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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 9, 2021:
6th calendar week, 40th day of the year
325 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Apollonia, Miguel
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The European space probe “Solar Orbiter” takes off from the US spaceport Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida.
It should explore the environment of the sun and its poles.
The cost of the European-American joint project is estimated at almost 1.5 billion euros.
2019 - A few weeks after a car accident, the Queen's 97-year-old husband, Prince Philip, gives up his driver's license.
2016 - Twelve people are killed in a serious train accident in Bad Aibling, Upper Bavaria.
Two local trains crashed into each other head-on in the morning rush hour on a single-track route.
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2001 - After the collision with the American nuclear submarine "USS Greeneville" 14 kilometers off Hawaii, a Japanese fishing trawler sinks.
Nine of the 35 people on board drown.
1991 - In a referendum, more than 90 percent of Lithuanians are in favor of the independence of the Soviet Baltic Republic.
1961 - The English band The Beatles performed for the first time in front of around 30 guests at the Liverpool Cavern Club.
1956 - The government of the GDR decides to comprehensively expand sports funding.
Sporting successes should document the "superiority of the social order of the GDR".
1956 - The first Opera Ball since the Second World War opens in the Vienna State Opera.
1896 - Gilbert Fuchs from Munich wins the first world championship in figure skating in St. Petersburg (Russia).
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Christoph Maria Herbst (55), German actor and comedian ("Stromberg")
1936 - Georg Sterzinsky, German cardinal, Archbishop of Berlin 1989-2011, died 2011
1932 - Gerhard Richter (89), German painter and graphic artist
1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian writer and playwright (“The President”, “The Hunting Society”), d. 1989
1896 - Hanns Porst, German photo merchant, founded his first photo shop in Nuremberg in 1919, died 1984
DAYS OF DEATH
1981 - Bill Haley, American rock'n'roll musician ("Rock Around the Clock"), born in 1925
1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer ("The Karamazov Brothers"), born in 1821
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