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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 29, 2021:
13th calendar week, 88th day of the year
277 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Helmut, Ludolf
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - After almost 35 years, the ARD television series “Lindenstrasse” ends with the 1758th episode.
2019 - Football clubs can in principle participate in the costs for additional police operations at high-risk games.
That is decided by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig.
2016 - The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of the global health emergency that was declared due to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa with more than 11,000 deaths.
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2006 - 18-year-old Lena Gerke wins the first season of “Germany's Next Top Model” on ProSieben.
2001 - Chancellor Gerhard Schröder meets in Washington for his first meeting with the new US President George W. Bush.
1974 - Series production of the first Golf designed by the Italian Giorgio Giugiaro begins at the VW plant in Wolfsburg.
1971 - Charles Manson is sentenced to death in connection with the murder of actress Sharon Tate.
After the death penalty was abolished in California in 1972, he was serving a life sentence.
1886 - The Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz wins the first official world chess championship in New Orleans.
1871 - The Royal Albert Hall opens in London in the presence of Queen Victoria.
The round concert hall made of red bricks with terracotta decoration and a glass dome is named after her late husband Albert.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Alexander Fehling (40), German actor, German Film Award 2019 for the best male supporting role in "The End of Truth"
1961 - Michael Winterbottom (60), British director, Silver Bear of the Berlinale for "The Road to Guantánamo" (2006)
1956 - Claus-Erich Boetzkes (65), German news anchor ("Nachtmagazin" on ARD)
1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett (85), British composer, film music (“Four Weddings and a Death”), operas, jazz pieces, symphonies
1886 - Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, German entrepreneur, owner of the Friedrich Krupp-Werke 1903-1943, died 1957
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer, awarded the Midem Music Prize as “best living composer” in 2000, born in 1933
2001 - Tyll Necker, German entrepreneur, President of the BDI 1987-1990 and 1992-1994, born in 1930
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