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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 11, 2021:
10th calendar week, 70th day of the year
295 days until the end of the year
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Name day: Raisin, Ulrich
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - The World Health Organization (WHO) now classifies the spread of the new coronavirus as a pandemic.
2011 - In Japan, at least 15,884 people are killed in a devastating 9.0 earthquake and a subsequent tsunami.
The forces of nature also plunge the state into a nuclear catastrophe.
The Fukushima nuclear power plant is particularly affected.
2001 - Pope John Paul II beatifies 233 victims of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) who were killed for their beliefs.
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1999 - Federal Finance Minister Oskar Lafontaine surprisingly resigns from his government office and as SPD chairman.
He justified the move with a "bad team game" in the cabinet of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
1968 - According to a Bundestag resolution of June 1967, Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) delivers the first “Report on the State of the Nation in a Divided Germany” to the Bonn parliament.
1918 - The Soviet government moves from Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) to Moscow.
Moscow is declared the capital.
1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera «Rigoletto» is premiered in Venice.
1824 - The "Bureau of Indian Affairs" is established in the United States.
It is initially subordinate to the War Department and is intended to manage relations with the Native Americans.
1671 - King Christian V of Denmark signs the founding charter of the West India Company in Copenhagen, which was formed by merchants to trade with the Danish colonies in the Caribbean.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Frank Lüdecke (60), German cabaret artist, artistic director of the Berlin cabaret “Die Stachelschweine”, solo program “The wrong thing doesn't always have to be right!”
1936 - Harald zur Hausen (85), German virologist, Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008 together with the French AIDS researchers Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier
1931 - Janosch (90), German children's book author and illustrator (“Oh, how beautiful is Panama”, animated film “Janosch's dream hour”)
1931 - Rupert Murdoch (90), American media entrepreneur ("News Corporation"), US citizen since 1985 (previously Australian citizen)
1921 - Astor Piazzolla, Argentine musician and composer, devoted himself particularly to Argentine tango (“Tango Nuevo”), d. 1992
DAYS OF DEATH
1991 - Maria Reining, Austrian opera singer, singer at the Vienna State Opera 1931-1933 and 1937-1958, born in 1903
1931 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German director (“Nosferatu, a symphony of horror”, “Sunrise”, “Tabu”), born in 1888
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