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Events relating to germany
Konrad Adenauer resigns after 14 years as Chancellor of West Germany and is succeeded by his economics minister, Ludwig Erhard
Footballer Franz Beckenbauer plays his first international for West Germany
German performance artist Joseph Beuys walks round a gallery demonstrating How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
The Ibo of eastern Nigeria claim independence for their region – as the republic of Biafra
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes
Willy Brandt, leader of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), becomes chancellor of Germany
The breakaway province of Biafra surrenders after three years of devastating civil war in Nigeria
With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany
Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago
Willy Brandt resigns and is succeeded by Helmut Schmidt, as leader of the SDP and chancellor of Germany
Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup
German author Botho Strauss's play Three Acts of Recognition wins him an international audience
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, the first of a seven-part opera cycle, is performed in Milan
CDU leader Helmut Kohl follows Helmut Schmidt as chancellor of Germany
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart
Luciano Berio's opera Un re in ascolto has its premiere in Salzburg
US choreographer William Forsythe becomes director of the Frankfurt Ballet
17-year-old German tennis-player Boris Becker becomes the youngest ever to win the men's singles at Wimbledon
18-year-old German tennis player Steffi Graf deposes Martina Navratilova as world no. 1
US architect Daniel Libeskind designs the City Edge project in Berlin, building it up from startlingly fragmented forms
Erich Honecker, leader of East Germany since 1971, is forced to resign after massive popular demonstrations
Citizens of East Berlin demolish the Berlin Wall, in what proves a symbolic end to the Cold War
East and West Germany are united in a new Federal Republic of Germany
German racing driver Michael Schumacher wins his first world championship title in Formula One
