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.
February 3rd 1952 - Groundbreaking ceremony for the Stalin Allee in East Berlin
February 3rd 1952: With the groundbreaking ceremony for the first apartment block on the new Stalin Allee (Avenue) in East Berlin, the S ...
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Jahr: 1952
February 4th 1945 - Beginning of the Yalta Conference
February 4th 1945: Beginning of the Yalta Conference. In the seaside resort located in Crimea, U.S. President Roosevelt, British Prime M ...
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Jahr: 1945
February 5th 1919 – The Deutsche Luftreederei opens air passenger traffic between Berlin and Weimar
February 5th 1919: The Deutsche Luftreederei (German Air Freight Service), a forerunner of todays Lufthansa airline inaugurates the firs ...
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Jahr: 1919
February 6th, 1952 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen
On February 6th, 1952, the English King George VI dies. His daughter and heiress Elizabeth returned from a trip abroad in Kenya and was ...
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Jahr: 1952
February 7th 1929 - Alfred Döblin
February 7th 1929: Alfred Döblins famous novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" is published for the first time in Germany. The book parts seen ...
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Jahr: 1929
February 8th 1950 - The creation of the East German State Security
On February 8th 1950 the Provisional Peoples Chamber of the GDR decides the formation of the Ministry for State Security. The Ministry f ...
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Jahr: 1950
February 10th 1962 - The first East-West agent exchange on the Glienicker Bridge in Berlin
Once there was a wooden bridge here. In 1908/1909 it was replaced by the iron structure of the Glienicker Bridge. Blown up in April of 1 ...
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Jahr: 1962
February 11th 1919 - Friedrich Ebert becomes President
February 11th 1919: The Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert becomes the first President of the Weimar Republic. Here at a parade, Ebert assu ...
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Jahr: 1919
February 12th 1947 - Creation of the FDJ newspaper Junge Welt (Young World)
On February 12th 1947 "Junge Welt" (“Young World”) the newspaper of the Free German Youth is established in the Soviet occupation zo ...
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Jahr: 1947
February 13th 1945 -Air raid on Dresden
February 13th 1945: The beginning of the air raid on Dresden, one of the worst attacks of Allied bombers on German cities during World W ...
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Jahr: 1945
February 14th 1956 - Khrushchev launches De-Stalinization of the Soviet Communist Party
On February 14th 1956 the 20th congress of the Communists Party of the Soviet Union (or “CPSU”) starts in Moscow. It is the first co ...
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Jahr: 1956
February 15th 1902 - First Subway in Berlin
February 15th 1902: After 5 years of construction, the so-called “ministerial ride” is made. The first subway or elevated railway in ...
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Jahr: 1902
February 16th 1964 - Willy Brandt becomes SPD Chairman
At an extraordinary party congress on the 15th and 16th of February of 1964, the former mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt, is elected by the ...
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Jahr: 1964
February 17th 1968 - The International-Vietnam Congress
On February 17th 1968 the International Vietnam Congress begins in West Berlin, while U.S. bombs are being dropped over Vietnam. It last ...
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Jahr: 1968
February 18th 1943 – Goebbels “Total War” speech '
February 18th 1943: At the Berlin Sportplalast, a few days after the defeat at Stalingrad, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels hol ...
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Jahr: 1943
February 19th 1936 - Max Schreck dies
The 19th of February 1936 is the anniversary of the death of actor Max Schreck. In 1922 the role of the vampire Count Orlok in the silen ...
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Jahr: 1936
February 20th 1933 - Meeting between Hitler and representatives of heavy industry
On February 20th 1933 Hermann Goering invites 24 leading industrialists to a meeting with Adolf Hitler at the Reichstag Presidents pala ...
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Jahr: 1933
February 21st 1916 - Beginning of the Battle of Verdun
February 21st 1916: Beginning of the Battle of Verdun, probably the most notorious battle of mechanized warfare of World War II, and a s ...
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Jahr: 1916
February 22nd 1943 - Execution of Hans and Sophie Scholl
In 1942 The Munich students Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf and Alexander Schmorell form the resistance group "Whit ...
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Jahr: 1943