Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/July

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July 1

1646 – Birth of polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the inventors of calculus
1742 – Birth of physicist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1784 – Death of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1972 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police
1990 – Currency union between East and West Germany: the Mark der DDR is replaced by the Deutsche Mark

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July 2

1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg
1648 – Birth of organ builder Arp Schnitger
1714 – Birth of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
1900 – First flight of a zeppelin near Friedrichshafen

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July 3

1676 – Birth of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, called the Old Dessauer
1866 – The Austro-Prussian war ends with a Prussian victory in the Battle of Königgrätz
1875 – Birth of surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch
1932 – Birth of GDR politician Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski

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July 4

1715 – Birth of poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
1901 – Death of linguist Johannes Schmidt
1954 – Miracle of Bern: In the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Germany wins 3–2 against Hungary
1987 – Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon is sentenced to life imprisonment

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July 5

1884 – Cameroon becomes a German colony
1862 – Death of geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn
1943 – The Battle of Kursk begins
1969 – Death of architect Walter Gropius, founder of Bauhaus

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July 6

1854 – Death of physicist Georg Ohm
1885 – Birth of field marshal Ernst Busch
1898 – Birth of composer Hanns Eisler
1973 – Death of conductor Otto Klemperer

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July 7

1855 – Birth of writer Ludwig Ganghofer
1880 – The first edition of the Duden is published
1956 – Death of Gottfried Benn
1974 – Germany wins the 1974 FIFA World Cup
1985 – Boris Becker wins at Wimbledon for the first time

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July 8

1919 – Birth of politician Walter Scheel
1867 – Birth of artist Käthe Kollwitz
1885 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Bloch
1936 – Frankfurt Airport is opened
1990 – Germany wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup

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July 9

1654 – Death of Ferdinand IV of Germany
1721 – Birth of poet Johann Nikolaus Götz
1809 – Birth of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
1858 – Birth of anthropologist Franz Boas

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July 10

1609 – Founding of the Catholic League
1809 – Birth of geologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt
1867 – Birth of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918
1883 – Birth of industrialist and war criminal Friedrich Flick
1902 – Birth of Kurt Alder, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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July 11

1535 – Death of Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg
1553 – Death of Maurice, Elector of Saxony
1906 – Birth of politician Herbert Wehner
1929 – Birth of baritone Hermann Prey

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July 12

1806 – The Confederation of the Rhine is founded
1863 – Birth of physicist Paul Karl Ludwig Drude
1773 – Death of flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz

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July 13

1896 – Death of chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
2014 – Germany wins the 2014 FIFA World Cup

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July 14

1801 – Birth of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
1933 – As part of the Gleichschaltung, the forming of new political parties is declared illegal

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July 15

1704 – Birth of religious leader August Gottlieb Spangenberg
1919 – Death of chemist Hermann Emil Fischer, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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July 16

1664 – Death of writer Andreas Gryphius
1985 – Death of writer Heinrich Böll, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature

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July 17

1571 – Death of poet Georg Fabricius
1954 – Birth of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

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July 18

1864 – Birth of poet Ricarda Huch
1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf
1948 – Birth of biochemist Hartmut Michel, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

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July 19

1870 – The Franco-Prussian War starts with France declaring war on Prussia
1898 – Birth of philosopher Herbert Marcuse

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July 20

1847 – Birth of impressionist painter Max Liebermann
1866 – Death of mathematician Bernhard Riemann
1932 – The cabinet of Prussia is dismissed in the Preußenschlag
1933 – The Reichskonkordat between Germany and the Vatican is signed
1934 – Birth of writer Uwe Johnson
1944 – 20 July plot by German military leaders to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Operation Valkyrie)

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July 21

1893 – Birth of writer Hans Fallada
1935 – Birth of politician Norbert Blüm
1936 – Death of politician Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany 1917

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July 22

1784 – Birth of mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Bessel
1887 – Birth of physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics

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July 23

1164 – The remains of the Three Kings arrive at Cologne Cathedral
1777 – Birth of painter Philipp Otto Runge
1793 – The French retreat after the Siege of Mainz ends the Mainz Republic
1886 – Birth of physicist Walter H. Schottky
1899 – Birth of Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany 1969-1974

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July 24

1655 – Death of epigrammatist Friedrich, Freiherr von Logau
1851 – Birth of mathematician Friedrich Schottky
1864 – Birth of playwright Frank Wedekind
1922 – Birth of politician Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski

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July 25

1790 – Death of educational reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow
1802 – Death of Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz
1867 – Birth of author and painter Max Dauthendey
2005 – Death of jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff

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July 26

1855 – Birth of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
1865 – Birth of politician Philipp Scheidemann
1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premieres in Bayreuth
1953 – Birth of soccer player and manager Felix Magath

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July 27

1808 – Birth of philologist Moritz Haupt
1881 – Birth of chemist Hans Fischer, recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1940 – Birth of choreographer Pina Bausch
1997 – Jan Ullrich wins the 1997 Tour de France

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July 28

1750 – Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
1804 – Birth of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach
1874 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
1954 – Birth of mathematician Gerd Faltings, winner of the Fields Medal
1968 – Death of chemist Otto Hahn, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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July 29

1843 – Birth of linguist Johannes Schmidt
1856 – Death of composer Robert Schumann
1979 – Death of philosopher Herbert Marcuse
2001 – Death of hacker Wau Holland, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club

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July 30

1814 – Birth of master mechanic and industrialist Johann Georg Halske
1855 – Birth of industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
1898 – Death of politician Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Prussia and of Germany
1964 – Birth of football player and manager Jürgen Klinsmann

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July 31

1884 – Birth of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, member of the German Resistance
1919 – The German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution
1932 – In the July 1932 Reichstag election, the NSDAP becomes the biggest party in the Reichstag
1980 – Death of physicist Pascual Jordan

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