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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 28, 2021:

12th calendar week, 87th day of the year

278 days until the end of the year

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Zodiac sign: Aries

Name day: Guntram, Gundelind

HISTORICAL DATA

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2019 - The financially troubled Icelandic low-cost airline Wow Air ceases operations.

2011 - The European Parliament fails with its demand for a ban and strict guidelines for the marketing of cloned meat due to resistance from EU member states and the EU Commission.

Meat and milk from the descendants of cloned animals can continue to be sold in European supermarkets without labeling.

2009 - The synods of the regional churches of North Elbe, Mecklenburg and Pomerania approve the merger agreement to form a northern church.

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2003 - Against the background of increasing tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Japan launched its own spy satellites into space for the first time.

1996 - The Brandenburg State Parliament decides to introduce the controversial subject of “Lifestyle-Ethics-Religion”.

Church religious instruction should only be offered as a voluntary additional offer.

1981 - The Neue Pinakothek is reopened in Munich.

The new museum building, which was built for 104.7 million marks, is the successor to the Neue Pinakothek, which opened in 1853 and bombed out in 1944.

1979 - At the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), a radioactive cloud is released in the worst nuclear accident to date in the USA.

200,000 people are brought to safety.

1939 - Troops of the later dictator Francisco Franco march into Madrid without a fight and on April 1st declare the Spanish civil war to be over.

1898 - The Reichstag approves the naval law to build up the German navy.

BIRTHDAYS

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1961 - Barbara Wussow (60), German actress («Die Schwarzwaldklinik»)

1941 - Rolf Zacher, German actor (“Endstation Freiheit”), died 2018

1936 - Mario Vargas Llosa (85), Peruvian-Spanish writer (“Death in the Andes”, “The Goat Festival”), Nobel Prize for Literature 2010

1921 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor (“Death in Venice”) and writer (“Jericho”), d. 1999

1891 - Peter Suhrkamp, ​​German publisher, founder of the Suhrkamp publishing house in 1950, d. 1959

DAYS OF DEATH

1941 - Virginia Woolf, British writer ("Mrs. Dalloway", "Orlando"), born in 1882

1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (piano cycle «Pictures at an Exhibition»), born in 1839

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