Today in Germany History (Part 17)
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Historical Events
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1982-10-04 - Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR
1983-03-06 - Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983-06-02 - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1983-06-16 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1983-06-25 - Udo Beyer of East Germany sets record for shot put, 22.22 m
1983-07-24 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983-07-27 - 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
1984-01-28 - Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, W Germany
1984-06-09 - Jurgen Hingsen of W Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts
1984-06-09 - Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD
1984-07-20 - Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m
1984-07-21 - Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
1984-10-25 - West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption
1985-04-25 - West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1985-06-21 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1985-08-23 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985-10-06 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
1985-12-22 - 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986-02-09 - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1986-06-19 - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
1986-06-21 - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986-06-29 - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
1986-08-29 - Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1987-01-13 - W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1987-03-23 - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1987-04-27 - US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
1987-05-14 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987-05-28 - Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
1987-05-30 - West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1987-08-02 - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
1987-09-02 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1988-06-09 - "Bloodsport (1987)," premieres in Germany
1988-08-28 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988-08-28 - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988-10-19 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988-11-25 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1988-12-17 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988-12-19 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989-01-27 - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
1989-02-27 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989-09-10 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1989-09-30 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1989-10-01 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989-10-18 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989-11-10 - Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
1989-12-01 - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989-12-17 - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1990-02-13 - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
1990-03-18 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990-04-12 - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
1990-04-24 - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990-05-18 - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1990-06-21 - Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990-06-30 - East & West Germany merge their economies
1990-07-01 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990-07-08 - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome
1990-08-23 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990-08-29 - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990-08-31 - East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990-09-12 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
1990-09-20 - Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990-09-24 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990-09-24 - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990-10-02 - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1990-10-02 - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
1990-10-03 - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990-10-04 - Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
1990-11-19 - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990-12-02 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1991-02-13 - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991-06-20 - The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1991-09-19 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1992-04-12 - Earthquake rocks Germany
1992-06-27 - Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1992-07-19 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1993-05-29 - Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1993-07-25 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993-10-31 - Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
1993-12-05 - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
1994-03-27 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1994-04-18 - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
1994-05-23 - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994-06-09 - "Hudsucker Proxy," premieres in Germany
1994-06-17 - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994-07-01 - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994-07-24 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994-07-30 - Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1994-07-31 - 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994-11-06 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994-11-15 - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994-11-17 - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1995-04-17 - 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11
1995-11-12 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995-12-21 - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1996-01-27 - Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996-04-15 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997-01-10 - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997-07-28 - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1997-08-25 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
1998-04-20 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
Famous Birthdays
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1912-08-11 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)
1912-08-25 - Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
1912-08-29 - Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects)
1912-09-05 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001)
1912-09-09 - Kurt Sanderling, Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
1912-09-18 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005)
1912-10-14 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex)
1912-11-20 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house
1912-11-28 - Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany)
1913-01-15 - Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963)
1913-01-29 - Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1913-02-25 - Gert Froebe, Saxony Germany, actor (Goldfinger)
1913-03-18 - Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
1913-04-10 - Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1913-04-21 - Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician
1913-05-27 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
1913-06-02 - Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
1913-06-28 - Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944)
1913-07-02 - Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)
1913-07-14 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913-07-16 - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)
1913-09-15 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
1913-09-26 - Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist (Anne Frank)
1913-10-02 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
1913-10-22 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008)
1913-11-11 - German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer
1913-11-24 - Gisela Mauermeyer, Germany, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1936)
1913-12-18 - Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971)
1914-02-04 - Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)
1914-03-24 - Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1914-04-22 - Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944)
1914-05-24 - Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
1914-06-26 - Wolfgang Windgassen, Annemasse Germany, tenor (Stuttgart Opera)
1914-07-01 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914-07-09 - Willi Stoph, president German DR
1914-08-12 - Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001)
1914-09-04 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)
1914-09-21 - John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO (Metromedia)/billionaire
1914-12-05 - Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989)
1914-12-14 - Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)
1914-12-26 - Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006)
1915-01-20 - C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology)
1915-01-30 - Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination)
1915-02-23 - Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth)
1915-03-17 - Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915-05-29 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
1915-08-25 - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
1915-09-04 - Rudolf Schock, German opera/operette singer
1915-09-06 - Franz Josef Strauss, Germany, nazi/minister of defense (1956-62)
1915-09-19 - Germán Valdés, Mexican actor, singer and comedian (d. 1973)
1915-12-13 - Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982)
1916-02-25 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
1916-07-02 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
1916-08-20 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984)
1916-11-08 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1916-12-09 - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
1916-12-27 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953)
1917-01-02 - Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003)
1917-01-05 - Wieland Wagner, German opera director
1917-06-02 - Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
1917-09-06 - Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008)
1917-09-09 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942)
1917-11-27 - Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer)
1918-01-02 - Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943)
1918-02-06 - Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1918-03-03 - Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)
1918-03-10 - Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot
1918-03-20 - Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Soldiers)
1918-04-06 - Karen Verne, Berlin Germany, actress (Madame X)
1918-06-13 - Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944)
1918-09-10 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932)
1918-09-22 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose)
1918-10-20 - Anton Diffring, Koblenz Germany, actor (Assignment Vienna)
1918-10-20 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
1918-11-08 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
1918-11-10 - Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973)
1918-11-20 - Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936)
1918-12-23 - Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974- )
1919-06-12 - Uta Hagen, Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting
1919-07-01 - Hans Bender, German poet
1919-07-08 - Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president
1919-11-14 - Lisa Otto, German soprano
1919-12-13 - Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942)
1920-01-27 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920-03-20 - Werner Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1920-04-15 - Richard von Weizsacker, baron/president (Germany, 1984-94)
1920-04-21 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991)
1920-06-05 - Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1920-08-16 - Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
1920-10-07 - Georg Leber, German politician (SPD)
1920-10-08 - Maxie Herber, Germany, figure skater pairs (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920-10-13 - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor (Mr Shorofsky-Fame)
1920-10-31 - Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004)
1920-10-31 - Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002)
1920-11-23 - Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
1920-12-18 - Rita Streich, German singer
1921-01-14 - Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter
1921-01-20 - Bernt Engelmann, Germany, writer
1921-03-25 - Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1921-05-11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
Famous Deaths
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2003-06-05 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003-07-25 - Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1912)
2003-08-14 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (b. 1929)
2003-09-08 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (b. 1902)
2003-09-17 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2003-09-18 - Emil Fackenheim, German Holocaust survivor and philosopher (b. 1916)
2003-12-06 - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (b. 1909)
2003-12-31 - Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (b. 1898)
2004-01-23 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2004-04-05 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004-11-19 - Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
2005-01-05 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2005-01-14 - Rudolph Moshammer, German fashion designer (b. 1940)
2005-01-15 - Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920)
2005-02-02 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2005-02-03 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2005-03-06 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2005-03-09 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
2005-04-01 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
2005-04-22 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
2005-05-24 - Carl Amery, German writer (b. 1922)
2005-06-05 - Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2005-07-06 - Bruno Augenstein, German-born mathematician (b. 1923)
2005-07-25 - Albert Mangelsdorff, German jazz trombonist (b. 1928)
2005-08-08 - Ilse Werner, German actress (b. 1921)
2005-08-25 - Peter Glotz, German politician (b. 1939)
2005-10-28 - Eugene K. Bird, German prison director (b. 1926)
2005-12-26 - Erich Topp, German submarine commander (b. 1914)
2006-01-11 - Markus Löffel (Mark Spoon), German DJ (b. 1966)
2006-01-27 - Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2006-02-16 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
2006-04-02 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
2006-06-09 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2006-06-30 - Robert Gernhardt, German satirist (b. 1937)
2006-08-26 - Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
2006-09-11 - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
2006-11-09 - Markus Wolf, East German Intelligence Director (b. 1923)
2007-01-11 - Solveig Dommartin, French-German actress (b. 1961)
2007-02-27 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2007-04-28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
2007-07-22 - Ulrich Mühe, German actor (b. 1953)
2007-07-25 - Bernd Jakubowski, German goalkeeper (b. 1952)
2007-08-06 - Heinz Barth, German convicted war criminal (SS) (b. 1920)
2007-09-02 - Franz-Benno Delonge, German game designer (b. 1957)
2007-10-26 - Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (b. 1943)
2007-11-04 - Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2007-12-05 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
2008-01-03 - Werner Dollinger, German politician and economist (b. 1918)
2008-02-07 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
2008-03-05 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923)
2008-03-20 - Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
2008-04-11 - Merlin German, United States Marine
2008-07-27 - Horst Stein, German conductor (b. 1928)
