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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 24, 2021:
8th calendar week, 55th day of the year
310 days until the end of the year
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Name day: Ethelbert, Matthias
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - In Volkmarsen in northern Hesse, a 29-year-old German consciously drives his car into a carnival parade.
More than 100 people, including many children, are injured, some seriously.
An act of terrorism is excluded.
2011 - The US space shuttle “Discovery” takes off on its 39th and last flight into space.
After almost 27 years of service, it becomes a museum piece.
2008 - Almost 50 years after the revolution, Cuba has for the first time a government without Fidel Castro.
The National Assembly elects Raúl Castro, the younger brother of the revolutionary leader, as chairman of the State Council.
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1991 - In the Gulf War, Allied troops begin the ground offensive against Iraq to recapture Kuwait.
1981 - In the UK, Buckingham Palace officially announces the engagement of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.
1971 - The Federal Constitutional Court confirms the ban on Klaus Mann's book "Mephisto - A Career Novel" in a landmark judgment.
It sees the personal rights of the late actor and artistic director Gustaf Gründgens violated.
1966 - Bloody coup in Ghana: While Kwame Nkrumah, the country's first president since independence, is on a trip to Asia, the army takes power in the country.
1901 - The Russian Orthodox Church excludes the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy from the church for "blasphemous statements".
1896 - The French physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel reports for the first time about the natural radioactive radiation of uranium that he discovered.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Jan Koum (45), Ukrainian-American entrepreneur, co-founder of the WhatsApp chat service, which was sold to Facebook in 2014.
1976 - Yuval Noah Harari (45), Israeli historian (bestsellers “A Brief History of Humanity” and “Homo Deus”)
1971 - Moses Pelham (50), German rapper ("Herz")
1961 - Erna Solberg (60), Norwegian politician, Prime Minister since 2013
1786 - Wilhelm Grimm, German linguist and literary scholar («German Dictionary» together with Jacob Grimm), collected fairy tales and sagas with his brother, d. 1859
DAYS OF DEATH
2019 - Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, German constitutional and administrative lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court 1983-1996, born in 1930
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist ("The skeptical generation. A sociology of German youth"), born in 1912
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