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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 25, 2021:
16th calendar week, 115th day of the year
250 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Erwin, Franka, Markus
HISTORICAL DATA
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2019 - Former US Vice President Joe Biden is running as the Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election.
2011 - A fire roller devastated around a fifth of the Belgian nature reserve Hohes Venn near Aachen.
The largest fire in this region for around 60 years destroyed natural areas totaling around 1,000 hectares.
2006 - The French world-class soccer player Zinedine Zidane announced in an interview that he would end his professional career after the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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2001 - The presentation of the federal government's first report on poverty and wealth triggers a lively debate.
After that, the gap between rich and poor has widened since the beginning of the 1980s, especially in terms of income.
1996 - A fake pearl necklace is auctioned in New York for $ 211,500.
Sotheby's auction house estimated the jewelry, once owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at only $ 500 to $ 700.
1991 - Disguised as Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, entertainer Hape Kerkeling drives up in front of Bellevue Palace - shortly before the real monarch arrives.
«I am Beatrix.
I wanted to go to the president, delicious lunch, ”the 25-year-old comedian calls out to the onlookers before he is expelled from the premises by the security forces.
The legendary show will be produced for his ARD program “Total Normal”.
1976 - In South Tyrol a group of German schoolchildren is hit by an avalanche below the Weißkogel and buried.
Five members of the 35-strong group are killed.
1931 - Ferdinand Porsche founds his design office in Stuttgart, where, among other things, the Volkswagen “Beetle” and the successful Auto-Union racing car are built.
1926 - The unfinished opera "Turandot" by Giacomo Puccini, who died in 1924, is premiered in Milan.
The Italian composer Franco Alfano only completes the work after the premiere.
BIRTHDAYS
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1976 - Rainer Schüttler (45), German tennis player, silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
1966 - Francis Fulton-Smith (55), British actor in Germany ("Dr. Kleist family")
1941 - Bertrand Tavernier, French film director (“Der Saustall”, “At midnight”), d. 2021
1941 - Markus Lüpertz (80), German painter and sculptor ("Dithyrambic Pictures")
1941 - Walter Mixa (80), German Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Eichstätt 1996-2005, Bishop of Augsburg 2005 to 2010
DAYS OF DEATH
1976 - Carol Reed, British director (“The Third Man”), born in 1906
1971 - Karl Blessing, German banking specialist, President of the Bundesbank 1957-1969, born in 1900
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