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Berlin.The current calendar page for Saturday, May 7th, 2022: What happened today, who was born, who died? The events at a glance.
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Calendar sheet: Saturday, May 7, 2022
- 18th calendar week, 127th day of the year, 238 days until the end of the year
- Star sign Taurus
- Name day: Agostino, Gisela, Helga, Notker
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History: What happened on May 7th?
A look back into history can sharpen the view of the present. What events took place on May 7th?
2021 – The Islamophobic and nationalist Pegida movement in Saxony is classified as a “proven extremist effort” and is being observed by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the authority reports.
2020 – The Bundestag elects the SPD politician Eva Högl as the new military commissioner and successor to Hans-Peter Bartels (SPD).
2017 – Emmanuel Macron wins the second round of the French presidential election with 66.1 percent of the vote. The right-wing populist Marine Le Pen comes to 33.9 percent. Macron will take office on May 14.
2012 – Vladimir Putin is sworn in as the new President of Russia in the Kremlin. Putin was president from 2000 to 2008.
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2007 – Israeli archaeologists claim to have discovered the tomb of King Herod south of Jerusalem in the fortress palace Herodium.
2002 – After more than 85 years, the name “Mitropa” disappears from trains in Germany. The Mitropa division Service in the train will be transferred to the railway subsidiary DB Reise & Touristik.
1997 – The US government’s “Eizenstat Report” on Nazi looted gold deals makes serious allegations against neutral countries. Switzerland was the banker of the National Socialists and thus contributed to the prolongation of the war.
1992 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin decrees the founding of a Russian army and appoints himself supreme commander.
1907 – The animal dealer Carl Hagenbeck opens the world’s first zoo without bars in the Hamburg suburb of Stellingen.
Who was born on May 7th?
Celebrity Birthdays on May 7th:
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1957 – Ramona Leiß (65), German TV presenter (NDR program “The Current Schaubude”)
1942 – Gerhard Polt (80), German cabaret artist (films “Kehraus”, “One speaks German”)
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, British novelist and screenwriter (“A Room with a View”, “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge”), died 2013
1925 – Wolf Schneider (97), German journalist, head of the Hamburg School of Journalism/ Henri-Nannen-School 1979-95, longtime presenter of the NDR Talk Show
1892 – Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav politician, President 1953-1980, died 1980
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Who died on May 7th?
Prominent Todestage am 7. May:
2002 – Horst Waffenschmidt, German politician (CDU), federal government commissioner for resettlers 1988-1998, born 1933
1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (“Kreidefelsen auf Rügen, “Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer”), born 1774
RND/with dpa material
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