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The Bitburg controversy concerned a ceremonial visit by Ronald Reagan, the incumbent President of the United States, to a German military cemetery in Bitburg, ...
The Historikerstreit (German: [hɪsˈtoːʁɪkɐˌʃtʁaɪt] ⓘ, "historians' dispute") [1] was a dispute in the late 1980s in West Germany between conservative and left-of-center academics and other intellectuals about how to incorporate Nazi Germany and the Holocaust into German historiography, and more generally into the German people's view of themselves. [2]
The Regional Museum of Bitburg-Prüm is housed in a former agricultural school. It contains numerous artifacts of the history of Bitburg and the Eifel Region in general. In the cultural centre Haus Beda are exhibited works of the Düsseldorf painter Fritz von Wille (1860–1941), the Eifel's most widely known artist.
"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" is a protest song by American punk rock band the Ramones. It was issued as a single in the UK by Beggars Banquet Records in mid-1985. The song is an emotionally charged commentary on the Bitburg controversy from earlier that year, in which U.S. president Ronald Reagan had paid a state visit to a German World War II cemetery and gave a speech where numerous Waffen-SS ...
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) first opens to the public, as part of the Century of Progress Exposition. The Institute for Advanced Study opens at Princeton, New Jersey, attracting Albert Einstein, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel. Sheffield Trades Historical Society (later South Yorkshire Industrial History Society) established in ...
An F-105 on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 61-0106 - Museum of the Kansas National Guard, Topeka, Kansas. [26] 61-0107 - National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, adjacent to Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. [27] 61-0108 - Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. [28]
The devastating Bitburg tank explosion took place on 23 September 1954 at the then NATO air base near the city Bitburg, in the municipality of Niederstedem, Germany. The explosion took place in an underground storage tank containing JP-4, a military jet fuel blend. The toll was 34 dead, 2 injured, 3 missing. [1]
The year 1924 in science and technology involved some significant events, ... Dismantling of James Watt's workshop for display in the Science Museum, London ...