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- 1521 – The Diet of Worms is opened by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1536 – Bernhard Knipperdolling and other anabaptist leaders are tortured and executed in Münster
- 1729 – Birth of writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- 1900 – Birth of singer and actor Ernst Busch
- 1963 – Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle sign the Élysée Treaty on Franco-German cooperation