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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 7, 2021:
9th calendar week, 66th day of the year
299 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Felizitas, Thomas
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - A Virginia court sentenced former US President Donald Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison for tax and banking offenses.
Further prison sentences followed later.
In 2020 he will be pardoned by Trump.
2016 - Russia's tennis star Maria Sharapova makes public that she has taken a prohibited cardiovascular drug.
The five-time Grand Slam winner will be suspended until April 2017 for doping.
2011 - Olaf Scholz (SPD) is elected Hamburg's new head of government.
After nine and a half years in the opposition, the SPD is once again providing the First Mayor.
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2008 - The plans of the Hessian SPD chairman Andrea Ypsilanti for a red-green minority government with the tolerance of the left fail because of resistance in their own ranks.
1986 - In the Charlottenburg Clinic of the Free University of Berlin, an artificial heart is implanted in a patient for the first time in Germany.
The 39-year-old dies a week later.
1971 - The “Laughing and factual stories for children”, later renamed “Die Sendung mit der Maus”, are broadcast for the first time on WDR.
1966 - President Charles de Gaulle announces the departure of France from the military organs of NATO.
1946 - Under the chairmanship of Erich Honecker, the Free German Youth (FDJ) is founded in the Soviet occupation zone.
It was created a good month before the SED and around three and a half years before the GDR.
1936 - Contrary to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact, German troops occupy the demilitarized Rhineland.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Christian Künast (50), German ice hockey player, former goalkeeper of the German national team
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard (50), American actor ("Flight Plan - Without Any Trace", "Shattered Glass")
1956 - Bryan Cranston (65), American actor, (TV series «Breaking Bad»)
1941 - John Malone, 80, American media mogul (Liberty Media)
1921 - Franz Mack, German entrepreneur, founded Europa-Park in Rust near Freiburg together with his son Roland Mack in 1975, d. 2010
DAYS OF DEATH
2006 - Gordon Parks, American director (“Shaft”) and photographer, born in 1912
1981 - Hilde Krahwinkel-Sperling, German tennis player, was in the Wimbledon finals in 1931 and 1936, born in 1908
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