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Liverpool is selected as the host city of next year's Eurovision Song Contest.
2022-10-7

It is announced that Russia will participate in the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy despite invading Ukraine.
2022-02-24

Five children who were siblings are found dead in their apartment in Solingen, NRW, Germany. Their elder brother survived. Their mother, who is injured after throwing herself in front of a train in Düsseldorf, is suspected of the killings.
2020-09-3

An assailant injures seven people, one severely, in an axe attack at the central railway station in Düsseldorf, Germany. Police have arrested one suspect.
2017-03-9

Ukraine's Jamala, performing the song "1944", wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden.
2016-05-14

Romania is expelled from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden, after its national broadcaster, Romanian Television (TVR) failed to pay outstanding debts dating back to 2007. Ovidiu Anton was due to perform the song "Moment of Silence" at the contest.
2016-04-22

A Germanwings flight crashes en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, in a mountainous region of the Alps near Digne-les-Bains in Southern France leaving 150 dead. Rescue workers recover the damaged, but still usable, cockpit voice recorder.
2015-03-24

Emmelie de Forest of Denmark wins the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Only Teardrops".
2013-05-18

Azeri duo Eldar & Nigar win the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, with the song "Running Scared".
2011-05-14

Aurela Gaçe wins Albania's national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the entry "Kënga ime".
2010-12-25