A brief glimpse into the past

Team, Place & City Details

1978 California Proposition 13
1978 California Proposition 13

Proposition 13 is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process. The initiative was approved by California voters on June 6, 1978.

Nördlingen
Nördlingen

Nördlingen is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 19,190. It was built in a 15 million year old & 25 km diameter wide impact crater - the Nördlinger Ries - of a meteorite which hit with an estimated speed of 70,000 km/h, and left the area riddled with an estimated 72,000 tons of micro-diamonds.

Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)

The Battle of Nördlingen was fought in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War, on 27 August (Julian calendar) or 6 September (Gregorian calendar). The Roman Catholic Imperial army, bolstered by 15,000 Spanish soldiers, won a crushing victory over the combined Protestant armies of Sweden and their German-Protestant allies (Heilbronn Alliance).

Nördlinger Ries
Nördlinger Ries

The Nördlinger Ries is an impact crater, large circular depression in western Bavaria, Germany, located north of the Danube in the district of Donau-Ries. The city of Nördlingen is located inside the depression, about 6 kilometers southwest of its centre.

Nördlingen–Gunzenhausen railway
Nördlingen–Gunzenhausen railway

The Nördlingen-Gunzenhausen railway is located in northern Swabia and western Middle Franconia. The 40 km route is now a heritage railway, operated with a passenger train that is known as the Lakeland Express after the Franconian Lake District (Fränkischen Seenland).

Nördlingen station
Nördlingen station

Nördlingen railway station is a Deutsche Bahn railway station in Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany.

Nördlinger Hut
Nördlinger Hut

The Nördlinger Hut is an Alpine Club hut belonging to the German Alpine Club that is situated at a height of 2,239 m (AA) south of the summit of the Reither Spitze in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is thus the highest refuge hut in the entire Karwendel range.

Nordlinger

Nordlinger is a surname.

Dachau
Dachau

Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria, a state in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north-west of Munich.

Dachau concentration camp
Dachau concentration camp

Dachau concentration camp Dachau, IPA: [ˈdaxaʊ]) was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in 1933, which was initially intended to hold political prisoners. It is located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.

Dachau liberation reprisals
Dachau liberation reprisals

During the Dachau liberation reprisals, German prisoners of war were killed by U.S. soldiers and concentration camp internees at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS members were killed in the incident but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50. In the days before the camp's liberation, SS guards at the camp had forced 7,000 inmates on a death march that resulted in the death of many from exposure and shooting.

Dachau trials
Dachau trials

The Dachau trials were held for all war criminals caught in the United States zones in occupied Germany and Austria, as well as for those individuals accused of committing war crimes against American citizens and its military personnel. The trials, which were held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, were conducted entirely by American military personnel whose legal authority had been conferred by the Judge Advocate General's Department within the U.S. Third Army.

Dachau (district)

Dachau is a Landkreis in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Fürstenfeldbruck, Aichach-Friedberg, Pfaffenhofen, Freising and Munich, and by the city of Munich.