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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.

Max Schmeling’s greatest fight

Born in 1905 in Klein Luckow in the Uckermark, the boxer Max Schmeling turned professional at the age of 18. Winning the German and then the European light heavyweight title after just a few years, Schmeling sought to make it big in New York. [...]

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