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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.
A new era in German public transport
At the end of the 19th century, Berlin already had an overground railway linking up points around its circumference and a further line running through its centre. In 1896, the decision was taken to build an underground railway to serve the needs of the two million Berliners. [...]
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