Tagesspiegel: December 6, 2011: The National Council adopts the “child protection package”. Abuse and violence against children are threatened with tougher penalties.

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1841: The first version of Symphony No. 4, D minor, Op. 120, premiered by Robert Schumann.
1846: The opera “Faust’s Damnation” by Hector Berlioz is premiered in Paris.
1916: Troops of the Central Powers under the command of the German Field Marshal August von Mackensen occupy the Romanian capital Bucharest. Most of the civilian population had already been evacuated on December 2nd; the Romanian government and King Ferdinand had withdrawn to Iași (Jassy).
1921: Great Britain signs the peace treaty that establishes Ireland as a free state. Northern Ireland – the six counties in the province of Ulster with a predominantly Protestant population – remains part of the United Kingdom.
1941: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.
1946: The American physicist and later Nobel Prize winner Willard Frank Libby presents an atomic clock that slows down less than a second in 300,000 years. It counts the vibrations of cesium atoms to define the duration of a second.
1971: India recognizes secessionist Bangladesh – “East Pakistan” – as an independent state. Pakistan then breaks off relations with India.
1986: The death of a twenty-year-old student in Paris during a demonstration against the planned higher education reform (which is intended to tighten admission requirements) forces the French government to abandon the proposed law.
1991: The Yugoslav Federal Army wreaked havoc in the historic old town of Dubrovnik. According to UNESCO, around 30 percent of the city center has been destroyed.
1996: The trial of an erroneous testicular operation at the Vienna General Hospital, which caused a sensation in October 1995, ends with a conditional fine for the anesthetist. The surgeon is acquitted.
2006: Fritz Neugebauer is re-elected as head of the civil servants’ union with his weakest result to date of 80.6 percent. The merger union Vida of railway workers, tourism and trade-transport-traffic is implemented. Rudolf Kaske is appointed first chairman.
2006: The Baker Commission (Iraq Study Group, ISG) advocates the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq by the beginning of 2008, otherwise the situation threatens to slide into chaos. The report also called on President George W. Bush to involve Iran and Syria in resolving the conflict. Bush speaks of a “very ruthless assessment of the situation in Iraq” and announces that he will examine the proposals “very seriously”.
2011: The National Council adopts the “child protection package”. Abuse and violence against children are threatened with tougher penalties. “Grooming”, that is the initiation of sexual contact with children via the Internet, is a criminal offense, as is the knowingly viewing of child pornography.

Birthdays: Henry VI, King of England (1421-1471); Chrétien Guillaume Lamoignon Malesherbes, French politician (1721-1794); Thaddäus Xaverius Peregrinus Haenke, east. Polymath and explorer (1761-1816); Hans Molisch, east. Botanist (1856-1937); Willibald Karl Jentschke, east. Physicist; 1971-1975 Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (1911-2002); Kristjan Eldjarn, Iceland. Politician (1916-1982); Daniel Adni, Israel. Pianist (1951); Hans Kammerlander, South Tyrolean alpinist (1956).
Days of Death: Hermann Heiss, German composer (1897-1966); Carla Hansen, Danish Author (“Petzi”) (1906-2001); Sir Richard Stone, British economist; Nobel Prize 1984 (1913-1991); Peter Vaughan, British actor (1923-2016).
Name days: Nikolaus, Gertraud, Dionysia, Klaus, Denise, Heike, Petrus, Simon, Anna, Josefa, Leondria.

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