Berlin (dpa) – The current calendar sheet for March 28, 2021:
12th calendar week, 87th day of the year
278 days until the end of the year
Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Guntram, Gundelind
HISTORICAL DATA
2019 – The Icelandic low-cost airline Wow Air, which has run into financial difficulties, ceases operations.
2011 – The European Parliament fails with its demand for a ban and strict guidelines for the marketing of cloned meat due to resistance from EU member states and the EU Commission. Meat and milk from the descendants of cloned animals can in future be sold in Europe’s supermarkets without labeling.
2009 – The synods of the regional churches of North Elbe, Mecklenburg and Pomerania approve the merger agreement to form a northern church.
2003 – Against the background of increasing tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, Japan launched its own spy satellites into space for the first time.
1996 – The Brandenburg State Parliament decides to introduce the controversial subject “Lifestyle – Ethics – Religion”. Church religious instruction should only be offered as a voluntary additional offer.
1981 – The Neue Pinakothek is reopened in Munich. The new museum building, which was built for 104.7 million marks, is the successor to the Neue Pinakothek, which opened in 1853 and bombed out in 1944.
1979 – At the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg (Pennsylvania), a radioactive cloud is released in the worst nuclear accident to date in the USA. 200,000 people are brought to safety.
1939 – Troops of the later dictator Francisco Franco invade Madrid without a fight and on April 1st declare the end of the Spanish civil war.
1898 – The Reichstag approves the naval law to build up the German navy.
BIRTHDAYS
1961 – Barbara Wussow (60), German actress (“Die Schwarzwaldklinik”)
1941 – Rolf Zacher, German actor (“Endstation Freiheit”), died 2018
1936 – Mario Vargas Llosa (85), Peruvian-Spanish writer (“Death in the Andes”, “The Goat Festival”), Nobel Prize for Literature 2010
1921 – Dirk Bogarde, British actor (“Death in Venice”) and writer (“Jericho”), d. 1999
1891 – Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher, founder of the Suhrkamp publishing house in 1950, d. 1959
DAYS OF DEATH
1941 – Virginia Woolf, British writer (“Mrs. Dalloway”, “Orlando”), born 1882
1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (piano cycle “Pictures at an Exhibition”), born in 1839
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