| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-83.7) - 1.1 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-74.4) - 9.0 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-69.0) - 11.5 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-67.2) - 16.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-67.0) - 6.5 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-55.8) - 34.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-54.7) - 36.6 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-51.6) - 24.6 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-49.2) - 24.5 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-46.7) - 33.3 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-41.4) - 14.6 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-40.0) - 38.5 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-28.8) - 36.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
(-13.3) - 33.2 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
(-5.4) - 3.9 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
(-2.3) - 37.1 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
(-1.7) - 37.6 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
(-1.5) - 2.5 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
(-0.7) - 0.6 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
(-0.5) - 1.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
(-0.1) - 82.0 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
0.6 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
0.8 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
1.2 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
1.7 - 2.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
2.2 - 2.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
2.4 - 14.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
2.4 - 2.5 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
2.5 - 14.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
4.8 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
6.2 - 21.4 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
6.6 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
6.8 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
8.9 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
9.0 - 15.0 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
9.7 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
11.2 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
14.6 - 22.4 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
14.6 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
14.6 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
14.9 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
16.1 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
17.1 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
18.3 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
18.7 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
18.8 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
19.0 - 33.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
19.1 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
19.1 - 30.0 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
19.8 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
19.8 - 22.8 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
21.4 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
21.4 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
22.4 - 30.4 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
22.8 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
24.4 - 81.1 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
27.1 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
28.1 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
28.8 - 44.6 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Michael Hoover Eliot
Birth
Mignon Hoover Eliot