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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 8, 2021:
6th calendar week, 39th day of the year
326 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Jerome
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - A soldier kills 29 people and injures 58 others in a shopping mall in the northeast of the country in a rampage in Thailand.
The police shoot the 32-year-old.
2019 - The new headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) opens in Berlin.
The move of the foreign secret service from Pullach near Munich is now complete.
2016 - Due to storm warnings, numerous Rose Monday parades are canceled in the Rhineland and Westphalia.
In addition to Mainz and Düsseldorf, Essen, Dortmund, Mühlheim and Münster are also canceling the moves.
In Cologne the train takes place with restrictions.
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2011 - Russia abolishes winter time by order of Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev.
The time change puts a strain on the organism and causes stress, says Medvedev.
2006 - Matthias Sammer becomes sports director at the DFB, the executive committee of the German Football Association decides at an extraordinary meeting.
2004 - US President George W. Bush admits to having misjudged the existence of weapons of mass destruction in the country on the basis of intelligence reports before the Iraq war.
1971 - The Federal Ministry of Defense issues the so-called hairnet order: Soldiers whose hair extends beyond their shirt collars must wear a hairnet for safety reasons.
1971 - The American high-tech exchange Nasdaq goes into operation.
1861 - The first seven secession states found the "Confederate States of America" in Montgomery (Alabama) and one day later elect Jefferson Davis as their president.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Ellen Arnhold (60), German news anchor («Tagesschau»)
1941 - Nick Nolte (80), American actor ("Lord of the Tides")
1936 - Elisabeth Orth (85), Austrian actress ("Hanna's decision")
1931 - James Dean, American actor (“Beyond Eden”, “Because they don't know what they're doing”), died 1955
1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, German painter, member of the artists' colony in Worpswede, married to Otto Modersohn, d. 1907
DAYS OF DEATH
1999 - Iris Murdoch, British writer and Booker Prize winner (“The Sea, the Sea”), born in 1919
1951 - Fritz Thyssen, industrialist, promoted the seizure of power by Hitler, later opponent of the Nazi regime, imprisonment in the concentration camp 1940-1945, born in 1873
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