Berlin – The current calendar sheet for July 6, 2021:
27. Calendar week, 187th day of the year
178 days until the end of the year
Star sign Cancer
Name day: Goar, Maria
HISTORICAL DATA
2011 – The EU Parliament gives the go-ahead for consumer information about the ingredients of food. In the future, information about salt, fat and sugar will be mandatory. The new rules can become binding from 2014 at the earliest.
1999 – The North Rhine-Westphalian Constitutional Court declares the five percent hurdle in local elections applicable in the state to be unconstitutional.
1998 – The European Parliament passes a biopatent directive. The guideline clarifies which biotechnological inventions may be patented. It must be implemented in national law in each case.
1988 – 167 people are killed in an explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea off Scotland. It is the worst accident on an oil platform to date.
1967 – Nigerian troops begin military action against the eastern region of the country, Biafra, which had previously declared independence. The war that followed cost the lives of about two million people.
1938 – Representatives from 32 countries and dozen aid organizations meet in Évian, France, and discuss the fate of the Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. The conference ended almost without result, and hardly any state agreed to accept additional refugees.
1928 – “Lights of New York” is premiered in New York. The so-called “All-Talkie” is the first pure sound film in feature length.
1854 – In the United States, the Republican Party, which was founded in the spring and campaigns for the abolition of slavery, holds its first major meeting in Jackson, Michigan.
1189 – Richard I the Lionheart becomes King of England with the death of his father.
BIRTHDAYS
1961 – Jonas Jonasson (60), Swedish writer («The centenarian who climbed out of the window and disappeared»)
1951 – Geoffrey Rush (70), Australian actor (“Shine”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”)
1946 – George W. Bush (75), American politician, 43rd President of the USA 2001-2009, Governor of the US state of Texas 1995-2000, son of former US President George Bush.
1946 – Sylvester Stallone (75), American film actor, screenwriter and director (“Rocky”, “Rambo”)
1921 – Nancy Reagan, former “First Lady” of the USA, widow of Ronald Reagan (President 1981-1989), d. 2016
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 – Ennio Morricone, Italian composer (film music for “For a handful of dollars”, “Play me the song of death”, “Mission”), honorary Oscar 2007, born in 1928
1971 – Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer (“What A Wonderful World”), born in 1901
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