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June 1
- 1639 – Death of composer Melchior Franck
- 1927 – The Hindenburgdamm connecting Sylt to the mainland is opened
- 1947 – Birth of singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker
- 1973 – Birth of supermodel Heidi Klum
- 1979 – Death of physician Werner Forssmann, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 2000 – The Expo 2000 world fair opens in Hanover
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June 2
- 1878 – Anarchist Karl Nobiling attempts to assassinate Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany
- 1885 – Birth of neuropathologist Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
- 1917 – Birth of zoologist and filmmaker Heinz Sielmann
- 1920 – Birth of literary critic and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki
- 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg is shot by a policeman during a demonstration
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June 3
- 1858 – Death of composer Julius Reubke
- 1873 – Birth of pharmacologist Otto Loewi, winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1970 – Death of Reichsbank president and politician Hjalmar Schacht
- 1971 – Death of mathematician Heinz Hopf
- 1998 – 101 people die in the Eschede train disaster
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June 4
- 1792 – Death of Sturm und Drang writer Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- 1875 – Death of romantic poet Eduard Mörike
- 1877 – Birth of chemist Heinrich Otto Wieland, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1882 – Birth of comedian Karl Valentin
- 1942 – Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated in Operation Anthropoid
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June 5
- 1493 – Birth of Protestant reformer Justus Jonas
- 1722 – Death of composer Johann Kuhnau
- 1781 – Birth of classical scholar Christian Lobeck
- 1945 – The Allied Control Council assumes control over Germany
- 2003 – Death of FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann
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June 6
- 1436 – Birth of mathematician Regiomontanus
- 1843 – Death of poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1850 – Birth of physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1944 – D-Day: The Battle of Normandy begins
- 1946 – Death of dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature
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June 7
- 1676 – Death of hymnist Paul Gerhardt
- 1826 – Death of physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, discoverer of the Fraunhofer lines in the solar spectrum
- 1843 – Death of lyric poet Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1862 – Birth of physicist Philipp Lenard, winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics and outspoken proponent of Deutsche Physik
- 1951 – Oswald Pohl is executed for war crimes, having been found guilty in the Pohl Trial
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June 8
- 1727 – Death of theologian August Hermann Francke, important figure of Pietism
- 1768 – Death of classical scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- 1810 – Birth of composer Robert Schumann
- 1815 – The German Confederation is founded at the Congress of Vienna
- 1937 – Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt
- 1980 – Death of singer and actor Ernst Busch
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June 9
- 1810 – Birth of composer Carl Otto Nicolai
- 1812 – Birth of astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, one of the discoverers of Neptune
- 1881 – Birth of navy officer and author Felix von Luckner
- 1959 – Death of chemist Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, recipient of the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1978 – Birth of football forward Miroslav Klose
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June 10
- 1190 – Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor dies while crossing the Saleph River
- 1804 – Birth of ornithologist Hermann Schlegel
- 1924 – Birth of computer scientist Friedrich L. Bauer
- 1929 – Birth of actor and comedian Harald Juhnke
- 1982 – Death of film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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June 11
- 1723 – Birth of astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch
- 1842 – Birth of engineer Carl von Linde, known for his contributions to refrigeration
- 1856 – Death of philologist Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen
- 1864 – Birth of composer Richard Strauss
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June 12
- 1878 – Death of George V of Hanover, last king of Hanover
- 1929 – Birth of Holocaust victim Anne Frank, known for her diaries
- 1942 – Birth of cell physiologist Bert Sakmann, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1952 – Death of Michael von Faulhaber, cardinal archbishop of Munich and Freising
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June 13
- 1809 – Birth of Heinrich Hoffmann, author of Struwwelpeter
- 1878 – Beginning of the Congress of Berlin
- 1878 – Birth of poet Bruno Frank
- 1886 – Death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria on Lake Starnberg
- 1937 – Birth of football manager Erich Ribbeck
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June 14
- 1800 – Friedrich Schiller's play Maria Stuart premieres in Weimar
- 1832 – Birth of inventor Nikolaus Otto
- 1920 – Death of sociologist Max Weber
- 1940 – The first prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1969 – Birth of tennis player Steffi Graf
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June 15
- 1624 – Birth of orientalist Hiob Ludolf
- 1829 – Death of author Therese Huber
- 1888 – Death of Emperor Friedrich III of Germany
- 1969 – Birth of football goalkeeper Oliver Kahn
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June 16
- 1801 – Birth of mathematician Julius Plücker
- 1804 – Death of composer Johann Adam Hiller
- 1900 – Opening of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
- 1972 – RAF terrorist Ulrike Meinhof is captured in Langenhagen
- 1977 – Death of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun
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June 17
- 1810 – Birth of writer Ferdinand Freiligrath
- 1898 – Birth of crystallographer Carl Hermann
- 1953 – The Uprising in East Germany is crushed by Soviet military
- 2002 – Death of football player Fritz Walter, captain of the German team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup
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June 18
- 1887 – Germany and Russia agree on the Reinsurance Treaty
- 1916 – Death of World War I ace Max Immelmann
- 1927 – Inauguration of the Nürburgring race track
- 1929 – Birth of sociologist Jürgen Habermas
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June 19
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- 1762 – Death of composer Johann Ernst Eberlin
- 1792 – Birth of writer Gustav Schwab, best known for Sagen des klassischen Altertums
- 1811 – The first Turnfest gymnastics festival is organized by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
- 1978 – Birth of basketball player Dirk Nowitzki
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June 20
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- 1808 – Birth of rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
- 1819 – Birth of composer Jacques Offenbach
- 1887 – Birth of artist Kurt Schwitters
- 1940 – Birth of theologian Eugen Drewermann
- 1941 – Birth of astronaut Ulf Merbold, first West German in space
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June 21
- 1826 – Birth of explorer Georg von Neumayer
- 1863 – Birth of astronomer Max Wolf
- 1870 – Birth of chemist Clara Immerwahr
- 1957 – Death of physicist Johannes Stark, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physics
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June 22
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- 1767 – Birth of statesman Wilhelm von Humboldt
- 1864 – Birth of mathematician Hermann Minkowski
- 1910 – Birth of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse
- 1941 – Start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union
- 1974 – East Germany beats West Germany 1–0 in the Football World Cup
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June 23
- 1775 – Death of adventurer and writer Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz
- 1804 – Birth of businessman August Borsig
- 1891 – Death of physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber
- 1928 – Birth of politician Klaus von Dohnanyi
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June 24
- 1795 – Birth of physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber, who found the Weber–Fechner law
- 1908 – Birth of composer Hugo Distler
- 1922 – Foreign minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated
- 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade
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June 25
- 1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg
- 1560 – Birth of surgeon Wilhelm Fabry
- 1767 – Death of composer Georg Philipp Telemann
- 1864 – Birth of chemist Walther Nernst, recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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June 26
- 1762 – Death of playwright Luise Gottsched
- 1898 – Birth of aircraft designer Willy Messerschmitt
- 1957 – Death of poet Alfred Döblin
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy visits West Berlin and gives the Ich bin ein Berliner speech
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June 27
- 1838 – Birth of weapon manufacturer Paul von Mauser
- 1869 – Birth of embryologist Hans Spemann, recipient of the 1935 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- 1882 – Birth of philosopher Eduard Spranger
- 1993 – RAF terrorist Wolfgang Grams and GSG 9 member Michael Newrzella die at Bad Kleinen
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June 28
- 1490 – Birth of Albert of Mainz, Archbishop of Mainz and Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1903 – The Deutsches Museum is founded
- 1906 – Birth of physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1943 – Birth of physicist Klaus von Klitzing, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1968 – The German Emergency Acts come into effect
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June 29
- 1312 Henry VII is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
- 1831 Death of statesman Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
- 1880 Birth of General Ludwig Beck, member of the July 20 Plot
- 1963 Birth of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
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June 30
- 1893 – Birth of politician Walter Ulbricht
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies and introduces special relativity
- 1934 – In the Night of the Long Knives, the leadership of the SA is killed or arrested
- 1975 – Birth of Formula One racing driver Ralf Schumacher (pictured)
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