| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-74.6) - 16.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-69.0) - 9.6 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-63.6) - 2.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-62.6) - 21.7 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-60.4) - 24.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-60.4) - 15.0 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-51.2) - 32.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-45.8) - 34.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-43.9) - 39.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-43.7) - 29.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-37.2) - 16.5 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-32.6) - 57.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-31.5) - 59.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-28.3) - 47.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-25.9) - 47.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-23.5) - 56.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-19.0) - 11.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-18.2) - 37.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-16.7) - 61.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-5.8) - 1.6 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-5.6) - 59.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 | (-3.0) - 1.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1907 | | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 1.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 1.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 1.6 - 5.6 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 1909 | 2.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 | 3.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 3.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 4.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 5.6 - 13.6 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 6.9 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 7.0 - 11.3 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 7.1 - 11.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 7.2 - 8.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 7.2 - 7.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 8.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1916 | 9.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 9.6 - 9.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 9.9 - 56.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 | 10.0 - 16.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 10.3 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 11.3 | German Revolution | Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 11.6 - 17.6 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 11.6 - 11.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 11.8 - 12.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 | 12.0 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 12.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 12.2 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 13.6 - 16.1 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 14.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 15.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 16.1 - 21.6 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 16.1 - 16.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 16.2 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 17.8 - 27.1 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 20.9 - 60.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 21.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 21.5 - 60.8 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 21.6 - 25.6 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 22.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 22.5 - 23.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 22.7 - 24.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 23.1 - 105.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 23.8 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 24.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 24.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 24.9 - 25.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 25.4 - 25.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 25.6 - 37.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 25.6 - 25.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 25.6 - 37.8 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 28.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 29.4 - 44.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 29.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 30.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 32.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 32.1 - 38.2 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 32.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 34.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 37.8 - 45.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 37.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 37.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 38.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 39.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 40.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 41.5 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 41.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 42.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 42.2 - 56.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 42.3 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 42.3 - 53.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 42.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 43.0 - 46.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 44.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 44.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 45.5 - 53.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 45.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 47.6 - 104.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 50.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 51.3 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 52.0 - 67.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 53.0 - 66.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 53.5 - 56.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 53.8 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 53.9 - 68.1 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 54.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 55.3 - 58.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 55.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 56.3 - 59.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 56.4 - 61.6 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 59.0 - 66.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 59.4 - 62.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 60.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 61.6 - 67.1 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 62.0 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 62.3 - 66.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 62.3 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 65.1 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 66.0 - 69.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 66.9 - 75.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 67.1 - 69.6 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 68.4 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 | 68.8 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 | 69.0 - 82.0 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 69.6 - 73.6 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 | 69.8 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 72.5 - 81.6 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 73.2 - 81.1 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 73.6 - 81.6 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 74.8 - 75.0 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 75.3 - 91.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 | 75.6 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 | 76.0 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 | 76.6 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 81.6 - 85.6 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 82.3 - 82.4 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 83.1 - 83.7 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 3, 1990 | 83.3 | German reunification | Germany |
| Dec 8, 1991 | 84.4 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 | 85.0 - 89.0 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 85.6 - 93.6 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 4, 1993 | 86.1 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 1, 1993 | 86.4 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 | 87.0 - 89.0 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 17, 1995 | 87.6 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |
| 1998 - 1999 | 91.0 - 92.0 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 2003 | 91.0 - 96.0 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
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