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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 13, 2021:
6th calendar week, 44th day of the year
321 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Adolf, Gosbert, Irmhild, Kastor, Reinhild
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Australia has been waiting for this news for months: All bushfires in New South Wales are under control.
Millions of hectares of land have been burned there since September 2019.
25 people died.
2019 - Opponents of the Iranian government blow up a military bus near the border with Pakistan.
At least 27 Revolutionary Guard soldiers are killed.
Iran's President Hassan Ruhani accuses Israel and the US as masterminds.
2011 - First successful referendum in Berlin: 98.2 percent of the voters vote for the disclosure of secret contracts on the partial sale of Berliner Wasserbetriebe.
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2006 - The British House of Commons approves Labor government plans to gradually reintroduce identification requirements.
Identity cards were introduced in 1940 as a war measure, but abolished in 1952.
1999 - A 28-year-old Algerian asylum seeker dies in Guben, Brandenburg, while fleeing from right-wing radical youth;
he bleeds to death after jumping through a pane.
1996 - The successful British band "Take That" announces their breakup, causing hysteria among the mostly female fans.
1991 - An RAF commando fired around 250 shots at the US embassy in Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
Nobody gets hurt.
1986 - The Federal Cartel Office approves the largest company merger to date in the history of the Federal Republic, the takeover of AEG by Daimler-Benz.
1981 - The Australian newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch buys the British daily newspaper "The Times".
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Henry Rollins (60), American singer, writer and actor, founder of the Rollins Band, singer of the band Black Flag in the 80s
1951 - Katja Lange-Müller (70), German writer ("Bad Schafe")
1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter and graphic artist (“Laterna Magica”), died 2010
1941 - Walter Hirche (80), German politician (FDP), Lower Saxony Economics and Transport Minister 2003-2009 and 1986-1990, Brandenburg Economics Minister 1990-1994
1933 - Kim Novak (88), American actress ("Vertigo - From the realm of the dead")
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Manuela, German pop singer (“Only the Bossa Nova was to blame”), born in 1943
1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor ("Perseus with the head of Medusa"), born 1500
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