Today is World Nature Conservation Day! In the spirit of protecting natural habitats and resources, this day is dedicated to raising awareness about the environment. With projects such as the Sustainability Week, campus greening and the active commitment to more...
107 years ago today, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy issued an ultimatum to Serbia in response to the assassination of Franz-Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, which had been committed by a Bosnian Serb on June 28, 1914. Serbia had been held responsible for the...
Today, 49 years ago, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court’s) “Numerus Clausus” ruling had a massive impact on the allocation procedure for student admission in Germany. In the years before the ruling, the number of people with...
On June 29, 1995, exactly 26 years ago, the German Bundestag passed the new abortion law. Since that day, a woman who performs an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy remains unpunished. The conditions for this are that the abortion must be performed by...
68 years ago today, large sections of the German Democratic Republic’s citizens went on strike in protest against an increase in working hours, which was intended to rebuild the state’s ailing finances. This went down in the history books as the June 17...
206 years ago today, the Congress of Vienna ended with the signing of the Congress Act by the participants. The Congress had been in session since 18.09.1814 and had aimed to reorganize Europe, as its political landscape had changed considerably over the course of...