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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 5, 2021:
14th calendar week, 95th day of the year
270 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Juliana, Vinzenz
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Queen Elizabeth II calls on the British to persevere in the coronavirus pandemic in a historic televised address.
Apart from the traditional Christmas speeches, it is only the fourth such speech by the British head of state, who has been in office since 1952.
2019 - 100 years after the founding of the Bauhaus, a new museum for the artist movement opens in Weimar, Thuringia.
2011 - When a refugee ship capsizes off the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, up to 250 people are killed.
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2006 - In a poultry farm in Wermsdorf near Leipzig in Saxony, avian influenza breaks out in farm poultry for the first time in Germany.
2001 - The EU transport ministers give the go-ahead for the development of the European satellite navigation system "Galileo".
1986 - Three people are killed in an explosives attack on the Berlin discotheque "La Belle", which is mainly visited by the American military.
Over 200 are injured.
1951 - In the USA, the first open heart surgery is performed using a heart-lung machine.
1946 - The Soviet army vacates the Danish island of Bornholm after eleven months.
In May 1945 she had liberated the Baltic Sea island from the German occupation.
1941 - British troops occupy Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, ending the occupation by the Italians that had been going on since 1935.
In May, Emperor Haile Selassie returns to the city from exile.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Tom Riley (40), British actor ("Da Vinci's Demons")
1978 - Franziska van Almsick (43), German swimmer, won four silver and six bronze medals at four Olympic Games
1951 - Dean Kamen (70), American inventor (Segway electric scooter)
1926 - Roger Corman (95), American director ("Piranha", "Warlock")
1901 - Curt Bois, German actor and director (“Der Himmel über Berlin”), d. 1991
DAYS OF DEATH
2020 - Honor Blackman, British actress ("James Bond 007 - Goldfinger", TV series "With umbrella, charm and bowler hat"), born 1925
1976 - Howard Hughes, American industrialist, film producer, and aircraft designer, born in 1905
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