Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-83.0) - 1.4 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-80.8) - 4.0 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-71.5) - 11.9 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-66.1) - 14.4 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-64.3) - 19.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-64.1) - 9.4 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-53.0) - 37.3 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-51.9) - 39.5 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-48.7) - 27.5 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-46.3) - 27.4 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-43.8) - 36.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-38.6) - 17.5 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-37.1) - 41.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Nov 23, 1890 - Sep 4, 1948 | (-37.0) - 20.9 | Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina | Netherlands |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-25.9) - 39.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 6, 1910 - Jan 20, 1936 | (-17.5) - 8.2 | King of the United Kingdom: George V | Great Britain |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-10.4) - 36.1 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Nov 23, 1918 - May 14, 1945 | (-8.9) - 17.5 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant | Mormon History |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | (-4.3) - 1.3 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-2.5) - 6.8 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 0.6 - 40.0 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 0.7 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 1.2 - 40.5 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 1.3 - 5.3 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 2.0 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 2.2 - 3.5 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 2.4 - 4.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 2.8 - 84.9 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 3.5 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 3.7 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 4.1 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 4.6 - 5.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 5.1 - 5.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 5.3 - 17.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 5.3 - 5.4 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 5.3 - 17.5 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 7.7 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 20, 1936 - Dec 11, 1936 | 8.2 - 9.1 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 9.1 - 24.3 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 9.1 - 24.3 | King of the United Kingdom: George VI | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 9.5 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 9.7 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 11.8 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 11.8 - 17.8 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 12.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 14.1 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 17.5 - 25.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 17.5 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 17.5 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
May 21, 1945 - Apr 4, 1951 | 17.6 - 23.4 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith | Mormon History |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 17.8 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 19.0 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 20.0 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Sep 4, 1948 - Apr 30, 1980 | 20.9 - 52.5 | Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana | Netherlands |
Dec 21, 1948 | 21.2 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 21.6 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 21.7 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 21.9 - 36.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 21.9 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 22.0 - 32.9 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 22.6 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 22.7 - 25.7 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 9, 1951 - Jan 18, 1970 | 23.5 - 42.2 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay | Mormon History |
Jan 22, 1952 | 24.2 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 24.3 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 25.2 - 33.2 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 25.6 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Jul 4, 1954 | 26.7 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 27.3 - 84.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 29.9 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 30.9 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
Jan 8, 1959 - Apr 28, 1969 | 31.2 - 41.5 | President of France: Charles de Gaulle | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 31.7 - 47.5 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 32.7 - 45.7 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 33.2 - 36.1 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 33.5 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 33.6 - 47.8 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 33.8 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 35.0 - 38.1 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 35.0 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 36.0 - 39.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 36.1 - 41.2 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 38.7 - 45.7 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 39.1 - 42.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 39.7 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 41.2 - 46.8 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jun 20, 1969 - Apr 2, 1974 | 41.7 - 46.4 | President of France: Georges Pompidou | France |
Jul 20, 1969 | 41.7 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 42.0 - 46.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 42.0 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jan 23, 1970 - Jul 2, 1972 | 42.3 - 44.7 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 7, 1972 - Dec 26, 1973 | 44.7 - 46.2 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 21, 1972 | 44.8 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 45.7 - 48.7 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Dec 30, 1973 - Nov 5, 1985 | 46.2 - 58.1 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball | Mormon History |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 46.6 - 55.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
May 27, 1974 - May 21, 1981 | 46.6 - 53.6 | President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | France |
Jul 7, 1974 | 46.7 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany | Germany |
Jul 8, 1974 - Jul 8, 1990 | 46.7 - 62.7 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany | Germany |
Jul 13, 1974 - Jul 13, 2014 | 46.7 - 86.8 | FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany | Germany |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 46.8 - 49.3 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 48.1 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 48.4 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 48.7 - 61.7 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 49.3 - 53.3 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 49.5 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 52.2 - 61.3 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 30, 1980 - Apr 30, 2013 | 52.5 - 85.6 | Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix | Netherlands |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 52.9 - 60.8 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 53.3 - 61.3 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
May 21, 1981 - May 17, 1995 | 53.6 - 67.6 | President of France: François Mitterrand | France |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 54.5 - 54.7 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 55.0 - 71.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 55.3 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 55.7 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 56.3 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |