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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 18, 2021:

11th calendar week, 77th day of the year

288 days until the end of the year

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Name day: Cyrill, Eduard

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - The German leading index Dax reaches the lowest point in the Corona crisis at 8441.71 points.

It was a steep drop within four weeks of a record hunt down to 13,800 points in mid-February.

At the end of the year, the Dax is back at 13,600 points.

2019 - A 37-year-old Islamist shoots four passengers on a tram in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

2016 - The EU and Turkey agree on a pact in Brussels to deal with the refugee crisis.

Migrants who arrive illegally in Greece are sent back to Turkey.

In return, for every Syrian withdrawn, another Syrian is supposed to come legally and directly from Turkey to the EU.

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2011 - According to a judgment from Strasbourg, crucifixes in classrooms in state schools are compatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.

The European Court of Human Rights dismissed a mother's complaint.

2003 - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) condemns the American threats of war against Iraq in a televised address and denies US President George W. Bush the justification for a war.

1976 - The Bundestag passes the law on employee participation in large companies.

It comes into force on July 1st.

1961 - Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss is elected chairman of the CSU in Munich.

He retained the post until his death in 1988.

1931 - The world's first electric shaver is launched on the US market by its inventor Jacob Schick.

1921 - The Peace of Riga ends the Polish-Soviet War and gives Poland extensive territorial gains in the east.

BIRTHDAYS

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1966 - Anne Will (55), German TV presenter and journalist, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize 2007

1956 - Ingemar Stenmark (65), Swedish ski racer (86 World Cup victories, two Olympic gold medals and three overall World Cup victories in slalom and giant slalom)

1951 - Bill Frisell (70), American jazz guitarist and composer (soundtrack to Wim Wenders “Million Dollar Hotel”)

1936 - Frederik de Klerk (85), South African politician, President 1989-1994, initiated the end of racial segregation in South Africa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993

1926 - Peter Graves, American actor (TV series «Cobra, take over»), died 2010

DAYS OF DEATH

2016 - Guido Westerwelle, German politician, Foreign Minister 2009-2013, Federal Chairman of the FDP 2001-2011, born in 1961

2011 - Wolfgang Spier, German director, actor and television presenter (TV show “Who three times lies”), born in 1920



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