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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 18, 2021:
7th calendar week, 49th day of the year
316 days until the end of the year
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Aquarius
Name day: Konstanze, Simon
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Almost five months after the Afghan presidential election, the electoral commission officially declares the incumbent head of state Ashraf Ghani the winner.
The defeated Abdullah Abdullah does not recognize the result.
Under pressure from the USA, the two agree on a distribution of power in May.
2016 - In Clausnitz, Saxony, a screaming crowd blocked a bus carrying refugees.
Days later, a series of xenophobic riots began in Bautzen.
2011 - An Afghan army soldier shoots three German soldiers in the "OP North" Bundeswehr outpost in the Afghan province of Baghlan.
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2008 - The oldest science academy in Europe, the Leopoldina in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt), will in future be Germany's national academy.
It should advise politics and act as the “voice of German science” abroad.
2001 - In the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, bloody unrest breaks out, which according to official figures, kills at least 400 people by mid-March.
1984 - The 18-year-old Katarina Witt from Karl-Marx-Stadt wins her first Olympic gold in figure skating in Sarajevo.
1946 - Clemens August von Galen, who, as Bishop of Münster in 1941, publicly denounced the mass murder of disabled people by the Nazi regime, was promoted to cardinal a few weeks before his death in Rome.
1861 - Jefferson Davis, sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama.
A few months later the American Civil War begins.
1846 - A Polish uprising against the rule of Austria begins in Kraków, which suppresses the revolt and incorporates the Free City of Kraków into its territory.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Armin Laschet (60), German politician, Federal Chairman of the CDU since 2021, North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister since 2017
1956 - Rüdiger Abramczik (65), German football player (Schalke 04) and coach
1931 - Toni Morrison, American writer («Jazz»), winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, d. 2019
1929 - Günther Schramm (92), German actor (“Der Kommissar”) and television presenter (“Alles oder Nothing”)
1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (New York Philharmonic), d. 1960
DAYS OF DEATH
1996 - Josef Meinrad, Austrian actor, honorary member of the Vienna Burgtheater, holder of the Iffland-Ring, born in 1913
1546 - Martin Luther, German theologian and reformer, born 1483
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