A German Communist Party leader, Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was instrumental in establishing a Communist government in East Germany after World War II (East Germany was reunited with West Germany in 1...
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Jan 6 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 13 in history: 1915 - 30,000 people died in a huge earthquake which struck
the central Italian town of Avezzano...
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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin's new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, ...
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Dec 1 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on December 8 in history. 1907 - Oscar II, King of Sweden (1872-1907) and Norway
(1872-1905), died and was succeeded by hi...
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Berlin (dpa) - Tom Hanks is planning a movie about a US-born pop
singer who became an idol from East Germany to Siberia after
embracing communism and settling in East Berlin...
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Berlin (dpa) - A documentary film titled The Red Elvis dealing
with the life of Denver-born crooner Dean Reed, who became the
darling of pop fans from East Berlin to the Ur...
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When communist East Germany collapsed in 1989, Berliners were eager to tear down its most detested symbol _ the Berlin Wall that divided their city during the Cold War.Seventeen years later, city o...
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A priceless manuscript at a Polish library shows how Mozart wrote down his Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major _ neat, small notes, no corrections.Its neighbor in the collection, Beethoven's orig...
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Today is Friday, Sept. 7, the 250th day of 2007. There are 115 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on Sept. 7, 1907, the British liner RMS Lusitania set out on...
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Leipzig, Germany (dpa) - Kurt Masur, the great German orchestral
conductor, says that with his 80th birthday coming up on Wednesday he
has no plans to retire.
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Los Angeles (dpa) - A colourful, 2.6 ton piece of the Berlin wall
points the way to an odd museum and archive of the Cold War near Los
Angeles - odd mainly because it's so f...
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Erich Honecker
Reuters historical calendar - January 13
