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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 28, 2021:
8th calendar week, 59th day of the year
306 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Romanus, Silvana, Sirin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opens the border with Greece.
Greek border guards use stun grenades and tear gas to prevent tens of thousands of migrants from entering the country for days.
2019 - In the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, the second summit talks between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's ruler Kim Jong Un end prematurely.
Kim had asked for all sanctions against his country to be lifted.
2016 - The Swiss vote in a referendum with 58.9 percent against the strict deportation of criminal foreigners.
This means that an initiative by the Swiss People's Party has surprisingly failed.
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1996 - Russia becomes the 39th member of the Council of Europe after almost four years of admission.
1991 - The new pay TV channel "Premiere" goes on air nationwide.
The program focuses on current feature films and the Bundesliga.
1986 - The Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead by an unknown assassin on the street in Stockholm.
1981 - Up to 100,000 people gather near Brokdorf in Schleswig-Holstein for the largest demonstration against a nuclear power plant in Germany to date.
1961 - The Federal Constitutional Court declares the plans of the Adenauer government for a second national television program controlled by the federal government to be unconstitutional.
As an instrument for forming opinions, broadcasting must be organized independently of the state.
1921 - A sailors' revolt against the Bolshevik government begins in Kronstadt near Petrograd (today St. Petersburg).
He is bloodily knocked down.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Ove Saffe (60), German media manager, managing director at Spiegel-Verlag from 2009-2015
1944 - Sepp Maier (77), German footballer, world champion 1974, long-time goalkeeping coach in the national team
1929 - Frank Gehry (92), American architect and designer (Gehry Tower Hannover, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao)
1921 - Willi Sitte, German painter and graphic artist, President of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR 1974-1988, d. 2013
1901 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize 1962, d. 1994
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Annie Girardot, French actress (“Der Querkopf”, “Rocco and his brothers”), born in 1931
2011 - Jane Russell, American actress (“Outlawed”, “Blondes preferred”), born in 1921
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