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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 16, 2021

11th calendar week, 75th day of the year

290 days until the end of the year

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Name day: Gummar

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - Due to the corona pandemic, Germany closes its borders with France, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark and Switzerland.

2019 - The Junge Union (JU) elects the 31-year-old Lower Saxony lawyer Tilman Kuban as its new chairman.

2006 - The Federal Administrative Court clears the way for the new Berlin Brandenburg airport.

After more than a decade of planning and protests, the Leipzig judges dismissed the lawsuits of 4,000 residents in the last instance, but imposed a far-reaching ban on night flights.

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2001 - Two months after the start of the free Internet lexicon Wikipedia, the German version goes online.

1986 - The Swiss voted against joining the UN in a referendum by a large majority.

They are thus rejecting recommendations from their government, their parliament and the major parties that had campaigned for full membership in the world organization.

1956 - The Federal Council holds its first meeting in Berlin.

The venue is the Schöneberg Town Hall.

1951 - The Bundestag passes the law on the establishment of the Federal Border Guard (BGS) and the border guard authorities.

The law comes into force on March 21st.

1926 - The first liquid fuel-powered rocket is successfully launched in Auburn, Massachusetts.

1521 - The Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (Magellan) discovered the Philippines after crossing the "Strait of Magellan" named after him from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

BIRTHDAYS

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1976 - Pal Dardai (45), Hungarian football coach (Hertha BSC)

1959 - Jens Stoltenberg (62), Norwegian politician, NATO Secretary General since 2014, Prime Minister 2005-2013 and 2000-2001

1941 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director (“The Last Emperor”, “The Last Tango in Paris”), died 2018

1936 - Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress (TV series «Klimbim»), died 2006

1931 - Ernst Hilbich (90), German actor and cabaret artist ("Willi will rock the child", "Our aunt is the last one")

DAYS OF DEATH

1991 - Trude Herr, German actress (“Of course the drivers”) and singer (“I don't want chocolate”), founder of the Cologne “Theater im Vringsveedel”, born in 1927

1986 - Kurt Sieveking, German lawyer, diplomat and politician (CDU), First Mayor of Hamburg 1953-1957, born in 1897



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