Overview

• A multi-day wedding in Hamm, Westphalia, in 2020 infected about 150 guests and led to nearly 2,700 people in quarantine, making the city one of Germany’s largest hotspots.
• In 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austria’s Werner Faymann agreed with Budapest on an exception allowing mostly Syrian refugees to enter from Hungary without registration.
• In 1970, Salvador Allende won Chile’s presidency as Latin America’s first democratically elected left-leaning leader, receiving 36.6 percent of the vote.
• In 1870, two days after Napoleon III’s capture at Sedan, Paris abolished the monarchy and proclaimed the French Third Republic.
• In 1965, ARD aired the first public drawing of Germany’s lottery numbers as part of a television program.