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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for January 31, 2021:
4th calendar week, 31st day of the year
334 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Eusebius, Johannes, Marzella
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Great Britain leaves the European Union, but remains part of the internal market and the customs union until the end of the year.
2019 - In the Romanian capital Bucharest, the Foreign Ministers of Germany, France and Great Britain announce the establishment of the Instex company.
In this way, European companies can process their payment transactions in business with Iran despite US sanctions.
2016 - Germany's handball players are European champions for the second time since 2004.
The team around goalkeeper Andreas Wolff wins the final against Spain in Krakow, Poland, with 24:17.
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2011 - Myanmar has its first parliament meeting in 22 years.
A quarter of the MPs are appointed by the military, most of the others belong to parties affiliated with the regime.
Myanmar has been a military dictatorship since 1962.
2001 - A good twelve years after the Lockerbie terrorist attack, which left 270 dead, a Scottish court in the Netherlands sentenced the Libyan Abdel Bassit al-Megrahi to life imprisonment.
Libya had only delivered the Megrahi that had been wanted since 1991, when the Netherlands had been agreed as the place of the trial.
1996 - More than 100 people die in a suicide attack by Tamil rebels in the capital Colombo in Sri Lanka.
1966 - The soccer department of the FC Energie Cottbus is founded under the name "Betriebssportgemeinschaft Energie Cottbus".
1961 - Ham becomes the first US chimpanzee to complete a ballistic missile flight, preparing the first manned US space flight.
The monkey dies 22 years later at the North Carolina Zoo.
1606 - The leader of the «powder conspirators», Guy Fawkes, is executed in London.
In 1605 the Catholic officer tried to blow up the English King James I in Parliament.
His likeness lives on as a mask that protest movements still use today.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Justin Timberlake (40), American pop singer ("Cry Me A River"), former member of the boy group * NSYNC ("I Want You Back")
1956 - Johnny Rotten (65), British musician, singer in the punk band Sex Pistols
1951 - Ulrich Khuon (70), German dramaturge, director of the Thalia Theater in Hamburg 2000-2009
1946 - Wolfgang Stumph (75), German actor (“Go, Trabi go”, TV series “Stubbe - Von Fall zu Fall”) and cabaret artist
1921 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (music films: "Arrivederci Roma", "The great Caruso"), died 1959
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Wolfgang Rademann, German television producer (Die Schwarzwaldklinik), born in 1934
1956 - AA Milne, British writer ("Pooh the Pooh"), born 1882
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