Historical Anniversaries Videoclips
Our Calendar of Historical Anniversaries in English: A videoclip for each day of the year presenting an historical event. Licensing for all media and channels.
December 8th, 1980 - John Lennon shot dead
On the evening of December 8th, 1980 the entrance of the Dakota Building in New York City becomes the scene of a bloody crime. John Lenn ...
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Jahr: 1980
December 8th 1941 - US declares war on Japan
December 8th 1941: A nation in shock. Probably nobody had expected the surprise attack by the Japanese air force on the naval base at Pe ...
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Jahr: 1941
December 9th 1946 - Nuremberg trials
On December 9th 1946, the trial of 20 doctors and three non-physicians, accused of organizing and implementing criminal medical policies ...
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Jahr: 1946
December 10th 1948 - UN Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10th 1948 - The General Assembly of the United Nations in New York announces the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". In ...
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Jahr: 1948
December 11th 1948 - Founding of the FDP
On December 11th 1948 the liberal parties and movements of the West German occupation zones unite in Heppenheim, Bergstrasse under the b ...
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Jahr: 1948
December 12th 1979 - NATO adopts “Double Resolution”
(original sound bite) Schmidt "balance of forces" Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sees the nuclear balance threatened by the deployment of So ...
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Jahr: 1979
December 13th 1948 - Founding of the "Young Pioneers" in East Germany
December 13th 1948: In the Soviet occupation zone, the Young Pioneers were founded as a state-run youth organization of the GDR. Childr ...
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Jahr: 1948
December 14th, 1963 - Erich Ollenhauer dies
On December 14th, 1963 Erich Ollenhauer dies. A member of the SPD party since age 17, Ollenhauer is elected SPD chairman and parliamenta ...
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Jahr: 1963
December 14th 1920 – Film premiere of "Anna Boleyn"
December 14th 1920: Ernst Lubitsch film "Anna Boleyn" premiers at the Berlin UFA-Palast. The spectacle, with Emil Jannings and Henny Por ...
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Jahr: 1920
December 15th, 1961 - Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death
On December 15th, 1961, the Jerusalem District Court sentences the former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann to death by hanging. ...
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Jahr: 1961
December 16th 1944 - Battle of the Bulge
December 16th 1944: Beginning of the so-called “Battle of the Bulge”, the last major German operation on the Western Front in World ...
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Jahr: 1944
December 17th 1971 - Transit agreement BRD-GDR
On December 17th 1971, Secretaries of State, Egon Bahr for the Federal Republic and Michael Kohl for the GDR, signed the German Transit ...
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Jahr: 1971
December 18th 1878 - Josef Stalin is born
December 18th 1878: Birth of Josef Stalin. Shown here at an already advanced age, the Soviet dictator shaped the era of the Cold War lik ...
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Jahr: 1878
December 19th, 1965 -Re-election of French President de Gaulle
December 19th, 1965: In France, General Charles de Gaulle, seen here at a press conference in 1958, is re-elected French president with ...
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Jahr: 1965
December 20th, 1963 - Auschwitz Trial
On December 20th, 1963, the first Auschwitz trial begins in Frankfurt am Main. More than 18 years after the end of World War II the West ...
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Jahr: 1963
December 21st 1958 - De Gaulle becomes President of France
On December 21st 1958, Charles de Gaulle, with 75 percent of the vote, becomes the first President of the 5th Republic of France. Due to ...
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Jahr: 1958
December 22nd, 1942 - Execution of key members of the resistance group “Rote Kapelle” (Red Orchestra)
On December 22nd, 1942 key members of the resistance group “Rote Kapelle” (Red Orchestra) are executed in Plötzensee. At the helm o ...
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Jahr: 1942
December 23rd, 1918 – Helmut Schmidt is born
On December 23rd, 1918 Helmut Schmidt is born. By 1962 the German Social Democrat is Hamburg’s minister of the interior, and during th ...
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Jahr: 1918
December 24th 1979 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke
December 24th 1979: Rudi Dutschke, seen here during a rally, dies due to the late effects of an assassination attempt in Aarhus, Denma ...
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Jahr: 1979