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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 21, 2021:
7th calendar week, 52nd day of the year
313 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Germanus, Petrus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The Bundestag reforms the abortion law.
Doctors will now be able to state that they are performing abortions.
The change was triggered by the case of a doctor who was convicted of illegal advertising.
2011 - For the first time in the history of Formula 1, a race is canceled for political reasons.
Because of the unrest in the Kingdom of Bahrain that has been going on for weeks, the organizers are canceling the season opener in the Gulf state.
2006 - At the end of his nine-day inspection tour through German kindergartens and schools, the UN envoy Vernor Muñoz criticized educational federalism and the lack of equal opportunities.
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2001 - At the largest consistory in church history, Pope John Paul II appoints 44 new cardinals, including Karl Lehmann, Walter Kasper, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt and Leo Scheffczyk from Germany.
1996 - The shipyard group Bremer Vulkan Verbund AG files a settlement application with the Bremen District Court after losing billions.
The traditional company went bankrupt on May 1, 1996.
1976 - The Paralympic Winter Games celebrate their premiere in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
Summer games for athletes with disabilities have existed since 1960.
1946 - The Hamburg weekly newspaper "Die Zeit" appears for the first time.
1931 - The first airplane hijacking in history is carried out by coup soldiers in Peru.
They hijack a plane to drop leaflets.
1431 - The trial of Joan of Arc, the «Maid of Orléans» begins in Rouen.
The French peasant girl who led the liberation campaign against the British occupation forces is accused of heresy and heresy.
She is burned at the stake on May 29th.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Klaus Müller (50), German politician (Greens), Environment Minister Schleswig-Holstein 2000-2003, Agriculture Minister 2003-2005, head of the Federal Consumer Association since 2014
1961 - Yobes Ondieki (60), Kenyan track and field athlete, long-distance runner, was the first to run the 10,000 meter course in under 27 minutes in 1993
1946 - Ottmar Schreiner, German politician, chairman of the SPD working group for employee issues (AfA) 2000-2012, died 2013
1921 - Zdenek Miler, Czech animation filmmaker, inventor of the TV series «The Little Mole», died 2011
1871 - Paul Cassirer, German art dealer and publisher, important promoter of Impressionism, co-founder of the Berlin Secession of 1899, died 1926
DAYS OF DEATH
1991 - Margot Fonteyn, British ballet dancer, from 1962 partner of Rudolf Nurejew, born in 1919
1971 - Tilla Durieux, German-Austrian actress («Woman in the Moon»), born in 1880
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