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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 24, 2021:

3rd calendar week, 24th day of the year

341 days until the end of the year

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Aquarius

Name day: Franz

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - The Chinese city of 11 million Wuhan is under quarantine due to Corona.

The residents are not allowed to leave the city and have to wear masks.

2019 - The Democratic Republic of the Congo experiences the first peaceful change of power.

Félix Tshisekedi replaces the long-time ruler Joseph Kabila as president.

2011 - At least 37 people died in a suicide attack at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport, including a German and the assassin.

About 180 people are injured.

Islamists from the North Caucasus are said to be responsible.

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2006 - Two German engineers are abducted by gunmen in Iraq.

The kidnappers threaten to kill them via video message.

The hostages are released in early May.

2001 - TV broadcasts from German courtrooms remain prohibited.

With the judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court rejects a constitutional complaint by the news broadcaster n-tv.

1996 - The Federal Cabinet resolves a new marriage law, according to which the public call is dropped.

The bill also removes the prohibition on marriage-in-law and the requirement that a woman should not remarry within ten months of a divorce.

1991 - Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) is elected the first general mayor of Berlin since 1947.

1984 - Steve Jobs, co-founder of the Apple computer company, introduces the first Macintosh in Cupertino, California.

It is the first computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse.

1921 - At a conference in Paris (until January 29), the Allies agree on the amount and mode of payment for German reparations payments for the First World War.

269 ​​billion gold marks are to be paid in 42 annual installments.

BIRTHDAYS

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1961 - Guido Buchwald (60), German soccer player, soccer world champion with the German national team (1990)

1961 - Nastassja Kinski (60), German actress (“Reifezeugnis”, “Paris, Texas”)

1941 - Neil Diamond (80), American pop singer and songwriter ("Cherry Cherry", "Sweet Caroline")

1940 - Joachim Gauck (81), German politician, Federal President 2012-2017, Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files of the GDR 1990-2000

1776 - ETA Hoffmann, German writer (novel "Lebensansichten des Katers Murr") and composer (opera "Undine"), d. 1822

DAYS OF DEATH

2016 - Helmut Oeller, German media manager, television director of Bayerischer Rundfunk 1971-1987, president of the HFF University of Film and Television in Munich 1984-1996, born in 1922

2011 - Bernd Eichinger, German film producer (“Das Parfum”, “Der Untergang”), born in 1949

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