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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 11, 2021:
6th calendar week, 42nd day of the year
323 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Anselm, Theobert
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) calls the new lung disease Covid-19.
The virus is named Sars-CoV-2.
2016 - US researchers are able to detect gravitational waves that arise when black holes collide in space.
This confirms a prediction by the physicist Albert Einstein from 1916.
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI surprisingly announces
his resignation for health reasons.
He will hand over his pontificate at the end of the month, says 85-year-old Joseph Ratzinger to cardinals in Rome.
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2011 - After almost 30 years in power, the Egyptian head of state Husni Mubarak gives in to pressure from millions of demonstrators and abdicates.
A military council takes power.
2006 - Bird flu reaches the European Union.
The H5N1 virus, which is also dangerous for humans, is detected for the first time in Italy and Greece.
1986 - During the third and last exchange of agents on the Glienicke Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, four prisoners in the west and five in the east cross the agent bridge, among them the Soviet civil rights activist Nathan Scharanski.
1979 - Shapur Bakhtiar, the last head of government appointed by the Shah, is overthrown in Iran.
The radio announces the victory of the Islamic revolution.
1971 - The «Seabed Treaty» banning the stationing of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the seabed is signed by 132 countries in London, Moscow and Washington.
1896 - Oscar Wilde's tragedy “Salome” premieres in Paris with Lina Munte in the title role.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Patrik Kühnen (55), German tennis player and coach
1951 - Cleo Kretschmer (70), German actress ("Arabian Nights")
1941 - Sergio Mendes (80), Brazilian jazz musician and arranger, world-famous for his recording of “Mas que nada” by Jorge Ben in 1966
1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (“The Naked Cannon”), d. 2010
1926 - Paul Bocuse, top French chef, doyen of French cuisine, representative of “nouvelle cuisine”, d. 2018
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Joseph Vilsmaier, German director (“Comedian Harmonists”, “Schlafes Bruder”, “Herbstmilch”), born in 1939
1971 - Hubert Tigges, tour operator, founder of the travel company Dr.
Tigges-Fahrt, which, together with tour operators Touropa, Scharnow and Hummel, was one of the founders of TUI, born in 1895
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