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![Arnold Sommerfeld](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Sommerfeld1897.gif/100px-Sommerfeld1897.gif)
- 1787 - Birth of poet Ludwig Uhland
- 1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected Reichspräsident
- 1933 - Establishment of the Gestapo as secret police of Nazi Germany
- 1951 - Death of physicist Arnold Sommerfeld (pictured)
- 2002 - 17 people die in the Erfurt spree killing