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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 22, 2021:
3rd calendar week, 22nd day of the year
343 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Dietlind, Vinzenz
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The Greek Parliament elects Judge Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou as the country's first female President.
It mainly has representative tasks.
2016 - At the European Football Championship 2016 in France, the referees are supported by goal-line technology.
After FIFA and the DFB, UEFA also relies on aids for referees.
1996 - The Supervisory Board of Daimler-Benz AG resolves to immediately suspend all payments to the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
This sealed the end of Fokker.
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1991 - Iraqi bombers begin burning and destroying 727 Kuwaiti oil wells in the Gulf War.
The last fire will not be extinguished until November.
1981 - The French writer Marguerite Yourcenar is accepted as the first female member of the renowned «Académie française».
1963 - The French President Charles de Gaulle and Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sign a contract for close Franco-German cooperation (Élysée Treaty) in Paris.
1909 - Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and other progressive artists found the “Neue Künstlervereinigung” in Munich.
1891 - The "Auguste Victoria" of the Hamburg-America Line sets out from Cuxhaven on the first luxury cruise in history.
1883 - 16 young men found Germany's first Christian Association of Young Men (YMCA) in Berlin.
BIRTHDAYS
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1974 - Annette Frier (47), German actress and comedian (TV show “Die Wochenshow”, “Danni Lowinski”)
1971 - Tim Mälzer (50), German TV chef, Golden Camera 2006 in the Best Cooking Show category
1956 - Christoph Dieckmann (65), German theologian, journalist and writer ("Alles im Eimer, alles im Lot")
1944 - Angela Winkler (77), German actress ("The lost honor of Katharina Blum", "The tin drum")
1931 - Sam Cooke, American soul singer ("Wonderful World", "Twistin 'the Night Away"), d. 1964
DAYS OF DEATH
1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (roles in “Children of Olympus”, “The longest day”), director of the “Théâtre de France” 1959-1968, born in 1910
1901 - Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland 1837-1901, Empress of India 1876-1901, born 1819
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