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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 27, 2021:

12th calendar week, 86th day of the year

279 days until the end of the year

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Zodiac sign: Aries

Name day: Rupert

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson contracted the coronavirus.

He will be treated in a hospital from April 4th to April 12th.

Heir to the throne, Prince Charles, had previously tested positive, but had only mild symptoms.

2020 - The small Balkan state of North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.

As a prerequisite, the name dispute with Greece had previously been settled.

2011 - At an autograph session for candidates from the RTL season “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (DSDS) in the CentrO shopping center in Oberhausen, the rush is so great that panic breaks out.

Around 60 children and young people are injured.

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2006 - After around 60 years, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva is dissolved.

The successor organization is the UN Human Rights Council.

2001 - Eight people are killed in the worst train accident in Belgium since 1974.

The local train from Leuven to Wavre collides head-on with an oncoming train that is traveling on the wrong track of the two-lane route.

1996 - The Jewish right-wing extremist Jigal Amir is found guilty of the premeditated murder of Prime Minister Izchak Rabin in Tel Aviv and sentenced to life imprisonment plus six years.

1941 - The Yugoslav government is overthrown in a military coup.

The 17-year-old Peter II becomes king.

1926 - The one-act opera "Protagonist" by the composer Kurt Weill is premiered in Dresden.

It earned him good reviews and initial recognition as a composer.

1076 - The German King Henry IV calls on Pope Gregory VII to leave the Holy See.

BIRTHDAYS

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1971 - David Coulthard (50), British Formula 1 racing driver

1921 - Johanna König, German actress, best known as the advertising icon “Klementine” for a detergent product, role in the ARD series “Praxis Bülowbogen”, d. 2009

1901 - Carl Barks, American comic artist and author ("Donald Duck"), d. 2000

1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician, SPD chairman 1952-1963, died 1963

1871 - Heinrich Mann, German writer ("Professor Unrat or the end of a tyrant", "The subject"), d. 1950

DAYS OF DEATH

2006 - Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer («Solaris»), born in 1921

1931 - Arnold Bennett, British writer ("Hotel Grand Babylon"), born in 1867

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