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More round than ever – 2014
One anniversary follows the next this year : 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall , 1200th birthday of Charlemagne , 100 years ago the First World War began - there is a lot to commemorate and celebrate this year. But some anniversaries are still largely unknown, for example these:
- 60 years of “The Miracle of Bern” – in 1954 the German national soccer team surprisingly became world champions. She beat favorites Hungary 3-2 in the final in Bern.
- And football again - 40 years of the World Cup title in Munich - in 1974 the boys around Beckenbauer, Müller and Breitner defeated the Netherlands 2-1.
- 40 years of Playmobil – the legendary children's toy comes onto the market in 1974
- 60th birthday of the parking meter – It hardly exists anymore, but it was legendary and, not least, the material for wonderful sketches, including those by Loriot .
- 100 years of assembly line work - On January 14, 1914, the Ford factory in Detroit introduced work on the assembly line. This saves time and money because unskilled workers can now also take on individual work steps in car assembly.
- 30 years of the Apple Macintosh – in 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the Apple 184k. It is the first microcomputer with a graphical user interface. It costs $2,495 in the USA and an impressive 10,000 DM in Germany.
- 90 years of the Winter Olympics – a Winter Olympics opened for the first time on January 25, 1924 in Chamonix, France.
- 10 years of Facebook - in 2004 the network for students at the American elite university Harvard went online for the first time.
- 50 years of traffic jam reports on the radio - No joke, on April 1, 1964, Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast current traffic reports for the first time.
- 25 years of Game Boy – On April 21, 1989, Nintendo brought the first Game Boy onto the market.
- 25 years of the Love Parade – On July 1, 1989, around 150 techno freaks danced through West Berlin for the first time. By 2006, up to 1.5 million participants would be celebrating in the capital.
- 25 years of the German double victory at Wimbledon – On July 9, 1989, Steffi Graf and Boris Becker won their finals on the famous English lawn.
- 100 years of traffic lights – The first electric traffic lights went into operation in Cleveland, Ohio on August 5, 1914.
- 40 years of Watergate – US President Richard Nixon resigns on August 9, 1974.
- 100 years of the Panama Canal - The 82 kilometer long waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific was opened in 1914 and is crossed by around 14,000 ships every year.
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