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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 27, 2021:
8th calendar week, 58th day of the year
307 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Augustine
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The legislature may prohibit female lawyers involved in proceedings from wearing headscarves in the courtroom.
Here, the principle of ideological and religious neutrality applies, ruled the Federal Constitutional Court.
2019 - Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's ex-attorney, calls the US President a “liar” in a public hearing in the House of Representatives.
Among other things, he urged him to tell untruths to parliament and to make payments to a former porn actress.
2016 - After five years of civil war with over 250,000 dead, a ceasefire comes into force in Syria.
The USA and Russia had previously agreed on this.
The Islamic State terrorist militia and the Al-Nusra Front are excluded from the ceasefire.
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2011 - Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi resigns after bloody riots in Tunisia.
After President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled in January 2011, he became head of the transitional government that is supposed to prepare the country for new elections.
2006 - The President of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian, dissolves the Taipei government's reunification council and removes the guidelines for reunification with mainland China.
This creates new tensions with China.
1951 - The 22nd Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified.
It limits the president's term of office to a maximum of two terms.
1881 - Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, from 1888 Kaiser Wilhelm II., And Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg marry in Berlin.
1866 - In order to give women better educational opportunities, Wilhelm Adolf Lette and 300 men found an "Association for the Promotion of Employment of Women" in Berlin.
1531 - The Protestant imperial estates conclude the "Schmalkaldic League" to protect the Reformation faith against the Catholic religious policy of Emperor Charles V.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Josh Groban (40), American singer (album «Closer»)
1976 - Rhea Harder (45), German actress ("Good times bad times," Berlin Berlin ")
1951 - Bernd Bischoff (70), German industrial manager, CEO of Fujitsu Siemens Computers 2004-2008
1926 - Elisabeth Borchers, German poet and editor (“The table at which we sit”), died 2013
1861 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher, educator and natural scientist, founder of anthroposophy, head of the first Waldorf school, which opened in Stuttgart in 1919, died 1925
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Burkhard Driest, German actor ("Querelle"), writer ("The brutalization of Franz Blum") and director, born in 1939
2011 - Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish politician, Prime Minister 1996-1997, born in 1926
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