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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 13, 2021:
15th calendar week, 103rd day of the year
262 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Hermenegild, Martin
HISTORICAL DATA
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2006 - Two days after reaching the target orbit, the European space probe “Venus Express” sends the first images of the neighboring planet, including the first ever from the south pole of Venus.
1996 - In Verona (Italy) the EU finance ministers agree on a new European currency system.
On January 1, 1999, the "Euro" was introduced as the booking currency and on January 1, 2002 as cash.
1991 - The Board of Directors of the Treuhandanstalt elects Birgit Breuel to succeed the murdered President Detlev Karsten Rohwedder.
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1986 - 16-year-old Steffi Graf wins a professional tennis tournament for the first time in Hilton Head / South Carolina / USA by defeating Chris Evert-Lloyd, second in the world rankings.
1986 - Pope John Paul II visits the main synagogue in Rome and is the first head of the Catholic Church to enter a Jewish place of worship.
1941 - Japan and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact.
1919 - British soldiers shoot 379 people who had peacefully demonstrated against the colonial rulers in the Amritsar massacre in the Indian province of Punjab.
1903 - The Baghdad Railway Company is founded in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
With significant participation from the German Reich, the spectacular large-scale project is to create the rail link from Berlin to the Persian Gulf.
1784 - «Cabal and Love.
A bourgeois tragedy »by Friedrich Schiller will be premiered in Frankfurt am Main.
BIRTHDAYS
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1961 - Georg Bätzing (60), German Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Limburg, chairman of the German Bishops' Conference since March 2020
1951 - Beate Wedekind (70), German journalist, author and gallery owner, former editor-in-chief of “Elle”, “Ambiente”, “Bunte” and “Gala”
1951 - Joachim Streich (70), German soccer player, top striker, record scorer of the GDR national team (55 goals in 102 international matches) and the GDR Oberliga (229 goals in 378 games)
1931 - Michel Deville (90), French film director ("The Reader", "Sweetheart", "The Wild Sheep")
1921 - Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector, died 2002
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Gerd Fuchs, German writer (“The Emigrants”, “Schussfahrt”), born in 1932
2006 - Muriel Spark, British writer ("The prime of Miss Jean Brodie"), born in 1918
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