| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-76.6) - 6.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-71.2) - 9.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-69.3) - 14.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-69.1) - 4.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-58.0) - 32.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-56.9) - 34.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-53.7) - 22.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-51.3) - 22.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-48.8) - 31.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-43.6) - 12.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-42.1) - 36.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-31.0) - 34.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-15.5) - 31.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-7.5) - 1.7 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-4.4) - 34.9 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-3.8) - 35.4 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | (-3.7) - 0.3 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | (-2.3) - 79.8 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | (-0.4) - 0.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 0.0 - 0.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 0.2 - 12.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 0.2 - 0.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 0.3 - 12.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 2.6 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 4.0 - 19.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 4.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 4.6 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 6.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 6.8 - 12.8 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 7.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 9.0 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 12.4 - 20.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 12.4 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 12.4 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 12.7 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 13.9 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 14.9 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 16.1 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 16.5 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 16.6 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 16.8 - 30.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 16.9 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 16.9 - 27.8 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 17.6 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 17.6 - 20.6 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 19.2 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 19.2 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 20.2 - 28.2 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 20.6 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 22.2 - 78.9 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 24.9 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 25.9 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 26.6 - 42.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 27.6 - 40.6 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 28.2 - 31.0 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 28.4 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 28.5 - 42.7 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 28.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 29.9 - 33.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 29.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 30.9 - 34.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 31.0 - 36.2 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 33.6 - 40.6 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 34.0 - 36.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 34.6 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 36.2 - 41.7 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 36.7 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 36.9 - 41.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 36.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 39.7 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 40.6 - 43.6 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 41.5 - 49.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 41.7 - 44.2 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 43.0 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 | 43.4 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 | 43.6 - 56.6 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 44.2 - 48.2 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 | 44.4 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 47.1 - 56.2 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 47.8 - 55.8 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 48.2 - 56.2 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 49.4 - 49.6 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 49.9 - 66.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 | 50.2 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 | 50.6 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 | 51.2 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 56.2 - 60.2 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 56.9 - 57.0 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 57.7 - 58.3 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 3, 1990 | 57.9 | German reunification | Germany |
| Dec 8, 1991 | 59.1 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 | 59.6 - 63.6 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 60.2 - 68.2 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 4, 1993 | 60.7 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 1, 1993 | 61.0 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 | 61.6 - 63.6 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 17, 1995 | 62.2 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |
| 1998 - 1999 | 65.6 - 66.6 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 2003 | 65.6 - 70.6 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 15, 1998 | 65.7 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 66.0 - 73.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 1, 1999 | 66.1 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | European Union |
| Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 68.2 - 76.2 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
| Sep 11, 2001 | 68.8 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
| Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 68.9 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 23, 2001 | 68.9 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 1, 2002 | 69.1 | Introduction of the Euro | European Union |
| Mar 20, 2003 - May 1, 2003 | 70.3 - 70.5 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Dec 26, 2004 | 72.1 | Indian Ocean tsunami | Disasters |
| Jun 6, 2005 | 72.6 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 73.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 9, 2007 | 74.2 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 20, 2017 | 76.2 - 84.2 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |
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