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Events on December 12

• 1837 King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover dismisses the Göttingen Seven. He accuses the professors at the University of Göttingen, who protested against the abolition of the liberal constitution introduced in 1833 in the kingdom, of high treason.
• 1913 Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa reappears in Florence two years after its theft from the Paris Louvre.
• 1915 With the Junkers J 1, the world's first all-metal aircraft makes its first test flight.
• 1935 In Germany, Lebensborn e. V. is founded, a state-funded association intended to serve, on the basis of “National Socialist racial hygiene” and health ideology, the increase in the birth rate for the breeding of a pure, “Aryan elite”.
• 1942 Operation Winter Storm, the German Wehrmacht's attempt during the Russian campaign of the Second World War to relieve the 6th Army trapped in the Stalingrad pocket, begins. The attack lasts until 23 December.
• 1948 13 liberal regional associations of the western occupation zones unite in Heppenheim to form the FDP.
• 1956 The first program of the Munich Laugh-and-Shoot Society, a political cabaret featuring Ursula Herking, Hans Jürgen Diedrich, Klaus Havenstein and Dieter Hildebrandt, premieres.
• 1968 Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead, the last Karl May film starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, has its premiere at the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich.
• 1979 NATO adopts the NATO Double Track Decision, which both offers negotiations to the Warsaw Pact while at the same time envisages the deployment of new US missiles in Western Europe. In the Federal Republic of Germany, it consequently sparks years of protests by the peace movement.
• 1985 Red-green coalition in Hesse: With the swearing-in of Joschka Fischer, a Green politician holds a ministerial office for the first time in the party's history. Fischer attracts attention at the ceremony with his sneakers.
• 2004 The first stage of the major railway project Bahn 2000 is inaugurated in Switzerland.
• 2015 The Paris Agreement is adopted at the United Nations climate conference, with the aim of significantly reducing CO₂ emissions worldwide.

Born on December 12

• 1863 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and graphic artist
• 1892 Liesl Karlstadt, German actress
• 1903 Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director and screenwriter
• 1910 Helene Mayer, German fencer
• 1940 Dionne Warwick, American singer and television presenter
• 1960 Volker Beck, German politician
• 1960 Martina Hellmann, German track and field athlete
• 1970 Jennifer Connelly, American actress
• 1990 Prince Damien, German-South African singer, songwriter, choreographer, dancer and dance teacher
• 1991 Jaime Lorente, Spanish actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „12. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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