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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 16, 2021:
2nd calendar week, 16th day of the year
349 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Honorat, Marzellus, Tillmann
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The impeachment proceedings initiated by the House of Representatives against President Donald Trump begin in the US Senate.
On February 5, the Republican-dominated chamber acquitted the president on charges of abuse of office.
2019 - The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe for the first time confirms a murder sentence against a car laser.
In 2017 the drunk man caused a fatal accident in Hamburg.
2016 - In the dispute over the refugee crisis, Bavaria's Prime Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) threatens the federal government with a constitutional lawsuit.
You have to restore the "rule of law" at the borders within 14 days.
In May, his cabinet put the threat on hold.
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2006 - Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for the first official conversation since Merkel took office in the Moscow Kremlin.
2001 - Congolese President Laurent Kabila is assassinated.
According to official information, he succumbs to his injuries two days later.
1996 - In a speech to the Bundestag and Bundesrat, Israel's President Eser Weizman urges Germans to be vigilant against racism and neo-Nazism.
The address is the highlight of his four-day visit to Germany.
1979 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi leaves Iran under pressure from the opposition and goes into exile.
1956 - The last large transport of German prisoners of war from the USSR arrives in Herleshausen in Hesse.
1756 - Prussians and British conclude the Westminster Convention and become allies in the Seven Years War.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Beate Stauff (60), German cyclist, world champion in road racing (1978)
1956 - Martin Jol (65), Dutch football coach (Hamburger SV 2008/09, Ajax Amsterdam 2009/10)
1948 - Gregor Gysi (73), German politician and lawyer, chairman of the Left parliamentary group from 2005 to 2015
1941 - Michael Jansen (80), German lawyer, head of the Federal President's Office 2004-2006, chairman of the “Remembrance, Past and Future” foundation 2000-2004
1931 - Johannes Rau, German politician (SPD), Federal President 1999-2004, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia 1978-1998, died 2006
DAYS OF DEATH
1950 - Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, German industrialist, born in 1870
1901 - Arnold Böcklin, Swiss painter («Hunt of Diana»), born 1827
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