professionals of the year for the second time after 2018. He defeated the Russian title holder Daniil Medvedev in Turin.
2012 – A controversial “agent law” comes into force in Russia. It requires non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with funding from other states to describe themselves as “foreign agents”.
2002 – At the NATO summit in Prague, seven more countries are invited to join: Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Slovakia. For the first time, the alliance area will also include former Soviet republics.
1992 – The last Russian combat troops leave Thuringia. It is the first of the new federal states in which the withdrawal has ended. Until the fall of communism in 1989, Thuringia was seen as a deployment and combat area for a possible war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
1987 – Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff moderates the quiz show “One will win” for the last time.
1967 – Chief detective Karl-Heinz Kurras is acquitted of the charge of negligently killing student Benno Ohnesorg. Kurras had shot Ohnesorg on June 2 during protests against the state visit of the Shah of Persia.
1947 – One day after his death, Wolfgang Borchert’s play “Outside the Door” is premiered as a stage play in the Hamburger Kammerspiele.
1806 – France’s Emperor Napoleon imposed an economic embargo on England and had all European ports closed to British goods during this “continental blockade” that lasted until 1813.
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the Constitution and becomes the 12th state in the United States.
BIRTHDAYS
1952 – Corny Littmann (70), German theater manager, Schmidt Theater, Schmidts Tivoli; President of the football club FC St. Pauli 2002-2010
1947 – Klaus Esser (75), German industrial manager, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Mannesmann Group 1999-2000
1945 – Goldie Hawn (77), American actress (“The Devils Club”, “Sagittarius Benjamin”)
1942 – Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (80), German politician, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development 1998-2009. Deputy Chairwoman of the SPD 1993-2005. Member of the European Parliament 1979-1987. Juso chairwoman 1974-1977
1927 – Barbara Rütting, German actress, author and politician, Bavarian state parliamentarian for the Greens 2003-2009 – film roles including: “Die Geierwally”, “Let’s stay healthy”, died 2020
DEATH DAYS
2017 – David Cassidy, American actor and pop musician (role on ‘The Partridge Family’, hit ‘I Think I Love’), born 1950
2017 – Peter Berling, German film producer, actor and writer (producer: “Warning of a holy whore”, film actor: “Love is colder than death”, “Aguirre, the wrath of God”, author of the novel cycle “The Children of the Grail” ), born 1934
