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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 6, 2021:
1st calendar week, 6th day of the year
359 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Balthasar, Juan, Kaspar, Melchior, Raimund, Raphaela
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Best comedy film at the Golden Globes awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, California will be Peter Farrelly's “Green Book”, a play about racism in the USA.
"Bohemian Rhapsody" about Queen frontman Freddie Mercury receives Golden Globes as best film drama and its leading actor Rami Malek as best actor.
2006 - For the first time in the history of the Four Hills Tournament, two ski jumpers share the overall victory.
The Czech Jakub Janda and the Finn Janne Ahonen both achieved 1,081.5 points in Bischofshofen (Austria).
2001 - Japan's largest government reform of the post-war period comes into effect.
The 23 ministries and agencies will be amalgamated into 13 departments.
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2001 - Pope John Paul II ends the Holy Year of the Catholic Church that he opened on Christmas 1999 in Rome.
1996 - Jens Weißflog wins the German-Austrian four-hill tournament as the first ski jumper for the fourth time.
1991 - The Bundeswehr sends the first of 18 combat aircraft to Turkey to protect NATO bases from Iraqi attacks.
1926 - The airlines Deutsche Aero Lloyd AG and Junkers-Luftverkehr AG merge to form Deutsche Luft Hansa AG.
1866 - The Württemberg People's Party in Stuttgart organizes its first "Three Kings Parade".
Since then, the meeting of the Three Kings has been the political start of the year for the liberals.
1540 - Henry VIII marries Anna of Cleves in Greenwich near London, who becomes his fourth wife.
The marriage is annulled that same year.
BIRTHDAYS
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1986 - Alex Turner (35), British guitarist and singer (indie rock band "Arctic Monkeys")
1976 - Judith Rakers (45), German news anchor and TV presenter, «Tagesschau» spokeswoman
1956 - Elizabeth Strout (65), American writer ("Olive Kitteridge")
1931 - EL Doctorow, American writer (“The Book of Daniel”, “Ragtime”, “Billy Bathgate”), d. 2015
1926 - Walter Sedlmayr, German actor, director and author ("Police Inspection 1"), d. 1990
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Silvana Pampanini, Italian actress («The Law of the Road», «Königsmark»), b.
1925
1996 - Duane Hanson, American sculptor and sculptor, photo-realistic human sculptures made of fiberglass and polyester, b.
1925
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