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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for February 26, 2021:

8th calendar week, 57th day of the year

308 days until the end of the year

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Star signs fish

Name day: Dionysius, Mechthild

HISTORICAL DATA

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2020 - The Federal Constitutional Court overturns the ban on euthanasia introduced in 2015.

There is a right to self-determined death.

The sick, euthanasia and doctors had complained.

2016 - At an extraordinary congress in Zurich, Gianni Infantino is elected as the new President of the FIFA World Cup.

He succeeds Sepp Blatter, who was accused of financial mismanagement.

2011 - The German professional golf player Martin Kaymer becomes number one in the world rankings for the first time in his career.

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2008 - With a surplus of around 200 million euros in the 2007 national budget, Germany has managed to achieve a slightly positive national budget on its own for the first time since reunification in 1990, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office.

2006 - The XX.

Olympic Winter Games.

The German team leads with eleven gold, twelve silver and six bronze medals in the medal ranking ahead of the USA and Austria.

2001 - The UN Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentenced a leading politician to 25 years in prison for war crimes for the first time.

Former Bosnian Croatian deputy leader Dario Kordic is found guilty of persecuting and killing Muslims in central Bosnia.

1991 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein orders the withdrawal of his troops from Kuwait.

1976 - Spain officially withdraws from the so-called Spanish Sahara, ending 91 years of colonial rule.

1871 - The preliminary peace at Versailles ends the Franco-German war.

BIRTHDAYS

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1971 - Erykah Badu (50), American singer («Baduizm»)

1946 - Jaecki Schwarz (75), German actor, best known as Chief Inspector Herbert Schmücke in the TV crime series «Polizeiruf 110»

1941 - Jobst Plog (80), German broadcaster, ARD chairman 1993-1994 and 2003-2004, president of the Franco-German cultural channel ARTE 1999-2002

1906 - Hans Bertram, aviation pioneer and author ("Flight to Hell"), known for his pioneering flight in 1932 with a seaplane to Australia, where he was lost in the bush for 33 days and was rescued by the natives, died 1993

1846 - William Frederick Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, American pioneer, buffalo hunter, and Wild West Show organizer, died 1917

DAYS OF DEATH

1991 - Günther Neutze, German actor ("The gentlemen ask for cash"), born in 1921

1971 - Fernandel, French actor ("Don Camillo and Peppone"), born in 1903

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