Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-86.9) - 4.1 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-75.0) - 9.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-72.8) - 11.9 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-72.7) - 2.7 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-63.5) - 19.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-58.1) - 22.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-56.3) - 27.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-56.1) - 17.4 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-49.5) - 4.2 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-44.9) - 45.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-43.8) - 47.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-40.6) - 35.5 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-38.2) - 35.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-35.8) - 44.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-30.5) - 25.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-29.0) - 49.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-17.9) - 47.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | (-6.6) - 1.3 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-2.4) - 44.1 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-2.3) - 3.6 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-0.7) - 5.3 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 1.3 - 3.7 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 2.1 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 3.0 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 3.7 - 9.3 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 3.8 - 4.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 3.8 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 5.5 - 14.7 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 8.6 - 47.9 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 8.6 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 9.2 - 48.4 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 9.3 - 13.3 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 10.0 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 10.2 - 11.5 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 10.4 - 12.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 10.7 - 92.8 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 11.4 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 11.6 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 12.1 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 12.6 - 13.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 13.1 - 13.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 13.2 - 25.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 13.3 - 13.4 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 13.3 - 25.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 15.6 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 17.1 - 32.3 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 17.5 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 17.6 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 19.8 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 19.8 - 25.8 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 20.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 22.1 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 25.4 - 33.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 25.5 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 25.5 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 25.7 - 25.8 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 26.9 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 27.9 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 29.1 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 29.5 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 29.6 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 29.9 - 44.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 29.9 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 29.9 - 40.8 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 30.6 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 30.6 - 33.7 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 32.2 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 32.3 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 33.2 - 41.2 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 33.6 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 35.3 - 92.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 37.9 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 38.9 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 39.7 - 55.5 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 40.7 - 53.7 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 41.2 - 44.1 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 41.4 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 41.6 - 55.7 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 41.8 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 42.9 - 46.1 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 43.0 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 44.0 - 47.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 44.1 - 49.2 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 46.7 - 53.7 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 47.1 - 50.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 47.7 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 49.2 - 54.8 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 49.7 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 50.0 - 54.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 50.0 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 52.7 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 53.7 - 56.7 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 54.5 - 62.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 54.8 - 57.2 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 56.1 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 56.4 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 56.7 - 69.7 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 57.2 - 61.2 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 57.5 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 60.2 - 69.3 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 60.9 - 68.8 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 61.2 - 69.2 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 62.4 - 62.6 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 62.9 - 79.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 63.2 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 63.7 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 64.2 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 69.2 - 73.2 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 70.0 - 70.1 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 70.8 - 71.3 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 70.9 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 72.1 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 72.7 - 76.7 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 73.2 - 81.2 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 73.8 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 74.0 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
1994 - 1996 | 74.7 - 76.7 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 75.2 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |