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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 27, 2021:
17th calendar week, 117th day of the year
248 days until the end of the year
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Star sign Taurus
Name day: Floribert, Salman, Zita
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - Due to the statute of limitations and without a judgment, the process of the so-called summer fairy tale ends in Switzerland.
It was about financial transactions of 6.7 million euros in the award of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany.
Three ex-functionaries of the German Football Association and one Swiss were accused.
2011 - More than 340 people die in a series of up to 150 tornadoes in the southern United States.
Six states are affected, Alabama being the worst.
2006 - Four and a half years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, construction of the new World Trade Center officially begins in New York.
At 541 meters, the Freedom Tower is set to be the tallest building in the United States.
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1996 - After 16 days of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Operation "The Fruits of Anger" ends, in the course of which half a million Lebanese civilians and 20,000 Israelis had to flee their communities.
1966 - The Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko is appointed by Pope Paul VI.
received in the Vatican.
It is the first meeting of a leading Soviet politician with a Pope.
1956 - American heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano retires undefeated at the height of his career.
1951 - Denmark and the USA sign a treaty on Greenland, through which the Americans take over the defense of the island within the framework of NATO.
1921 - After 27 years, the German chess player Emanuel Lasker loses his title as world champion.
In Havana he has to admit defeat to Jose Raoul Capablanca.
To date, no chess player has worn the World Cup crown longer than Lasker.
1521 - The Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (Magellan) dies in battle with the population on the Philippine island of Mactan.
BIRTHDAYS
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1981 - Sandy Mölling (40), German pop singer, member of the group No Angels (“Daylight In Your Eyes”, “Disappear”)
1951 - Ace Frehley (70), American rock musician, co-founder and former guitarist of the Kiss group
1951 - Viviane Reding (70), Luxembourg politician, EU Commissioner in various positions 1999-2014
1921 - Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, German actor, entertainer and quiz master (“One will win”), died 1998
1791 - Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor, invented the first electromagnetic write telegraph and developed the Morse code named after him together with Alfred Vail, d. 1872
DAYS OF DEATH
1983 - Georg von Holtzbrinck, German publisher, founder of the Stuttgart «Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group», born in 1909
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter ("Haarlemer Meer"), one of the most famous landscape painters in Holland, born in 1596
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