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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 17, 2021:
2nd calendar week, 17th day of the year
348 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Antonius
HISTORICAL DATA
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2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least five people, including a US soldier, in front of the German embassy in Kabul.
2006 - The Republic of Austria returns Nazi-looted art.
Five pictures by the Art Nouveau painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) go to the heiress Maria Altmann.
2001 - The lights go out in California: As a result of an energy crisis that has persisted for months, Governor Gray Davis declares a state of emergency.
Hundreds of thousands of households have their electricity turned off to save energy.
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1996 - The supervisory board of AEG AG in Frankfurt / Main resolves to dissolve the 113 year old company as an independent group.
1991 - The first all-German Bundestag elects Helmut Kohl (CDU) as Federal Chancellor.
It is his fourth term in office.
1991 - Almost 19 hours after the UN ultimatum to evacuate Kuwait, a multinational force under American leadership attacks Iraq as part of "Operation Desert Storm".
1966 - A US Air Force B-52 equipped with four atomic bombs crashes near the village of Palomares in southeastern Spain.
The bombs - several times the force of the Hiroshima bomb - do not explode.
Two of them burst open and contaminated 220 hectares of fields with radioactive plutonium.
1961 - Patrice Lumumba, first Prime Minister of the Congo, which became independent from Belgium in 1960, is tortured and shot in the presence of Belgian officers after his fall.
The charismatic socialist is still revered in many places as a symbol of African independence.
1946 - The United Nations Security Council meets in London for its constituent session.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Kid Rock (50), American rock musician ("All Summer Long")
1971 - Sylvie Testud (50), French actress («Sagan», «Beyond Silence»)
1956 - Paul Young (65), British pop singer, "Come Back and Stay"
1936 - Jürgen Engert (85), German journalist (long-time moderator of the ARD magazine “Kontraste”)
1922 - Betty White (99), American actress (role of Rose in the TV sitcom "Golden Girls")
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Horst Stern, German author and journalist (ARD series “Sterns Stunden”, founder of “Natur” magazine), born in 1922
1991 - King Olav V, Norwegian King 1957-1991, born 1903
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