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 17th, 1936 - Beginning of Spanish Civil war
July 17th, 1936 - after a coup of fascist oriented officers, civil war breaks out in Spain. Its an uneven conflict. The rebels receive ...
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Jahr: 1936
July 17th 1945 - Potsdam Conference
July 17th, 1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Stalin and British Prime Minister Churchill meet in Potsdam, to confer on the fut ...
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Jahr: 1945
July 18th 1924 - Establishment of the Red Front Fighters League
July 18th 1924: The Red Front Fighters League is established in Thuringia as a paramilitary security force of the Communist Party. It wa ...
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Jahr: 1924
July 19th 1937 - the exhibition "Degenerate Art"
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Jahr: 1937
July 20th .1944 - Assassination attempt on Hitler
July 20th, 1944 - In the Wolfs Lair in Eastern Prussia Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ignites the bomb to kill Hitler. Despi ...
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Jahr: 1944
July 21st, 1961 - Second U.S. astronaut in space - July 21st, 1969 - First man on moon
President John F. Kennedy declared space travel and the landing on the moon a major goal of American policy. (original sound bite) The ...
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Jahr: 1961-1969
July 22nd 1969 - Dictator Franco appoints Juan Carlos as his successor
At the end of World War II Francisco Franco remains as the last fascist dictator in Europe. The images are deceptive. Franco’s reign i ...
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Jahr: 1969
July 23rd 1952 - European Coal and Steel Community is established
On July 23rd 1952: The European Coal and Steel Community is established. Basis for its creation is the ECSC treaty. On the initiative of ...
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Jahr: 1952
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