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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 19, 2021:
16th calendar week, 109th day of the year
256 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Gerold, Leo
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - A 51-year-old dentist runs amok for 13 hours in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
The man disguised as a policeman kills 22 people and sets fires.
He is getting shot.
It was the worst bloody act in Canadian criminal history.
2019 - Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee, 29, is shot dead during rioting in the city of Londonderry.
The New IRA militant group says her death was accidental.
The case causes great consternation in the UK.
2011 - Reiner Haseloff (CDU) is elected as the new Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt.
After the state elections on March 20, the CDU and SPD had agreed to continue their coalition.
The CDU has five ministers in the new government, the SPD four.
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2001 - In the patent dispute over inexpensive AIDS drugs, 39 pharmaceutical companies withdraw their lawsuit against South Africa, thereby giving the country access to affordable drugs for its 4.7 million AIDS patients.
1996 - The first ecumenical pilgrimage to the "Holy Rock" of Trier, venerated as the garment of Jesus Christ, begins.
1971 - The Soviet Union puts the first "Salyut 1" space station into orbit.
It burned up in October 1971 in the earth's atmosphere.
1956 - Prince Rainier III marries in the St. Charles Cathedral in Monte Carlo.
from Monaco the American actress Grace Kelly.
1951 - The first International Motor Show (IAA) after the Second World War is opened in Frankfurt / Main by Federal President Theodor Heuss.
1941 - Bertolt Brecht's play "Mother Courage and Her Children" is premiered in the Schauspielhaus Zurich.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Julia Neigel (55), German rock musician ("shadows on the wall" under the name Jule Neigel)
1966 - Oliver Welke (55), German TV presenter («today show»)
1951 - Pierre Lemaître (70), French writer and screenwriter (novel "See you up there")
1946 - Tim Curry (75), British actor ("Rocky Horror Picture Show")
1941 - Ulrich Kersten (80), German lawyer, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office 1996-2004
DAYS OF DEATH
2016 - Karl-Heinz von Hassel, German actor («Tatort»), born in 1939
2011 - Andreas Urschlechter, German politician and lawyer, Lord Mayor of Nuremberg 1957-87, born in 1919
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