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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 3, 2021:
9th calendar week, 62nd day of the year
303 days until the end of the year
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Name day: Kunigunde
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The German bishops elect the reform-oriented Bishop of Limburg, Georg Bätzing, as the new chairman.
His long-term predecessor, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, did not stand for re-election.
2019 - The approximately one million public service workers in the federal states will receive multi-level salary increases of eight percent until 2021. The collective bargaining partners agree on this.
The degree is one of the highest in years.
2016 - US astronomers report that the space telescope “Hubble” has discovered the 13.4 billion light-years distant galaxy GN-z11 in the Great Bear.
"Hubble" started in 1990.
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2011 - After massive sales problems with the new E10 biofuel, the introduction at other filling stations is stopped for the time being.
1991 - Rodney King, a black driver, was beaten up by police during a traffic stop in Los Angeles.
The acquittal of the men leads to riots in Los Angeles with dozens of dead.
1986 - Eight weeks before the Austrian presidential election, the news magazine “Profil” publishes the military master card of ÖVP candidate Kurt Waldheim, in which the letters SA are noted.
A heated debate breaks out in Austria about Waldheim's role as a Wehrmacht officer.
1931 - The poem "The Star Spangled Banner", written by Francis Scott Key in 1814, is promoted to the US national anthem by Congress.
1871 - The first Reichstag election takes place in the new German Empire.
1861 - With the law on the abolition of serfdom by Tsar Alexander II, 23 million Russian peasants, the last serfs in Europe, are personally set free.
BIRTHDAYS
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1991 - Andreas Wolff (30), German handball player, goalkeeper, European champion 2016
1956 - Hartmut Strampe (65), German football referee, 170 appearances in the 1st Bundesliga
1951 - Tony Hall (70), British cultural manager, director of the Royal Opera House, London 2001-2012
1946 - Dunja Rajter (75), Croatian singer ("On the Shores of the Night"), born in 1940 according to other sources
1941 - Jutta Hoffmann (80), German actress, long-time member of the Berliner Ensemble (films: “Bandits”, “Lotte in Weimar”)
DAYS OF DEATH
1996 - Marguerite Duras, French writer (“The Lover”) and screenwriter (“Hiroshima mon amour”), born in 1914
1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (the most popular work is the canon from «Canon and Gigue in D major») and organist, born 1653
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