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2013 Event - The sixth straight quarter of recession is announced by the Eurozone; Germany reports weak growth and negative growth is recorded in Spain, Italy and France

2013 Event - Representatives from the U.S., China, Germany, France, Russia and the U.K., discuss Iran's nuclear program with Iranian officials

2013 Event - Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf

2013 Event - Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions

2012 Event - The President of Germany's Social Democratic Party, Sigmar Gabriel recommends Peer Steinbruck as the party's Chancellor candidate for the 2012 German federal election

2012 Event - In a letter on a controversy in Germany over circumcision, the President of Israel, Shimon Peres stresses that circumcision is at the core of Jewish identity

2012 Event - Germany's Federal Assembly elects Joachim Gauck President of the Federal Republic of Germany

2011 Event - Samsung Electronics files a patent infringement claim against Apple in Germany

2011 Event - Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany

2011 Event - In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years

2011 Event - Germany's Sebastian Vettel becomes the youngest driver to win the Formula One World Championship twice

2011 Event - Pope Benedict XVI begins his state visit to Germany

2011 Event - Acting on a lawsuit filed by Apple, Inc., a court in Dusseldorf, Germany orders Samsung to stop selling its new tablet computer, Galaxy Tab

2011 Event - Concerns about the European economy are heightened as Germany reports second quarter growth of only 0.1%

2011 Event - The E.coli strain that caused 46 deaths in Germany reportedly resurfaced in france, with eight people hospitalized in Bordeaux

2011 Event - It is determined that the 20111 E. coli O104:H4 bacterial outbreak that began in Germany in May 2011 resulted from a combination of two dangerous E. coli strains

2011 Event - Testing is conducted to confirm whether the E. coli outbreak came from vegetable sprouts in the Uelzen, Germany

2011 Event - In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledges to end all nuclear power by 2022

2011 Event - In Germany, at least 10 people die from cucumbers infected with the deadly bacteria E. coli

2011 Event - Germany determines it must shut down part of its airspace as volcanic ash from Iceland's Grisvotn eruption spreads through northern Europe

2010 Event - In Heuneburg, Germany, scientists discover a late Bronze Age grave of a Celtic princess, containing amber, gold, bronze and coal

2010 Event - Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten SomaliaÕs on trial for attacking a German ship

2010 Event - In a Potsdam speech, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, claims multiculturalism has 'failed' in Germany

2010 Event - Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp

2010 Event - A piano reportedly played by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is found in Baden-Baden, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

2010 Event - Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany nominates Christian Wulff for President

2010 Event - Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

2010 Event - Germany and the European Union deny planning a 20 - 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece

2010 Event - China surpasses Germany, becoming the. world's largest exporter

2007 Death - Karlheinz Stockhausen, dies in Germany, of heart failure, at 79

2007 Death - Rudolf Arnheim, dies in Germany, at 102

2007 Death - Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany

1998 Event - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany

1997 Death - Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany

1997 Event - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map

1996 Event - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6

1996 Event - Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day

1995 Event - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup

1995 Event - 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11

1994 Event - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms

1994 Death - Detlef Macha, East Germany cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35

1994 Event - Record 103.8 degrees F (39.9 degrees C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany

1994 Event - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

1994 Event - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago

1994 Death - Erich Honecker, president of East Germany (1971-89), dies in Chile at 81

1994 Event - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany

1994 Event - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45

1993 Event - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)

1993 Event - Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million

1993 Event - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)

1993 Event - Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany

1992 Death - Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78

1992 Event - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)

1992 Death - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79

1992 Death - Karl Carstens, president West Germany 1979 - 1984, dies at 77

1992 Event - Earthquake rocks Germany

1992 Death - Heinz Kuhn, Prime Minister (Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany), dies at 80

1991 Event - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel

1990 Death - Johannes von Thurn und Taxis, prince in Germany, dies at 64

1990 Event - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany

1990 Event - East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany

1990 Event - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany

1990 Event - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors

1990 Event - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact

1990 Event - East and West Germany sign a treaty to join legal and political systems

1990 Event - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13

1990 Event - East and West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3

1990 Event - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome

1990 Event - East and West Germany merge their economies

1990 Event - Parliament of W and E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens

1990 Death - Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany

1990 Event - West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st

1990 Event - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists

1990 Event - U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify

1989 Event - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)

1989 Event - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution

1989 Event - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

1988 Event - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated

1988 Event - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)

1988 Event - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany

1988 Event - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50

1987 Event - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)

1987 Event - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany

1987 Event - U.S. Justice Department bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering U.S., due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II

1987 Event - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns

1986 Event - Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)

1986 Event - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)

1986 Event - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup

1985 Event - 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)

1985 Event - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia

1985 Event - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to East Germany

1984 Event - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s

1984 Event - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m

1984 Event - Jurgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts

1984 Event - Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD

1984 Event - Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany

1983 Event - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1)

1983 Event - Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m

1983 Event - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

1983 Event - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany

1982 Event - Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of West Germany

1982 Event - West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl

1982 Event - Finland, Italy, Germany, Austria and France form American European Football Federation (AEFF)

1982 Event - 20th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Germany in Santa Clara USA (3-0)

1982 Event - Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid

1982 Event - 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany

1982 Event - 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Germany in 2:29:33

1981 Event - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

1980 Event - Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,

1980 Event - Gabriella Brum, 18, of W Germany crowned 30th Miss World, she resigns the next day, because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend

1980 Event - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record

1980 Event - Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"

1980 Event - Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay

1979 Event - East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner

1979 Death - Ludwig Renn, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany, dies at 90

1978 Event - Yamada Mumon Roshi visits Benedictine Abbey of Maria Laach Germany

1978 Birthday - Sophie Simard, Lars Germany, swimmer 1996 Olympics

1978 Birthday - Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward, Sharks, Team Germany 1998

1978 Birthday - Tia Mowry, born in Gelhausen, West Germany, also known as Tia Mowry Hardrict, actress, winner of NAACP Image Award, breakout role in sitcom, Sister, Sister

1977 Event - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in East Germany

1977 Birthday - Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1977 Event - "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

1977 Event - Andreas Baader and members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany

1977 Birthday - Anne Miller, Midland, Michigan, tennis star, 1995 Darmstadt Germany

1976 Event - East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen

1976 Birthday - Dominic Monaghan, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, known for playing role of Merry in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'Lost' and 'FlashForward' television shows

1976 Event - East Germany deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship

1976 Birthday - Jana Kandarr, born in Halle, East Germany, professional tennis player, performed in Australian Open in 2000, WTA tournaments in 1996 and 2001

1976 Birthday - Markus Wieland, Tegernsee GER, hockey player, Team Germany 1998

1976 Event - Air France Airbus hijacked in Germany to Uganda

1976 Event - 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany

1976 Birthday - Markus Wieland, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1976 Death - Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies

1976 Death - Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany

1976 Birthday - Erich Goldmann, born in Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1976 Birthday - Lars Bruggemann, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1976 Birthday - Florian Keller, Munchen GER, hockey player, Team Germany, Rosenheim

1975 Death - Sig Arno, Hamburg Germany, actor (My Friend Irma), dies at 80

1975 Event - Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans

1975 Birthday - Alexander Serikow, born in Landshut, GER, hockey forward, Team Germany

1975 Birthday - Agathe Neuner, Miss Germany Universe 1997

1975 Event - 2 passenger trains collided near Munich Germany killing 35

1975 Birthday - Petra Begerow, born in Germany, tennis star, 1996 quarter Hilton Head

1975 Birthday - Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star

1974 Event - Helios 1 launched by U.S., Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun

1974 Birthday - Anke Huber, Bruchsal Germany, tennis star, 1996 finalist Australian

1974 Birthday - Meike Babel, Langen Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures-Paderborn-GER

1974 Birthday - Naike Rivelli, Germany, model/daughter of Ornella Muti

1974 Event - East Germany amends constitution

1974 Event - U.S. and East Germany establish diplomatic relations

1974 Birthday - Franka Potente, born in Munster, Germany, actress, films include, 'The Bourne Identity', 'All I Want', 'The Bourne Supremacy'

1974 Event - West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich

1973 Birthday - Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman, Team Germany, Colorado

1973 Event - U.S.S.R.-West Germany gas tunnel opens

1973 Event - West Germany and East Germany admitted to UN

1973 Birthday - Jochen Molling, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1973 Death - Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80

1973 Event - Udo Beyer of East Germany puts the shot a record 20.47 m

1973 Birthday - Heidi Klum, born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, model, Victoria's Secret 'Angel', television host, fashion designer, television producer 'Project Runway'

1973 Event - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany

1973 Birthday - Barbara Rittner, born in Krefeld, West Germany, tennis star, 1992 Schenectady

1973 Birthday - Franca Fehlauer, born in Hamburg, Germany, golfer, Belgian International, Jr. champ 1991

1973 Event - Netherlands recognizes East Germany

1972 Event - Belgium recognizes East Germany

1972 Event - Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany

1972 Event - West Germany and Poland establish diplomatic relations

1972 Event - 20th Olympic games close at Munich, West Germany

1972 Event - Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre

1972 Death - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, Germany night club performer/singer, dies

1972 Event - 20th Olympic games open at Munich, West Germany

1972 Event - West Germany wins soccer world championship

1972 Birthday - Jan Benda, Reet Belgium, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1972 Death - Heinrich Lubke, West Germany president (1959-69), dies at 77

1972 Event - Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)

1972 Birthday - Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate, Aug, 1991

1971 Birthday - Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1971 Birthday - Daniel Gowing, Germany, New Zealand judoka 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Ingo Rademacher, born in West Germany, actor, Jasper Jacks-General Hospital

1971 Birthday - Victor Kraatz, born in Berlin, Germany, Canadian ice dancer, 1995 World Champs-4th

1971 Event - Clandestine Radio Deutsche Reich (Germany) begins transmitting on FM

1971 Birthday - Torsten Kienass, Berlin GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany

1970 Event - West Germany and Poland normalize relations

1970 Birthday - Tina Fischer, Bad Nauheim Germany, golfer, European Amat champ 1994

1970 Event - 59th Davis Cup: USA beats Germany in Cleveland (5-0)

1970 Birthday - Claudia Schiffer, born in Rheinbach, Germany, super model, Elle, Rolling Stone

1970 Death - H G Hjalmar Schacht, President Germany Kingdom bank/minister of Eco, dies

1970 Birthday - Heike Friedrich, born in East Germany swimmer, world record 200m

1970 Birthday - Olaf Kolzig, born in Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie, Team Germany, Washington

1970 Birthday - Leo Stefan, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1970 Birthday - Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk RUS, hockey forward, Team Germany

1969 Birthday - Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star

1969 Birthday - Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg, East Germany, 100m/200m, World Champ 1991

1969 Birthday - Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist 1996 Olympics

1969 Event - Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany

1969 Birthday - Scott Ford, Norbrooke Germany, golfer, 1994 Trafalgar CPGA-2nd

1969 Birthday - Rudolf Martin, Germany, actor, Anton-All My Children

1969 Birthday - Sabine Hack, born in Ulm, Germany, tennis star, 1995 Jakarta

1969 Birthday - Steffi Graf, born in Bruhl, West Germany, tennis player, Grand Slam 1988

1969 Birthday - Wiltrud Probst, Nuermberg Germany, tennis star, 1992 Belgian Open

1969 Event - Cambodia recognizes East Germany

1969 Birthday - Graham Coxon, born in Rintein, West Germany, musician, instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, painter, lead guitarist and singer for Blur, art and music is featured on the band's seven albums, including Leisure, 1991, album titled 13, in 1999, and Think Tank, 2003, single-handedly recorded seven solo albums, including The Spinning Top on Transgressive records

1969 Birthday - Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1969 Birthday - Reemt Pyka, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1969 Birthday - Reemt Pyka, Bremerhaven GER, hockey forward, Team Germany

1968 Birthday - Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star

1968 Birthday - Jo Kittsee, Germany, rocker, Fuzzbox-Into Rescue

1968 Birthday - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star

1968 Event - Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hour

1968 Birthday - Andreas Lupzig, Straubing GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1968 Birthday - Christina Singer, born in Goeppingen, Germany, tennis star, 1991 Futures GBR

1968 Birthday - Silke Meier, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, tennis star, 1994 Futures-Bad Gogging

1968 Event - University church in Leipzig, East Germany, blown up

1968 Event - East Germany adopts constitution

1968 Event - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect

1968 Birthday - Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star

1968 Birthday - Jurgen Rumrich, born in Miesbach GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1968 Birthday - Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star, 1990 Pretoria

1968 Birthday - Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star

1967 Birthday - Boris Becker, West Germany, tennis player, Wimbledon 1985, 86, 89

1967 Birthday - Julie Kristen Smith, Nuhremburg Germany, choreographer, Showgirls

1967 Birthday - Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star

1967 Birthday - Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart, Germany, tennis star, 1989 Futures Israel

1967 Birthday - Klaus Merk, born in Augsburg GER, hockey goaltender, Team Germany 1998

1967 Death - Conrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91

1966 Death - Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82

1966 Birthday - Katja Bienert, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Praxis Bulowbogen

1966 Event - England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London

1966 Birthday - Elke Jeinsen, born in Hanover, Germany, playmate, May, 1993

1966 Birthday - Daniel Nowak, Schwennigen GER, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1966 Birthday - Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star

1966 Birthday - Tatjana Patitz, born in Hamburg, West Germany, model/actress, Rising Sun

1966 Birthday - Brad Bergen, Pennsylvania Sask, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1966 Birthday - Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star

1965 Birthday - Peter Draisaitl, born in Karvina, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1965 Birthday - Katarina Witt, born in Staaken, East Germany, figure skater, Gold Medals 1984, 1988 Olympics

1965 Birthday - Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer, 1989 West of England Pro

1965 Event - Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany

1965 Birthday - Silke Horner, born in East Germany, swimmer, world record 100m-breast stroke

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

1965 Event - Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

1965 Event - Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

1965 Birthday - Mike Blowers, born in Wurlzburg, Germany, infielder, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers

1965 Birthday - Martin Lawrence, born in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, comedian, actor, producer, director, appeared in his own hit series, Martin on FOX

1965 Birthday - Rica Reinisch, born in East Germany, 100m/200m backstroke, 1980 Olympics gold

1965 Event - Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1965 Birthday - Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star

1965 Event - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania

1965 Birthday - Jayson Meyer, Regina Saskatchewan, hockey defenseman, Team Germany

1965 Birthday - Georg Franz, Straubing GER, hockey forward, Team Germany, Landshut

1964 Birthday - Heike Drechsler, Gera, East Germany, sprinter, 1988 world record

1964 Birthday - Maxi Gnauck, born in East Germany, uneven parallel bars, 1980 Olympics gold

1964 Event - Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany

1964 Event - East Germany government allows short visits to West Germany

1964 Birthday - Michael Gross, born in West Germany, swimmer, Olympic-2 world records-1984

1964 Event - West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia

1964 Birthday - Mark MacKay, Brandon GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1964 Birthday - Heike Henkel, born in West Germany, world record indoor high jumper 1992

1964 Birthday - Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star

1964 Event - U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany

1963 Birthday - Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, born in West Germany, tennis star

1963 Birthday - Marco T Dawson, Freising Germany, PGA golfer, 1995 Greater Milw-2nd

1963 Birthday - Thilo Timothy Newman, Hamburg Germany, writer, Freejack, Alien

1963 Birthday - Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman, Team Germany

1963 Birthday - Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman, Team Germany 1998

1963 Birthday - Ines Diers, born in East Germany, 400m freestyle swimmer, 1980 Olympics gold

1963 Birthday - Caren Metschuck, born in East Germany, 100m butterfly swimmer, 1980 Olympics gold

1963 Birthday - Gabriele Reinsch, born in East Germany, discus thrower, world record 1988

1963 Birthday - Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, U.S. slalom single kayak, Olympics-6th-96

1963 Event - Germany FR annexes Elten village

1963 Birthday - Anne-Sophie Mutter, born in Rheinfeldin, Germany, violinist, Berlin Phil

1963 Birthday - Tracey E Bregman, Munich Germany, actress, Lauren-Bold and Beautiful

1963 Birthday - Josef Heiss, Garmisch GER, hockey goaltender, Team Germany 1998

1963 Birthday - Randy Gilhen, born in Zweibrucken, Germany, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets

1963 Birthday - Tracey E. Bregman Recht, Munich Germany, actress, Days of Our Life

1963 Birthday - Thomas Perry, born in Germany, born Thomas Wellnowski, singer, songwriter, lead vocalist for Surprises band, performed own compositions on 'The Ballad Album'

1963 Birthday - Benoit Doucet, born in Montreal, Quebec, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1963 Birthday - Detlef Schrempf, Germany, NBA forward, Mavericks, Pacers, Supersonics

1962 Birthday - Bettina Huebers, born in Hamburg, Germany, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney

1962 Birthday - Mike Nocito, born in Germany, rocker, leader of English pop band, Johnny Hates Jazz

1962 Birthday - Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate, September, 1984

1962 Event - French president De Gaulle visits West Germany

1962 Birthday - Sylvie Rauch, born in Munich, West Germany, nude model/actress

1962 Birthday - Dieter Hegen, born in Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1962 Birthday - Birgit Fischer, born in East Germany, 500m kayaker, 1980 Olympics gold

1962 Event - Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298

1962 Event - 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany

1961 Birthday - Cornelia Oschkenat, born in East Germany, hurdler, 50m indoor

1961 Event - East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West and East Berlin

1961 Event - East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1961 Event - Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany

1961 Event - East Germany limits traffic to West Berlin

1961 Birthday - Karin Enke, born in Dresden, East Germany, speed skater, Gold Medals 1980, 1984 Olympics

1961 Birthday - Ursula Buchfellner, born in Munich, Germany, playmate, Oct, 1979, actress, Bloodline

1961 Birthday - Linda Somers, Bitburg, Germany, U.S. marathoner, Olympics-31st-96

1961 Birthday - Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star

1960 Event - Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany

1960 Event - West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany

1960 Event - East Germany limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners

1960 Death - Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84

1960 Event - East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin

1960 Birthday - Christina Singer, born in Geoppingen, Germany, tennis star

1960 Birthday - Gisela Beyer, born in East Germany, discus thrower, Olympics-4th place-1980

1960 Birthday - Jurgen Schult, born in West Germany, discus thrower, world record 1986

1960 Event - Netherlands and Germany sign accord concerning war casualties

1960 Event - U.S. beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1

1960 Birthday - Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, born in Munich, West Germany, Princess

1960 Birthday - Nastassja Kinski, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Tess, Cat People

1959 Event - A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas

1959 Birthday - Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player, Avon-1982

1959 Birthday - Ronald Weigel, East Germany speed walker, 5 km indoor

1959 Birthday - Petra Felke, born in East Germany, javelin thrower, world record 1988

1959 Birthday - Andreas Wisniewski, born in Berlin, West Germany, actor, Living Daylights

1959 Birthday - Nicole Brown Simpson, Frankford Germany, Mrs. O. J. Simpson, murdered

1959 Event - West Germany introduces 5 day work week

1959 Birthday - Paul Terry, cricketer, in Germany Two Tests England vs. WI 1984

1958 Birthday - Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate, March, 1979

1958 Event - U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany

1958 Birthday - Ramona Neubert, born in East Germany, long jumper/pentathlete, 1980 Olympics

1958 Death - Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/Germany choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78

1958 Birthday - Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-22

1958 Birthday - Marlies Gohr, born in East Germany, sprinter, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1958 Birthday - Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star

1958 Birthday - Christine Lathan-Brehmer, born in East Germany, 400m runner, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics

1958 Birthday - Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor, Loving, All My Children

1958 Birthday - Frank Ullrich, East Germany, world biathlon champion

1957 Birthday - Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind

1957 Birthday - Craig Lefferts, born in Munich, West Germany, professional baseball player, played for Chicago Cubs, relief pitcher, pitching coach for Vancouver Canadians

1957 Event - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany

1957 Birthday - Bernhard Langer, born in Anhausen, West Germany, professional golfer, two-time Masters champion, ranked as the world's first official number one player in 1986

1957 Birthday - Hansi Muller, born in Stuttgart, Germany, athlete, footballer, played for German national football team

1957 Birthday - Bogdan Musiol, born in East Germany, bobsled 1980 Olympics bronze

1957 Event - East Germany accepts 22 Russian divisions

1957 Birthday - Marita Koch, born in East Germany, 400m sprinter, Gold Medal 1980 Olympics, Silver Medal 1980 Olympics

1957 Birthday - LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, Roots, Star Trek Next Generation

1956 Birthday - Reinhold Ewald, Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-25

1956 Birthday - Herbert Groenemeyer, Germany, rocker, OE, Luxus, Chaos, Spruenge

1956 Birthday - Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, born in East Germany, shot-putter, 1980 Olympics gold

1956 Birthday - Sandra Guiboard, born in U.S. AFB West Germany, actress, Donna-One Life to Live

1956 Birthday - Hans-Georg Beyer, born in East Germany, team handball player, 1980 Olympics gold

1956 Event - Bundesverfassungsgericht bans KPD in West Germany

1956 Event - East Germany frees almost 19,000 prisoners

1956 Birthday - Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt, West Germany, high jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1956 Birthday - Michael Nikolay, born in East Germany, gymnast, Olympics

1956 Birthday - Evelin Jahl, born in East Germany, discus thrower, Olympic-2 gold-1976

1956 Birthday - Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker

1956 Event - East Germany forms own army (National People's Army)

1955 Death - Carl Ramsauer, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect, dies in Berlin, Germany

1955 Birthday - Uwe Benter, born in West Germany, coxsman, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1955 Event - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania

1955 Event - West Germany joins NATO

1955 Event - West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers

1955 Death - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70

1955 Event - East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, U.S.S.R.

1955 Birthday - Barbel Wockel-Eckert, born in East Germany, sprinter, Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80

1955 Birthday - [Kater]Nina Hagen, born in East Berlin, East Germany, actress, Blue Angel

1955 Event - Russia ends state of war with Germany

1954 Birthday - Ullrich Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold

1954 Birthday - Walter Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold

1954 Birthday - Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress, Celeste, Man Like Eva

1954 Birthday - Hans William Schlegel, Oberlingen Germany, Astronaut, STS-55

1954 Event - Britain, England, France and U.S.S.R. agree to end occupation of Germany

1954 Event - West Germany joins NATO

1954 Event - West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1954 Birthday - Hans-Jurgen Gerhardt, born in East Germany, bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold

1954 Event - West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany

1954 Event - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany

1954 Event - West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern

1954 Birthday - Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up, 1975

1954 Birthday - Dagmar Wohrl, born in West Germany, Miss Germany, 1977

1954 Birthday - Gunther Tiersch, born in East Germany, 8 man cox, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1954 Birthday - Ulrich Walter, born in West Germany, cosmonaut

1954 Birthday - Norbert Hahn, born in East Germany, 2 man luge, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1953 Birthday - Monique St. Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year, Nov, 1978

1953 Event - West Germany applies to NATO

1953 Event - Allied forces form West Germany

1953 Event - Adenauers CDU wins elections in West Germany

1953 Birthday - Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz, Germany, astronaut

1953 Birthday - Klaus-Dietrich Flade, born in West Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-14

1953 Event - Riots in East Germany for reunification

1953 Birthday - Hans Rinn, born in East Germany, 2 man lugist, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1953 Event - West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1

1953 Birthday - Stephen D. Thorne, born in Frankfurt-on-Main, West Germany, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut

1952 Birthday - Tamara Danz, born in Breitungen, Germany, singer with famous band Gitarreros, known as "Tina Turner of the East"

1952 Birthday - Brent Mydland, Munich Germany, rock keyboardist/vocalist, Grass Roots

1952 Birthday - Alexander Leibkind, Germany, judo, 1976 Olympics, WLAF, General Manager for the Rhein Fire

1952 Birthday - Monika Zehrt, born in East Germany, 400m runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1952 Birthday - Margit Schumann, born in East Germany, luge 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Birthday - Johanna Klier-Schaller, born in East Germany, 100m hurdler 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Event - East German SED decides to form East Germany army

1952 Birthday - Ulrich Wehling, born in East Germany, cross country, Gold Medal 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics

1952 Birthday - Seigfried Brietzke, born in East Germany, coxless rower, Gold Medals 1972, 1976, 1980 Olympics

1952 Birthday - Rosemarie Ackermann, born in East Germany, high jumper 1976 Olympics gold

1952 Event - Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain

1951 Birthday - Bernd Landvoigt, born in East Germany, coxless pairs, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics

1951 Birthday - Jorg Landvoigt, born in East Germany, coxless pairs, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics

1951 Birthday - Todd Crespi, Frankfurt Germany, actor, Magician

1951 Event - President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

1951 Birthday - Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker, Winnipeg, Hamilton

1951 Birthday - Bernhard Germeshausen, born in East Germany, bobsled, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1951 Event - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany

1951 Event - President Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany

1951 Birthday - Burglinde Pollak, born in East Germany, pentathlete, Olympics-bronze-1972

1951 Birthday - Angela Voigt, born in East Germany, long jumper, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics

1951 Event - 600,000 march for peace and freedom in Germany

1951 Event - France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community

1951 Event - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany

1951 Event - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany

1951 Birthday - Manfred Schumann, born in West Germany, bobsled, Olympic-silver/bronze-1976

1950 Birthday - Inge Helten, born in West Germany, sprinter 1976 Olympics bronze

1950 Birthday - Roland Matthes, born in East Germany, 100m/200m backstroke, 4 Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Silver Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Bronze Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics

1950 Birthday - Annegret Richter-Irrang, born in West Germany, sprinter, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1950 Event - Western allies rearm West Germany

1950 Event - International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in '52

1950 Event - West Germany and Japan readmitted to International Amateur Athletic Federation

1950 Birthday - Rosi Mittermaier, born in West Germany, slalom/downhill 1976 Olympics gold

1950 Birthday - Waldemar Cierpinski, born in East Germany, marathoner, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics

1950 Birthday - Mathieu Carriere, Hanover W Germany, actor, Bay Boy, Woman in Flames

1950 Event - ILTF re-admit Germany and Japan in Davis Cup, Poland and Hungary withdraws

1950 Event - East Germany recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland

1950 Birthday - Annelie Ehrhardt, born in East Germany, 100m hurdler, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1950 Birthday - Heidi Schuller, born in Germany, 1st woman to take olympic oath, 1972

1950 Event - Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens

1950 Event - East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border

1950 Birthday - Dagmar Krause, born in West Germany, singer, Henry Cow, Art Bears

1950 Birthday - Thomas Gottschalk, Bamberg Germany, Telespiele

1950 Birthday - Renate Stecher, born in East Germany, sprinter, 3 Gold Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics, Silver Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics, Bronze Medal 1976 Olympics

1950 Birthday - Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress, Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola

1950 Birthday - Rio Reiser, born in Berlin, Germany, born Ralph Christian Mobius, musician, singer, political activist, member of ton Steine Scherben, a famous rock group, wrote Rachhaussong supporting the squatter scene

1949 Event - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

1949 Event - Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of East Germany

1949 Event - Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany

1949 Event - Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation

1949 Event - Theodor Heuss elected 1st president, Conrad Adenauer 1st Prime Minister of West Germany

1949 Birthday - Hildegard Falck, born in West Germany, 800m runner, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1949 Event - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)

1949 Birthday - Jean-Jacques Favier, born in Kehl, Germany, astronaut, STS-78

1949 Birthday - Anna-Maria Muller, born in East Germany, Luge, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1949 Birthday - Tom Netherton, born in Munich, Germany, singer, Lawrence Welk Show

1948 Birthday - Marius Mueller-Westernhagen, Duesseldorf Germany, rocker, Stinker

1948 Birthday - Jackson Browne, U.S. Base in Germany, rock voclaist, Lawyers in Love

1948 Birthday - Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress, Rich Man Poor Man

1948 Event - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die

1948 Birthday - Peter Ruzicka, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, professor, composer, conductor, composes stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal music

1948 Birthday - Sam Gejdenson, born in Eschwege, Germany, Representative-D-Connecticut 1981 - 2001

1947 Birthday - Ursula Krechel, born in Trier, Germany, writer, poet, radio dramatist, winner, Joseph-Breitbach-Preis 2009, works include, 'Der Ubergriff'

1947 Birthday - Frank Shorter, Munich Germany, U.S. marathoner, Olympic-gold/silver-72, 76

1947 Birthday - Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996

1947 Birthday - Heidemarie Rosendahl, born in West Germany, long jumper, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1946 Birthday - Ruth Fuchs, born in East Germany, javelin thrower, Gold Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics

1946 Birthday - Andre Watts, born in Nuremberg, Germany, concert pianist, Oberon

1946 Event - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany

1945 Event - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany

1945 Birthday - George Dzunda, born in Rosenheim, Germany, actor, Deer Hunter, Law and Order

1945 Birthday - Kellie Everts, born in Kalv, Germany, Miss nude Universe, 1968

1945 Death - Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California

1945 Event - Day of Unity in West Germany, National Day

1945 Event - U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany

1945 Event - U.S., Russia, England and France agree to split occupied Germany

1945 Birthday - Ernst Willi Messerschmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut, STS-22

1945 Event - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe

1945 Death - Adolf Hitler, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide

1945 Event - U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany

1945 Event - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission

1945 Event - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany

1945 Event - U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River

1945 Event - U.S. troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II

1945 Event - U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany

1945 Birthday - Uwe Beyer, born in East Germany, shot-putter 1976 Olympics gold

1945 Event - U.S. troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany

1945 Death - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged

1945 Event - U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany

1945 Death - Maurice Rose, 1st U.S. general in Nazi Germany, killed in action at 45

1945 Event - General Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany

1945 Event - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany

1945 Event - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine

1945 Event - U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine

1945 Birthday - Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards

1945 Event - Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die

1945 Event - U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die

1944 Birthday - Erhard Keller, born in West Germany, 500m speed skater, Gold Medal 1968, 1972 Olympics

1944 Event - Begin(ning) Liese-Aktion: werving of labor force for Germany

1944 Death - Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79

1944 Event - German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany

1944 Birthday - Liesel Westermann, born in West Germany, discus thrower, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics

1944 Birthday - Udo Kier, Germany, actress, Warhol Dracula, Warhol Frankenstein

1944 Event - U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time

1944 Event - Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany

1944 Event - "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch nazi collaborators flee to Germany

1944 Event - Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours

1944 Death - Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion

1944 Death - Ludwig Beck, gen/chief Germany general staff (July 20th plot), dies

1944 Event - 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany

1944 Birthday - Gunhild Hoffmeister, born in West Germany, 800m/1500m runner, Silver Medal 1972 Olympics

1944 Birthday - Michael Obst, born in West Germany, coxsman 1960 Olympics gold

1944 Birthday - Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold

1944 Birthday - John Kay, Joachim F Krauledat, Germany, rock vocalist, Steppenwolf

1944 Birthday - Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover

1944 Event - Nazi Germany occupies Hungary

1944 Event - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

1944 Event - European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany

1943 Birthday - Christiane Schmidtmer, Heidelberg Germany, actress, Ship of Fools

1943 Birthday - Orton Enderlein, born in West Germany, luge 1964 Olympic gold

1943 Event - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany

1943 Birthday - Udo Zimmermann, born in Dresden, Germany, composer, conductor, artistic director, music director, Leipzig Opera House

1943 Birthday - Nick St. Nicholas, Hamburg Germany, rock bassist, Steppenwolf

1943 Event - Denmark scuttles their warships so as not to be taken by Germany

1943 Event - Transport nr 58 departs with French Jews to nazi Germany

1943 Birthday - Ingrid Kramer, born in Dresden, Germany, diver 1964 Olympic gold

1943 Event - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde

1943 Event - Greatest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were lost by Germany

1943 Event - Germany begins withdrawing U-boats from North Atlantic in anticipation of the Allied invasion of Europe

1943 Event - Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, all die

1943 Event - Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam

1943 Event - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1943 Birthday - Marika Kilius, born in West Germany, ice skating pair, Olympics silver 1960, 64

1943 Event - RAF bombs Essen Germany

1943 Birthday - Wolfgang Scheidel, born in East Germany, luge, 1972 Olympics gold

1943 Event - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission

1943 Event - Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan

1943 Event - 1st U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

1942 Event - 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany

1942 Event - During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France

1942 Birthday - Elke Sommer, Elke Schletz, Berlin Germany, actress, Oscar

1942 Birthday - Gunter Wallraff, born in Burscheid, Germany, writer, undercover journalist, wrote on tabloid journalism, lower working class conditions

1942 Birthday - Ingrid Becker, born in West Germany, long jumper/relayer, Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics

1942 Event - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Event - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy

1942 Birthday - Hans-Joachim Klein, born in West Germany, 100m swimmer 1964 Olympics bronze

1942 Birthday - Heinz Burt, Hargin Germany, rock bassist, Tornados

1942 Event - Germany troop march into Woronezj

1942 Event - Germany troop march into Sebastopol

1942 Event - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)

1942 Event - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km

1942 Event - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island

1942 Event - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol

1942 Birthday - Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director, Marianne

1942 Event - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany

1942 Birthday - Hansdjurgen Baumler, Germany, pairs ice skater, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics

1941 Event - Germany and Italy declare war on US

1941 Event - China declares war on Japan, Germany and Italy

1941 Event - U.S.S.R. begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat

1941 Event - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted

1941 Event - Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James

1941 Event - Germany attacks Moscow

1941 Event - Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow

1941 Event - Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins

1941 Event - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star

1941 Event - French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany

1941 Event - "Camp Amersfoort" opened by Germany occupiers

1941 Birthday - Karin von Aroldingen, born in Germany, ballet dancer, New York City Ballet Co

1941 Birthday - Margritta Gummel, born in East Germany, shot putter, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1941 Event - Bialystok Poland falls to Germany

1941 Event - Germany occupies Telz Lithuana

1941 Event - Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states

1941 Event - Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II

1941 Death - Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies

1941 Event - Germany bans all Catholic publications

1941 Event - Germany occupies Kreta

1941 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor

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

1941 Event - Germany invades Crete

1941 Event - Germany occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis

1941 Event - Martin Bormann is named head of Nazi Party Chancellery in Germany

1941 Event - Germany blitzes Conventry, England

1941 Birthday - Hans W. Geissendorfer, born in Augsburg, Germany, director, Sternsteinhof

1941 Event - Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa

1941 Birthday - Wolfgang Petersen, born in Emden, Germany, actor, Shattered, Enemy Mine

1941 Birthday - Heidi Biebi, Federal Republic of Germany, downhill skier 1960 Olympics gold

1941 Birthday - Meinhard Nehmer, born in East Germany, 2 man bobsledder 1976 Olympics gold

1940 Event - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)

1940 Birthday - Edith Clever, Wuppertal Germany, actress, Parsifal, L'Adolescente

1940 Event - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw

1940 Birthday - Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut, STS-22

1940 Birthday - Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director, Apple Trees, Manoever

1940 Event - Germany invades Norway and Denmark in WW II

1940 Event - Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends

1940 Event - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)

1940 Event - Germany air attack on South England (Battle of Britain begins)

1940 Event - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks

1940 Event - Germany occupiers forbid Dutch Communist Party (CPN) in Netherlands

1940 Event - RAF bombs Germany

1940 Event - ARP-leader/ex-premier Colijn argues cooperation with Germany

1940 Birthday - Thomas Kohler, born in East Germany, luger, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics

1940 Event - France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms

1940 Event - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II

1940 Event - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland

1940 Event - Norway surrenders to Germany during WW II

1940 Event - Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up

1940 Event - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France

1940 Event - Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany

1940 Event - Germany invades Norway and Denmark during WW II, Denmark surrenders

1940 Event - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious

1940 Event - Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France and Britain

1940 Event - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest

1940 Birthday - Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor

1940 Birthday - Helmut Jahn, born in Nuremburg, Germany, architect, designed O'Hare 'L' Station, Chicago, Illinois, AIA's, Ten Most Influential Living Architects, 1991

1939 Event - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany

1939 Event - 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany

1939 Event - U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews

1939 Event - Germany annexes Western Poland

1939 Event - Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland

1939 Birthday - Eberhard Koellner, born in East Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz 31 backup

1939 Event - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I

1939 Event - Canada declares war on Germany

1939 Event - In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany

1939 Event - Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland

1939 Event - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada

1939 Event - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig

1939 Event - Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor

1939 Event - Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact

1939 Event - U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact

1939 Event - Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis

1939 Event - Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany

1939 Event - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany

1939 Event - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1939 Event - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia

1938 Event - Germany bans Jews being lawyers

1938 Birthday - Herbert Achternbusch, Munich Germany, actor, Hedes, Mix Wix, Wohin

1938 Event - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

1938 Event - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J

1938 Event - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)

1938 Event - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany

1938 Event - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany

1938 Birthday - Brunhilde Hendrix, born in West Germany, relay runner 1960 Olympics silver

1938 Event - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany

1938 Birthday - Karin Balzer, born in East Germany, hurdler, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1938 Event - Austria becomes a state of Germany

1938 Event - Austria annexed by Nazi Germany

1938 Event - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

1938 Event - U.K. Foreign Secretary Eden resigns, says Prime Minister Chamberlain appeased Germany

1937 Birthday - Nicolas Born, born in Duisburg, Germany, writer, wrote, 'Die Falschung', 'Die erdabgewandte Seite der Gerschichte'

1937 Event - German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany

1937 Event - Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

1937 Birthday - Michael Ponti, Freiburg Germany, pianist, Boston Competition 1964

1937 Birthday - George Thoma, born in West Germany, cross country ski jumper 1960 Olympics gold

1937 Event - Reverend Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany

1937 Death - Georg A Erman, Germany egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82

1937 Birthday - Helmut Recknagel, born in Germany, 90m ski jump, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics

1937 Birthday - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988

1937 Birthday - Sigmund Jaehn, born in East Germany, cosmonaut, Soyuz 31/29

1937 Birthday - Manfred Krug, Duisburg Germany, actor, Boxer

1936 Event - Germany and Japan sign anti-Komintern pact

1936 Birthday - Hans Zender, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, composer, conductor, music professor, Conductor in Chief of the Chamber Orchestra of Radio Netherlands in Hilversum, Southwest German Radio guest conductor

1936 Event - Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco

1936 Birthday - Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin

1936 Event - Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis"

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

1936 Birthday - John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew

1936 Event - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany

1936 Birthday - Alwin Schockemohle, born in Germany, equestrian jumper, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics

1936 Event - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1936 Event - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1936 Birthday - Reiner Klimke, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage 1984 Olympics gold

1935 Death - Kurt Tucholsky, Germany journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45

1935 Event - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany

1935 Birthday - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor, Dresden State Opera 1961

1935 Event - Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany

1935 Birthday - Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte'

1935 Event - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers

1935 Birthday - Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility

1935 Birthday - Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses

1935 Event - Saar incorporated into Germany

1935 Event - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering

1935 Death - Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87

1935 Event - Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany

1934 Event - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany

1934 Event - Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty

1934 Birthday - Josef Sommer, born in Germany, actor, Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March

1934 Birthday - Helga Haase, born in West Germany, 500m speed skater 1960 Olympics gold

1934 Event - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany

1934 Event - Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany

1934 Event - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany

1934 Event - Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years

1933 Birthday - Horst Buchholz, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe

1933 Birthday - Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Event - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany

1933 Birthday - Wilfried Dietrich, born in West Germany, super-heavyweight 1960 Olympics gold

1933 Event - Albert Einstein arrives in U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany

1933 Event - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations

1933 Birthday - Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society

1933 Birthday - Reiner Kunze, born in Oelsnitz, Germany, writer, dissident of the German Democratic Republic, book, 'The Lovely Years', published in West Germany

1933 Event - Death penality for anti fascists in Germany

1933 Event - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness

1933 Event - NSDAP becomes only party in Germany

1933 Event - Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany

1933 Event - In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

1933 Event - Jewish students are barred from school in Germany

1933 Event - Heinrich Himmler becomes Police Commander of Germany

1933 Event - Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses

1933 Event - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany

1933 Event - Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)

1933 Event - Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany

1932 Event - General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany

1932 Event - Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights

1932 Birthday - Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine

1932 Event - 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4

1932 Death - Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany

1932 Birthday - Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema

1931 Event - Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel

1931 Birthday - Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell

1931 Birthday - Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter, Fillmore

1930 Birthday - Rudy Boschwitz, born in Berlin, Germany, Senator-R-Minnesota 1978 - 1991

1930 Birthday - Harry Glass, born in East Germany, 1st E German Olympic medalist, bronze-1956

1930 Birthday - Igor Kipnis, Berlin Germany, harpsichordist/professor, Fairfield

1930 Birthday - Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor, Stuttgart 1955-58

1930 Birthday - Carlos Kleiber, Berlin Germany, conductor, Bavarian State Orchestra 1968

1930 Birthday - Helmut Kohl, chancellor, Germany, 1982-

1930 Birthday - Harry Boldt, Federal Republic of Germany, equestrian dressage 1976 Olympics gold

1929 Birthday - Christoph von Dohnanyi, Berlin Germany, conductor/pianist, Cleveland Orchestra

1929 Birthday - Anneliese Kuppers, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Silver Meda 1956 Olympics

1929 Birthday - Hermann Prey, born in Berlin, Germany, baritone, Wolfram-Tannhauser

1929 Birthday - Gerd Zacher, born in Meppen, Germany, composer, organist, writer, contemporary compositions, written in graphic or verbal scores, include extended techniques, known as interpreter of works by Johann Sebastian Bach

1929 Birthday - Harald Juhnke, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Guitars of Love

1929 Birthday - Andre Previn, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor London Symphony, and pianist

1929 Death - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Germany para-psychologist, dies at 66

1929 Birthday - Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961

1928 Birthday - Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s

1928 Event - KPD begins petition against Germany building a battle fleet

1928 Death - Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64

1928 Birthday - Karlheinz Stockhausen, born in Germany, composer, worked with electronic music, musical spatialization

1928 Birthday - Ruth Westheimer, born in Germany, sex therapist, WYNY-FM

1928 Birthday - Hardy Kruger, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Barry Lyndon, Wrong is Right

1928 Birthday - Christa Ludwig, born in Berlin, Germany, soprano, Vienna State Opera

1927 Birthday - Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum

1927 Death - Leonard Nelson, Germany philosopher (Nelson-Friessche Schule), dies at 45

1927 Birthday - Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum

1927 Event - Hermann Gorner of Germany raises 24 men weighing 4,123 lbs on a plank with soles of his feet

1927 Birthday - Tzvi Avni, born in Saarbrucken, Germany, composer, Israeli emigrated to Palestine, student of Paul Ben-Haim, founded electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music

1927 Birthday - Liselott Linsenhoff, born in West Germany, equestrian, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1927 Birthday - Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels

1927 Birthday - Karlheinz Boehm, born in Germany, actor, Face of Fear, Peeping Tom, Unnatural

1927 Event - International allies military command in Germany disbands

1926 Birthday - Ursula Happe, Germany, 200m backstroke swimmer 1956 Olympics gold

1926 Birthday - Hans Liebold, Germany, auto racer, Nardo, Italy

1926 Birthday - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor, Sam Bolt-Honey West

1926 Event - Spain leaves League of Nation due to Germany joining

1926 Event - Germany joins League of Nations

1926 Event - League of Nations Assembly voted unanimously to admit Germany

1926 Birthday - Hans-Gunther Winkler, Germany, equestrian jumper 1956 Olympics gold

1926 Birthday - Hans Werner Henze, Guttersloh Germany, composer, Das Floss Medusa

1926 Birthday - Klaus Tennstedt, born in Merseburg, Germany, conductor, Fidelio

1926 Event - Germany and Russia sign neutrality/peace treaty

1926 Event - Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany

1926 Birthday - Gunter Meisner, born in Germany, actor, Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum

1926 Birthday - Werner Torkanowsky, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor, New Orleans Symph

1926 Event - Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations

1926 Event - Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany

1926 Birthday - Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats, SPD

1925 Birthday - Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress, Touch of Class, Mozambique

1925 Birthday - Ossi Reichert, born in West Germany, giant slalom 1956 Olympics gold

1925 Event - Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement

1925 Birthday - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone, Doktor Faust

1925 Birthday - Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul

1925 Death - Friedrich Ebert, soc-dem president Germany, dies

1925 Birthday - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician

1925 Birthday - Rosemary Murphy, Munich Germany, actress, Margaret-Lucas Tanner

1924 Death - Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85

1924 Birthday - Hannelore Weygrand, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Silver Medal 1956 Olympics

1924 Event - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted

1923 Event - Salary and price freeze in Germany

1923 Event - Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD

1923 Event - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power

1923 Event - German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany

1923 Event - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down

1923 Birthday - Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1923 Event - 2nd government of Stresemann in Germany forms

1923 Event - Germany's Stresemann resigns

1923 Event - Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition government

1923 Event - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany

1923 Birthday - Gerald Gotting, East Germany president, CDU

1923 Birthday - Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen

1923 Event - Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany)

1922 Event - B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany

1922 Birthday - Michel Auclair, Vujovic, Germany, actor, Story of a Love Story

1922 Birthday - Lukas Foss, Fuchs, Berlin Germany, composer, Prairie

1922 Birthday - Carl Amery, born in Munich, Germany, writer, used pen name Christian Anton Mayer, studied at University of Munich, participant in Gruppe 47, a post-World War II literary association

1922 Birthday - Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany

1921 Death - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany opera composer (Schneewittchen), dies at 67

1921 Event - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die

1921 Event - U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany

1921 Event - Treaty of Berlin: U.S. and Germany sign separate peace treaty

1921 Birthday - Heinz Bennent, Aachen Germany, Actor, Possession

1921 Event - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany

1921 Birthday - Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician

1921 Birthday - Simone Signoret, born in Weisbaden, Germany, Casque d'Or, Room at the Top

1921 Birthday - Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer

1921 Death - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Germany chancellor/Prime Minister (Prussia), dies at 64

1920 Event - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany

1920 Birthday - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor, Mr Shorofsky-Fame

1920 Birthday - Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs 1936 Olympics gold

1920 Birthday - Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, U.S. writer, Hollywood: A Novel

1920 Birthday - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president, Germany, 1984-94

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

1920 Event - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies

1919 Event - Treaty of St. Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany

1919 Event - Weimar Republic begins in Germany

1919 Event - Germany accepts Weimar Constitution

1919 Event - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria

1919 Birthday - Uta Hagen, born in Germany, actress, Boys From Brazil, teaches acting

1919 Event - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)

1919 Event - General strike in Germany, crushed

1919 Event - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

1919 Event - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany

1918 Birthday - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany, SPD, 1974-

1918 Event - U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany

1918 Event - Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates

1918 Birthday - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics

1918 Event - Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies and Germany sign armistice

1918 Event - Republic Germany proclaimed

1918 Birthday - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor, Assignment Vienna

1918 Event - Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea

1918 Birthday - Karen Verne, born in Berlin, Germany, actress, Madame X

1918 Event - During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive

1918 Event - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign

1918 Event - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia

1918 Event - Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day)

1918 Event - 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland

1917 Event - UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany

1917 Event - 1st British bombing of Germany

1917 Event - Italy declares war on Germany and Turkey

1917 Event - China declares war on Germany and Austria at start of WW I

1917 Death - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Germany composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70

1917 Event - Germany bombs London

1917 Event - U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I

1917 Event - President Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany

1917 Event - AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I

1917 Event - Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship

1916 Event - Greece declares war on Germany

1916 Birthday - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1916 Event - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany

1916 Event - Germany declares war on Romania

1916 Event - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I

1916 Event - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in U.S. from Germany

1916 Birthday - Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions

1916 Event - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun

1916 Event - At request of U.S., Germany curtails its submarine warfare

1916 Event - Germany declares war against Portugal

1916 Event - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic

1915 Event - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany

1915 Birthday - Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense, 1956-62

1915 Birthday - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist, Beaux Arts Trio

1915 Event - Germany cruiser Konigsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam

1915 Event - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa

1915 Event - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace

1915 Event - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I

1915 Event - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany

1915 Event - 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I

1915 Event - Dutch merchant Navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo

1915 Event - Germany sinks U.S. ships Carib and Evelyn and torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin

1915 Event - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war

1915 Event - Germany begins a blockade of England

1914 Birthday - Karl Carstens, German, CDU, President Germany, 1979-84

1914 Birthday - John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO, Metromedia, billionaire

1914 Event - British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany

1914 Event - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)

1914 Event - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I

1914 Event - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany

1914 Event - Montenegro declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Serbia declares war against Germany

1914 Event - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France in WW I

1914 Event - Great Britain declares war on Germany

1914 Event - Turkey signs military pact with Germany

1914 Event - Germany and Turkey signs secret treaty

1914 Event - France and Germany mobilize

1914 Event - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I

1914 Event - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"

1914 Birthday - Willi Stoph, president East Germany

1914 Event - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

1914 Death - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78

1914 Birthday - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom 1936 Olympics gold

1914 Birthday - Wolfgang Windgassen, born in Annemasse, Germany, tenor, Stuttgart Opera

1914 Birthday - Lilli Palmer, Peiser, Germany, actress, Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar

1914 Birthday - Lilli Palmer, born in Posen, Germany, actress, Boys From Brazil, Sebastian

1914 Birthday - Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum

1913 Birthday - Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower 1936 Olympics gold

1913 Birthday - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor, Brain, Wages of Fear

1913 Birthday - Edith Heerdegen, born in Dresden, Germany, actress, Serpent's Egg, Monpti

1913 Birthday - Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor, Goldfinger

1912 Birthday - Heinz Galinski, President, Central council for Jews in Germany

1912 Death - Heinz Galinski, chairman (Central Council for Jews in Germany), dies

1912 Birthday - Ilse Dorffeldt, Germany, sprint relay, Olympic-1936

1912 Birthday - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor, E Berlin Symph 1960-77

1912 Birthday - Erich Honecker, Germany, President, East Germany

1912 Birthday - Henry Brandon, born in Berlin, Germany, actor, Drums of Fu Manchu

1912 Birthday - Ingolf Dahl, born in Hamburg, Germany, composer, Andante and Arioso

1912 Birthday - Josef Neckermann, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1912 Birthday - Alfred Schwarzmann, born in Germany, gymnast, Olympic-2 golds-1936

1912 Birthday - Werner von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert, I Aim at the Stars

1912 Birthday - Konrad Bloch, Germany, biochemist, studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964

1911 Event - France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo

1911 Birthday - James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author, Lion Game

1911 Event - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany

1911 Birthday - Gerhard Stoeck, born in Germany, javelin thrower 1936 Olympics gold

1911 Event - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany

1911 Birthday - Bernhard, born in Germany, Prince, Consort to Queen Juliana of Netherlands

1911 Birthday - Marianne Hoppe, Rostock Germany, Bei Thea, Liebrauen

1911 Birthday - Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer

1910 Birthday - Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled 1952 Olympics gold

1910 Birthday - Marie Dollinger, Germany, dropped bataan in 1936 Olympic sprint

1910 Event - 1st airship in service "Germany"

1910 Birthday - Rudolf Kempe, born in Niederpoyritz, Germany, conductor, Tonhalle Orchestra 1965 - 1972

1910 Birthday - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star, 1932 Olympics bronze

1910 Birthday - Norman Wooland, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, actor, Hamlet

1910 Event - Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty

1910 Birthday - Willi Schmidt, Germany, director

1910 Birthday - Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation

1909 Birthday - Jean Berger, born in Hamm, Germany, composer, pianist, professor, studied at Heidelberg, Vienna universities, studied with Paris' Louis Aubert, taught at Middlebury College, University of Colorado at Boulder, among others

1909 Birthday - Jane Baxter, Feodora Forde, Bremen Germany, actress, We Live Again

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

1909 Event - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns

1909 Birthday - Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist, West Germany

1909 Event - Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asks Serbia to set no territorial demands

1909 Event - France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco

1908 Birthday - Franz Pfnur, Germany, slalom 1936 Olympics gold

1908 Birthday - Joaquin Maria Nin-Culmell, Berlin Germany, Cuban/Spanish composer

1908 Event - Denmark, Germany, England, France, Netherlands and Sweden sign North Sea accord

1908 Birthday - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, born in Essen, Germany, tennis star, French 1935

1908 Birthday - Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart'

1907 Death - Adolf Furtwangler, Germany archaeologist (Die antiken Gemmen), dies at 53

1907 Birthday - Alfred Alwin Felix Krupp, Essen Germany, arms manufacturer

1907 Birthday - Gene Gutche, born in Berlin, Germany, Romeo Maximillian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche, composer, studied business, economics, piano with Ferruccio Busoni, wrote neo-Romantic work, experimented with polytonality, microtones, serialism

1907 Birthday - J Hans D Jensen, Germany, physicist, atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963

1907 Birthday - Martin Kosleck, born in Germany, actor, Pursuit to Algiers

1906 Birthday - Franz Waxman, Konigshutte, Germany, composer, Day at the Races

1906 Birthday - Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian, Origins of Totalitarianism

1906 Birthday - Gottlob Frick, born in Germany, singer, bass, performed opera including roles by Wagner and Mozart, best known recording is Osmin, in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Rocco in Fidelio, Sarastro in The Magic Flute

1906 Birthday - Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist

1906 Birthday - Tonio Selwart, born in Germany, actor, Barefoot Contessa, Naked Maja

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

1906 Birthday - Adolf Eichmann, Ruhr Germany, Nazi Gestapo officer

1905 Birthday - Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann

1905 Birthday - Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-32

1905 Birthday - Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater 1936 Olympics gold

1905 Birthday - Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn, 1931

1904 Event - Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa

1904 Birthday - Richard Mohaupt, born in Breslau Germany, composer, Bucolica

1904 Birthday - Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany

1903 Birthday - Lina Radke, Germany, 800m runner 1928 Olympics gold

1902 Birthday - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer, Zeus and Elidco

1902 Birthday - Leni Riefenstahl, Helene Bertha Amalie, Germany, actress, Tiefland

1902 Birthday - Felix Wankel, Germany, inventor, Wankel rotary-piston engine

1902 Birthday - Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orchestra

1902 Birthday - Mark Lothar, born in Berlin, Germany, Lothar Hundertmark, composer

1902 Birthday - Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement

1901 Birthday - Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer and actress, Blue Angel

1901 Death - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77

1901 Death - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60

1901 Birthday - Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor, Freddy Unter Fremden

1901 Birthday - Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct

1901 Birthday - Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer, Die Zaubergeige

1901 Birthday - Kurt Jooss, Wurtemburg, Germany, ballet choreographer

1901 Birthday - Eric Voegelin, Germany, U.S. philosopher, Order and History

1900 Event - Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in Germany

1900 Event - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany

1900 Birthday - Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor, Jack Benny Show, At the Circus

1900 Event - Telegraph use between Germany and U.S. begins

1900 Birthday - Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ, 1866-1894

1900 Birthday - Bruno Apitz, born in Leipzip, Germany, writer, published poems in Communist newspapers, novel 'Nackt unter Wolfen', Naked Among the Wolves, translated into more than thirty languages

1900 Birthday - Erich Fromm, born in Frankfurt, Germany, psychologist, Sane Society

1900 Birthday - Kurt J. Weill, born in Dessau, Germany, composer and Brecht collaborator, Mahogany

1900 Birthday - Anni Holdmann, Germany, 100m runner, Olympic-1928

1899 Birthday - Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M

1899 Event - U.S. and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them

1899 Birthday - Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany

1898 Birthday - Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher

1898 Birthday - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer

1897 Birthday - Karl Marx, Germany, composer and conductor

1897 Birthday - Paul Ben-Haim, Frankenburger, Munich Germany, Israeli composer

1897 Birthday - Lucius du Bignon Clay, U.S., general, WW II, gov, West Germany

1897 Birthday - Ludwig Erhard, chancellor of Germany, CDU

1895 Birthday - Sig Arno, Hamburg, Germany, actor, Holiday in Havana

1895 Birthday - Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist, Unter dem Zimbelstern

1895 Birthday - Paul Hindemith, Hanau Germany, composer, Tutti Fantchen

1895 Event - Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays

1895 Birthday - Edit Angold, Germany, actor, Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel

1895 Birthday - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer, Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969

1895 Birthday - Felix Bressart, born in Germany, actor, Ninotchka, Escape, Crossroads

1895 Birthday - Eugen Roth, born in Munich, Germany, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952

1894 Birthday - Paul Dessau, Hamburg Germany, composer/conducter, Berlin, 1925-33

1894 Birthday - Oskar Maria Graf, born in Berg, Germany, pseudonym Oskar Graf-Berg, writer, president, wrote autobiographical, socialist-anarchist novels

1894 Event - Karl Benz of Germany receives U.S. patent for gasoline-driven auto

1894 Birthday - Hermann Oberth, born in Germany, founded modern astronautics, V2/Redstone

1894 Birthday - Erich Romer, Germany, ice hockey player, Olympic-bronze-1932

1894 Birthday - Ernst Friedrich, Breslau Germany, pacifist, War Against War!

1893 Birthday - Curt Jurgens, Munich Germany, actor, Enemy Below, Longest Day

1893 Birthday - Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany

1893 Birthday - Allan W. Dulles, U.S. diplomat and CIA head 1953-61, Germany's Underground

1893 Birthday - Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Calgary

1893 Birthday - Hermann Goering, propoganda minister, Nazi Germany

1892 Birthday - Lina Carstens, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, actress, Homeland, Broken Jug

1892 Event - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag

1892 Birthday - Erich Auerbach, born in Berlin, Germany, German writer and educator

1892 Birthday - Hans Albers, Hamburg Germany, actor, Blue Angel

1892 Event - Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms

1892 Birthday - Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, Love Parade

1891 Birthday - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor, Nature of Music

1891 Birthday - Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor, Diary of a Lost Girl

1891 Birthday - Max Ernst, born in Germany, painter and sculptor, founded surrealism

1891 Birthday - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954

1890 Birthday - Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis

1890 Birthday - Claire Goll, born in Nuremberg, Germany, journalist, writer, poet, wrote 'Poemes d'amour', 'Poemes de la jalousie'

1890 Event - Great Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty

1890 Event - Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany

1890 Event - Lord Salisbury offers Germany Helgoland in exchange for Zanzibar, Uganda and Equatoria

1890 Birthday - Henny Porten, Magdeburg Germany, silent screen star, Deception

1889 Birthday - Martin Heidegger, Germany, Existentialist, Being and Time

1889 Event - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)

1889 Birthday - Ludwig Renn, born in Dresden, Germany, writer, fought in World War I on the Western Front, wrote, 'Krieg', member, Communist Party of Germany

1889 Birthday - Adolph Hitler, Braunau Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany, 1936-45

1889 Birthday - Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany

1889 Birthday - Guido Kisch, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. historian, Jews in medieval Germany

1889 Birthday - Paul Hartmann, Furth Germany, actor, Haunted Castle

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

1888 Birthday - Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935

1888 Event - Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany

1888 Birthday - Lotte Lehmann, Perleberg Germany, soprano, Fidello

1887 Birthday - Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1887 Birthday - Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style

1887 Birthday - Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King'

1887 Event - Germany, Austria-Hungary and France end Triple Alliance

1887 Death - Multatuli, writer, named most important Dutch writer of all time, 2002, Society for Dutch literature, dies in Ingelheim am Rhine, Germany

1886 Event - Great Britain/Germany divide boundaries in East-Africa

1886 Birthday - Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich

1886 Event - In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile

1886 Birthday - Kurt Koffka, Germany, Gestalt psychologist

1886 Birthday - Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist and writer, Great Germany

1886 Birthday - Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin Germany, conductor/composer

1885 Event - Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)

1885 Birthday - Werner Erich Josten, born in Elberfeld, Germany, composer, Jungle

1885 Birthday - Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor and composer, Das Ziel

1885 Birthday - Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe

1884 Birthday - Sig Ruman, Hamburg Germany

1884 Birthday - Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools

1884 Event - Germany annexes Angra Pequena (Southwest-Africa)

1884 Birthday - Emil Jannings, born in Germany, actor, Faust, Passion, Blue Angel

1884 Birthday - Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street

1884 Birthday - Otto Meyerhof, Germany, psychologist/biochemist, Nobel-1922

1884 Birthday - Wilhelm Backhaus, born in Leipzig, Germany, pianist, Rubinstein 1905

1884 Birthday - Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/antropologist, indians

1884 Birthday - Katie Sandwina, Germany, legendary woman weight-lifter

1883 Birthday - Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master, 1950

1883 Event - Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty

1883 Birthday - Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect, Bauhaus school of design

1883 Event - Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary and Germany

1883 Birthday - Karl Jaspers, Oldenburg Germany, existentialist philosopher

1882 Birthday - Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954

1882 Event - 1st international conference to promote anti-semitism meets Dresden Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests)

1882 Event - Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance

1881 Death - Julius FA Bahnsen, Germany philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51

1881 Event - 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany

1881 Birthday - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53

1880 Birthday - Ludwig Beck, chef Germany general staff, "July 20th plot"

1880 Birthday - Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher, Decline of West

1879 Event - Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant

1879 Birthday - Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921

1879 Birthday - Carl Ramsauer, born in Oldenburg, Germany, research physicist, professor of physics, discovered Ramsauer-Townsend effect

1876 Birthday - Bruno Walter, B. W. Schlesinger, Berlin Germany, conductor, New York Phil

1876 Birthday - Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey'

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

1875 Birthday - Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor, King Kong, Son of Kong

1875 Birthday - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929

1875 Birthday - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist, father of aerodynamics

1875 Birthday - Paul E Kahle, Germany, professor of oriental studies

1874 Birthday - Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man

1874 Birthday - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919

1873 Birthday - Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician, Nobel-1936

1873 Birthday - Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew

1872 Birthday - Frederick A Stock, Julich, Germany, conductor, Theodore Thomas Orchestra

1871 Event - Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France and Germany

1871 Birthday - Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas

1868 Birthday - Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion, 1894-21

1868 Birthday - Stefan George, born in Germany, lyric poet, Algabal

1867 Birthday - Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general

1867 Birthday - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant

1867 Birthday - Kathe Kollwitz, Germany, print maker/sculptor, Bauernkrieg

1866 Birthday - Josef Swickard, born in Coblenz, Germany, actor, Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities

1866 Birthday - Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, born in Elbingerode, Germany, writer, journalist, dramatist, critic, works include 'Die Hochzeit', 'Canossa'

1866 Birthday - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer, Naked Man

1865 Birthday - Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend'

1865 Event - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany

1865 Birthday - Charles Proteus Steinmetz, born in Germany, experiment with AC electricity

1865 Birthday - Erich Ludendorff, general, Germany

1865 Birthday - Richard Zsigmondy, born in Germany, chemist, Nobel-1925

1865 Birthday - Erich von Drygalski, Germany, geographer/glaciologist/Antarctic expl

1864 Birthday - Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911

1864 Birthday - Alois Alzheimer, born in Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist, Alzheimer Disease

1864 Birthday - Richard Strauss, born in Munich, Germany, composer, 'Don Quixote' and 'Metamorphosis'

1863 Event - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality

1863 Birthday - Paul Felix Weingartner, born in Germany, conductor, Zara, Dalmatia

1863 Birthday - Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus'

1863 Birthday - Hugo Kaun, born in Berlin, Germany, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works

1862 Birthday - Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912

1859 Birthday - Edmund Husserl, born in Germany, philosopher, founded Phenomenology

1854 Birthday - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer, Parisfal

1854 Birthday - Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor, linotype

1854 Death - Karl Adolph von Basedow, East Germany (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55

1854 Birthday - Alfred Milner, born in Giessen, Germany, British governor, Cape colony

1854 Birthday - Paul Ehrlich, born in Germany, bacteriologist, Nobel-1908

1853 Birthday - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909

1851 Birthday - Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor, flat phonograph record

1850 Birthday - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist

1850 Event - Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar Germany

1850 Birthday - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy, Nobel 1909

1850 Birthday - Isaac L. Rice, Germany, namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium

1849 Birthday - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War

1849 Birthday - Oskar Hertwig, Germany, embryologist, discovered fertilization

1848 Birthday - Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician, Begriffsschrift

1847 Birthday - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910

1846 Birthday - Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright, Kohinoor

1846 Birthday - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908

1845 Birthday - Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901

1844 Birthday - Friedrich Nietzsche, born in Germany, philosopher

1843 Death - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany

1842 Event - City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)

1842 Birthday - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company

1840 Birthday - Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia

1840 Birthday - Rudolf Baumbach, Thuringia [Germany], writer of student drinking songs

1840 Birthday - Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist, Carl Zeiss Optics Company

1839 Birthday - Hans Thoma, born in Bernau, Germany, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum

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

1835 Birthday - Martin Kahler, Germany, theologist

1834 Birthday - Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle

1834 Birthday - Felix Dahn, born in Hamburg, Germany, writer, wrote 'Prehistory of the Germanic and Roman Peoples'

1833 Birthday - Johannes Brahms, Hamburg Germany, composer, enjoys a good lullaby

1832 Death - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany

1831 Birthday - J. W. Richard Dedekind, Germany mathematician, Nature and Meaning of Numbers

1831 Birthday - Joseph Joachim, born in Kittsee, Germany, violinist, Hungarian Concerto

1830 Birthday - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910

1830 Birthday - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes

1826 Death - Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66

1826 Birthday - Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson

1825 Death - Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise', dies at 62, in Bayreuth, Germany

1822 Birthday - Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist, thermodynamics

1821 Birthday - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer, Central Africa

1820 Birthday - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator

1819 Birthday - Louise Otto, Germany, author and feminist

1817 Birthday - Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist

1816 Event - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany

1816 Birthday - Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician

1815 Birthday - Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician, theory of functions

1815 Birthday - Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor, 1866 - 1890

1813 Birthday - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer, Ring, Flying Dutchman

1813 Birthday - Matthias Keller, born in Ulm, Germany, hymm writer, O Farther un High

1812 Event - Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

1811 Birthday - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner

1810 Birthday - Robert A. Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer, Fantastiestucke

1809 Birthday - Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist

1808 Birthday - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist, Jesus' Life

1805 Birthday - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist

1804 Birthday - Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer, Protoghesi

1801 Birthday - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, born in Detmold, Germany, writer, dramatist, anti-Semite, idolized by the Nazis, works include, 'Hannibal', 1835

1801 Birthday - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books

1801 Death - Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28

1797 Birthday - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist, Schubert, Liszt

1797 Birthday - Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map

1795 Birthday - Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia, 1840 - 1861, Germany, 1849 - 1861

1793 Birthday - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers

1791 Birthday - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer, Golt Und Die Natur

1788 Birthday - Friedrich Ruckert, born in Schweinfurt, Germany, pseudonym, Freimund Raimar, writer, poet, master of 30 languages, professor of Oriental languages

1788 Birthday - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher, Great Pessimist

1787 Birthday - Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum

1786 Birthday - Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer, Der Freischutz

1786 Birthday - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller, Grimm's Fairy Tales

1785 Birthday - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian, fairy tale collector

1784 Birthday - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, born in Germany, violin virtuoso and composer, Faust

1781 Death - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature, dies at 52 in Braunschweig, Germany

1777 Birthday - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet, Penthesilea

1776 Birthday - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist

1775 Birthday - Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher, Views on Christianity

1773 Death - Jan Zach, composer, organist, violinist, composed Baroque and classical music, dies at 73 in Ellwangen, Germany

1772 Birthday - Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night'

1772 Birthday - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic, Lucinde

1770 Birthday - Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer, Ode to Joy

1770 Birthday - Johann Friedrich Holderlin, born in Tubingen, Germany, poet, Der Rhein

1763 Birthday - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in U.S., banker/fur trader

1763 Birthday - Jean Paul, born in Wunsiedel, Germany, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Romantic, wrote 'Quintus Fixlein', 'Schmelzles Reise'

1763 Birthday - Johann Gottfried Seume, born in Poserna, Germany, writer, lyric poet, wrote 'Mein Sommer in Jahr' 1805, 'Spaziergang nach Syrakus' 1803

1762 Birthday - Christian A. Vulpius, Germany, writer, Rinaldo Rinaldini

1759 Birthday - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist, Ode to Joy

1750 Birthday - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer

1740 Birthday - Matthias Claudius, born in Reinfeld, Germany, pseudonym, Asmus, writer, poet, poem, Death and the Maiden, used by Franz Schubert

1735 Event - 1st U.S. Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany

1729 Birthday - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, born in Kamenz, Germany, writer, dramatist, art critic, Enlightenment era writer, influenced development of German literature

1728 Birthday - Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar, 1762, husband of Catherine

1724 Birthday - Immanuel Kant, born in Konigsberg, Germany, philosopher, Critique of Pure Reason

1711 Death - Jozef I, Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32

1704 Event - French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany

1701 Event - Germany, England and Netherlands sign anti-French covenant

1699 Event - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany

1697 Event - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Netherlands/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War

1690 Event - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany

1686 Event - Germany, Sweden and Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg

1685 Birthday - Johann Sebastian Bach, born in Eisenach Germany, composer, Matthaus-Passion

1685 Birthday - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer, Messiah

1684 Birthday - Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer

1684 Event - Spain and Germany sign cease fire with France

1683 Event - 1st settlers from Germany to U.S., leave aboard Concord

1681 Birthday - Johann Mattheson, Hamburg Germany, composer

1681 Birthday - Georg Philipp Telemann, Magdeburg Germany, late baroque composer

1656 Event - Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden

1653 Birthday - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician, Frederick of Prussia

1622 Event - Germany and Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg

1614 Event - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

1612 Death - Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59

1607 Birthday - Georg Philipp Harsdorfer, Nurnberg Germany, poet, Poetischer Trichter

1604 Birthday - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer, Arien oder Melodien

1597 Birthday - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"

1597 Event - Germany throws out English sales people

1596 Event - Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary and Germany

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

1575 Birthday - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer

1571 Birthday - Johann Kepler, born in Wurttemberg, Germany, astronomer, elliptical orbits

1571 Birthday - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer, Syntagma music

1564 Birthday - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer, discoved variable star

1556 Birthday - Philipp Nicolai, Germany, theologist/poet/composer

1552 Birthday - Rudolf II, of Habsburg, emperor of Germany, 1576-1612

1544 Event - Charles V of Germany and Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy

1528 Death - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56

1527 Event - University of Marburg (Germany) founded

1524 Event - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1519 Birthday - Henry II, King of Germany, 1547 - 1559

1511 Birthday - Erasmus Reinhold, Germany, mathematician, calculated planetary table

1511 Event - Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss

1510 Event - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany

1508 Death - Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, Germany viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41

1501 Birthday - Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist, History of Plants

1498 Birthday - Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist

1494 Birthday - Georgius Agricola, born in Germany, mineralogist, De Re Metallica

1492 Event - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany

1483 Birthday - Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism

1471 Birthday - Albrecht Durer, Nurnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker

1439 Death - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42

1438 Event - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany

1430 Event - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany

1415 Death - Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany

1397 Birthday - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany

1370 Event - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania

1368 Birthday - Sigismund, Nurnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor, 1410-37

1356 Death - Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany, dies

1349 Event - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred

1349 Event - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death

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

1349 Event - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated

1349 Event - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)

1349 Event - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany

1349 Event - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred

1298 Event - Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered

1298 Event - Jews are massacred at Wurzburg Germany

1298 Event - Rindfleish Persecutions-Jewish community Wurzburg Germany annihilated

1298 Event - Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany

1291 Death - Rudolf I, King of Germany and Holy Roman Empire, dies

1285 Event - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire

1264 Event - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany

1241 Event - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany

1198 Event - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany

1125 Event - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany

1096 Event - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany

1083 Event - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral

1039 Death - Conrad II the Salian, King/Emperor of Germany (1024/27-39), dies at 49

936 Event - Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany

928 Death - Louis III, the Blind Proveneaals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48

89 Event - Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome

13 Event - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany













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