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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 23, 2021:
12th calendar week, 82nd day of the year
283 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Rebekah
HISTORICAL DATA
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2016 - The author Peter Handke receives the Würth Prize for European Literature endowed with 25,000 euros in the Liederhalle in Stuttgart.
2011 - In the heavily indebted euro country Portugal, an austerity package by the socialist minority government is rejected in parliament by Prime Minister José Sócrates.
Thereupon Sócrates resigns.
The resignation triggers a serious national crisis.
2001 - The Russian space station "Mir" burns up in the earth's atmosphere after more than 15 years of operation.
The last debris from space is falling in the South Pacific.
The «Mir» has flown exactly 86,331 laps around the globe since it took off in February 1986.
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1996 - In Taiwan, President Lee Teng-hui emerged victorious from the country's first free presidential election with 54 percent of the vote.
1966 - Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is elected CDU chairman as the successor to the resigned Konrad Adenauer.
1956 - Nine years after independence, the «Islamic Republic of Pakistan» is proclaimed.
1939 - The German-Lithuanian state treaty for the “reunification of the Memelland with the German Reich” is signed.
The Memelland had to be ceded by the Versailles Treaty and had been under Lithuanian administration since 1923.
1881 - A peace treaty between the British and the Afrikaans / Boers in South Africa ends the first Boer War.
The Boers in the Transvaal are assured of self-government under formal British rule.
Afrikaaner / Boers were descendants of European immigrants.
1324 - Pope John XXII.
exempts the Roman-German King Ludwig IV. because, in his opinion, he illegally carries the title of king.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Keri Russell (45), American actress (leading role in the American television series "Felicity")
1956 - Herbert Knaup (65), German actor ("Irren is male", "Lola rennt")
1956 - José Manuel Barroso (65), Portuguese politician, EU Commission President 2004-2014, Portuguese Prime Minister 2002-2004
1921 - Donald Campbell, British racing driver, set several speed records for automobiles and racing boats, d. 1967
1881 - Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, founder of macromolecular chemistry, Nobel laureate in chemistry in 1953, d. 1965
DAYS OF DEATH
2018 - Philip Kerr, British writer, best known for the crime series about the Berlin private detective Bernie Gunther, born in 1956
2011 - Elizabeth Taylor, American actress (“Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, “Cleopatra”, “The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”), born in 1932
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