Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/August/August 1

Olympic stadium in Berlin, 1936

• 1914 – World War I: The German Empire declares war on Russia
• 1936 – The Summer Olympics open in Berlin
• 1970 – Death of physician Otto Heinrich Warburg, recipient of the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine
• 1990 – Death of sociologist Norbert Elias
• 2001 – The Lebenspartnerschaftsgesetz allows civil unions in Germany