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German soldiers captured at Aachen

• 1881 – Death of mathematician Eduard Heine
• 1944 – As first major German city Aachen is occupied by the Allieds
• 1957 – Birth of physicist Wolfgang Ketterle, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1969 – Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor of Germany by the Bundestag