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They will elect Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor while the Federal Convention, a constitutional body consisting of the Bundestag members and a same number of representatives of the States, elect the liberal Theodor Heuss as President of Germany on 12 September.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#September", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 19", "text": "October 19 – The state of war between the United States and Germany is officially ended.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#October", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – West Germany joins the IMF and the World Bank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#July–August", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#January", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371361971#January", "title": "1957", "revid": 1371361971, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#August", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#August", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – Around 2,600 political prisoners are released by East Germany, in return for \"donations\" worth approximately $10,000 a head from West Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#February", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 21", "text": "October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#October", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – Ostpolitik: The leaders of West Germany and East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German Ministerpräsident Willi Stoph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#March", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 18", "text": "September 18 – The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#September", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1974, "year_label": "1974 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372602919#March–April", "title": "1974", "revid": 1372602919, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1974, "year_label": "1974 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Launch of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372602919#March–April", "title": "1974", "revid": 1372602919, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1983, "year_label": "1983 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Germany's first elected Green Party representatives take their seats in the West German Bundestag, dressed in jeans and sweaters and accompanied by bongo drums.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366392977#March", "title": "1983", "revid": 1366392977, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – A Soviet soldier defects to West Germany across the inner German border, the first such defection since 1976.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371242779#June", "title": "1984", "revid": 1371242779, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – At the Prater Stadium of Vienna, Porto of Portugal defeats Bayern München of West Germany 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#May", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Erich Honecker makes a visit to Bonn, the first (and last) visit by an East German head of state to West Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#September", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#June", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The New York Times discloses involvement of West German company Imhausen and Salzgitter AG in building a chemical weapon plant in Rabta, Libya.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#January", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany merge their economies, the West German Deutsche Mark becoming the official currency of the East also. The Inner German border (constructed 1945) also ceases to function.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#July", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › July"}}]}