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Events on October 10

• 1810 The Alma Mater Berolinensis, today's Humboldt University of Berlin, begins offering classes.
• 1847 At the Heppenheim Conference, the moderate liberals draw up their political program for German reunification.
• 1936 Sepp Herberger is appointed head coach of the German national football team.
• 1945 Under Control Council Law No. 2 of the Allied Control Council, all Nazi organizations are dissolved, new formations are prohibited, and existing property is confiscated.
• 1962 The article “Partially Ready for Defense” by Conrad Ahlers appears in Der Spiegel, criticizing the Bundeswehr's defense capabilities in the event of a Soviet attack and triggering the Spiegel affair.
• 1969 The film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, is given its German premiere as one of the first examples of “New Hollywood.”
• 1981 More than 300,000 people gather for a peace demonstration in Bonn's Hofgarten to express their opposition to nuclear weapons.
• 1986 The diplomat Gerold von Braunmühl becomes the victim of an RAF attack in Bonn. The two masked perpetrators cannot be identified.
• 1997 The computer role-playing game Fallout is released. It is voted Role-Playing Game of the Year '97 several times.
• 2003 The inland-waterway passenger ship Magdeburg enters service and shortens the travel time of inland vessels in the east-west direction by four hours.
• 2005 SPD, CDU and CSU publish a joint agreement, according to which Angela Merkel is to be elected to the office of Federal Chancellor by the 16th German Bundestag.
• 2019 The American thriller Joker opens in German cinemas.

Born on October 10

• 1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian zoologist, polar researcher and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
• 1900 Helen Hayes, American actress
• 1901 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor, painter and graphic artist
• 1920 Gail Halvorsen, American military pilot
• 1930 Harold Pinter, British playwright and director, Nobel Prize winner
• 1950 Nora Roberts, American author
• 1951 Arnulf Rating, German cabaret artist
• 1970 Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German skeleton racer
• 1991 Gabriella Cilmi, Australian pop singer
• 2000 Felix Nmecha, German-English footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „10. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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