Munich, the capital of Bavaria, Germany, boasts a population of 1,604,384 as of November 2024, securing its position as Germany's third most populous city after Berlin and Hamburg. Notably, it is the largest German city that isn't its own state and ranks as the 11th largest city within the European Union. Munich's metropolitan area, encompassing suburbs and satellite towns, houses 3 million residents, while its broader metropolitan region, home to approximately 6.2 million people, claims the third highest GDP among all metropolitan regions in the European Union.
The general trend of global warming, with a rise in average temperatures, began around 1900 in Germany.
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Munich, -31.6 °C (-24.9 °F), occurred in February 1929.
Feinkost Käfer, which would become a world-leading catering business, was founded in Munich in 1930.
The Glass Palace, an exhibition building in Munich, was destroyed in an arson attack in 1931.
Construction began in September 1933 on the Führerbau and the Brown House (Nazi Party headquarters) in Munich.
Nazi publications detailing the "Red Terror" were released in 1934, including Rudolf Schricker's "Rotmord über München".
The Munich Agreement, which ceded Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland to Germany, was signed in Munich in 1938.
Munich-Riem Airport was completed in October 1939.
Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a bomb at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich in November 1939.
By mid-1942, the majority of Jews in Munich and its suburbs had been deported.
In 1943, members of the White Rose student resistance movement in Munich stenciled anti-Nazi slogans on buildings.
US troops liberated Munich on April 30, 1945, after the city suffered heavy bombing damage during World War II.
Munich housed numerous forced labor camps, including subcamps of Dachau, with up to 17,000 prisoners in 1945.
Munich operated over a thousand refugee camps for displaced people in October 1946, following World War II.
Bayerischer Rundfunk started its first television broadcast in Munich in 1954.
Munich's population exceeded one million in 1957.
The first Munich Security Conference was held in 1963.
Munich was awarded the 1972 Summer Olympics in 1966.
Construction began on a new U-Bahn line to connect Munich with the Olympic Park in May 1967.
Funds were released to restore the facade and Glockenspiel of the New City Hall in 1970.
The U-Bahn line to the Olympic Park was completed in May 1972.
The Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The highest temperature ever recorded in Munich, 37.5 °C (100 °F), occurred in July 1983.
Munich Airport, named after Bavarian politician Franz Josef Strauss, opened in 1992.
The ecological restoration of the Isar River in Munich received the Water Development Prize in 2007.
On the fifth anniversary of the 2011 Norway attacks, a hate crime shooting occurred in Munich.
In November 2016, Munich's city council initiated a study on the local impacts of climate change.
The 2016 Munich shooting targeted people of Turkish and Arab descent.
The trend of global warming continued through 2020, with a rise in average temperatures.
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