| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-76.4) - 7.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-71.0) - 9.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-69.1) - 14.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-68.9) - 4.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-57.8) - 32.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-56.7) - 34.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-53.5) - 22.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-51.1) - 22.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-48.6) - 31.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-43.4) - 12.6 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-41.9) - 36.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-30.7) - 34.3 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-15.3) - 31.2 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-7.3) - 1.9 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-4.2) - 35.1 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-3.6) - 35.6 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | (-3.5) - 0.5 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | (-2.1) - 80.0 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | (-0.2) - 0.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 0.2 - 0.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 0.4 - 12.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 0.5 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 0.5 - 12.6 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 2.8 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 4.2 - 19.4 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 4.6 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 4.8 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 7.0 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 7.0 - 13.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 7.7 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 9.2 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 12.6 - 20.4 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 12.6 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 12.7 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 12.9 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 14.1 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 15.1 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 16.3 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 16.7 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 16.8 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 17.0 - 31.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 17.1 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 17.1 - 28.0 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 17.8 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 17.8 - 20.8 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 19.4 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 19.4 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 20.4 - 28.4 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 20.8 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 22.5 - 79.1 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 25.1 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 26.1 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 26.8 - 42.7 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 27.8 - 40.8 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 28.4 - 31.2 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 28.6 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 28.7 - 42.9 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 28.9 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 30.1 - 33.3 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 30.1 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 31.1 - 34.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 31.2 - 36.4 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 33.8 - 40.8 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 34.2 - 37.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 34.8 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 36.4 - 41.9 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 36.9 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 37.1 - 41.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 37.2 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 39.9 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 40.8 - 43.8 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 41.7 - 50.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 41.9 - 44.4 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 43.2 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
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