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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 25, 2021:
8th calendar week, 56th day of the year
309 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Adeltrud, Adelhelm, Luigi, Walburg
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia is the first corona hotspot in Germany.
At a carnival session in Gangelt, participants were infected.
Hundreds of people are quarantined.
Kindergartens and schools will remain closed for the time being.
2016 - The Bundestag tightens the asylum law.
The so-called Asylum Package II provides for accelerated procedures, restrictions on family reunification and the facilitation of deportations of criminal foreigners.
2011 - The way for higher Hartz IV standard rates and the education package for children in need is free.
After months of tug-of-war between the government and the opposition, the Bundestag and Bundesrat approve the legislative package.
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1991 - The foreign and defense ministers of the six member states of the Warsaw Pact decide in Budapest to dissolve the alliance.
1986 - The Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos is overthrown in a coup and flees into exile in Hawaii (USA) with his wife Imelda.
1956 - At the 20th party congress of the CPSU, party leader Nikita Khrushchev reveals the crimes of his predecessor Josef Stalin.
This shows the first signs of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union.
1941 - In Amsterdam, thousands of workers stop working to protest the persecution of the Jews.
The so-called February strike is brutally suppressed by the German occupiers.
1921 - Georgia, which had declared itself an independent «democratic republic» in 1918, is occupied by the Red Army.
As a Soviet republic, it becomes part of the USSR in 1922.
1836 - The American Samuel Colt receives US patent 138 for the invention of his drum revolver.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Sean Astin (50), American actor ("The Lord of the Rings")
1961 - Hermann Gröhe (60), German politician, Federal Minister of Health 2013-2018, CDU General Secretary 2010-2013
1956 - Michel Friedman (65), German lawyer and television presenter (“Studio Friedman”, “Friedman”), Vice-President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany 2000-2003
1946 - Franz Xaver Kroetz (75), German playwright (“Stallerhof”), actor (TV series “Kir Royal”) and director
1936 - Rolf Lyssy (85), Swiss filmmaker («Die Schweizermacher»)
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Husni Mubarak, Egyptian politician, President 1981-2011, born 1928
2016 - Gillis Lundgren, Swedish commercial artist and furniture designer, inventor of the Billy shelf (1979), born in 1929
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