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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 11, 2021:
2nd calendar week, 11th day of the year
354 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Francesco, Paulin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Sultan Haitham is the new ruler of Oman.
He is the successor and cousin of the late Sultan Kabus, who ruled and modernized the Arab country for 50 years.
2004 - The first North Rhine-Westphalian national park in the Eifel, a 110 square kilometer protected area between Schleiden and the Belgian border, is opened.
2001 - America Online (AOL) and Time Warner take the last hurdle on the way to the largest media and internet company in the world, AOL Time Warner Inc. (New York).
After the Europeans, the US competition watchdogs also approve the merger of the online group AOL and the media empire Time Warner.
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1991 - In the Nikolaikirche in Berlin, the first parliament, elected in December 1990, is constituted for the entire city for more than 40 years.
1946 - The National Assembly in Tirana abolishes the monarchy and proclaims the People's Republic of Albania.
1941 - Adolf Hitler orders the dispatch of German troops to support the Italian army in North Africa.
1911 - The "Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science" (today the Max Planck Society) is founded in Berlin.
1907 - The German Reich and Denmark negotiate the "Optantenvertrag".
Among other things, it seals the demarcation of the Vienna Peace of 1864 and thus the cession of the Duchy of Schleswig to Germany.
1787 - The German-English musician and astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers two moons of Uranus.
These are later baptized Titania and Oberon.
BIRTHDAYS
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1996 - Leroy Sané (25), German-French soccer player, FC Bayern since 2020
1971 - Mary J. Blige (50), American singer ("Strength Of A Woman")
1941 - Rainer Simon (80), German director ("The Woman and the Stranger", "The Ascent of Chimborazo")
1941 - Wolf Lepenies (80), German sociologist, rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 1986-2001, main work: «The three cultures.
Sociology between literature and science », Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 2006
1931 - Mary Rodgers, American musical composer and writer (book “Crazy Friday”), d. 2014
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Denys Lasdun, British architect, one of his most famous buildings is the “Royal National Theater” in London, born in 1914
1941 - Emanuel Lasker, German-American chess player, world chess champion 1894-1921, inducted into the “Hall of Fame of German Sports” in 2008, born in 1868
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