Berlin.The current 2022 Thursday, May 19, calendar page: what happened today, who was born, who died? Events in brief.

Calendar sheet: 2022 Thursday, May 19th

• 20 calendar weeks, 139 years, there are 226 days left until the end of the year
• Star sign Taurus
• Name: Ivo, Pietro

What happened on May 19th.

2017 – Bibiana Steinhaus became the first female Bundesliga judge to be a woman. This is decided by the DFB.

2007 – The Left Party and WASG merger is sealed. During the vote, members of the Left Party and the WASG voted overwhelmingly in favor of the merger.

1977 – The Orient Express, one of the most famous and luxurious trains in the history of railways, departs from Paris for its last trip to Istanbul in the evening.

1972 – The Stade nuclear power plant becomes the first purely commercial large-scale nuclear power plant in Germany.

1972 – 34 people are injured in a bomb attack by the RAF publishing house Springer in Hamburg.

1947 – After April 20. The first state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia was formed in Düsseldorf.

1902 – The current German Tennis Association (DTB), called the Deutscher Lawn Tennis Bund (DLTB), is founded in Berlin.

1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte, then the first French consul, presented the most important French order since then, the Legion of Honor.

1607 – Ludwig V Giesen, Landesman of Hesse-Darmstadt, founded the Ludwig University or Ludoviciana, named after him. Since 1946 It was named after Justas Liebig, a former professor of chemistry.

Celebrity Birthdays: Who was born on May 19th?

1952 – Bert van Marwijk (70), Dutch football coach, Dutch national team coach 2008-2012

1947 – Barbara Schöne (75), German actress (Baltic Storm, Our Charly).

1947 – David Helfgott (75), an Australian pianist made famous in his film The Glow (1996)

1942 – Alexandra, German singer (Mein Freund, der Baum, Zigeunerjunge, Sehnsucht), died in 1969.

1922 – Herbert Burdensky, German footballer, 1940 and 1941 FC Schalke 04 German champion. Five-time national team player, died in 2001.

Celebrity Death Days: Who Died on May 19?

2007 – Hans Wollschläger, a German translator and writer, best known as a reprint of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, was born in 1935.

1962 – Gabriele Münter, German painter, member of the Blauer Reiter group, was born in 1877.

RND / with dpa material