* 1993 – Monica Seles is stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany

He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

Andreas Schlüter was born in Hamburg His early life is obscure as at least three different persons of that name are documented.

This is the first reference to " the Baltic or Barbarian Sea, a day's journey from Hamburg.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

* Fritz-kola is a cola soft drink from Hamburg, Germany.

The 21st and current Commissioner is Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg.

The largest port is that of Hamburg.

The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks # 2 in Europe, # 7 worldwide ( 2004 ), in total container traffic.

Franzbrötchen, which originated in the area of Hamburg, is the small, sweet pastry roll baked with butter and cinnamon.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

The city is home to over 1. 8 million people, while the Hamburg Metropolitan Region ( including parts of the neighbouring Federal States of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) has more than 5 million inhabitants.

Situated on the river Elbe, the port of Hamburg is the second largest port in Europe ( after the port of Rotterdam ) and eleventh largest worldwide.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

The city is a major tourist destination for both domestic and overseas visitors ; Hamburg ranked 16th in the world for livability in 2011, and, in 2010, the city ranked 10th in the world.

Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south and Scandinavia to its north.

The North Sea is west and the Baltic Sea is northeast of Hamburg.

Hamburg is located on the River Elbe at its confluence with the Alster and Bille.

It was thought, however, that locating the capital in a major city like Frankfurt or Hamburg would imply a permanent capital.

Other major airports are Berlin Tegel, Berlin Schönefeld, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne-Bonn, Leipzig / Halle.

Unlike the situation in France, the goal was support of industrialisation, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Ruhr and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Hamburg and Bremen.

Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.

Unlike the situation in France, the goal was support of industrialisation, and so heavy lines crisscrossed the Ruhr and other industrial districts, and provided good connections to the major ports of Hamburg and Bremen.

The Cross Canal, or Hamburg Ditch, three miles ( 5 km ) south of the Virginia line, was Gates County's water route to the major port of Norfolk.

This situation changed with the Orgeltagung ( Organ Meeting ) in Hamburg organised by Hans Henny Jahnn in 1925, which was a major stimulus for the Orgelbewegung ( Organ reform movement ), and the renewal of the front pipes of the Schnitger organ in the St. Jacobi Church by Karl Kemper from 1928 – 1930.

It was also during this time that German immigrants, who had been settling in town during most of the century, became the predominant population group in the city, at least partially due to its being a major destination port of the Hamburg America Line, though anti-German sentiment during World War I led to a rapid decline in the German community.

Being approximately 15 miles from both towns, Hamburg began to grow rapidly due to the close proximity of a major roadway.

Eliot first envisioned today's river design in the 1890s, an important model being the layout of the Alster basin in Hamburg, but major construction began only after Eliot's death with the damming of the river's mouth at today's Boston Museum of Science, an effort led by James Jackson Storrow.

Some recent schools including Cosmobiology or Uranian astrology ( Hamburg School of Astrology ) consider the semisquare and sesquiquadrate to be relatively " major " aspects while the traditional sextile ( 60 °) and trine ( 120 °) are thought to be relatively " minor " in influence.

Mahler made some major revisions for the second performance, given at Hamburg in October 1893 ; further alterations were made in the years prior to the first publication, in late 1898.

The Homeisters, along with Heinrich Kühn, later formed The Presidium ( Das Praesidium ), whose members were instrumental in major exhibitions at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg.

His election as mayor made Berlin one of three major European cities with an openly gay mayor, along with Paris, whose mayor is Bertrand Delanoë, and Hamburg, whose mayor was Ole von Beust at that time, who both also took office in 2001.

Hamburg lies at the junction of several major trucking roads, such as Lakeview Road, Boston State Road ( Route 391 ), Sisson Highway ( Route 75 ), South Park Avenue / Buffalo Street ( U. S. Route 62 ), which becomes Gowanda State Road south of the village, and McKinley Parkway.

The city, then among the major places in Germany and of the size of Cologne or Hamburg, never recovered from this disaster.

The major population centres were Waterloo, Kitchener ( known as Berlin prior to 1916 ), Preston, Hespeler, Blair, and Doon in Waterloo township ; Galt in North Dumfries ; Elmira in Woolwich ; and New Hamburg in Wilmot.

Because of the severe restrictions on the number of Jews allowed to live in Hamburg ( with the exception of the period of 1811 – 15 ,) until 1864, a major Jewish community developed in Altona.

* March 1 – Since January 14, Royal Air Force Bomber Command has launched major raids on Wilhelmshaven four times, Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg three times each, and Bremen, Düsseldorf, and Nuremberg once each, as well as on Milan and Turin.

* May 6 – 7 ( overnight ) through 11-12 ( overnight ) – Royal Air Force Bomber Command mounts four major raids on Hamburg, Germany, over the course of six nights, averaging 128 bombers per raid.

Beginning in June 1930, five new V-16s participated in a promotional tour of major European cities including Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Münich, Nüremberg, Vienna ( where they won prizes ), Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich, Madrid, San Sebastian, La Baule and Angers.

In the early spring the water level has risen to nearly 1000 cm2 / s, this causes major flooding in the flat regions upstream such as in and around New Hamburg.

* Führerstadt-title bestowed on five different German and Austrian cities ( Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Linz, and Nuremberg ) which were to undergo major architectural reconstruction.