Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-81.8) - 1.9 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-70.5) - 19.7 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-69.4) - 21.9 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-66.2) - 9.9 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-63.8) - 9.8 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-61.3) - 18.6 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-54.6) - 23.9 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-43.5) - 21.6 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-28.0) - 18.5 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-16.9) - 22.4 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-16.3) - 22.9 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | (-14.8) - 67.3 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | (-8.4) - 6.7 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | (-5.7) - 0.3 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | (-0.1) - 7.7 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
May 8, 1945 | | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 0.2 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 1.4 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 2.4 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 3.6 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 4.0 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 4.1 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 4.3 - 18.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 4.4 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 4.4 - 15.3 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 5.1 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 5.1 - 8.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 6.7 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 6.7 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 7.7 - 15.7 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 8.1 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 9.8 - 66.4 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 12.4 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 13.4 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 14.1 - 29.9 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 15.1 - 28.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 15.7 - 18.5 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 15.9 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 16.0 - 30.2 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 16.2 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 17.4 - 20.6 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 17.4 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 18.4 - 21.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 18.5 - 23.7 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 21.1 - 28.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 21.5 - 24.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 22.1 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 23.7 - 29.2 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 24.2 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 24.4 - 29.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 24.4 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 27.2 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 28.1 - 31.1 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 29.0 - 37.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 29.2 - 31.7 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 30.5 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 30.9 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 31.1 - 44.1 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 31.7 - 35.7 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 31.9 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 34.6 - 43.8 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 35.4 - 43.3 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 35.7 - 43.7 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 36.9 - 37.1 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 37.4 - 53.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 37.7 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 38.1 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 38.7 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |