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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 1, 2021:
13th calendar week, 91st day of the year
274 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Hugo, Irene
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Due to a sharp drop in sales, the department store chain Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof initiates a so-called protective shield procedure for redevelopment.
Of the 172 branches, 46 are to be closed.
2001 - Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to the authorities in Belgrade.
For hours, the ex-president of Yugoslavia, who has been accused of numerous atrocities of war, violently defended himself against his arrest.
1994 - The new naming law comes into force in Germany.
Spouses are no longer obliged to share a family name.
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1991 - The head of the Treuhandanstalt, Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, is shot by the Red Army Fraction (RAF) in his house near Düsseldorf.
1979 - The Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini proclaims the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In January 1979 the Shah went into exile after continuing unrest.
1976 - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne found the Apple Computer Company.
1971 - Bayern 3 marks the start of the first wave of service in German broadcasting.
The mix of hourly news, traffic information and pop music is new.
1956 - With the entry into force of the Soldiers Act, the armed forces of the Federal Republic are renamed Bundeswehr
1946 - On behalf of the American occupation forces, the former Wehrmacht general Reinhard Gehlen begins to set up a foreign intelligence service.
The "Organization Gehlen" is the forerunner of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Sontje Peplow (40), German actress («Lindenstrasse»)
1961 - Karl-Thomas Neumann (60), German manager, CEO of Opel 2013-2017
1961 - Susan Boyle (60), British singer ("I Dreamed a Dream"), became internationally known for her appearance on the talent show "Britain's Got Talent"
1951 - Johanna Wanka (70), German politician (CDU), Federal Minister for Education and Research 2013-2018
1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright and writer («Der Stellvertreter»), died 2020
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Rüdiger Nehberg, German adventurer and human rights activist, born in 1935
1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer, is considered the main representative of American modern dance, born in 1894
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