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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 22, 2021:
12th calendar week, 81st day of the year
284 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Lea
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Dozens of people are injured in two earthquakes in the Croatian capital Zagreb, and a 15-year-old dies.
The medieval cathedral, parliament and museums are among the many damaged buildings.
2020 - To contain the Corona crisis, gatherings of more than two people will be prohibited throughout Germany.
2016 - In Brussels, three Islamist suicide bombers kill a total of 32 people in a subway station in the Europaviertel and at Zaventem Airport.
The terrorist militia Islamic State is committed to the terrorist act in Belgium.
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2001 - The former GDR state and party leader Egon Krenz fails in the fight against his conviction for the fatal shots at the inner-German border at the European Court of Human Rights.
2001 - One month after the arrest of Moscow spy Robert Hanssen, the US orders the expulsion of 50 Russian diplomats.
In return, Moscow has announced the expulsion of 50 US diplomats.
1996 - Due to the risk of BSE, the federal government issues an import ban on cattle and beef from Great Britain and Switzerland, which comes into force the following day.
1991 - The two hostage gangsters Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski from Gladbeck are sentenced to life imprisonment by the Essen regional court.
1944 - The city center is destroyed in an Allied air raid on Frankfurt am Main.
With its magnificent half-timbered buildings, it was considered one of the best preserved old towns in Germany until then.
1000 people die.
1876 - The National Gallery, designed by August Stüler, opens in Berlin Mitte.
BIRTHDAYS
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1956 - Elfriede Müller (65), German actress and playwright ("Die Bergarbeiterinnen")
1956 - Grand Duchess Maria Teresa (65), Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, wife of Grand Duke Henri, mother of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume
1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss theater and film actor («Der Untergang», «Der American Freund»), Iffland Ring bearer as «the most important and worthy stage artist in German-speaking theater», d
1936 - Roger Whittaker (85), British pop singer ("The Last Farewell")
1931 - William Shatner (90), Canadian actor, role of "Captain Kirk" in the television series "Raumschiff Enterprise" and the films in the "Star Trek" series
DAYS OF DEATH
1996 - CC Bergius, German writer, his 34 books reached a total circulation of more than 15 million copies, international breakthrough with «Der Fälscher», born in 1910
1946 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, German Cardinal, Bishop of Münster 1933-1946, who campaigned against euthanasia and the National Socialist monastery storm, born in 1878
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