Foundation of Roeper
FC Liverpool is founded in Great Britain
Rudolf Diesel's first test engine is made to run autonomously in his machine factory in Augsburg.
The Kinetoskop Peepshow invented by Thomas Alva Edison is exhibited in New York City.
William G. Morgan, Sports Director of YMCA, introduces the new ball game "Volleyball" (formerly called "Mintonette").
Giacomo Puccini's Opera is premiered at the Teatro Regio.
Hamburg dockers are defeated in one of the biggest labour dispute strikes of imperial Germany
Jonathan Zenneck's experiments clear the way to modern wireless telegraphy.
The biggest catholic church in Russia is built in Moscow: The Church of the Immaculate Conception.
It is assigned to honor people with particular achievements for the benefit of mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts for peace.
Norway is the first European country to grant women's suffrage on local level.
With the accession of Tomás Estrada Palmas Cuba achieves formal independance of the USA.
Foundation of Kraft/Kraft Foods
Belgium, Denmark, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain found the World Football Asscociation called FIFA in Paris.
Albert Einstein claims there is a mathematical interrelation between inertia and energy.
During the International Consumer Electronics Fair, the hitherto existing distress signal CQD is replaced by the signal SOS, which is valid to this day.
France enacts a law to separate church and state.
At its first attempt, Signal Corps Airship No. 1 stays airborne for 7 minutes.
The Hansabund is founded to represent the interests of trade, commerce and industry.
George V. is crowned King of Great Britain
German wine-growers are delighted about an outstanding vintage.
Titanic on maiden voyage
The world's first crossword is published.
Opening of the Panama Canal
The first issue of the weekly magazine "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" is published
Founding of BMW
The Standards Committee of the German Industry is founded - the predecessor of the DIN
Proclamation of the State of Bavaria
The German delegation signs the Peace Treaty of Versaille.
Lack of coal shuts down Siemens factory with 35.000 workers.
A Rembrandt painting worth 2 million Reichsmark was stolen.
Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years of prison for civil disobedience
Company MAN develops the fist road vehicle with a Diesel engine.
The world's oldest audio transmission "Lørdagsbarnetimen" is broadcasted for the first time.
World Premier of Chaplin's classic in Strand Theatre.
The classic children's book Winnie Poo is published.
Charles Lindbergh flies nonstop from New York to Paris.
The famous horse-cart driver Gustav Hartmann ("Eiserner Gustav") arrives in Paris.
The prototype of the Narcotics Law bans the use and possession of Cannabis.
Match monopoly stipulates that matches may only be sold by the German Match Monopoly Enterprise within the German Empire and subsequently within the Federal Republic of Germany.
President Hoover opens the Empire State Building, the highest building in the world at the time.
Inauguration of the world's longest arch bridge
Introduction of the fist table-top radio during the 10th International Consumer Electronics Fair
Foundation of Voluntary Fire Brigade
Greenland's highest mountain (Gunnbjörns Fjeld, 3694 m) is ascended for the first time.
Inauguration of the "Rügendamm"
Grand Opening of the World Exhibition in Paris "Arts et Techniques dans la vie moderne.
Foundation Stone Ceremony for the city of Wolfsburg and the VW plant
Foundation of Hewlett Packard
The first 5 million nylon stockings are on offer.
The first patient is treated with penicillin.
Bing Crosby hits number one of the Billboard Charts with "White Christmas.
Lebanon receives a national flag
Canadian Scientists discover DNA as the genetic information carrier
Harry S. Trumann is inaugurated 33rd President of the United States of America.
Hungary introduces the Forint as its new currency.
Initial issue of "Der Spiegel"
Danes introduce the letter Å
Foundation of the Tokio Stock Market
First population census in Germany
First Photokina opened in Cologne
Elizabeth II. crowned Queen
VW reduces the price for the Beatle by 200 German Marks to 4.200 German Marks.
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup
Walt Disney opens his first Disney Theme Park.
Prince Rainier III. marries actress Grace Kelly.
The first conscripts of the German Army receive their call.
The Central Index of Traffic Offences is set into operation.
Invention of Malefiz
The Federal Republic of Germany enacts the first Youth Employment Protection Act.
Mercury-Redstone 2 heads out to space with a chimp on board.
After test takes at the record label DECCA, the Beatles are turned down because "guitar groups are old-fashioned"
Walter Bruch presents his invention - colour television PAL.
Jean-Paul Sartre refuses to accept Nobel Prize in Literature
Opening of the Mont-Blanc-Tunnel
John Lennon's teasing line "We're more popular than Jesus now." affronts Americans.
Sweden switches from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic.
Implementation of Value-Added-Tax
Thor Hyerdahl attempts to cross the Atlantic in a papyrus boat.
Germany's first repertory cinema opens in Hamburg.
USA bans cigarette promotion on the radio.
Margrethe II. is crowned Queen.
Martin Cooper makes the world's first call with a mobile phone.
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup
Roeper expands export business to non-German-speaking countries.
Founding of ESA
Germany stipulates the use of seatbelts on front seats
World Premier: Star Wars A New Hope
Opening of the Iran Carpet Museum
After a strike that has been lingering for eleven months and twelve days, "The Times" is printed again.
Simbabwe is a member of UNESCO
The world's first solar power plant is put into operation in Sicily.
The string symbol :-) is suggested to indicate a joke in E-Mails.
Windows 1.0 is announced on Comdex.
Federal Mail gives up on night postal collection.
Boris Becker is the first German and the youngest tennis player to win Wimbledon.
World Premiere of "Phantom of the Opera"
ARD broadcasts Helmut Kohl's New Year's adress of the previous year.
The "Venus of Galgenberg"- a statue 30.000 years old - is found.
For the first time shops may stay open on Thursday nights.
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup
Discovery of "Ötzi"
Mobile Communications D-Net is put into operation.
Armenia introduces the Dram as new currency.
First Iso-Certification
Opening of the Eurotunnel
Maiden Flight of Airbus A319
Reelection of Bill Clinton
"Ultima Online" is the first major online game.
Carsten Gerrens becomes partner and managing director of C.E. Roeper GmbH.
For the second time, thieves saw off the head of the famous sculpture "Little Mermaid".
First Local Elections in Iran
The eighth drop of the Pitch Drop Experiment, which was started in 1927, falls.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" comes to German cinemas.
Opening of the "Mathematikum"
Three Gorges Dam at the Jangtze closed.
Mark Zuckerberg starts Facebook as a communication platform for his fellow students.
Vijaypat Singhania from India is the first balloonist reaching a height of 21.297 m.
Blackout in Western Europe after an overhead power line in the Emsland was shut down.
The new Seven Wonders of the World are choosen in Lisbon
For the first time in history, Labor Day and Ascension Day have the same date.
Barack Obama is inaugurated first afroamerican president of the United States of America.
With Lena Meyer-Landrut, Germany wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
Mars-Rover "Curiosity" heads out to Mars.
Financial Times Germany is closed down.
New 5-Euro bank note
Germany wins the FIFA World Cup
Princess Charlotte was born.
125 years C.E. Roeper GmbH
Latvia becomes the 35th member of the OECD.
Internationalization: Office France
The 100 kilogram "Big Maple Leaf" gold coin stolen from Berlin museum
In France, sending telegrams will be abolished.
Internationalization: Office Italy
For the first time the Event Horizon Telescope project succeeds in creating a direct image of the accretion disk of a black hole (Messier 87).
For the first time the Event Horizon Telescope project succeeds in creating a direct image of the accretion disk of a black hole (Messier 87).
Kamala Harris will go down in history as the first female Vice President of the United States
The first autonomous cargo ship, Yara Birkeland, launches in Norway. It is fully electrically powered.
C.E. Roeper GmbH fantastic new website goes online!
