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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 15, 2021:
2nd calendar week, 15th day of the year
350 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Maurus, Romedius
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - As part of a planned constitutional reform, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev resigns after eight years in office.
His successor will be the head of the tax authorities, Mikhail Mishustin.
2019 - The Office for the Protection of the Constitution declares the “wing” of the AfD to be a suspected case in the area of right-wing extremism.
The later officially disbanded party flow formed around the Thuringian AfD boss Björn Höcke.
2016 - Fighters from an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist militia attack the luxury hotel “Splendid” in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.
They kill 30 people, many of them foreigners.
Burkinabe and French soldiers free 156 hostages.
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2009 - Shortly after take-off, an Airbus has to make an emergency landing in New York on the Hudson River.
All 155 people on board survived the crash landing.
2006 - Socialist Michelle Bachelet becomes the first elected president of South America.
She wins the presidential election in Chile.
2004 - The market leader T-Mobile is the first of the four mobile communications providers in Germany to activate its UMTS network for all customers.
2001 - The US entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and the philosophy lecturer Larry Sanger set up the non-profit online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
1971 - The Egyptian President Anwar el Sadat and the Soviet Head of State Nikolai Podgorny hand over the Aswan Dam in Upper Egypt, which was built with Soviet help.
1966 - The BFC Dynamo football club is founded in East Berlin.
The favorite club of Stasi boss Erich Mielke has won the GDR championship title ten times.
BIRTHDAYS
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1991 - Marc Bartra (30), Spanish soccer player (FC Barcelona 2012-2016, Borussia Dortmund 2016-2018)
1981 - Pitbull (40), American rapper (album "Rebelution")
1941 - Klaus Reinhardt (80), German officer, commander in chief of the international peacekeeping forces in Kosovo (KFOR) 1999-2000;
Commander of the NATO Land Forces Central Europe 1998-2001
1926 - Guido Baumann, Swiss television journalist and show master, Ratefuchs in the rate show "What am I?", Died 1992
1926 - Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (film "The Karamazov brothers", TV series "The happy family"), died 2005
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Patrick Leclercq, German journalist, long-time ARD correspondent for the Middle East, born in 1950
2006 - Inge Merkel, Austrian writer (“The Other Face”, “The Last Trumpet”), born in 1922
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