Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/July

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July 1

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

• 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 Desauer
• 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

Walter Gropius

• 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

Gottfried Benn

• 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

Frankfurt Airport

• 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

Jakob Henle

• 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

Maurice of Saxony

• 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

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July 14

Johannes Peter Müller

• 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

Hermann Emil Fischer

• 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

• 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

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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

Friedrich Bessel

• 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

Max Dauthendey

• 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

Felix Magath

• 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

Moritz Haupt

• 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

Jürgen Klinsmann

• 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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