May 12th 1940: With a first, small air raid on Mönchengladbach by the British Royal Air Force, the almost five-year long nightmare for the civilian population of Germany begins. Insufficiently...

May 13th 1943: The Allied forces triumph in Tunis. The German Africa Corps surrender. Thus, the African campaign and the Second World War in North Africa come to an end. 120 000 German soldiers,...

On May 14th 1949: Ben Gurion announces the State of Israel at the City Museum Tel Aviv. Thus, the Zionist vision of Jewish intellectuals, led by Theodor Herzl, to give the Jewish people a...

On May 15th, 1974 Walter Scheel is elected President in Germany. (original sound) The first to congratulate is the candidate of the opposition party CDU, Richard von Weizecker. (original...

May 16th 1974: The German Bundestag elects Helmut Schmid the chancellor of Germany. Schmidt, born 1918 in Hamburg, joined the SPD in 1945 and held various offices, amongst them as a senator in...

On May 17th, 1972 the Bundestag voted in favor of the ratification of the Eastern treaties with Poland and the Soviet Union by majority of the SPD/FDP coalition. The Moscow Treaty was signed in...

May 18th 1868: Birthday of Tsar Nicholas the II of Russia. His reign was to shape the destiny of Russia decisively and to end the dynasty of the Romanovs. The Tsar was not innocent in this....