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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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