| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-83.4) - 1.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-74.2) - 9.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-68.8) - 11.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-67.0) - 16.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-66.7) - 6.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-55.6) - 34.5 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-54.5) - 36.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-51.3) - 24.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-48.9) - 24.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-46.5) - 33.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-41.2) - 14.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-39.7) - 38.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-28.6) - 36.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-13.1) - 33.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-5.1) - 4.0 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-2.0) - 37.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-1.5) - 37.7 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | (-1.3) - 2.6 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | (-0.4) - 0.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | (-0.3) - 1.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 0.0 - 82.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 0.7 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 1.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 1.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 1.9 - 2.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 2.4 - 2.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 2.5 - 14.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 2.6 - 2.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 2.6 - 14.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 5.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 6.4 - 21.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 6.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 7.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 9.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 9.1 - 15.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 9.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 11.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 14.7 - 22.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 14.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 14.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 15.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 16.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 17.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 18.4 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 18.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 19.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 19.2 - 33.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 19.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 19.2 - 30.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 19.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 20.0 - 23.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 21.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 21.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 22.5 - 30.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 22.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 24.6 - 81.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 27.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 28.2 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 29.0 - 44.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 30.0 - 43.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 30.5 - 33.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 30.8 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 30.9 - 45.0 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 31.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 32.3 - 35.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 32.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 33.3 - 36.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 33.4 - 38.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 36.0 - 43.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 36.4 - 39.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 37.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
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