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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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The “Miracle of Lengede”
Nov 7 1963
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The “Miracle of Lengede”

On 24 October 1963, a pit shaft flooded in the Lengede ore mine near Salzgitter in Lower Saxony. [...]

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