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.
July 24th 1943 - Air raid on Hamburg - Operation Gomorrah
Operation Gomorrah was the military code name for a series of air strikes, which were carried out over Hamburg by the British Royal Air ...
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Jahr: 1943
July 25th, 1949 - Thomas Mann receives the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt
On July 25th, 1949 Thomas Mann was awarded the Goethe Prize of Frankfurt, Germany. Here, the ceremony a year earlier with writer Fritz v ...
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Jahr: 1949
July 26th 1893 - George Grosz is born
On July 26th 1893 George Gross is born as “George Grosz” in Berlin. A member of the Communist Party from 1919 on, he draws in his p ...
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Jahr: 1893
July 27th, 1980 – The last Shah of Persia dies
On July 27th, 1980 the last Shah of Persia died in Cairo. Nationally the Shah had always faced strong oppositions, on the one hand, the ...
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Jahr: 1980
July 28th, 1951 – UN Refugee Convention is adopted
The Geneva Convention on Refugees was signed on July 28th, 1951 at a UN special conference in Geneva. It was on January 31st, 1967 when ...
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Jahr: 1951
July 29th, 1981 - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
On July 29th, 1981 London experienced a fairytale wedding: In February 1981, after Buckingham Palace announced the official engagement o ...
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Jahr: 1981
July 21st, 1969 - U.S. moon landing - U.S. wins space race
On July 21st, 1969 at 3:54 A.M., the following images flicker across television screens all over Europe: the U.S. space shuttle “Apoll ...
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Jahr: 1969
July 29th 1889 - Ernst Reuter is born
Ernst Reuter was born on July 29th 1889. Immediately following his election as mayor of Magdeburg in 1931 the Social democrat stands up ...
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Jahr: 1889
July 30th 1914 - General mobilization
On 30 July 1914 Tsar Nicholas II orders the general mobilization of Russian troops. It will be the beginning of his demise. The outbreak ...
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Jahr: 1914
August 1st 1936 - Opening of Olympic Games in Berlin
August 1st 1936 - The first Olympic Games on German soil begin in Berlin. Hitler personally greets the athletes in the Olympic Stadium a ...
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Jahr: 1936
August 1st 1914 - Beginning of World War I
August 1st 1914 - the German Empire declares war on Russia - it is the beginning of a chain reaction that will trigger the First World W ...
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Jahr: 1914
August 2nd 1934 – Paul von Hindenburg dies
Paul von Hindenburg dies on August 2nd 1934. In 1925, the conservative veteran of World War I, who in 1919 still propagates the myth o ...
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Jahr: 1934
August 3rd 1968 - Paul Löbe dies
Paul Löbe dies on August 3rd 1968. From 1925 he is the socialist president of the Reichstag until he is replaced by Hermann Goering in ...
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Jahr: 1968
August 4th 1944 - Arrest of Anne Frank
August 4th 1944: After a denunciation of the Security Service (SD) Anne Frank and her family are discovered hiding behind a rotating she ...
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Jahr: 1944
August 5th, 1962 - Marilyn Monroe dies
August 5th, 1962: Marilyn Monroe is dead. She is found naked and lifeless in the bedroom of her house. The Hollywood legend died at age ...
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Jahr: 1962
August 5th, 1934 - Roosevelt announces New Deal
The stock market crash of 1929 was followed by a world economic crisis, the "Great Depression". During this crisis, Roosevelt won the 1 ...
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Jahr: 1934
August 6th 1945 - Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
August 6th,1945 - Preparations for the deployment of the first American atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. With this act, th ...
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Jahr: 1945
August 7th, 1964 - Beginning of the Vietnam War
On August 7th, 1964 U.S. Congress decides to take military action in Vietnam, in order to protect the pro-American government in the sou ...
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Jahr: 1964
August 7th 1929 - World tour of airship LZ 127
August 7th 1929: The most successful German transport airship LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" starts on its spectacular American world trip. Unde ...
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Jahr: 1929