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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 27, 2021:
4th calendar week, 27th day of the year
338 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Angela, Enrique, Julian
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The first corona case in Germany is reported from the Bavarian district of Starnberg.
A 33-year-old employee of an automotive supplier was infected by a colleague from China.
2019 - Denmark becomes handball world champion for the first time in front of their home crowd in Herning and clearly defeats Norway with 31:22.
2018 - Schleswig-Holstein's Environment Minister Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, a member of the Bundestag, are elected chairmen of the Greens in Hanover.
Both belong to the Realo wing of the party.
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2013 - A fire breaks out in the “Kiss” disco in Santa Maria, southern Brazil.
242 people die in a mass panic.
The cause of the fire was a band's pyrotechnic show.
2006 - For the first time worldwide, the victims of National Socialism are commemorated.
The international "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust" commemorates the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp on January 27, 1945.
1999 - Two Luftwaffe tornadoes crash over the North Sea after a collision.
Only two of the four crew members can be recovered alive.
1996 - France carries out its last and most powerful underground nuclear test on the Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific.
1991 - Boris Becker wins the Australian Open in Melbourne and is the first German to be number 1 in the world rankings in men's tennis.
1981 - The Indonesian ferry "Tamponas II" sinks north of the island of Java (Indonesia) after a major fire on board.
At least 512 people are killed.
BIRTHDAYS
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1956 - Jan Metzger (65), German media manager, director of Radio Bremen 2009-2019
1936 - Wolfgang Böhmer (85), German politician (CDU) and doctor, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt 2002-2011
1928 - Hans Modrow (93), German politician, Prime Minister of the GDR 1989-1990
1901 - Willy Fritsch, German actor ("Die Drei von der Gasstelle", "When the white lilacs bloom again"), died 1973
1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer ("Die Zauberflöte"), one of the main exponents of the "Wiener Klassik", died 1791
DAYS OF DEATH
2006 - Johannes Rau, German politician (SPD), Federal President 1999-2004, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia 1978-1998, born in 1931
1986 - Lilli Palmer, German actress (“Devil in silk”, “Frau Warren's trade”) and writer (novel “Embracing has its time”, autobiography “Big Lilli - good child”), born in 1914
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