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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 19, 2021:
11th calendar week, 78th day of the year
287 days until the end of the year
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Star signs fish
Name day: Josef
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - TV images from the Italian city of Bergamo shock.
Corona dead are transported to crematoria in military trucks.
Italy already has over 3,400 victims, more than China.
2019 - After almost three decades in power, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev resigns from office.
The desired successor to the authoritarian Nazarbayev is Kassym-Shomart Tokayev.
2011 - Polar bear Knut dies at the age of four from the effects of an encephalitis in the Berlin Zoological Garden.
He was bottle-raised by a zookeeper and had millions of fans.
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2011 - An international military operation against Libya begins with massive air and rocket attacks.
The action approved by the United Nations is intended to prevent the ruler Gaddafi from waging war against his own people.
2001 - After years of tug-of-war, the service union ver.di is founded.
The chairmen of ÖTV, DAG, HBV, Postgewerkschaft and IG-Medien sign the merger agreement in Berlin.
1996 - In Quezon near Manila, a fire in the classy “Ozone Disco Pub” kills 162 people.
Schoolchildren and students celebrated the end of the school year there.
1986 - The quarter-finals in the European Cup went down in football history as the “Miracle of the Grotenburg”: Bayer Uerdingen was able to make up a 1: 3 deficit against Dynamo Dresden in the second half and ultimately won 7: 3.
1986 - Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
1911 - International Women's Day is celebrated for the first time in the German Reich, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and the USA.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Bastian Steger (40), German table tennis player, German champion (individual) 2011 and 2012
1971 - Nadja Auermann (50), German model
1946 - Joachim Sartorius (75), German cultural manager, poet and translator, director of the Berlin Festival 2001-2011
1941 - Tommi Piper (80), German actor and voice actor ("Alf")
1936 - Ursula Andress (85), Swiss actress ("James Bond - 007 chasing Dr. No" 1962)
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Jörn Klamroth, German journalist and media manager, managing director Degeto 2002-2011, WDR television director 1980-2002, born in 1944
1991 - Ursula von Manescul, German actress, chief announcer of SWF television 1954-73, born in 1931
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