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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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Harnessing the atom
Jan 11 1960

Harnessing the atom

Observing how the United States and the Soviet Union were using nuclear power to generate electricity in the 1950s, the West German government decided that it too could use this new form of energy production. [...]

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