Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-85.1) - 6.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-73.1) - 11.2 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-70.9) - 13.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-70.9) - 4.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-61.7) - 21.7 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-56.3) - 24.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-54.4) - 29.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-54.2) - 19.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-47.7) - 6.0 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-43.1) - 47.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-42.0) - 49.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-38.8) - 37.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-36.4) - 37.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-33.9) - 46.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-29.5) - 0.8 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-28.7) - 27.3 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-27.2) - 51.2 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-16.1) - 49.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | (-4.8) - 3.1 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | (-3.5) - 0.8 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | (-3.4) - 0.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-0.6) - 45.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-0.5) - 5.5 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 9, 1918 | 0.8 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 1.1 - 7.1 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 1.1 - 1.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 1.3 - 1.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 1.5 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 1.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 1.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 3.1 - 5.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 3.9 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 4.8 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 5.6 - 11.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 5.6 - 5.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 5.7 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 7.3 - 16.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 10.4 - 49.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 10.5 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 11.0 - 50.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 11.2 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 11.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 12.0 - 13.3 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 12.2 - 14.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 12.6 - 94.7 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 13.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 13.5 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 13.9 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 14.4 - 14.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 14.9 - 15.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 15.1 - 27.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 15.1 - 15.2 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 15.2 - 27.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 17.5 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 18.9 - 34.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 19.3 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 19.5 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 21.6 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 21.7 - 27.7 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 22.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 23.9 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 27.3 - 35.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 27.3 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 27.3 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 27.6 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 28.8 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 29.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 31.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 31.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 31.5 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 31.7 - 45.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 31.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 31.8 - 42.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 32.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 32.5 - 35.5 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 34.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 34.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 35.1 - 43.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 35.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 37.1 - 93.8 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 39.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 40.8 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 41.5 - 57.3 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 42.5 - 55.5 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 43.1 - 45.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 43.3 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 43.4 - 57.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 43.6 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 44.8 - 47.9 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 44.8 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 45.8 - 48.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 45.9 - 51.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 48.5 - 55.5 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 48.9 - 51.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 49.5 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 51.1 - 56.6 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 51.6 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 51.8 - 56.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 51.8 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 54.6 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 55.5 - 58.5 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 56.4 - 64.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 56.6 - 59.1 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 57.9 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 58.3 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 58.5 - 71.5 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 59.1 - 63.1 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 59.3 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 62.0 - 71.1 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 62.7 - 70.7 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 63.1 - 71.1 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 64.3 - 64.5 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 64.8 - 80.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |