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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 30, 2021:
13th calendar week, 89th day of the year
276 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Leonardo
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - In an emergency law, the Hungarian parliament gives Prime Minister Viktor Orban extensive powers to deal with the pandemic.
He can rule by decree.
After two and a half months and protests from EU partners, the law will be repealed.
2019 - Liberal civil rights activist Zuzana Caputova is elected Slovakia's first female president in a runoff election.
She takes office on June 15.
2011 - Myanmar has a civilian government for the first time in almost 50 years - at least on paper.
The military junta is disbanding, as the previous junta chief Than Shwe announced on state television.
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2006 - The teachers at the Rütli School in Berlin send a dramatic appeal for help to the Senate.
The situation in the secondary school is characterized by destruction, violence and inhumane behavior, also towards teachers.
2001 - Following a decision by the federal states of Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, Wilhelmshaven is awarded the contract for the planned deep water port on the German Bight.
1981 - US President Ronald Reagan is gunned down in front of a hotel in Washington and critically injured in the process.
1978 - As the first Western head of government since the GDR was recognized internationally, the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky makes an official visit to the GDR.
1971 - Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker open the first Starbucks coffee shop in Seattle, Washington state.
1856 - The Peace of Paris ends the costly Crimean War between Russia and the victors Great Britain, France, Austria, Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.
BIRTHDAYS
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1986 - Sergio Ramos (35), Spanish footballer, Real Madrid captain, 178 caps
1960 - Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (61), German theologian, Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) since 2014
1951 - Wolfgang Niedecken (70), German singer, rock musician and painter, singer of the rock group BAP
1926 - Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Ikea, died 2018
1746 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter and graphic artist (painting "The shooting of the insurgents on May 3, 1808 in Madrid"), d. 1828
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Bill Withers, American singer and songwriter (Grammy Awards for “Ain't No Sunshine”, “Just the Two of US” and “Lean On Me”), born in 1938
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (“Yankee Doodle Dandy”, “One, two, three”), born in 1899
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