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Berlin.The current calendar page for Tuesday, May 31, 2022: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events at a glance.
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Calendar sheet: Tuesday, May 31, 2022
- 22nd calendar week, 151st day of the year, 214 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Gemini
- Name day: Hiltrud, Petronilla
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History: What happened on May 31st?
2021 – Against the background of a massive decline in the birth rate and the rapid aging of society, the Chinese Communist Party decides to relax the birth control policy and in future allows couples to have three children.
2020 – Aussie-British mining company Rio Tinto admits to blowing up aboriginal places of worship in Western Australia’s Jukaan Gorge. The company wanted to mine iron ore deposits there. Rio Tinto boss resigns in mid-September after protests
2017 – At least 150 people are killed in a devastating bomb attack in the immediate vicinity of the German embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul.
2012 – The EU Commission takes Germany to the European Court of Justice for failing to transpose the Data Retention Directive into national law.
2002 – The European Union and its 15 member states finally ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global climate protection.
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1997 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Ukrainian counterpart Leonid Kuchma sign a friendship treaty in Kyiv, in which both countries confirm their borders.
1957 – The Bundestag passes the law on continued wages for workers in the event of illness. Equal treatment of workers and employees in the event of illness is thus laid down in law.
1942 – On the night of May 31, Cologne is reduced to rubble by the British “Thousand Bomber Attack”.
1897 – Berlin’s first subway runs on a 300 meter long AEG test facility in the Gesundbrunnen district.
Celebrity Birthdays: Who Was Born On May 31st?
1962 – Sebastian Koch (60), German actor (“The Lives of Others”, “Speer und Er”)
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1952 – Frank Ulrich Montgomery (70), German medical officer, Chairman of the World Medical Association since 2019, President of the German Medical Association 2011-2019
1952 – Karl Bartos (70), German musician, former member of the band Kraftwerk (Autobahn, Das Model)
1922 – Denholm Elliott, British actor (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”, “Room with a View”), died 1992
1922 – Rolf Gillhausen, German journalist and photographer, former editor-in-chief of “Stern” and founder of the magazine “Geo”, died 2004
Celebrities Death Days: Who Died on May 31st?
2020 – Christo, Bulgarian-American object and packaging artist (wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin 1995), born 1935
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1872 – Friedrich Gerstacker, German travel and novelist (“The River Pirates of the Mississippi”), born 1816
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