Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-86.6) - 4.4 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-74.6) - 9.7 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-72.4) - 12.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-72.4) - 3.0 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-63.2) - 20.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-57.8) - 22.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-56.0) - 27.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-55.7) - 17.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-49.2) - 4.5 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-44.6) - 45.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-43.5) - 47.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-40.3) - 35.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-37.9) - 35.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-35.5) - 44.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-30.2) - 25.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-28.7) - 49.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-17.6) - 47.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | (-6.3) - 1.6 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-2.1) - 44.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-2.0) - 4.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-0.4) - 5.6 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | (-0.2) - 0.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 0.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 0.1 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 1.6 - 4.0 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 2.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 3.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 4.0 - 9.6 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 4.1 - 4.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 4.2 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 5.8 - 15.1 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 8.9 - 48.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 9.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 9.5 - 48.7 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 9.6 - 13.6 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 10.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 10.5 - 11.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 10.7 - 12.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 11.1 - 93.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 11.7 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 12.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 12.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 12.9 - 13.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 13.4 - 13.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 13.5 - 25.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 13.6 - 13.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 13.6 - 25.8 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 16.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 17.4 - 32.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 17.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 18.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 20.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 20.1 - 26.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 20.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 22.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 25.8 - 33.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 25.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 25.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 26.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 27.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 28.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 29.4 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 29.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 30.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 30.2 - 44.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 30.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 30.3 - 41.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 30.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 31.0 - 34.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 32.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 32.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 33.5 - 41.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 33.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 35.6 - 92.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 38.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 39.2 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 40.0 - 55.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 41.0 - 54.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 41.5 - 44.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 41.8 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 41.9 - 56.1 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 42.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 43.3 - 46.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 43.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 44.3 - 47.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 44.4 - 49.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 47.0 - 54.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 47.4 - 50.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 48.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |