| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-75.4) - 15.6 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-69.9) - 8.8 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-64.4) - 2.0 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-63.5) - 20.9 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-61.3) - 23.4 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-61.2) - 14.2 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-52.0) - 31.4 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-46.6) - 33.8 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-44.8) - 38.9 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-44.6) - 28.8 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-38.1) - 15.7 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-33.4) - 56.7 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-32.3) - 58.9 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-29.2) - 46.9 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-26.8) - 46.8 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-24.3) - 55.6 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-19.9) - 10.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-19.0) - 37.0 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-17.6) - 60.9 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-6.6) - 0.8 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-6.4) - 58.6 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 | (-3.8) - 0.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 0.3 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 0.4 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 0.8 - 4.8 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 1909 | 1.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 | 3.0 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 3.0 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 3.4 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 4.8 - 12.8 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 6.1 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 6.1 - 10.5 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 6.2 - 10.5 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 6.3 - 7.1 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 6.4 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 7.9 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1916 | 8.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 8.8 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 9.0 - 55.5 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 | 9.1 - 15.1 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 9.5 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 10.5 | German Revolution | Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 10.7 - 16.8 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 10.7 - 11.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 11.0 - 11.2 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 | 11.1 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 11.2 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 11.3 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 12.8 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 13.6 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 14.4 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 15.2 - 20.8 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 15.2 - 15.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 15.3 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 17.0 - 26.2 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 20.1 - 59.4 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 20.1 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 20.7 - 59.9 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 20.8 - 24.8 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 21.4 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 21.7 - 23.0 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 21.9 - 24.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 22.2 - 104.3 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 22.9 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 23.1 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 23.6 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 24.0 - 24.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 24.6 - 24.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 24.7 - 37.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 24.8 - 24.9 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 24.8 - 36.9 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 27.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 28.6 - 43.7 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 29.0 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 29.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 31.3 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 31.3 - 37.3 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 32.0 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 33.6 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 36.9 - 44.7 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 36.9 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 37.0 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 37.2 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 38.4 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 39.4 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 40.6 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 41.0 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 41.1 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 41.3 - 55.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 41.4 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 41.4 - 52.3 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 42.1 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 42.1 - 45.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 43.7 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 43.7 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 44.7 - 52.7 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 45.1 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 46.8 - 103.4 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 49.4 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 50.4 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 51.1 - 67.0 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 52.1 - 65.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 52.7 - 55.5 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 52.9 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 53.0 - 67.2 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 53.3 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 54.4 - 57.6 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 54.4 - 54.5 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 55.4 - 58.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 55.5 - 60.7 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 58.1 - 65.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 58.6 - 61.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 59.1 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 60.7 - 66.3 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 61.2 | First man on the moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 61.5 - 66.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 61.5 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 | 64.2 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 65.1 - 68.2 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 66.0 - 74.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 66.3 - 68.7 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 | 67.5 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 | 67.9 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 | 68.2 - 81.2 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 68.7 - 72.7 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 | 68.9 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 71.6 - 80.8 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 72.4 - 80.3 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 72.7 - 80.7 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 73.9 - 74.1 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 74.4 - 90.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 | 74.7 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 | 75.2 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 | 75.7 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 80.7 - 84.7 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 81.5 - 81.6 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 82.3 - 82.8 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 3, 1990 | 82.4 | German reunification | Germany |
| Dec 8, 1991 | 83.6 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 | 84.2 - 88.2 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 84.7 - 92.7 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 4, 1993 | 85.3 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 1, 1993 | 85.5 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 | 86.2 - 88.2 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 17, 1995 | 86.7 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |
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