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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 13, 2021:
10th calendar week, 72nd day of the year
293 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Leander, Oswin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Most schools and daycare centers in Germany will be closed due to concerns about the further spread of the corona virus.
2016 - In the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt, the previous government coalitions are voted out.
The big winner is the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
2001 - Three weeks after foot and mouth disease (FMD) broke out in Great Britain, the disease reached mainland Europe in France.
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1996 - In a school in Dunblane, Scotland, a gunman shoots 16 children and their teacher.
Then he kills himself.
1991 - Erich Honecker, former head of state and party leader of the GDR, is flown to Moscow in a Russian military machine because of an alleged serious illness and thus initially escapes the access of the German judiciary.
1954 - The KGB foreign intelligence service is founded in the Soviet Union.
1933 - Joseph Goebbels is appointed "Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda".
1881 - The Russian Tsar Alexander II is killed in a bomb attack by the revolutionary movement "Narodnaja Wolja" (People's Will) in St. Petersburg.
1871 - At the Pontus Conference in London (January 22nd-March 13th, 1871) Russia reaches the promise that it may hold any number of warships in the Black Sea.
This right was restricted after the Crimean War.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Berrit Arnold (50), German actress (TV series "Marienhof", "Verschollen")
1956 - Dana Delany (65), American actress (TV series "Desperate Housewives")
1936 - Lothar Ahrendt (85), German politician, GDR Interior Minister 1989-1990
1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase (90), German film and television author, “Der Hauptmann von Köpenick”, numerous DEFA films, including “Eine Berliner Romance”, “Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser”
1781 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel, German builder ("Neue Wache" in Berlin), d. 1841
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Hilary Putnam, American philosopher (“Renewing Philosophy”, “Philosophy of Mathematics”), born in 1926
1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (film trilogy “Three Colors”, “Decalogue”, “A Short Film About Killing”), born in 1941
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