Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-72.3) - 18.7 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-66.8) - 11.9 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-61.4) - 5.1 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-60.4) - 24.0 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-58.2) - 26.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-58.1) - 17.3 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-48.9) - 34.5 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-43.6) - 37.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-41.7) - 42.0 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-41.5) - 32.0 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-35.0) - 18.8 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-30.4) - 59.8 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-29.3) - 62.1 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-26.1) - 50.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-23.7) - 50.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-21.2) - 58.7 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-16.8) - 13.6 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-16.0) - 40.1 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-14.5) - 64.0 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Nov 23, 1890 - Sep 4, 1948 | (-14.4) - 43.4 | Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina | Netherlands |
Jan 22, 1901 - May 6, 1910 | (-4.2) - 5.1 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII | Great Britain |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-3.6) - 3.9 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 17, 1901 - Nov 19, 1918 | (-3.5) - 13.6 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. | Mormon History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-3.3) - 61.7 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
1904 - 1908 | (-0.8) - 3.2 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 1.0 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 2.2 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 3.5 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 3.5 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 3.9 - 7.9 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 4.2 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 6, 1910 - Jan 20, 1936 | 5.1 - 30.8 | King of the United Kingdom: George V | Great Britain |
May 30, 1911 | 6.2 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 6.2 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 6.6 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 7.9 - 15.9 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 9.2 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 9.2 - 13.6 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 9.3 - 13.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 9.4 - 10.3 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 9.5 - 9.6 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 11.1 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 11.2 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 11.9 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 12.2 - 58.7 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 12.2 - 18.2 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 12.6 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 13.6 | German Revolution | Germany |
Nov 23, 1918 - May 14, 1945 | 13.6 - 40.1 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant | Mormon History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 13.9 - 19.9 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 13.9 - 14.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 14.1 - 14.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 14.2 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 14.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 14.4 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 15.9 - 18.3 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 16.7 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 17.6 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 18.3 - 23.9 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 18.4 - 18.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 18.5 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 20.1 - 29.3 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 23.2 - 62.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 23.3 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 23.8 - 63.0 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 23.9 - 27.9 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 24.6 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 24.8 - 26.1 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 25.0 - 27.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 25.4 - 107.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 26.0 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 26.3 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 26.7 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 27.2 - 27.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 27.7 - 27.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 27.8 - 40.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 27.9 - 28.0 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 27.9 - 40.0 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 30.3 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 20, 1936 - Dec 11, 1936 | 30.8 - 31.7 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 31.7 - 46.9 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 31.7 - 46.9 | King of the United Kingdom: George VI | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 32.1 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 32.3 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 34.4 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 34.4 - 40.4 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 35.1 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 36.7 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 40.0 - 47.8 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 40.1 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 40.1 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
May 21, 1945 - Apr 4, 1951 | 40.2 - 46.0 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith | Mormon History |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 40.4 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 41.6 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 42.6 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Sep 4, 1948 - Apr 30, 1980 | 43.4 - 75.1 | Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana | Netherlands |
Dec 21, 1948 | 43.7 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 44.2 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 44.3 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 44.5 - 58.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 44.5 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 44.6 - 55.5 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 45.2 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 45.3 - 48.3 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 9, 1951 - Jan 18, 1970 | 46.0 - 64.8 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay | Mormon History |
Jan 22, 1952 | 46.8 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 46.9 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 47.8 - 55.8 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 48.2 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Jul 4, 1954 | 49.3 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 49.9 - 106.6 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 52.5 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 53.5 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
Jan 8, 1959 - Apr 28, 1969 | 53.8 - 64.1 | President of France: Charles de Gaulle | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 54.3 - 70.1 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 55.3 - 68.3 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 55.8 - 58.7 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 56.1 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 56.2 - 70.4 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 56.4 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 57.6 - 60.7 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 57.6 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 58.6 - 61.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 58.7 - 63.8 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 61.3 - 68.3 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 61.7 - 64.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 62.3 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 63.8 - 69.4 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jun 20, 1969 - Apr 2, 1974 | 64.3 - 69.0 | President of France: Georges Pompidou | France |
Jul 20, 1969 | 64.3 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 64.6 - 69.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 64.6 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jan 23, 1970 - Jul 2, 1972 | 64.8 - 67.3 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 7, 1972 - Dec 26, 1973 | 67.3 - 68.8 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 21, 1972 | 67.3 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 68.3 - 71.3 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Dec 30, 1973 - Nov 5, 1985 | 68.8 - 80.6 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball | Mormon History |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 69.2 - 77.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
May 27, 1974 - May 21, 1981 | 69.2 - 76.2 | President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | France |
Jul 7, 1974 | 69.3 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany | Germany |
Jul 8, 1974 - Jul 8, 1990 | 69.3 - 85.3 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany | Germany |
Jul 13, 1974 - Jul 13, 2014 | 69.3 - 109.3 | FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany | Germany |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 69.4 - 71.8 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 70.7 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 71.0 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 71.3 - 84.3 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 71.8 - 75.8 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 72.1 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 74.8 - 83.9 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 30, 1980 - Apr 30, 2013 | 75.1 - 108.1 | Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix | Netherlands |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 75.5 - 83.4 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 75.8 - 83.9 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |