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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 9, 2021:
14th calendar week, 99th day of the year
266 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Kasilda, Waltraud
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - The Likud camp around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the blue-white alliance of former army chief Benny Gantz are tied in the parliamentary elections.
Both have 35 seats each in the 120-member Knesset.
It is not possible to form a new government.
2013 - The previous dual leadership of "Spiegel", Georg Mascolo and Mathias Müller from Blumencron, is being discontinued with immediate effect.
2011 - A gunman shoots six people with a submachine gun in a shopping center in the Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn, south of Amsterdam, and then kills himself.
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2003 - After three weeks of war, the Iraqi regime is ousted.
US tanks roll into the center of the capital, Baghdad.
2001 - With the first pile-driving for three bridges in the new Hamburg Hafencity, Europe's largest urban development project at the time officially begins.
1996 - The Bavarian Ministry of the Environment grants the first partial license under nuclear law for the construction of the internationally controversial research reactor in Garching near Munich.
1991 - The parliament of the Georgian Soviet Republic unanimously resolves in Tbilisi to restore the state independence of the Caucasus country.
1256 - The Augustinian order, which emerged from several mendicant orders in Tuscany, is officially confirmed by Pope Alexander IV with the "Licet Ecclesiae" bull.
1241 - Mongols beat a Polish-German contingent of Duke Henry II of Silesia near Liegnitz (now Legnica in Poland).
BIRTHDAYS
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1971 - Jacques Villeneuve (50), Canadian racing driver, Formula 1 world champion 1997
1966 - Cynthia Nixon (55), American actress ("Sex and the City")
1951 - Monika Piel (70), German journalist and presenter, WDR director 2007-2013
1921 - Alfred Preißler, German soccer player and soccer coach, died 2003
1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (cycle of poems "The Flowers of Evil"), d. 1867
DAYS OF DEATH
2011 - Sidney Lumet, American director (“Murder on the Orient Express”, “The 12 Jurors”), born in 1924
1986 - Pamela Wedekind, German actress and chanson singer, daughter of the poet Frank Wedekind, born in 1906
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