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Berlin (dpa) - The current calendar sheet for April 8, 2021:
14th calendar week, 98th day of the year
267 days until the end of the year
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Zodiac sign: Aries
Name day: Beate, Walter
HISTORICAL DATA
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2020 - US Senator Bernie Sanders (78) withdraws his candidacy for the office of president.
In the primaries of the Democratic Party, the left-wing politician is hopelessly behind his competitor Joe Biden.
2019 - The US classifies the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.
Britain is following suit.
The paramilitary organization reports to the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
2016 - The Vatican publishes the papal letter "Amoris Laetitia - On love in the family".
In it, Pope Francis suggests more mercy in the strict Catholic sexual morality.
He advocates a new way of dealing with divorced remarried people.
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2011 - The heaviest pile-up in Germany in the past 20 years kills at least eight people on the Berlin-Rostock autobahn.
82 vehicles crash into each other in a cloud of sand and some of them catch fire.
2009 - The Osnabrück convertible specialist Karmann is insolvent and files for bankruptcy.
Around 3470 employees are affected.
2001 - Golf professional «Tiger» Woods wins the US Masters in Augusta (Georgia) and is the first professional ever to win four major tournaments in a row.
1986 - Hollywood actor and director Clint Eastwood is elected mayor of the Californian coastal town of Carmel.
The Republican can clearly beat the previous incumbent.
1966 - Leonid Brezhnev is elected as the party's new general secretary at the 23rd Congress of the CPSU.
He is the first Soviet party leader since Stalin to bear this title, which was abolished in 1934.
1961 - The British cargo liner «Dara», with a gross register of 5030 tons, catches fire in the Persian Gulf after an explosion.
The death toll is given as 236.
BIRTHDAYS
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1966 - Robin Wright (55), American actress ("Forrest Gump", "House of Cards")
1941 - Vivienne Westwood (80), British fashion designer, became famous with “punk” and “new wave” fashion
1936 - Klaus Löwitsch, German actor (TV series "Peter Strohm"), died 2002
1926 - Elisabeth Wiedemann, German actress (TV series “A Heart and a Soul”), d. 2015
1921 - Franco Corelli, Italian tenor, international breakthrough in 1954 at La Scala in Milan at the side of Maria Callas, died 2003
DAYS OF DEATH
1981 - Adrian Hoven, Austrian actor and director, cinema and television films «Canaris», «Berlin Alexanderplatz», «Tatort», born in 1922
1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter («Guernica»), born in 1881
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