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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.
Opium Act
Dec
10
1929
Today
Opium Act
At the turn of the 20th century, a German chemist searching for a remedy for respiratory diseases developed a drug derived from raw opium; his employer, Bayer, then marketed it under the name “heroin”. [...]
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