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The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, promising mutual non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and agreeing to a division of much of Eastern Europe between those two countries. 1 September: Invasion of Poland: Germany invaded Poland. 22 December Genthin rail disaster: 1940 9 April Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark ...
May 12—100 Years Ago May 12, 1921 Germany — Grover C. Bergdoll, draft dodger, defied the United States government today. Informed of the statement by Chief of Staff March that the War ...
Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.
350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia. 10 DM, silver, 1998. 900th birthday of Hildegard von Bingen. 10 DM, silver, 1998. 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Mark. 10 DM, silver, 1998. 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Mark. 1 DM, gold, 1999. 300th anniversary of the Stift in Halle. 10 DM, silver, 1998.
Front page of The New York Times on 11 November 1918. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was signed near the French town of Compiègne, between the Allied Powers and Germany—represented by Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch and civilian politician Matthias Erzberger respectively—with capitulations having already been made separately by Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.
1999 – Five people die in the first serious accident on the Schwebebahn Wuppertal in almost 100 years Edit April 12 anniversaries • April 12 anniversaries on English Wikipedia • April 12 anniversaries on German Wikipedia
The first groups of early farmers different from the indigenous hunter-gatherers to migrate into Europe came from a population in western Anatolia at the beginning of the Neolithic period between 10,000 and 8,000 years ago. [13] Central Germany was one of the primary areas of the Linear Pottery culture (c. 5500 BC – c. 4500 BC), which was ...
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 (ECOA), signed by President Gerald Ford 50 years ago on Oct. 28, 1974, changed that. It prevented creditors from discriminating against an applicant ...