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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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A woman Chancellor!
Nov 22 2005
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A woman Chancellor!

A few weeks after her birth in Hamburg, West Germany, in 1954, Angela Kasner moved with her mother and father – a school teacher and a Lutheran pastor – to East Germany, where her father sought to minister to a congregation in rural Brandenburg. [...]

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