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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 7, 2021:
14th calendar week, 97th day of the year
268 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Johannes Baptist
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - More than 100,000 infections with the coronavirus have been registered in Germany.
This is the first time that the number has six digits.
2018 - In Münster, a 48-year-old man drives a camper into a crowd.
Four passers-by die, the perpetrator shoots himself.
According to the police, the man acted with intent to commit suicide.
2016 - Unidentified people steal seven paintings by pop artist Andy Warhol from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, USA.
They show the famous Campbell soup cans.
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2006 - National coach Jürgen Klinsmann decides for Jens Lehmann from Arsenal London and against Oliver Kahn as the number one goal of the German national team at the World Cup.
2001 - The American Mars probe "Mars Odyssey 2001" takes off from Cape Canaveral.
It has been orbiting the Red Planet since October 2001.
1994 - Hutu militias start hunting down Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.
In just 100 days, more than 800,000 people were brutally killed.
1989 - Four nursing assistants are arrested in Vienna, alleged to have killed at least 42 old and mostly helpless patients.
In 1991 the women were sentenced to between 15 years and life imprisonment.
1826 - The Bavarian King Ludwig I lays the foundation stone for the Pinakothek in Munich.
The construction work lasted ten years, and the painting collection was opened in 1836.
1766 - Emperor Joseph II opens the former imperial hunting ground Prater in Vienna to the public.
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Guillaume Depardieu, French actor («The killer and the girl»), son of the actor Gérard Depardieu, d. 2008
1958 - Birgit Schrowange (63), German television presenter (RTL magazine "Extra" 1994-2019)
1944 - Gerhard Schröder (77), German politician, Federal Chancellor 1998-2005.
SPD chairman 1999-2004
1939 - Francis Ford Coppola (82), American film director ("Apocalypse Now", trilogy "The Godfather") and film producer
1931 - Daniel Ellsberg (90), American political scientist and publicist, for a time military policy advisor to John F. Kennedy, revealed secret plans for the Vietnam War of the then US government in 1971 (Pentagon Papers), Alternative Nobel Prize 2006
DAYS OF DEATH
2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress («Poltergeist», 1976 Oscar for best supporting actress in «Network»), born in 1914
1986 - Valérie von Martens, German actress («Das Haus in Montevideo»), born in 1894
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