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1965 Birthday - Uwe Krupp, born in Cologne, Germany, NHL defenseman, Colorado Avalanche, Germany 98

1959 Event - A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas

1954 Event - Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne

1950 Birthday - Stephen Chatman, born in Faribault, Minnesota, Canadian composer, received Fulbright grant for study at Hochschule fur Misik in Cologne, since 1976 has served as professor and Head of the Composition Division at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver

1945 Event - Cologne taken by allied armies

1945 Event - U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

1944 Event - British Mosquito's attack Cologne and Berlin

1942 Event - 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II

1941 Birthday - Konrad Boehmer, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, writer, Marxist, Ph. D. University of Cologne, professor, Royal Conservatory of The Hague

1936 Birthday - Gerard Masson, born in Paris, France, composer, studied in Cologne with Kalheinz Stockhausen

1936 Birthday - Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes

1936 Birthday - Manfred Schoof, born in Madgeburg, Germany, composer, founder, European free jazz, professor in Cologne, interpreter of works by Bernd Alouis Zimmermann

1926 Event - Flood in Rhine strikes Cologne

1922 Birthday - Paul Schalluck, German writer, Don Quixote in Cologne

1920 Birthday - Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes

1909 Birthday - Hilde Domin, born in Cologne, Germany, lyric poet, writer, German-language poet, wrote Das zweite Paradies (The Second Paradise), volume of prose

1906 Birthday - Marcel Hillaire, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Adv in Paradise

1904 Event - Mahlers 5th symphony premieres in Cologne

1901 Death - Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne dies

1899 Birthday - William Steinberg, Cologne, conductor, Boston Symph-1969-71

1888 Birthday - Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Cologne Germany, actor, Metropolis, Spies

1880 Event - Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed (began in 1248)

1876 Birthday - Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany, BRD, 1949

1838 Birthday - Max Bruch, Koln, Cologne, Germany, composer

1819 Birthday - Jacques Offenbach, born in Cologne, French composer, Tales of Hoffmann

1706 Event - Emperor Jozef I becomes monarch of Cologne/Bavaria

1703 Event - Dutch and English troops occupy Cologne

1702 Event - Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria

1701 Event - France, Cologne and Bavaria sign alliance

1674 Event - Netherlands and Cologne sign peace treaty

1633 Event - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne

1612 Death - Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne, dies at 57

1587 Birthday - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist, Jephtha

1579 Event - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands

1554 Birthday - Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne

1367 Event - League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV

1349 Event - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism

1274 Death - Engelbert II of Falkenburg, archbishop of Cologne, dies

1261 Death - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies

1248 Event - Construction of Cologne Cathedral begun

1225 Death - Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40

1220 Death - Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies

1205 Event - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne

1191 Death - Philips van Heinsberg, archbishop of Cologne, dies

1167 Death - Raynald van Dassel, archbishop of Cologne, dies

1147 Event - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence

999 Event - Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne

965 Death - Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne/duke of Lutheran, dies at about 40

850 Event - Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne













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