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.
October 16th 1944 - Invasion of Soviet troops into Eastern Prussia
October 16th 1944: An unprecedented exodus of the local German population begins in Eastern Prussia with the arrival of Soviet troops. T ...
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Jahr: 1944
October 16th 1925 - Treaty of Locarno
October 16th 1925: In Locarno, Switzerland, the most important international conference on European security issues after the First Worl ...
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Jahr: 1925
October 17th 1917 - Hindenburg tells people to endure during the First World War
(O-Ton) All the exhortations to hold out by the German High Command, could not bring about a victory in 1917 – the volunteer Adolf Hi ...
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Jahr: 1917
October 18th, 1977 – The GSG9 frees hostage in Mogadishu
October 18th, 1977: At the airport of Mogadishu, all hostages of the Lufthansa airliner "Landshut", who were kidnapped by a commando of ...
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Jahr: 1977
October 18th 1944 - Funeral of Erwin Rommel
October 18th 1944: In an act of state, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is laid to rest in Ulm, Germany.. Rommel, one of the most impo ...
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Jahr: 1944
October 19th 1945 - Declaration of Guilt in Stuttgart
On October 18th and 19th of 1945 ecumenical representatives meet in war-torn Stuttgart. They asses the Churchs involvement in the terror ...
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Jahr: 1945
October 20th 1944 - Red Army captures Belgrade
October 20th 1944: Liberation of Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, by the Red Army. It was the climax of the so-called Belgrade opera ...
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Jahr: 1944
October 21st, 1969 - Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor
On Oct 21st, 1969, In Germany Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor for the first time by the delegates of the SPD/FDP coalition. Since 1 ...
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Jahr: 1969
October 22nd 1943 - Bombing of Kassel
On the night of the 22nd to 23rd of October 1943, the RAF bombed the city of Kassel with 444 bombers, because Kassel was a war-strategic ...
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Jahr: 1943
October 23rd, 1956 - National uprising in Hungary
On October 23rd, 1956 the national uprising in Hungary begins with a peaceful mass demonstration of students. More than 10 years before ...
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Jahr: 1956
October 24th 1962 - The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis
October 24th 1962: Following the deployment of Soviet missiles to Cuba, the U.S. imposes a naval blockade against Fidel Castros island n ...
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Jahr: 1962
October 25th 1929 - Beginning of Great Depression
October 25th 1929: On "Black Friday", the crash of New York Stock Exchange, the world economic crisis began. It was triggered by misguid ...
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Jahr: 1929
October 26th, 1919 – The last Shah of Persia is born
On October 26th, 1919 the last Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was born. In 1941, during the Second World War, British and S ...
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Jahr: 1919
October 27th, 1917 - Victory of the Central Powers on the Isonzo
October 27th 1917: The Central Powers Germany and Austria-Hungary are victorious against Italian troops on the Isonzo river. It was the ...
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Jahr: 1917
October 28th, 1973 - First oil crisis
The first and most momentous oil crisis was triggered by the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War on October 28th, 1973. The Organization of Petr ...
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Jahr: 1973
October 29th, 1976 - Honecker becomes State Council Chairman
On Oct 29th, 1976 Erich Honecker becomes the GDR State Council chairman. He effectively unites all high office positions . He obtained ...
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Jahr: 1976
October 30th, 2008 - Closure of Tempelhof Airport
October 30th, 2008, Berlin’s "Central Airport" Tempelhof closes down. Almost 100 years earlier, in 1909 the first flying machines land ...
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Jahr: 2008
October 31st 1943 - Max Reinhardt dies
On October 31st 1943 Max Reinhardt dies in exile in New York. The Austrian Jew escaped from the Nazis in 1937 and emigrated with his wif ...
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Jahr: 1943
November 1st, 1954 - Algeria war
On November 1st, 1954 the Algerian Liberation Front (FLN) begins an armed struggle against the French troops stationed in the country, t ...
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Jahr: 1954