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.
September 28th 1969 - First social-liberal government of the Federal Republic of Germany
September 28th 1969: The election of the sixth German parliament paves the way for the first social-liberal coalition in the history of ...
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Jahr: 1969
September 29th 1938 - Beginning of the Munich Conference
September 29th 1938: The leaders of Britain, France, Italy and the German Empire gather in Munich to confer on the future of Czechoslov ...
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Jahr: 1938
September 30th 1989 - GDR allows Embassy refugees to leave the GDR
The disregard for civil rights and liberties, the disastrous living and working conditions, the bankrupt state economy and the inability ...
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Jahr: 1989
September 30th 1949 - End of the Berlin Airlift
September 30th 1949: The last U.S. aircraft of the airlift lands in Berlin. Although the Soviets had ended their blockade of Berlin in M ...
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Jahr: 1949
October 1st, 1946 - Sentencing at the Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg, October 1st 1946: After 273 days of deliberations, the international military tribunal announces the verdict in the “major ...
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Jahr: 1946
October 2nd 1940 - Construction of the Warsaw ghetto
October 2nd 1940 - In the Polish capital the Nazi administration orders the construction of the Warsaw ghetto. To date, it is a symbol o ...
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Jahr: 1940
October 2nd 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg is born
October 2nd 1847- Birth of Paul von Hindenburg, one of the most controversial figures in modern German history. The officers son from Ea ...
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Jahr: 1847
October 3rd 1929 - Gustav Stresemann dies
October 3rd 1929: Gustav Stresemann, one of the most outstanding politicians of the Weimar Republic, dies in Berlin. The 1878 born found ...
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Jahr: 1929
October 3rd 1990 - Reunification
On October 3rd 1990 the GDR joined the Federal Republic of Germany, reuniting the divided country. Since then, October 3rd is a National ...
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Jahr: 1990
October 4th 1958 - Creation of the Fifth French Republic
Charles de Gaulle, again elected prime minister after a break from politics for several years, starts a campaign in the summer of 1958 t ...
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Jahr: 1958
October 5th, 1937 - USA announces an isolationist policy
While in Europe the signs point towards war, the majority of the U.S. population are pacifists and want the U.S. to take on a neutral po ...
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Jahr: 1937
October 6th, 1945 - Konrad Adenauer dismissed as mayor of Cologne
In 1933, the Nazis stripped Konrad Adenauer of his mayoral duties in Cologne, Germany. He had survived in so called "inner emigration". ...
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Jahr: 1945
October 7th 1989 - 40th Anniversary of the GDR
October 7th 1989: In the presence of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the GDR leadership celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the German ...
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Jahr: 1989
October 8th, 1992 - Willy Brandt dies
On October 8th 1992 Willy Brandt dies. His political dream, the reunification of Germany, came true during his lifetime. He had fought ...
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Jahr: 1992
October 9th 1989 - Monday demonstration in Leipzig peace pact with the government
A highlight of the so called “Monday demonstrations” in East Germany, was the demonstration of 70,000 people on October 9th 1989 in ...
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Jahr: 1989
October 10th, 1962 - The Spiegel-affair
October 10th, 1962 marks the beginning of the Spiegel-affair in Germany. Publisher Rudolf Augstein and other editors are said to have di ...
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Jahr: 1962
October 11th 1949 - Wilhelm Pieck becomes the first President of East Germany
On October 11th 1949: Wilhelm Pieck becomes the first president of the German Democratic Republic. Pieck is an icon of the German Commu ...
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Jahr: 1949
October 12th 1960 - Khrushchev shoe banging incident before the UN
After the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane over the Soviet Union had led to a deterioration in relations between the superpowers in May ...
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Jahr: 1960
October 13th, 1949 - Founding of the German Trade Union Federation
On October 13th, 1949 the Founding Congress of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB) elects Hans Böckler as its first chairman. Due t ...
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Jahr: 1949