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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 29, 2021:
4th calendar week, 29th day of the year
336 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Aquilin, Poppo, Radegund, Valerius
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The German coal-fired power plants should all go offline by 2038 at the latest.
After months of negotiations, the federal government passed a law that regulates the phase-out of lignite and hard coal from 2020.
2019 - The Pakistani Supreme Court orders the release of Christian Asia Bibi, who has been massively hostile to Islamists.
She had been sentenced to death for blasphemy and served on death row for more than eight years.
2011 - Ten people are killed in a train accident near Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt.
23 others are injured when a local train collides with a freight train.
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2001 - As part of the largest reform in the history of the Bundeswehr to date, 39 large sites are to be closed.
In addition, Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping (SPD) wants to close 20 small locations.
1996 - The Venetian opera house «La Fenice» is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1966 - The “Luxembourg Compromise” establishes the right of veto in the European Economic Community on crucial issues.
France, which had boycotted the meetings of the Council of Ministers of the EEC for seven months ("empty chair policy"), prevailed.
1956 - The play "The Old Lady's Visit" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt is premiered in Zurich.
1936 - The foundation stone for the film city "Cinecittà" is laid in Rome.
1886 - Carl Friedrich Benz registers the patent for his “vehicle with gas engine operation” under the patent number 37435 at the Berlin patent office.
This date is considered the birth of the modern automobile.
BIRTHDAYS
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1986 - Thomas Greiss (35), German ice hockey player in the North American National Hockey League (NHL)
1971 - Jörg Albertz (50), German soccer player (Hamburger SV 1993-96 and 2001-2003)
1971 - Matthias Pintscher (50), German composer (opera "Thomas Chatterton")
1926 - Ernst Träger, German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court 1977-1989, d. 2015
1896 - Leopold Goldschmidt, German journalist (co-editor of the "Frankfurter Neue Presse", editor-in-chief of the "Tagesspiegel"), d. 1987
DAYS OF DEATH
2006 - Nam June Paik, South Korean artist, founder of video art, collaboration with Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage, born in 1932
2004 - OW Fischer, Austrian actor (“Ludwig II. Splendor and End of a King”, “Peter Voss, the millionaire”), born in 1915
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