German jurist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany

Peter Altmaier

Peter Altmaier is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who served as Acting Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2018 and as Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety from May 2012 to December 2013 and Head of the German Chancellery and as Federal Minister for Special Affairs from December 2013 to March 2018. Altmaier is widely seen as one of Chancellor Angela Merkel's most trusted advisors and advocates for her more centrist wing of the CDU. He is known for his "compromising style" and was described in 2017 as "the most powerful man in Berlin".

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1958

June 18

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1950s

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1958 Born

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618 Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
656 Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
860 Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of the Byzantine capital Constantinople.
1053 Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX.

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The world in 1958

When Peter arrived

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Carolyn Wells 1862–1942 American novelist and poet (died 1942) Jarosław Kaczyński 1949– Polish lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Poland Jeanette MacDonald 1903–1965 American actress and singer (born 1903) Jung Bahadur Rana 1816–1877 Nepalese ruler (born 1816) Robert Stewart 1769–1822 Viscount Castlereagh, Irish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (born 1769) Russell Ash 1946–2010 English journalist and author (died 2010) Sammy Cahn 1913–1993 American songwriter (born 1913) Scooter Braun 1981– American music executive Takeoff 1994–2022 American rapper (died 2022)

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Adrian Newey 1958– English aerodynamicist and engineer Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Caryl Phillips 1958– Caribbean-English author and playwright Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Chris Columbus 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Sánchez 1958– Mexican footballer, coach, and manager Jennifer Saunders 1958– English actress, comedian and screenwriter

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