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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 28, 2021:
4th calendar week, 28th day of the year
337 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Britta, Irmund, Karl, Maura, Thomas
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the first Prime Minister of Israel to be formally indicted by the Attorney General.
He is accused of corruption, bribery and infidelity.
2019 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) is awarded the Fulbright Prize for international understanding in Berlin.
The American Fulbright Association recognizes Merkel as an “outstanding leader and for her strong commitment to mutual understanding, international cooperation and peace”.
2016 - The first asylum seekers in Germany receive refugee ID cards.
With the document, the authorities want to solve problems with the registration and prevent misuse through multiple registrations.
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2011 - The Bundestag elects the former GDR civil rights activist Roland Jahn as the new Federal Commissioner for the Stasi files.
2006 - When the roof of an exhibition hall collapsed during a pigeon show in Katowice, Poland, 65 people were killed.
2001 - Pope John Paul II surprisingly appoints the two German bishops Karl Lehmann from Mainz and Johannes Joachim Degenhardt from Paderborn as cardinals.
1996 - Boris Becker wins the Australian Open in Melbourne for the second time after 1991 with his victory in the final against the American Michael Chang.
1986 - The American space shuttle "Challenger" explodes 73 seconds after taking off from Cape Canaveral.
All seven astronauts are killed.
1966 - After an aborted attempt to land in Bremen, a Lufthansa Convair 440 Metropolitan crashed into a meadow a few hundred meters behind the airfield.
None of the 46 occupants on board - among them the actress Ada Chekhova and seven Italian athletes - survived the accident.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Andrea Berg (55), German pop singer ("You lied to me a thousand times")
1956 - Peter Schilling (65), German singer ("Major Tom")
1941 - Jochen Busse (80), German cabaret artist, actor and presenter (“7 days-7 heads”), member of the ensemble of the Munich “Lach- und Schießgesellschaft” 1981-1991
1941 - Peter Voß (80), German journalist, director of Südwestfunk 1993-1998 and the subsequent Südwestrundfunk 1998-2007
1921 - Sepp Weiler, German ski jumper, died 1997
DAYS OF DEATH
1996 - Joseph Brodsky, American poet («Shores of the Lost»), Nobel Prize in Literature 1987, born 1940
1596 - Francis Drake, English admiral and navigator, first English circumnavigation 1577-1580, played an important role in the victory of the English over the Spanish Armada in 1588, born around 1540/1543
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