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April 1

• 1963 - The ZDF television channel starts broadcasting
• 1931 - Birth of author Rolf Hochhuth, known for his play The Deputy
• 1815 - Birth of statesman Otto von Bismarck, minister-president of Prussia and first Chancellor of Germany
• 2005 - Death of entertainer Harald Juhnke

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April 2

• 1647 - Birth of naturalist and illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian
• 1798 - Birth of poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, author of Das Lied der Deutschen
• 1891 - Birth of painter Max Ernst
• 1914 - Death of writer Paul Heyse

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April 3

• 1827 - Death of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for the Chladni patterns
• 1833 - The Frankfurter Wachensturm fails
• 1892 - Birth of mathematician Hans Rademacher
• 1885 - Gottlieb Daimler is granted a patent for his engine design.
• 1897 - Death of Romantic composer Johannes Brahms

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April 4

• 1785 - Birth of writer Bettina von Arnim
• 1854 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust, Part 2 premieres in Hamburg
• 1870 - Death of scientist Heinrich Gustav Magnus
• 1932 - Death of chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1981 - Death of mathematician Carl Ludwig Siegel

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April 5

• 1877 - The Blohm & Voss shipbuilding company is founded
• 1908 - Germany's national football team plays its first game and loses 3-5 to Switzerland
• 1934 - Birth of judge and politician Roman Herzog, President of Germany 1994-1999
• 1978 - Birth of swimmer Franziska van Almsick
• 1986 - The bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in Berlin kills three and injures 230

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April 6

• 1878 - Birth of author Erich Mühsam
• 1884 - Death of poet Emanuel Geibel
• 1911 - Birth of biochemist Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1972 - Death of former President of Germany Heinrich Lübke
• 1980 - Germany observes Daylight saving time for the first time

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April 7

• 1724 - The Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time
• 1885 - Death of physiologist Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
• 1944 - Birth of politician Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
• 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback is assassinated by the Red Army Faction
• 1994 - Death of historian Golo Mann

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April 8

• 1835 - Death of Wilhelm von Humboldt, founder of Humboldt University
• 1859 - Birth of philosopher Edmund Husserl, known as the "father" of phenomenology
• 1897 - Death of Heinrich von Stephan, one of the founders of the Universal Postal Union
• 1992 - Death of literary scholar and philosopher Käte Hamburger

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April 9

• 1794 - Birth of Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
• 1936 - Death of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
• 1945 - Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenbürg concentration camp
• 1945 - Georg Elser, who had attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, is executed at Dachau concentration camp

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April 10

• 1651 - Birth of scientist Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus
• 1807 - Death of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach
• 1883 - AEG is founded as Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität
• 1913 - Birth of writer Stefan Heym
• 1924 - Death of industrialist Hugo Stinnes

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April 11

• 1825 – Birth of politician Ferdinand Lassalle
• 1895 – Death of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer
• 1945 – Liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp
• 1949 – Birth of film producer Bernd Eichinger
• 1968 – Student leader Rudi Dutschke is shot and wounded in Berlin

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April 12

• 1928 – Birth of actor Hardy Krüger
• 1948 – Birth of politician Joschka Fischer, Federal Foreign Minister 1998–2005
• 1956 – Birth of singer and actor Herbert Grönemeyer
• 1990 – Lothar de Maizière becomes the first democratically elected minister-president of the GDR
• 1999 – Five people die in the first serious accident on the Schwebebahn Wuppertal in almost 100 years

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April 13

• 1111 - Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
• 1784 - Friedrich Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe premieres in Frankfurt
• 1826 - Death of composer Franz Danzi
• 1945 - Death of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
• 1960 - Birth of football player and coach Rudi Völler

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April 14

• 0972 - Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor marries Theophanu, niece of the Eastern Roman Emperor John I Tzimisces
• 1759 - Death of composer Georg Friedrich Händel
• 1783 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise premieres in Berlin
• 1868 - Birth of archtitect and designer Peter Behrens
• 1886 - Birth of philologist Ernst Robert Curtius

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April 15

• 1659 - Death of poet Simon Dach
• 1832 - Birth of artist and poet Wilhelm Busch, author of Max and Moritz
• 1874 - Birth of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics and supporter of the Deutsche Physik agenda
• 1920 - Birth of politician Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany 1984-1994
• 1945 - British forces liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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April 16

• 1823 - Birth of mathematician Ferdinand Eisenstein
• 1886 - Birth of communist politician Ernst Thälmann
• 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo is signed, re-establishing relations between Germany and Russia
• 1945 - The refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 6,000
• 1947 - Execution of Rudolf Höß, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp

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April 17

• 1521 - Martin Luther speaks to the assembly at the Diet of Worms, refusing to recant his teachings.
• 1574 - Death of classical scholar Joachim Camerarius
• 1794 - Birth of botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
• 1870 - Birth of architect Max Berg, who built the Hala Ludowa in Wrocław
• 1899 - Death of mathematician Wilhelm Jordan

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April 18

• 1567 - Death of adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach
• 1873 - Death of chemist Justus von Liebig
• 1947 - British units attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland in a large explosion
• 1955 - Death of physicist Albert Einstein, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics

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April 19

• 1529 - In the Protestation at Speyer, a group of rulers and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms
• 1560 - Death of theologian Philipp Melanchthon
• 1922 - Birth of World War II ace Erich Hartmann
• 1967 - Death of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany 1949-1963
• 2005 - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI

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April 20

• 1494 - Birth of protestant reformer Johannes Agricola
• 1643 - Death of composer Christoph Demantius
• 1889 - Birth of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler
• 1918 - Death of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1998 - The terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution

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April 21

• 1488 - Birth of Imperial Knight and humanist Ulrich von Hutten
• 1864 - Birth of sociologist Max Weber
• 1900 - Birth of Nazi journalist Hans Fritzsche
• 1918 - The Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen is shot down
• 1946 - In the Soviet occupation zone, KPD and SPD are united to form the SED

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April 22

• 1401 - Capture of Klaus Störtebeker
• 1724 - Birth of philosopher Immanuel Kant
• 1915 - Germany becomes the first nation to use chemical weapons in the Second Battle of Ypres
• 1945 - Death of artist Käthe Kollwitz
• 1980 - Death of physicist Fritz Strassmann, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission

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April 23

• 1516 - The Reinheitsgebot beer purity law is decreed by William IV, Duke of Bavaria
• 1805 - Birth of philosopher Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz
• 1858 - Birth of physicist Max Planck, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1895 - Death of physician Carl Ludwig

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April 24

• 1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
• 1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
• 1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
• 1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
• 1982 - Nicole becomes the only German candidate so far to win the Eurovision Song Contest

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April 25

• 1228 - Birth of king Conrad IV of Germany
• 1849 - Birth of mathematician Felix Klein
• 1945 - Elbe Day: Soviet and American troops meet near Torgau
• 1952 - Baden-Württemberg is founded by the merging of Baden, Württemberg-Baden, and Württemberg-Hohenzollern

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April 26

• 1787 - Birth of poet Ludwig Uhland
• 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident
• 1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo as secret police of Nazi Germany
• 1951 - Death of physicist Arnold Sommerfeld
• 2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing

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April 27

• 1764 - Birth of publisher Johann Friedrich Cotta
• 1812 - Birth of composer Friedrich von Flotow
• 1921 - Birth of actor and TV show host Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff
• 1972 - The constructive vote of no confidence against Willy Brandt fails
• 2003 - Death of theologian Dorothee Sölle

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April 28

• 1753 - Birth of Franz Karl Achard, discoverer of the production of sugar from sugar beets
• 1853 - Death of writer Ludwig Tieck
• 1858 - Death of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
• 1908 - Birth of industrialist Oskar Schindler
• 1977 - Death of football player and manager Sepp Herberger

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April 29

• 1688 - Death of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, commonly known as the Great Elector (Großer Kurfürst)
• 1785 - Birth of inventor Karl Drais
• 1837 - Birth of merchant Hermann Tietz
• 1929 - Birth of author Walter Kempowski
• 1945 - Liberation of Dachau concentration camp

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April 30

• 1777 - Birth of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß
• 1865 - Birth of anarchist and historian Max Nettlau
• 1916 - Germany is the first country to switch to daylight saving time
• 1945 - Suicides of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
• 1991 - Production of the last Trabant car

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