Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-88.7) - 2.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-76.8) - 7.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-74.6) - 10.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-74.5) - 0.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-65.3) - 18.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-60.0) - 20.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-58.1) - 25.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-57.9) - 15.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-51.4) - 2.4 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-46.8) - 43.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-45.7) - 45.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-42.5) - 33.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-40.1) - 33.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-37.6) - 42.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-32.4) - 23.7 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-30.9) - 47.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-19.7) - 45.3 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-4.2) - 42.2 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-4.1) - 1.8 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-2.5) - 3.5 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | (-0.5) - 1.9 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 0.2 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 1.1 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 1.9 - 7.5 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 1.9 - 2.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 2.0 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 3.7 - 12.9 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 6.8 - 46.1 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 6.8 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 7.4 - 46.6 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 7.5 - 11.5 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 8.1 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 8.4 - 9.6 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 8.6 - 10.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 8.9 - 91.0 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 9.6 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 9.8 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 10.3 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 10.7 - 11.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 11.2 - 11.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 11.4 - 23.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 11.5 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 11.5 - 23.6 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 13.8 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 15.3 - 30.4 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 15.7 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 15.8 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 18.0 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 18.0 - 24.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 18.7 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 20.3 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 23.6 - 31.4 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 23.6 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 23.7 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 23.9 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 25.1 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 26.1 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 27.3 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 27.7 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 27.8 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 28.0 - 42.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 28.1 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 28.1 - 39.0 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 28.8 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 28.8 - 31.8 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 30.4 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 30.4 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 31.4 - 39.4 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 31.8 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 33.5 - 90.1 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 36.1 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 37.1 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 37.8 - 53.7 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 38.8 - 51.8 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 39.4 - 42.2 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 39.6 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 39.7 - 53.9 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 40.0 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 41.1 - 44.3 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 41.1 - 41.2 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 42.1 - 45.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 42.2 - 47.4 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 44.8 - 51.8 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 45.3 - 48.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 45.8 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 47.4 - 53.0 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 47.9 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 48.1 - 52.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 48.2 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 50.9 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 51.8 - 54.8 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 52.7 - 61.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 53.0 - 55.4 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 54.2 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 54.6 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 54.8 - 67.9 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 55.4 - 59.4 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 55.6 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 58.3 - 67.5 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 59.1 - 67.0 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 59.4 - 67.4 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 60.6 - 60.8 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 61.1 - 77.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 61.4 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 61.8 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 62.4 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |