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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 3, 2021:
5th calendar week, 34th day of the year
331 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Ansgar, Hannah, Simeon
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The primary race for the presidency begins in the US state of Iowa.
As expected, President Donald Trump wins the Republicans with an overwhelming majority.
Pete Buttigieg wins the Democratic primary.
2016 - The 400-meter-long container ship “CSCL Indian Ocean” runs aground in the Elbe near Stade.
The damaged ship is one of the largest container ships in the world and has loaded 6600 containers.
2006 - The ferry “Al Salam Boccaccio 98” sinks in the Red Sea around 90 kilometers from the destination port of Safaga in Egypt.
More than 1000 people die.
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1998 - A US military jet cuts the cable of a cable car near the northern Italian ski resort of Cavalese while flying low.
A gondola falls 100 meters.
20 people, including eight Germans, are killed.
1991 - The Communist Party of Italy says goodbye to communist symbols at its 20th party congress and renames itself the «Democratic Party of the Left».
1989 - The dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who has ruled Paraguay for more than 30 years, is overthrown by the military in a bloody coup.
1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland is elected first Norwegian Prime Minister.
1976 - Mozambique's capital is renamed and is now Maputo.
So far it has been named after the Portuguese city founder Lourenço Marques.
1966 - The Soviet “Luna 9” probe lands undamaged and fully functional on the moon as the first man-made object.
BIRTHDAYS
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1956 - Nathan Lane (65), American actor ("The Producers", "The Birdcage - A paradise for shrill birds")
1951 - Blaise Compaoré (70), Burkinabe politician, President 1987-2014
1938 - Tony Marshall (83), German pop singer ("Schöne Maid", "Today we're beating the drum")
1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician, Chairman of the SPD 1987-1991, Federal Minister 1972-1981, died 2020
1926 - Richard Yates, American writer ("Times of Turmoil"), d. 1992
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Maria Schneider, French film actress (“The Last Tango in Paris”), born in 1952
1951 - August Horch, German entrepreneur, founder of the Horch and Audi automobile companies, born in 1868
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