Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-68.7) - 22.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-63.2) - 15.5 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-57.8) - 8.7 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-56.8) - 27.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-54.6) - 30.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-54.5) - 20.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-45.3) - 38.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-40.0) - 40.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-38.1) - 45.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-37.9) - 35.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-31.4) - 22.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-26.8) - 63.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-25.7) - 65.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-22.5) - 53.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-20.1) - 53.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-17.6) - 62.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-13.2) - 17.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-12.4) - 43.6 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-10.9) - 67.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | (-4.5) - 0.0 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | (-1.9) - 0.7 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 0.0 - 7.5 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 0.1 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 0.2 - 65.3 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 1.7 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 2.2 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 2.8 - 6.8 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 4.6 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 5.8 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 7.0 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 7.0 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 7.5 - 11.5 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 7.8 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 9.7 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 9.7 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 10.1 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 11.5 - 19.5 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 12.8 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 12.8 - 17.2 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 12.9 - 17.2 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 13.0 - 13.8 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 13.1 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 14.6 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 14.8 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 15.5 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 15.7 - 62.2 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 15.8 - 21.8 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 16.2 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 17.2 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 17.4 - 23.5 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 17.4 - 17.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 17.6 - 17.9 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 17.8 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 17.9 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 18.0 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 19.5 - 21.9 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 20.2 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 21.1 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 21.9 - 27.5 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 21.9 - 22.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 22.0 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 23.7 - 32.9 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 26.8 - 66.1 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 26.8 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 27.4 - 66.6 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 27.5 - 31.5 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 28.1 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 28.4 - 29.6 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 28.6 - 30.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 28.9 - 111.0 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 29.6 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 29.8 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 30.3 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 30.7 - 31.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 31.2 - 31.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 31.4 - 43.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 31.5 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 31.5 - 43.6 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 33.8 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 35.3 - 50.4 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 35.7 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 35.8 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 38.0 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 38.0 - 44.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 38.7 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 40.3 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 43.6 - 51.4 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 43.6 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 43.7 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 43.9 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 45.1 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 46.1 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |