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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 16, 2021:
7th calendar week, 47th day of the year
318 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Juliane, Pamphilus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces can largely drive the fighters of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) from Baghus, one of the last IS bases in eastern Syria.
2018 - The German-Turkish “Welt” correspondent Deniz Yücel is released from Turkish custody after a year.
The judiciary had accused him of terrorist propaganda.
The case had strained Germany's relations with Turkey.
2016 - A cantata by composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri that has been lost for 200 years is premiered in Prague.
The work was discovered in 2015.
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2011 - Plagiarism allegations are raised against Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) because of his doctoral thesis.
2006 - The UN Commission on Human Rights calls on the US to immediately close its prison camp at the US military base in Guantánamo, Cuba.
Individual interrogation practices would amount to torture.
2001 - According to a new law, alcohol sinners at the wheel must expect to lose their driving license from 0.5 per thousand.
1999 - Following the arrest of the Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Öcalan, there are violent protests by Öcalan supporters in numerous European cities.
1996 - Two years after the start of the uprising in the Mexican state of Chiapas, the government and rebels sign an agreement on the “Rights and Culture of Native American Indians”.
1959 - After the fall of the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister.
BIRTHDAYS
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1956 - Bodo Ramelow (65), German politician (left), Prime Minister of Thuringia since 2014
1951 - Franz-Josef Bode (70), German Catholic theologian, Bishop of Osnabrück since 1995
1946 - August Hanning (75), German lawyer, President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) 1998-2005
1856 - Rudolph Karstadt, German department store founder, died 1944
1821 - Heinrich Barth, German explorer of Africa (“Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa” 1855 to 1859), d. 1865
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Helen Vita, Swiss actress (“Lili Marleen”, “Berlin Alexanderplatz”) and singer, born in 1928
1951 - Hans Böckler, German trade unionist, first chairman of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) founded in 1949, born in 1875 7
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