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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.


Konrad Adenauer in charge!
Sep
15
1949
Today
Konrad Adenauer in charge!
Born in Cologne in 1876, the lawyer Konrad Adenauer joined the Centre Party, which had been set up to represent the interests of Roman Catholics in the officially Protestant German nation state. [...]
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