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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 2, 2021:
13th calendar week, 92nd day of the year
273 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Franz, Maria
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic violated EU law in the refugee crisis, ruled the European Court of Justice.
In 2015 you refused to redistribute refugees.
2019 - Reinhard Grindel resigns as President of the German Football Association (DFB).
He had previously been criticized for accepting an expensive watch.
Fritz Keller will succeed him at the top of the DFB.
2006 - The basis of the electoral alternative work and social justice (WASG) says in a ballot with an unexpectedly large majority yes to the merger with the Left Party by 2007.
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2004 - The US computer companies Microsoft and Sun Microsystems end their long-term feud with a billion dollar comparison.
Among other things, it dealt with the Java programming language developed by Sun.
2001 - Three of the five largest music companies merge to form the MusicNet online platform.
In addition to Warner Music, Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) and EMI, RealNetworks is also a partner in the new alliance with its digital rights technology.
1998 - The French Nazi collaborator and later Minister Maurice Papon is sentenced to ten years imprisonment for complicity in the deportations of Jews.
1996 - A new television giant emerges in Europe: Bertelsmann announces the merger of its UFA Film- und Fernseh GmbH with the Luxembourg television group CLT.
1979 - Menachem Begin arrives for the first official visit by an Israeli head of government to Egypt.
1946 - The daily newspaper "Die Welt" appears for the first time in the British occupation zone.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Lucy Diakovska (45), German pop singer, member of the group No Angels (“Daylight In Your Eyes”, “Disappear”)
1971 - Elton (50), German TV presenter ("TV Total", "1,2 or 3")
1951 - Brigitte Behrens (70), German manager and sociologist, managing director of Greenpeace Germany 1999-2016
1926 - Max Greger, German musician and band leader ("Rock 'n' Roll Boogie", "Teenager Cha Cha"), d. 2015
1891 - Max Ernst, German-American-French painter and sculptor, representative of Dadaism and Surrealism, d. 1976
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Oskar Fischer, German politician, Foreign Minister of the GDR 1975-1990, born 1923
2018 - Winnie Mandela, South African politician, wife of South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, 1958-96, longtime president of the ANC Women's League, born in 1936
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