Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-82.2) - 8.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-76.7) - 2.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-70.3) - 14.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-68.0) - 16.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-68.0) - 7.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-58.8) - 24.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-53.4) - 27.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-51.6) - 32.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-51.4) - 22.1 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-44.8) - 8.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-40.2) - 49.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-39.1) - 52.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-35.9) - 40.2 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-33.5) - 40.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-31.1) - 48.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-26.7) - 3.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-25.8) - 30.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-24.3) - 54.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-13.2) - 51.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | (-1.9) - 6.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | (-0.6) - 3.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | (-0.5) - 3.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | (-0.4) - 0.4 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 1.1 - 1.2 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 1.3 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 2.0 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 2.2 - 48.8 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 2.3 - 8.3 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 2.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 3.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 3.9 - 10.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 4.0 - 4.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 4.2 - 4.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 4.3 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 4.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 4.5 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 6.0 - 8.4 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 6.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 7.7 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 8.4 - 14.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 8.5 - 8.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 8.5 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 10.2 - 19.4 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 13.3 - 52.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 13.3 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 13.9 - 53.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 14.0 - 18.0 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 14.7 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 14.9 - 16.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 15.1 - 17.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 15.4 - 97.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 16.1 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 16.3 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 16.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 17.3 - 17.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 17.8 - 17.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 17.9 - 30.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 18.0 - 18.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 18.0 - 30.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 20.3 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 21.8 - 37.0 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 22.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 22.3 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 24.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 24.5 - 30.5 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 25.2 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 26.8 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 30.1 - 37.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 30.2 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 30.2 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 30.4 - 30.5 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 31.6 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 32.6 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 33.8 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 34.2 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 34.3 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 34.6 - 48.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 34.6 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 34.6 - 45.5 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 35.3 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 35.3 - 38.4 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 36.9 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 37.0 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 37.9 - 45.9 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 38.3 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 40.0 - 96.7 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 42.6 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 43.6 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 44.4 - 60.2 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 45.4 - 58.4 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 45.9 - 48.8 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 46.1 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 46.3 - 60.4 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 46.5 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 47.6 - 50.8 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 47.7 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 48.7 - 51.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 48.8 - 53.9 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 51.4 - 58.4 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 51.8 - 54.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 52.4 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 53.9 - 59.5 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 54.4 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 54.7 - 59.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 54.7 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 57.4 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 58.4 - 61.4 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 59.2 - 67.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 59.5 - 61.9 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 60.8 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 61.1 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 61.4 - 74.4 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 61.9 - 65.9 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 62.2 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 64.9 - 74.0 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 65.6 - 73.5 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 65.9 - 73.9 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 67.1 - 67.3 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 67.6 - 83.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 67.9 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 68.4 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 68.9 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |