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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.

5% to enter the German Parliament

The first West German federal election of 1949 was a complicated affair. If a party achieved 5% of the vote in just one of the 11 federal states – but none of the others – it was still able to send representatives to parliament in accordance with its national vote tally. [...]

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