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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for March 31, 2021:

13th calendar week, 90th day of the year

275 days until the end of the year

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Zodiac sign: Aries

Name day: Benjamin, Guido, Kornelia

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - Jena is the first major German city to announce the gradual introduction of a mask requirement in supermarkets, buses and trains in the fight against the corona pandemic.

2016 - The satirist Jan Böhmermann presented on ZDF a “vicious criticism” against the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with formulations below the belt.

Berlin allows investigations by the Mainz public prosecutor's office, which will be discontinued in October.

2011 - The Comoros island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean becomes the 101st department in France.

The islanders voted in a referendum for full integration into the French state.

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2009 - In a dispute with the collecting society Gema, the Google subsidiary YouTube blocks numerous music videos on its German website.

An agreement on a license agreement was only reached in 2016.

2004 - The Flensburg erotic group Beate Uhse opens the first two branches of a new sex shop chain especially for women in downtown Hamburg.

1996 - The two New York banks, Chase Manhattan Corp.

and Chemical Banking Corp.

merge to form the largest US credit institution.

1991 - The Warsaw Pact military structures are dissolved.

The end of the Eastern military alliance was finally sealed in July 1991.

1946 - In the western sectors of Berlin, the SPD members vote on the question of merging with the KPD;

82 percent vote against.

1206 - Dresden is first mentioned in a document.

The paper certifies the judgment of an arbitration tribunal in Latin.

It begins with the words "Acta sunt hec Dresdene ..." (This happened in Dresden).

BIRTHDAYS

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1971 - Ewan McGregor (50), British actor ("Star Wars", "Trainspotting")

1946 - Klaus Wolfermann (75), German athlete, Olympic champion in javelin throwing in Munich in 1972

1931 - Günter Herrmann (90), German lawyer, director of the broadcaster Free Berlin SFB 1986-1989

1926 - John Fowles, British writer («The Collector», «The Mistress of the French Lieutenant»), died 2005

1596 - René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist, d. 1650

DAYS OF DEATH

2016 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor 1974-1992, Federal Chairman of the FDP 1974-1985, born in 1927

1996 - Jürgen Scheller, German cabaret artist and actor, member of the Munich laughing and shooting society 1961-1973, founder of the "Bavarian People's Theater" in Munich 1977, born in 1922

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