| 1 | 11.5.1880 | Birthday | Irving Berlin, American composer |
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| 2 | 28.5.1915 | Event | Women in Berlin demonstrated for peace |
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| 3 | 20.8.1917 | Event | Bathing by Berlin residents was banned, to save water and coal |
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| 4 | 10.5.1933 | Event | Nazis burned books outside Berlin University that were 'un-German' |
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| 5 | 10.5.1940 | Event | Winston Churchill took over from Neville Chamberlin as Prime Minister |
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| 6 | 26.8.1940 | Event | The RAF bombed the German city of Berlin for the first time |
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| 7 | 15.4.1945 | Event | At the end of World War 2, the Battle of Berlin began |
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| 8 | 2.5.1945 | Event | Berlin was captured by Russian forces at the end of WW2 |
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| 9 | 24.5.1948 | Event | The USSR stopped road & rail traffic between Berlin & the West |
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| 10 | 1.7.1948 | Event | The Berlin Airlift took place, supplying Berlin's zones by air |
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| 11 | 12.5.1949 | Event | The blockade of the city of Berlin, by the USSR, was officially lifted |
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| 12 | 13.8.1961 | Event | The border between east and west Berlin was sealed off by the East Germans |
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| 13 | 5.4.1986 | Event | A terrorist bomb exploded in a Berlin disco |
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| 14 | 22.9.1989 | Event | Irving Berlin, the famous American composer, died |
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| 15 | 10.11.1989 | Event | East German border guards began to dismantle parts of the 'Berlin Wall' |
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| 16 | 13.6.1990 | Event | The official removal of the Berlin Wall began |
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| 17 | 22.6.1990 | Event | Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was officially removed |
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| 18 | 21.7.1990 | Event | A rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, was attended by 150,000 |
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| 19 | 3.10.1990 | Event | Germnay became officially reunified, with Berlin the capital city |
