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Two killed as van ploughs into crowd in Muenster 
The driver of the vehicle, who has not yet been officially identified, died after shooting himself at the scene
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Deadly storm causes Dutch and German transport chaos. Netherlands
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Man arrested after knife attack in Munich |
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Frankfurt WW2 bomb defused after mass evacuation |
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Frankfurt hospitals evacuated before WW2 bomb disposal |
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Trump and Putin met twice at G20 in Germany |
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G20: Leaders fail to bridge Trump climate chasm. Hamburg
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Ivanka Trump takes Donald Trump seat at G20 leaders' table |
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G-20 protests: Hamburg police call in more officers on 2nd day Thousands of anti-globalization protesters set cars on fire and tried to block delegations from entering the grounds of the summit
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Trump and Putin debate US election hack at first meeting. Hamburg
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G20: Hamburg clashes between police and protesters |
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German reunification architect Helmut Kohl dies at 87 Ex-chancellor and architect of reunification in 1990 led Germany for 16 years. He is credited with bringing East and West Germany together
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Hannover to evacuate 50,000 over World War Two bombs |
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Bayern Munich wins fifth-straight Bundesliga title |
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Borussia Dortmund football team bus hit by explosions Ruhr: Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the Dortmund football team to their home Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco
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Merkel set for success in Saarland bellwether vote |
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Bear killed in German zoo after it escapes from compound |
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Germany ax attack at train station leaves seven injured, suspect arrested |
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Carbon monoxide killed six teens found in hut |
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Germany arrests two on terror charges |
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Autobahn near Hannover closed after WWII bombs found |
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Syrian asylum seeker blows himself up in Germany |
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Munich shooting: David Sonboly 'planned attack for year' |
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Munich gunman 'obsessed with mass shootings' |
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Gunman kills at least 9 in shooting at Munich shopping center 
A shooting at a shopping center which left nine people dead was carried out by one gunman who then killed himself, German police have said
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Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wuerzburg. Bavaria
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Lightning strikes hurt dozens in Germany rock festival |
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Germany floods: Four dead in south-west amid extensive damage |
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Germany train crash: Controller 'distracted by computer game' |
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Police protection for satirist Boehmermann over Erdogan poem |
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Doctor wanted to hospitalize Germanwings co-pilot before 2015 crash |
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Germany train crash: Human error to blame |
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World powers agree Syria ceasefire, says John Kerry |
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Germany train crash: Several killed near Bavarian town
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Cologne attacks: New Year's Eve crime cases top 500 |
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Cologne sex attacks: Protest against gang assaults on women Map of Cologne Germany| Hundreds of people have protested in the German city of Cologne over sexual assaults and thefts carried out by groups of men on New Year's Eve | |
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Munich police warn of imminent terror threat
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Migrants reach Munich after long ordeal |
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Greek debt crisis: ECB not raising funding limit |
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Germanwings crash: French prosecutors open new probe |
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G7 summit: Obama and Merkel firm on Russia sanctions. Bavaria
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Lightning hits Slipknot and Foo Fighters festival in Germany |
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Co-pilot Lubitz 'practised rapid descent' |
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Bayern clinches Bundesliga title after Wolfsburg defeat |
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Volkswagen chairman Ferdinand Piech quits |
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Alps plane crash: Memorial service to be held |
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Investigators finished at Germanwings Flight 9525 crash site |
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Co-pilot Lubitz 'accelerated descent' |
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Co-pilot Lubitz 'researched suicide' |
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Germanwings: Lufthansa knew of co-pilot depression |
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Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot suicidal at one time. Germany
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Germanwings black box: Captain pleading with co-pilot |
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Germanwings crash: 78 DNA strands isolated |
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Germanwings crash co-pilot Lubitz 'made prediction' |
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Germanwings crash: Co-pilot Lubitz 'hid illness' |
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Germanwings co-pilot 'wanted to destroy plane' |
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Pilot was locked out of cockpit moments before plane crashed |
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Searchers recover ‘black box’ after jet crashes in French Alps |
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Pegida protests: Rallies over 'Islamisation' |
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Injuries in Germany chemical blast |
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German caver Johann Westhauser surfaces |
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4 believed dead as plane crashes in west Germany |
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Bulldozer driver killed by unexploded WWII device |
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Deadly storm and tidal surge batter northern Europe. Hamburg
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| May.25 |
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Bayern wins Champions League. 2-1, over Dortmund. London
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Chelsea seize Champions League win over Bayern |
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Election blow for Merkel - polls |
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WWII bomb evacuation on the Rhine |
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E. coli 'linked' to German farm |
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E. coli infections kill 6, sicken hundreds. Hamburg
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Volcano ash shuts German airports |
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Dioxin scare shuts German farms |
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Thousands mourn Love Parade victims |
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Number of dead at music festival rises |
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Festival stampede kills 19. Ruhr
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Heavy snow brings travel chaos |
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Enke's death apparent suicide |
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16 killed in school shooting A gunman dressed in military gear killed 16 people in a shooting spree in Germany before he was shot dead by police
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Billionaire Adolf Merckle kills self |
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6 Italians die in 'clan execution'. Ruhr
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Magnetic train crashes
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Late double puts Italy into final |
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Vintage France beat holders Brazil |
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Spectacular opening for World Cup |
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Rink collapse kills 15 |
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Rapturous German welcome for Pope |
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Court frees 9/11 suspect |
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| Jan.29 |
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Israel and Hezbollah swap prisoners |
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71 dead in midair collision |
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Kohl's wife commits suicide |
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Bayern wins Champions League |
before year 2000
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| May. 23, 1949 |
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Federal Republic of Germany formally begins Map of Bonn Germany| West Germany was in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990 | |
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Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal began Map of Nuremberg Germany| Bavaria: Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, for the prosecution of prominent members of leadership of Nazi Germany | |
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Munich Agreement signed| A settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders. 'Sudetenland' was coined | |
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Adolf Hitler invades the Rhineland| The remilitarization of the Rhineland took place when German military forces entered the Rhineland. It violated the Treaty of Versailles | |
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| Nov. 8, 1923 |
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Adolf Hitler's beer hall Putsch starts Munich: About two thousand men marched to the centre of Munich, where they confronted the police, which resulted in the death of 16 Nazis and 4 policemen
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| Mar. 14, 1879 |
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Albert Einstein born Map of Ulm Germany A German-born theoretical physicist developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics)
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| May. 10, 1871 |
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Treaty of Frankfurt ends Franco-Prussian War
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| Mar. 27, 1845 |
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Wilhelm Röntgen born Ruhr: A German physicist, who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
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| May. 7, 1833 |
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Johannes Brahms born. Hamburg
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| Mar. 26, 1827 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven dies Map of Bonn Germany A German composer and pianist and a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music
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| Mar. 13, 1781 |
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Sir William Herschel discovers planet Uranus England: A German-born British astronomer, composer. Herschel followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, before migrating to Great Britai...
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| Aug. 27, 1770 |
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born A German philosopher who was a major figure in idealism. His historicist and idealist account of reality revolutionized European philosophy
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| Dec. 16, 1770 |
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Ludwig van Beethoven born Map of Bonn Germany A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous of all composers
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| Apr. 16, 1746 |
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Battle of Culloden. Scotland
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| Aug. 1, 1714 |
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George I proclaimed King. London
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| Aug. 13, 1704 |
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Battle of Blenheim Bavaria: In the War of the Spanish Succession the overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army
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| Jul. 9, 1686 |
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League of Augsburg Bavaria: The Grand Alliance was consisting of Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, the Dutch Republic, England, the Holy Roman Empire, and others
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| Oct. 24, 1648 |
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Treaty of Westphalia signed Map of Osnabr%FCck Germany A series of treaties treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War
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| Nov. 15, 1630 |
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Johannes Kepler died Bavaria: A mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the scientific revolution, he is best known for his laws of planetary motion
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| Jun. 29, 1577 |
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Peter Paul Rubens born
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| Dec. 27, 1571 |
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Johannes Kepler born
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| Sep. 25, 1555 |
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Religious Peace of Augsburg. Bavaria
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| May. 26, 1521 |
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Edict of Worms outlawing Luther and his followers
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| Apr. 17, 1521 |
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Martin Luther excommunicated by Diet of Worms
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| Oct. 31, 1517 |
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Luther posts the 95 these at Augsburg Map of Augsburg Germany Bavaria: Martin Luther was a German friar, priest and professor of theology who was a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation
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| Aug. 7, 1495 |
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Diet of Worms proclaims Perpetual Peace
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| Jul. 6, 1415 |
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John Huss burned at the stake
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