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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.

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Discovery of X-rays
Jan 23 1896
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Discovery of X-rays

Born in 1845, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen studied mechanical engineering and physics, but having never passed the right examinations, it took him until 1888 to get a job as a professor at the University of Würzburg. Only seven years later, he discovered something that he called “X-rays”. [...]

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