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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 25, 2021:
4th calendar week, 25th day of the year
340 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Eberhard, Susanna, Wolfram
HISTORICAL DATA
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2016 - The new anti-terrorism center of the European law enforcement agency Europol officially starts its work in The Hague in view of the increasing threat from IS.
2011 - Nationwide protests against the government of President Hosni Mubarak begin in Egypt.
Hundreds of people are killed and thousands injured.
The protests are directed against corruption, unemployment and human rights violations.
2006 - The radical Islamic Hamas wins an absolute majority in the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian territories and defeats the previously ruling Fatah.
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2006 - Pope Benedict XVI.
in his first encyclical "Deus Caritas est" (God is love) emphasizes Christian love as the decisive force in the struggle for a more just and humane world.
2001 - The previous opposition leader Zoran Djindjic is elected by the Serbian parliament as the new head of government.
This marks the first time in over 50 years that Serbia has a democratically elected government.
1993 - The private television channel VOX starts broadcasting in Cologne.
1971 - Ugandan President Milton Obote is overthrown by Major General Idi Amin.
1924 - The first Olympic Winter Games take place in the French winter resort of Chamonix until February 4th.
1858 - Princess Victoria, a daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, marries Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia and later becomes German Empress for 99 days.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Alicia Keys (40), American soul singer ("Songs in A Minor")
1951 - Bill Viola (70), American video artist (installations: “He weeps you out”, “Kreuzung”)
1951 - Hans-Jürgen Dörner (70), German soccer player and coach, plays for SG Dynamo Dresden 1969-85, coach of SV Werder Bremen 1995-98
1946 - Silvio Blatter (75), Swiss writer and painter ("Twelve seconds of silence")
1921 - Samuel Cohen, American physicist, inventor of the neutron bomb, d. 2010
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Elisabeth Freundlich, Austrian writer (“Invasion Day”, “Finstere Zeiten”, “The Soul Bird”, “The Traveling Years. Memory”), born in 1906
1996 - Ruth Berghaus, German director and choreographer, music theater director, deputy director and artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble 1970-1977, married to the composer Paul Dessau (1884-1979), born in 1927
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