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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 21, 2021:
11th calendar week, 80th day of the year
285 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Axel, Benedikt
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - An overcrowded ferry sinks on the Tigris River near Mosul in northern Iraq.
At least 110 passengers drown.
They were on their way to a celebration of the Kurdish New Year.
2016 - The International Criminal Court finds the Vice-President of the Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, guilty of the worst war crimes.
In June 2016, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
2008 - After more than half a century, the «Bild» newspaper no longer comes from Hamburg, but from Berlin.
The central editorial office of the tabloid moves to the capital.
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2006 - The American software developer Jack Dorsey posts the first tweet on the short message service Twitter.
2003 - According to the US television broadcaster CNN, the first US soldier is killed in a gun battle during the Iraq war.
1996 - The Peenemünde military base on the island of Usedom is closed.
Adolf Hitler had the Army Research Institute built there in 1936, in which the so-called retaliatory weapons "V1" and "V2" were developed.
Later, GDR military units and, after reunification, the Bundeswehr were stationed in Peenemünde.
1991 - Federal Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber (CDU) announces the end of the fast breeder in Kalkar.
The total costs for the former prestige property amount to seven billion marks.
1871 - The elected Reichstag of the new German Empire meets for the first plenary session in Berlin.
The election took place on March 3rd.
1846 - The Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax receives a patent in France for the saxophone, which is initially used in military bands as well as in opera and orchestral music.
The saxophone found its breakthrough in jazz music.
BIRTHDAYS
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1991 - Antoine Griezmann (30), French football player (Atletico Madrid 2014-2019, FC Barcelona since 2019)
1961 - Lothar Matthäus (60), German soccer player (Bayern Munich 1984-1988 and 1992-2000, 150 international matches for the national team 1980-2000)
1946 - Timothy Dalton (75), British actor (James Bond actor in "The Living Daylights" and "License to Kill")
1936 - Jürgen Sarrazin, German bank manager, CEO of Dresdner Bank 1993-98, died 2019
1901 - Karl Arnold, German politician, co-founder of the CDU in Düsseldorf, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia 1947-1956, died 1958
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Alexander Freiherr von Branca, German architect (Neue Pinakothek in Munich), born in 1919
2011 - Loleatta Holloway, American soul singer ("Love Sensation"), born in 1946
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