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365 days of German history
Every day is historic! Do you want to know which key events took place in history on your date of birth? Or are you preparing for the next school presentation or Trivial Pursuit evening? The historical calendar from the Deutschlandmuseum shows you what happened in German history on each day of the year: major events, historical anniversaries, significant inventions, important birthdays and much more.
The railway accident of Langenweddingen
On 6 July 1967, a Deutsche Reichsbahn train collided with a tanker truck at Langenweddingen, on the railway line between Magdeburg and Thale, on the edge of the Harz Mountains. [...]
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