Today, 20 years ago, nearly 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11 in the United States. For the first time in its history, NATO decides to invoke the alliance and goes to war alongside the USA. Its target: Afghanistan. Civil war has been raging...
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...