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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 10, 2021:
14th calendar week, 100th day of the year
265 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Magdalena Gabriela
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Pope Francis celebrates Good Friday and the following Easter celebrations of the Catholic Church largely alone in the Vatican because of the Corona crisis.
During the Easter celebrations in the almost empty St. Peter's Basilica, he calls for a worldwide end to egoism and urges the European Union to show more solidarity.
2019 - Basketball superstar Dirk Nowitzki ends his international career after two decades.
In the last game, the 40-year-old scored 20 points in the 94: 105 of his Dallas Mavericks against San Antonio Spurs.
Born in Würzburg, he has played for the US club since 1999.
2006 - For health reasons, SPD leader Matthias Platzeck announces his resignation after just 146 days.
His successor will be the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Kurt Beck in mid-May.
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2001 - The Dutch Parliament passes the world's first euthanasia law.
According to the new law, doctors are allowed to assist euthanasia when patients suffer unbearably and there is no prospect of a cure.
1991 - The last "Wartburg" car rolls off the assembly line at the Eisenach automobile plant (AWE).
Since 1956, 1,377,965 examples of the GDR mid-range car have been produced.
1991 - The Italian ferry “Moby Prince” collides with the oil tanker “Agip Abruzzo” off Livorno (Italy) and goes up in flames after an explosion.
140 people burned, two sailors were able to save themselves.
1961 - The first 340 recognized conscientious objectors in the Federal Republic start their alternative service.
1951 - The Bundestag passes the law on coal and steel co-determination with the votes of the CDU, SPD and the center.
It regulates the participation of employees in companies in the iron and steel industry.
1861 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT is now one of the world's leading elite universities.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Michael Pitt (40), American musician and actor ("The Dreamers", "Funny Games US")
1959 - Stanislaw Tillich (62), German politician, Saxon Prime Minister 2008-2017
1953 - Heiner Lauterbach (68), German actor ("The Campus", "Men")
1946 - Adolf Winkelmann (75), German film director and film producer ("Any amount of coal", "Nordkurve")
1941 - Paul Theroux (80), American writer, "The old Patagonia Express", "Hotel Honolulu"
DAYS OF DEATH
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer ("Reunion with Brideshead"), born in 1903
1921 - Lorenz Werthmann, German social reformer and priest, founder and first president (1897-1921) of the Catholic aid organization Caritas, born in 1858
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