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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 1, 2021:
9th calendar week, 60th day of the year
305 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Albin, David, Teresa
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - From March 1st, vaccination against measles will apply in Germany.
Not only children, but also some groups of adults have to prove that they are immune to the disease.
2011 - Federal Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) declares his resignation.
He is drawing the conclusions from the plagiarism affair surrounding his doctoral thesis.
2001 - The radical Islamic Taliban ruling Afghanistan begin with the destruction of the two 55 and 58 meter high Buddha statues of Bamian, which are carved into the rock and are classified by UNESCO as a unique property of the world heritage.
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1996 - The relocation of the Kaisersaal from the former Grand Hotel Esplanade begins on the Sony site at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.
The hall, which is in the way of a new street, had previously been peeled out of the remains of the hotel that was destroyed in World War II.
1981 - IRA prisoners go on hunger strike in Belfast Maze Prison to enforce prison relief.
Ten prisoners die in the process.
1966 - The Soviet space probe "Venera 3" crashes on Venus.
It is the first probe to reach an alien planet.
1961 - The American President John F. Kennedy creates the US Peace Corps.
It sends young Americans to the developing world as development workers on a voluntary basis.
1956 - The National People's Army (NVA) is founded in the GDR.
The barracked People's Police (KVP) formed the core of the new army.
1901 - In Elberfeld, today's Wuppertal, the first section of the 13.3 km suspension railway is put into operation.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Andreas Geisel (55), German politician (SPD), Berlin Senator for the Interior since 2016
1936 - Luc Jochimsen (85), German journalist and politician, member of the Bundestag for the Left 2005-2013, television editor-in-chief of Hessischer Rundfunk 1994-2001
1931 - Lamberto Dini (90), Italian politician and economist, Prime Minister of Italy, 1995-1996, Foreign Minister 1996-2001
1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and writer, representative of Expressionism, portraits of politicians, e.g. by Konrad Adenauer, Theodor Heuss and Mosche Dajan, d. 1980
1871 - Ernst Leitz, German entrepreneur, builder of the first 35mm camera (Leica), d. 1956
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan writer and liberation theologian, priest suspended from the Catholic Church, Minister of Culture 1979-1987, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1980, born 1925
2006 - Annette von Aretin, German TV announcer, job counselor in the quiz program “What am I?”, Born in 1920
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