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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 23, 2021:
8th calendar week, 54th day of the year
311 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Romana, Willigis
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Due to rising corona numbers, the Italian government seals eleven cities in Lombardy and Veneto.
The Venice Carnival is canceled.
2019 - Venezuelan security forces kill two people at the border in a dispute over aid supplies from Colombia.
Trucks had tried to break through.
The mutual relations are broken off.
2016 - Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange announce that they are considering a merger.
On March 29, 2017, this third attempt also failed.
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2011 - The federal government decides on a concept to protect against attacks from the Internet.
The focus is on the establishment of a “National Cyber Defense Center”.
2006 - When a Moscow market hall collapsed under heavy snow loads, 66 people died.
1996 - The two sons-in-law of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein are murdered in Baghdad three days after their return from exile.
1981 - In Spain, an attempted coup by right-wing members of the army and the Guardia Civil against the country's democratic development fails.
1961 - The Federal Employee Tariff (BAT) is agreed as a new tariff and service order for the public service and introduced on April 1, 1961.
1941 - A team led by the American nuclear physicist Glenn Seaborg succeeds in detecting the radioactive element plutonium.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Jan Böhmermann (40), German radio and television presenter ("Neo Magazin Royale")
1956 - Reinhold Beckmann (65), German television presenter (ARD talk show "Beckmann", SAT.1 sports programs "ran", "ranissimo")
1946 - Bodo Hauser, German TV journalist and presenter (ZDF series «Frontal» together with Ulrich Kienzle), died 2004
1931 - Dieter Schröder (90), German journalist, publisher of the "Berliner Zeitung" 1996-2001, editor-in-chief of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" 1995-1996
1931 - Gustav-Adolf "Täve" Schur (90), German racing cyclist and politician, multiple athlete of the year in the GDR, elected best athlete in 40 years of the GDR in 1989, member of the Bundestag 1998-2002 (for the PDS)
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Peter Lustig, German television presenter (ZDF children's series “Löwenzahn”), born in 1937
1996 - Helmut Schön, German soccer player and soccer coach, national coach 1964-1978, born in 1915
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