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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 12, 2021:
6th calendar week, 43rd day of the year
322 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Benedict, Gregor, Ludan
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Pope Francis speaks out against the admission of married priests in his teaching letter "Querida Amazonia".
He also rejects the appointment of female deacons in the Catholic Church.
2019 - A US court finds Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán guilty of many crimes in New York.
In mid-July, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
2016 - Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill emphasize similarities in Cuba's capital Havana.
It is the first meeting of church leaders since the church split in the 11th century.
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2011 - Thomas Gottschalk announces that after around 24 years he will be moderating the ZDF parade show "Wetten, dass ..?"
will deliver.
2001 - For the first time in the history of space travel, a probe lands on an asteroid: the “Near” space probe touches down on the rock Eros.
1996 - The head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasser Arafat, is sworn in as President of the first democratically elected Palestinian Council.
1976 - The Bundestag adopts a reform of the abortion paragraph 218. In the case of ethical, medical or social distress of the woman, an abortion remains unpunished for the first three months.
1951 - The Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi marries Soraya Esfandiari for the second time.
1541 - The Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de Chile.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Mareike Lindenmeyer (40), German actress ("Bibi Blocksberg", TV series "Um Himmels Willen")
1971 - Benjamin Sadler (50), German actor ("Contergan", "The Miracle of Lengede")
1956 - Arsenio Hall (65), American actor ("The Prince of Zamunda")
1931 - Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch crime fiction writer (“Street Warrior”, “The Degenerate Sole”), d. 2008
1921 - Hans Koller, Austrian jazz saxophonist and composer, founder of the Hans Kollers New Jazz Stars »played with Benny Goodman and Dizzy Gillespie, d. 2003, among others
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Peter Alexander, Austrian singer, actor and showmaster, born in 1926
1941 - Rudolf Hilferding, Austro-German politician (SPD / USPD), social scientist and publicist, Reich Finance Minister 1923 and 1928-1929, died in Gestapo custody, born in 1877
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