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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.

The Reichswehr recaptures the Ruhr

Workers in the Ruhr joined a national strike that started across Germany in mid-March 1920 to oppose the Kapp Putsch unfolding in Berlin soon radicalized. [...]

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