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West Germany

Federal Republic of Germany in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990

29 dated entries naming West Germany, drawn from 22 separate years between 1948 CE and 2009 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1948June 1 – Puma, a global sports goods brand, is founded in Bavaria, West Germany, by Rudolf Dassler, having split from his brother "Adi".source
  • 1948June 21 – The Deutsche Mark becomes the official currency of the future Federal Republic of Germany.source
  • 1949May 23 – The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) is officially established (until 1990).source
  • 1949September 7 – The first Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany convenes in Bonn. 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.source
  • 1951October 19 – The state of war between the United States and Germany is officially ended.source
  • 195210 September – The Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany is signed. According to the Agreement, West Germany was to pay Israel for the slave labor and persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, and to compensate for Jewish property that was stolen by the Nazis.source
  • 1952October 23 – The West German Federal Constitutional Court bans the Socialist Reich Party as unconstitutional for being a Nazi Party successor organization.source
  • 1953January 15 – British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization.source
  • 1957January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.source
  • 1961August 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.source
  • 1963August 24 – First games played in the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league in West Germany, replacing the Oberliga.source
  • 1966February 1 – Around 2,600 political prisoners are released by East Germany, in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from West Germany.source
  • 1969October 21 – Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.source
  • 1970March 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.source
  • 1970May 14 – Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction in West Germany which exists until 1998.source
  • 19722–11 August – Malaysia competed for the first time at the Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, West Germany, with a team of four.source
  • 1973September 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.source
  • 1974March 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.source
  • 1974April 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.source
  • 1983March 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.source
  • 1984Pakistan won the gold medal in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the men's hockey event, beating Germany 2-1 and becoming Olympic champions for the third time.source
  • 1984June 10 – A Soviet soldier defects to West Germany across the inner German border, the first such defection since 1976.source
  • 1986Launch of the second generation Vauxhall Carlton, largest model in the Vauxhall range. It will be sold as the Opel Omega on the continent, and all European versions of the car will be built in West Germany.source
  • 1987May 27 – At the Prater Stadium of Vienna, Porto of Portugal defeats Bayern München of West Germany 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.source
  • 1988June 10–25 – West Germany hosts the UEFA Euro 1988 football tournament, which is won by the Netherlands.source
  • 1989January 1 – The New York Times discloses involvement of West German company Imhausen and Salzgitter AG in building a chemical weapon plant in Rabta, Libya.source
  • 1990May 18 – German reunification: East Germany and West Germany sign a treaty to merge their economic and social systems, effective July 1.source
  • 1990July 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.source

21st century

  • 2009September 4 - Kenya set a new world record in the 4 x 1500 metres relay, 14:36.23 minutes at the Memorial Van Damme meeting in Brussels. Members of the team were Augustine Choge, William Biwott Tanui, Gideon Gathimba and Geoffrey Rono. The previous record in this rarely competed event was set by West Germany in 1977, making it the oldest world record when it was broken.source

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