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July 1 in German History
--------------------------------- July 1, 1646
Birth of Gottfried Leibniz in Leipzig.
Leibniz is the inventor of differential and integral
calculus. (Newton also invented calculus independently at
about the same time. Leibnitz was the first to publish.)
July 1, 1818
Birth of the physician, Karl von Vierordt
in Baden, Germany. He developed techniques and instruments
for the analysis of blood.
July 1, 1881
Death of Rudolf Lotze in Berlin, Germany.
Lotze was a philosopher who developed the philosophy of
Theistic Idealism. He studied at the University of Leipzig.
He later taught at the Universities of Leipzig, Göttingen
and Berlin. His noted books are "Logik" (1843),
"Mikrokosmos" (3 vols. 1856-64) and
"Metaphysik" (1879).
July 1, 1900
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin flies his
first airship, the LZ-1.
July 1, 1926
Birth of the German composer Hans Werner
Henze in Gütersloh, Germany. He began within the 12 tone
style but then developed a variety of expressions.
July 1, 1959
Heinrich Lübke (CDU) is elected President
of the Federal Republic of Germany. (West Germany)
July 1, 1964
Heinrich Lübke (CDU) is reelected
President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
July 1, 1990
Introduction of the West German Mark in
East Germany preceding the full reunification.
July 1, 1993
Germany changes its system of postal codes,
a change made necessary by the reunification.
July 1, 1995
Roman Herzog succeeds Richard von Weizäcker as Germany's President
(Bundespräsident).
July 1, 1999
Johannes Rau succeeds Roman Herzog as Germany's President
(Bundespräsident).
July 1, 2004
Horst Köhler is inaugurated as Germany's President (Bundespräsident)
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