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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 2, 2021:
9th calendar week, 61st day of the year
304 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Agnes, Karl
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - In the third parliamentary election within a year in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud party wins 36 of the 120 seats, Benny Gantz's center alliance Blue-White wins 33. In May Netanyahu forms a unity government.
After 18 months, Gantz is to take over from him.
2018 - Al Qaeda terrorists attack the French embassy and an army building in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou.
At least 16 people are killed.
2011 - The federal government decides to change the Telecommunications Act, with which the rip-off in telephone waiting loops is to be stopped.
It is expected that from mid-2012 callers will no longer pay for waiting times on service hotlines.
The Bundestag passed the new regulation on October 27th.
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2001 - The Bonn Regional Court approves the termination of the preliminary proceedings against former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
It was about the suspicion of infidelity in connection with his acceptance of donations for the CDU.
2001 - For crimes against humanity, the former SS-Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner is sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia in Paris.
He is charged with the death of 130,000 Jews.
1991 - The UN Security Council establishes in Resolution 686 the conditions for Iraq for a ceasefire in the Gulf War.
1958 - A British expedition led by Sir Vivian Fuchs completes the first land crossing of Antarctica.
1956 - France gives Morocco independence.
1808 - Heinrich von Kleist's comedy “Der zerbrochne Krug” is premiered in Weimar.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Brigitte Hobmeier (45), German actress ("Stiller Sturm", TV series "Oktoberfest 1900")
1968 - Daniel Craig (53), British actor, James Bond actor: «Casino Royale» 2006
1961 - David Brandstätter (60), Austrian journalist and media manager, since 2014 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German Press Agency (dpa)
1961 - Simone Young (60), Australian conductor, artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera (2005-2015)
1931 - Mikhail Gorbachev (90), Soviet politician, head of state 1988-1991 (President from 1990), General Secretary of the Communist Party (CPSU) 1985-1991, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1990
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Hans Nicklisch, German writer (“Father our best piece”, “It doesn't work without a mother”, “The woman is weak”), born in 1911
1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, French chansonnier, composer and actor, chanson "Je t'aime, moi non plus" with Jane Birkin, born in 1928
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