| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-77.5) - 5.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-72.1) - 8.4 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-70.2) - 13.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-70.0) - 3.4 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-58.9) - 31.3 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-57.8) - 33.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-54.6) - 21.5 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-52.2) - 21.4 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-49.8) - 30.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-44.5) - 11.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-43.0) - 35.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-31.9) - 33.2 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-16.4) - 30.1 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-8.4) - 0.8 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-5.3) - 34.0 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-4.7) - 34.5 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | (-3.2) - 78.9 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-0.7) - 11.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | (-0.6) - 11.5 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 1.7 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 3.1 - 18.3 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 3.5 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 3.7 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 5.8 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 5.8 - 11.9 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 6.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 8.1 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 11.5 - 19.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 11.5 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 11.5 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 11.8 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 13.0 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 14.0 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 15.2 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 15.6 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 15.7 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 15.9 - 30.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 16.0 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 16.0 - 26.9 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 16.6 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 16.7 - 19.7 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 18.2 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 18.3 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 19.2 - 27.2 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 19.6 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 21.3 - 78.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 23.9 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 25.0 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 25.7 - 41.5 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 26.7 - 39.7 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 27.2 - 30.1 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 27.5 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 27.6 - 41.8 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 27.8 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 29.0 - 32.1 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 29.0 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 30.0 - 33.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 30.1 - 35.3 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 32.7 - 39.7 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 33.1 - 36.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 33.7 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 35.3 - 40.8 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 35.7 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 36.0 - 40.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 36.0 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 38.8 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 39.7 - 42.7 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 40.6 - 49.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 40.8 - 43.3 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 42.1 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 | 42.5 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 | 42.7 - 55.7 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 43.3 - 47.3 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 | 43.5 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 46.2 - 55.3 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 46.9 - 54.8 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 47.3 - 55.3 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 48.5 - 48.7 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 49.0 - 65.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 | 49.3 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 | 49.7 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 | 50.3 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
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