William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a public address to returning German volunteers who fought as Legion Kondor during the Spanish Civil War.

Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.