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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 25, 2021:
12th calendar week, 84th day of the year
281 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Prokop
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Bundestag and Bundesrat pass a supplementary budget with new debts of 156 billion euros - more than the debt brake actually allows.
This is intended to finance corona aid programs.
2001 - With the accession of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden to the Schengen Agreement, the countries abolish border controls for EU citizens.
1996 - Mel Gibson's film "Braveheart" receives five Academy Awards in Los Angeles, including one in the "Best Picture" category.
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1988 - The culture magazine “Das literäre Quartett” with Marcel Reich-Ranicki goes on air on ZDF.
1986 - In an open letter to the GDR government, the Weimar Peace Movement asks for the publication of an “Appeal for the UN Year of Peace”.
This calls for more freedom of travel and participation, as well as compliance with human rights.
1954 - The Soviet Union recognizes the GDR as a sovereign state.
1941 - Yugoslavia joins the three-power pact between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin in 1940.
1821 - The Greeks fight for independence against the Ottoman Empire.
1409 - A council begins in Pisa, at which the occidental schism, the division of the church with the popes in Rome and Avignon, is to be overcome.
However, the council ends with the election of a third Pope based in Pisa.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Wladimir Klitschko (45), Ukrainian boxer, several years heavyweight world champion of the three big boxing federations IBF, WBO and WBA
1966 - Tatjana Patitz (55), German model and actress
1936 - Giora Feidman (85), Israeli clarinetist, star of Eastern European klezmer music
1921 - Simone Signoret, French actress, "The Cat", "Madame Rosa", "The Way Up" (Oscar 1960), d. 1985
1921 - Trude Simonsohn (100), German author (“Another luck: memories”) and Holocaust survivor
DAYS OF DEATH
1921 - Karl Ernst Osthaus, German art patron and art collector, born in 1874
1801 - Novalis, German poet ("Hymnen an die Nacht"), romantic, born 1772
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