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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.

Reform of paragraph 218

Paragraph 218 of the German Criminal Code – known as the “abortion paragraph” – was introduced in 1871 and established abortion as a criminal offence. Relaxed after bitter controversy during the Weimar Republic, it was again tightened after 1933. [...]

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