| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-79.6) - 4.7 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-77.4) - 7.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-68.2) - 15.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-62.8) - 17.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-61.0) - 22.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-60.7) - 12.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-49.6) - 40.5 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-48.5) - 42.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-45.3) - 30.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-42.9) - 30.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-40.5) - 39.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-35.2) - 20.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-33.7) - 44.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-22.6) - 42.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-7.1) - 39.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-5.4) - 0.6 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | (-0.9) - 4.6 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 0.8 - 10.0 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 3.9 - 43.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 4.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 4.5 - 43.7 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 4.6 - 8.6 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 5.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 5.5 - 6.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 5.7 - 7.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 6.1 - 88.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 6.7 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 7.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 7.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 7.9 - 8.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 8.4 - 8.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 8.5 - 20.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 8.6 - 8.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 8.6 - 20.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 11.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 12.4 - 27.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 12.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 13.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 15.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 15.1 - 21.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 15.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 17.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 20.7 - 28.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 20.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 20.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 21.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 22.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 23.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 24.4 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 24.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 25.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 25.2 - 39.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 25.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 25.2 - 36.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 25.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 26.0 - 29.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 27.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 27.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 28.5 - 36.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 28.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 30.6 - 87.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 33.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 34.2 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 35.0 - 50.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 36.0 - 49.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 36.5 - 39.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 36.8 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 36.9 - 51.0 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 37.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 38.3 - 41.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 38.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 39.3 - 42.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 39.4 - 44.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 42.0 - 49.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 42.4 - 45.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 43.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 44.5 - 50.1 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 45.0 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 45.3 - 49.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 45.3 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 48.0 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 49.0 - 52.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 49.9 - 58.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 50.1 - 52.5 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 51.4 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 | 51.7 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 | 52.0 - 65.0 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 52.5 - 56.5 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 | 52.8 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 55.5 - 64.6 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 56.2 - 64.1 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 56.5 - 64.6 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 57.7 - 57.9 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 58.2 - 74.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 | 58.5 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 | 59.0 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 | 59.6 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
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