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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 7, 2021:
1st calendar week, 7th day of the year
358 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Carlo, Knud, Raimund, Reinold, Sigrid, Valentin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The conservative ÖVP and the Greens form a new federal government in Austria.
Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen swears in the 17-member government team under Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP).
2020 - After months of tug-of-war, the Spanish socialist Pedro Sánchez can form a regular government.
However, his coalition with the left-wing alliance Unidas Podemos does not have a majority.
2016 - Polish President Andrzej Duda signs a controversial media law.
The opposition, journalist organizations and human rights groups accuse the national conservative government of wanting to exert too much influence on the media.
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1991 - In Haiti, an attempted coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fails.
At least 100 people are killed in the crackdown.
1956 - As the first ambassador of the Soviet Union to the Federal Republic of Germany, Valerian A. Sorin presents Federal President Theodor Heuss with his credentials in Bonn.
1937 - The Dutch heir to the throne, Princess Juliana, marries the German Prince Bernhard in The Hague.
1936 - Reza Shah Pahlavi forbids women to wear the headscarf / veil in Iran.
1926 - Deutsche Welle in Berlin is the first central station for Germany and Europe to start broadcasting programs on long wave.
1785 - The French Jean-Pierre Blanchard and the American John Jeffries fly over the English Channel from Dover to Calais for the first time in a balloon.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - DJ Ötzi (50), Austrian pop singer ("A star that bears your name", "Anton from Tyrol")
1956 - Leonard Lansink (65), German actor (ZDF crime series «Wilsberg»)
1956 - Uwe Ochsenknecht (65), German actor ("Men", "Schtonk", "Das Boot")
1936 - Luis Murschetz (85), caricaturist and children's book author («Der Maulwurf Grabowski»)
1901 - Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, German politician, Federal Minister of Health 1961-1966, first woman in a federal government, died 1986
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - André Courrèges, French fashion designer, introduced the mini into Parisian haute couture and in 1965 the moon girl look, elected “world champion of fashion designers” in 1981, b.
1923
2001 - Johan van der Keuken, Dutch director (“Amsterdam Global Village”, “I love Dollars”) and photographer, b.
1938
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