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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 26, 2021:
4th calendar week, 26th day of the year
339 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Notburg, Paula, Timotheus, Titus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - 18-year-old US singer and songwriter Billie Eilish wins five awards at the 62nd Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Among other things, her song “Bad Guy” was named “Song of the Year”.
1996 - The American Senate ratifies the second treaty with Russia on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons (Start II) with a large majority.
1991 - Somali rebels overthrow dictator Mohammed Siad Barre.
As a result, there is a bloody civil war between rival clans.
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1976 - The university framework law comes into force in Germany.
It is the first transnational higher education law in the FRG for study, teaching and study reform.
1956 - In Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, West German and GDR athletes compete for the first time as a joint German team at the Winter Olympics.
1931 - The Indian freedom fighter «Mahatma» Gandhi (1869-1948) is released from prison.
1926 - John Logie Baird publicly unveils his Televisor for the first time in London, a mechanical and technical forerunner of the television.
1911 - The opera "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss is premiered in Dresden.
1699 - With the Peace of Karlowitz (today Sremski Karlovci in Serbia) the 16-year war against the Turks is over.
Austria rises to become a great power ("Great Turkish War" 1683-1699).
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Hubert Aiwanger (50), German politician, Deputy Bavarian Prime Minister and Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs since November 2018
1971 - Rick Kavanian (50), German actor («Der Schuh des Manitu», TV show «Bullyparade» 1997-2002)
1971 - Steffen Kopetzky (50), German writer (“Grand Tour or the Night of the Great Complication”, “Propaganda”)
1951 - Jarmila Kratochvilova (70), Czech athlete, set the world record over 800 meters with 1: 53.28 minutes on July 26, 1983 in Munich
1941 - Heinrich von Pierer (80), German manager, Chairman of the Board of Management 1992-2005, Chairman of the Supervisory Board 2005-2007 of Siemens AG, autobiography with the title «Gipfel-Stürme» (2011)
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Kobe Bryant, American basketball player, born 1978
1996 - Harold Brodkey, American writer (“Profane Friendship”), born 1930
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