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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 20, 2021:
3rd calendar week, 20th day of the year
345 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Capricorn
Name day: Fabian, Sebastian
HISTORICAL DATA
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2016 - Satellite images show that the St. Elias Monastery near Mosul in Iraq was completely destroyed.
The terrorist organization Islamic State is charged with the crime.
The Christian monastery was founded in the 6th century.
1996 - Yasser Arafat is elected President of the Palestinian Authority in the first democratic elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1991 - Several hundred thousand people demonstrate in Moscow against the violent repression of the Soviet military in Lithuania.
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1986 - France and Great Britain agree to build a railway tunnel (Eurotunnel) under the English Channel.
1981 - After lengthy negotiations and 444 days of imprisonment in the occupied US embassy in Tehran, Iran, 52 American hostages are released.
1966 - The soccer department of 1. FC Union is founded in Berlin.
1961 - John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States of America.
At 43 he is the youngest president and the first Catholic to hold this office.
1946 - The municipal council elections in the American zone of occupation are the first free, equal and secret elections in Germany since 1933.
1936 - Edward VIII becomes King of Great Britain with the death of his father George V.
In December 1936 he abdicated in order to marry the divorced American Wallis Simpson.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Gary Barlow (50), British pop singer, singer with boy band Take That (1989-1996)
1966 - Peter Tschentscher (55), German doctor and politician (SPD), Hamburg's First Mayor since 2018
1956 - Axel Hacke (65), German journalist and writer (“The white negro Wumbaba”, “Football feelings”)
1946 - David Lynch (75), American director ("Blue Velvet", "Mulholland Drive", "Lost Highway")
1921 - Bernt Engelmann, German writer and journalist ("My friends, the millionaires", "We subjects"), Chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) 1977-1983, died 1994
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Joseph Hannesschläger, German actor (“The Rosenheim Cops”), born in 1962
2016 - George Weidenfeld, British publisher and diplomat, born in Austria, fled to England during the Nazi dictatorship, born in 1919
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