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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 2, 2021:
5th calendar week, 33rd day of the year
332 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Dietrich, Hadelog
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the American Football League final.
For the Chiefs it is the first Super Bowl victory since 1970.
2019 - The federal and state finance ministers agree on the main features of a property tax reform.
The tax amount should be based primarily on the value of the land and buildings.
The countries can decide for themselves whether to do so.
2016 - The EU and the US agree on rules for better protection when exchanging personal data.
The agreement concerns private and business communications.
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2011 - Hessen is the first federal state to ban the burqa in the public sector.
2008 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy marries singer Carla Bruni in the Élysée Palace.
2006 - Germany's first offshore wind power plant in the Baltic Sea off Rostock is completed.
The four million euro wind turbine will produce electricity for around 1,800 households.
2003 - State election in Lower Saxony: The CDU with top candidate Christian Wulff wins in the third attempt, but with 48.3 percent just misses the absolute majority that was previously held by the SPD with Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel.
1998 - The Canadian Bombardier Group takes over the East German railway manufacturer Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA).
DWA employs 4,000 people in four plants in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.
1986 - In the parliamentary elections in the Principality of Liechtenstein, women make use of the right to vote that they were granted in 1984 for the first time.
BIRTHDAYS
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1986 - Franz Rogowski (35), German actor (German Film Award 2018 as best leading actor for “In den Gänge”)
1959 - Hella von Sinnen (62), German actress and entertainer (co-host of the RTL program “Alles. Nothing. Or !?”)
1946 - Isaias Afewerki (75), Eritrean politician, president since independence in 1993
1926 - Fritz Stern, American historian, German National Prize 2005, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1999, emigration from Germany to the USA in 1938, d. 2016
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician, President 1974-1981, died 2020
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Dieter Spethmann, German industrial manager, CEO of Thyssen AG 1973-1991, born in 1926
1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer and actor, “Singin 'in the Rain”, born in 1912
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