Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-71.6) - 19.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-66.0) - 12.7 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-60.6) - 5.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-59.6) - 24.8 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-57.4) - 27.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-57.4) - 18.1 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-48.2) - 35.3 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-42.8) - 37.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-40.9) - 42.8 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-40.7) - 32.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-34.2) - 19.6 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-29.6) - 60.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-28.5) - 62.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-25.3) - 50.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-22.9) - 50.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-20.5) - 59.5 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-16.0) - 14.4 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-15.2) - 40.9 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-13.7) - 64.8 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Nov 23, 1890 - Sep 4, 1948 | (-13.6) - 44.2 | Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina | Netherlands |
Jan 22, 1901 - May 6, 1910 | (-3.4) - 5.9 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII | Great Britain |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-2.8) - 4.7 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 17, 1901 - Nov 19, 1918 | (-2.7) - 14.4 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. | Mormon History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-2.6) - 62.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
1904 - 1908 | 0 – 4.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 1.8 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 3.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 4.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 4.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 4.7 - 8.7 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 5.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 6, 1910 - Jan 20, 1936 | 5.9 - 31.6 | King of the United Kingdom: George V | Great Britain |
May 30, 1911 | 6.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 6.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 7.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 8.7 - 16.7 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 10.0 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 10.0 - 14.4 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 10.1 - 14.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 10.2 - 11.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 10.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 11.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 12.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 12.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 12.9 - 59.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 13.0 - 19.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 13.4 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 14.4 | German Revolution | Germany |
Nov 23, 1918 - May 14, 1945 | 14.4 - 40.9 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant | Mormon History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 14.6 - 20.7 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 14.6 - 15.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 14.9 - 15.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 15.0 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 15.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 15.2 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 16.7 - 19.1 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 17.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 18.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 19.1 - 24.7 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 19.1 - 19.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 19.2 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 20.9 - 30.1 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 24.0 - 63.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 24.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 24.6 - 63.8 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 24.7 - 28.7 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 25.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 25.6 - 26.9 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 25.8 - 27.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 26.1 - 108.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 26.8 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 27.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 27.5 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 27.9 - 28.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 28.4 - 28.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 28.6 - 40.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 28.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 28.7 - 40.8 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 31.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 20, 1936 - Dec 11, 1936 | 31.6 - 32.5 | King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 32.5 - 47.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 32.5 - 47.6 | King of the United Kingdom: George VI | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 32.9 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 33.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 35.2 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 35.2 - 41.2 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 35.9 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 37.5 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 40.8 - 48.6 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 40.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 40.9 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
May 21, 1945 - Apr 4, 1951 | 40.9 - 46.8 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith | Mormon History |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 41.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 42.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 43.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Sep 4, 1948 - Apr 30, 1980 | 44.2 - 75.9 | Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana | Netherlands |
Dec 21, 1948 | 44.5 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 44.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 45.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 45.2 - 59.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 45.3 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 45.3 - 56.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 46.0 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 46.0 - 49.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 9, 1951 - Jan 18, 1970 | 46.8 - 65.6 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay | Mormon History |
Jan 22, 1952 | 47.6 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 47.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 48.6 - 56.6 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 49.0 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Jul 4, 1954 | 50.0 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 50.7 - 107.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 53.3 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 54.3 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
Jan 8, 1959 - Apr 28, 1969 | 54.6 - 64.9 | President of France: Charles de Gaulle | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 55.0 - 70.9 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 56.0 - 69.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 56.6 - 59.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 56.8 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 56.9 - 71.1 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 57.2 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 58.3 - 61.5 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 58.3 - 58.4 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 59.3 - 62.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 59.4 - 64.6 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 62.0 - 69.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 62.5 - 65.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 63.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 64.6 - 70.2 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jun 20, 1969 - Apr 2, 1974 | 65.0 - 69.8 | President of France: Georges Pompidou | France |
Jul 20, 1969 | 65.1 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 65.4 - 69.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 65.4 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jan 23, 1970 - Jul 2, 1972 | 65.6 - 68.1 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 7, 1972 - Dec 26, 1973 | 68.1 - 69.5 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith | Mormon History |
Jul 21, 1972 | 68.1 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 69.0 - 72.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Dec 30, 1973 - Nov 5, 1985 | 69.5 - 81.4 | President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball | Mormon History |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 69.9 - 78.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
May 27, 1974 - May 21, 1981 | 70.0 - 76.9 | President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing | France |
Jul 7, 1974 | 70.1 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany | Germany |
Jul 8, 1974 - Jul 8, 1990 | 70.1 - 86.1 | FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany | Germany |
Jul 13, 1974 - Jul 13, 2014 | 70.1 - 110.1 | FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany | Germany |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 70.2 - 72.6 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 71.4 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 71.8 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 72.0 - 85.1 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 72.6 - 76.6 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 72.8 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |