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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 9, 2021:
10th calendar week, 68th day of the year
297 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Bruno, Dominikus, Franziska
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Germany reports corona deaths for the first time: a woman from Essen and a man from the Rhenish district of Heinsberg.
The day before, a German tourist in Egypt died of it.
The number of infections rises to more than 1000 nationwide.
2016 - After Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, Macedonia also closes its border to refugees and other migrants.
This means that the Balkan route, through which more than a million people came to Germany and Austria in 2015, is effectively closed.
2011 - The US state of Illinois abolishes the death penalty after a series of wrongful convictions.
The sentences of the remaining 15 death row inmates will be commuted to life imprisonment.
Illinois is the 16th state in the United States without the death penalty; the other 34 states still have it.
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2006 - Volkswagen sells its subsidiary Europcar for over three billion euros.
The French financial investor Eurazeo will be the new owner of Europe's largest car rental company.
2001 - Claudia Roth is elected as the new chairman of the alliance Greens in Stuttgart.
Roth replaces Renate Künast in the dual leadership with Fritz Kuhn.
1976 - In the vicinity of Cavalese near Trento, a fully occupied cable car falls about 60 meters after a cable rupture.
42 people are killed, including 20 Germans.
1956 - The Orthodox Archbishop and later President of Cyprus, Makarios III, is deported to the Seychelles by the British authorities.
1831 - King Louis Philippe founded the French Foreign Legion.
1796 - The aspiring general and future Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, marries Joséphine de Beauharnais.
BIRTHDAYS
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1979 - Christian Friedel (42), German actor ("The White Ribbon", "Elser", "Berlin Babylon")
1974 - Sophie Schütt (47), German actress (feature film “City Talk”, TV series “Typisch Sophie”)
1964 - Juliette Binoche (57), French actress (leading role in "Chocolat", Oscar as best supporting actress in "The English Patient")
1951 - Helen Zille (70), South African politician, great niece of Heinrich Zille, Mayor of Cape Town 2006-2009, "World Mayor 2008",
1946 - Bernd Hölzenbein (75), German soccer player and soccer manager, as a player world champion 1974 with the German national soccer team, with Eintracht Frankfurt 1980 UEFA Cup winner and German cup winner 1974, 1975 and 1981
DAYS OF DEATH
1981 - Max Delbrück, German-American biophysicist, virologist and geneticist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Medicine, moved to the USA in 1937, born in 1906
1661 - Jules Mazarin, French politician, cardinal 1641-1661, successor to Richelieu as chief minister of the French crown under Louis XIV, born 1602
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