Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-90.3) - 0.7 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-78.4) - 6.0 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-76.2) - 8.5 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-66.9) - 16.4 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-61.6) - 18.9 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-59.7) - 24.0 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-59.5) - 13.9 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-53.0) - 0.8 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-48.4) - 41.8 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-47.3) - 44.0 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-44.1) - 32.0 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-41.7) - 31.9 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-39.2) - 40.7 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-34.0) - 22.1 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-32.5) - 46.0 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-21.3) - 43.7 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-5.8) - 40.6 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-5.8) - 0.2 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-4.1) - 1.9 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | (-2.1) - 0.3 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 0.3 - 5.9 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 0.3 - 0.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 0.4 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 2.1 - 11.3 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 5.2 - 44.5 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 5.2 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 5.8 - 45.0 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 5.9 - 9.9 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 6.5 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 6.8 - 8.0 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 7.0 - 9.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 7.3 - 89.4 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 8.0 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 8.2 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 8.7 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 9.1 - 9.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 9.6 - 9.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 9.8 - 22.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 9.9 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 9.9 - 22.0 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 12.2 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 13.7 - 28.8 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 14.1 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 14.2 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 16.4 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 16.4 - 22.4 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 17.1 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 18.7 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 22.0 - 29.8 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 22.0 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 22.1 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 22.3 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 23.5 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 24.5 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 25.7 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 26.1 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 26.2 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 26.4 - 40.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 26.5 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 26.5 - 37.4 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 27.2 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 27.2 - 30.2 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 28.8 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 28.8 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 29.8 - 37.8 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 30.2 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 31.9 - 88.5 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 34.5 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 35.5 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 36.2 - 52.1 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 37.2 - 50.2 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 37.8 - 40.6 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 38.0 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 38.1 - 52.3 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 38.3 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 39.5 - 42.7 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 39.5 - 39.6 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 40.5 - 43.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 40.6 - 45.8 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 43.2 - 50.2 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 43.7 - 46.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 44.2 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 45.8 - 51.3 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 46.3 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 46.5 - 51.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 46.6 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 49.3 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 50.2 - 53.2 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 51.1 - 59.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 51.3 - 53.8 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 52.6 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 53.0 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 53.2 - 66.2 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 53.8 - 57.8 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 54.0 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 56.7 - 65.9 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 57.5 - 65.4 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 57.8 - 65.8 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 59.0 - 59.2 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 59.5 - 75.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 59.8 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 60.2 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 60.8 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 65.8 - 69.8 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 66.5 - 66.7 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 67.3 - 67.9 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 67.5 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 68.7 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 69.3 - 73.3 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 69.8 - 77.8 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 70.3 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 70.6 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
1994 - 1996 | 71.3 - 73.3 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 71.8 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 1999 | 75.3 - 76.3 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 | 75.3 - 80.3 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 75.4 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 75.6 - 82.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 75.8 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | European Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 77.8 - 85.8 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 78.5 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 78.5 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 78.6 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 78.8 | Introduction of the Euro | European Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - May 1, 2003 | 80.0 - 80.1 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 81.8 | Indian Ocean tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 82.2 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 82.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 83.8 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Jan 20, 2017 | 85.8 - 93.8 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |
Jan 20, 2017 - Today | 93.8 | President of the United States of America: Donald Trump | USA - Presidents |