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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.

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Football in no-man’s land
Dec 24 1914
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Football in no-man’s land

In September 1914, many people thought that the war that had just started would be over by Christmas. [...]

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