| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-81.0) - 3.4 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-78.8) - 6.0 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-69.5) - 13.9 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-64.1) - 16.4 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-62.3) - 21.4 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-62.1) - 11.4 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-51.0) - 39.3 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-49.9) - 41.5 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-46.7) - 29.5 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-44.3) - 29.4 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-41.8) - 38.1 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-36.6) - 19.5 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-35.1) - 43.4 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-23.9) - 41.2 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
(-8.4) - 38.1 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
(-2.2) - 3.3 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
(-0.5) - 8.8 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
2.6 - 42.0 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
2.7 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
3.2 - 42.5 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
3.3 - 7.3 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
4.0 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
4.2 - 5.5 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
4.4 - 6.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
4.8 - 86.9 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
5.5 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
5.7 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
6.1 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
6.6 - 7.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
7.1 - 7.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
7.3 - 19.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
7.3 - 7.4 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
7.3 - 19.5 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
9.7 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
11.1 - 26.3 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
11.5 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
11.7 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
13.8 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
13.8 - 19.9 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
14.5 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
16.1 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
19.5 - 27.2 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
19.5 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
19.5 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
19.8 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
21.0 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
22.0 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
23.2 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
23.6 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
23.7 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
23.9 - 38.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
24.0 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
24.0 - 34.9 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
24.6 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
24.7 - 27.7 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
26.2 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
26.3 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
27.2 - 35.2 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
27.6 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
29.3 - 86.0 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
31.9 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
33.0 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
33.7 - 49.5 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
34.7 - 47.7 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
35.2 - 38.1 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
35.5 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
35.6 - 49.8 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
35.8 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
37.0 - 40.1 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
37.0 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
38.0 - 41.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
38.1 - 43.3 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
40.7 - 47.7 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
41.1 - 44.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
41.7 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
43.3 - 48.8 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 |
43.7 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
44.0 - 48.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 |
44.0 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 |
46.8 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
47.7 - 50.7 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
48.6 - 57.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
48.8 - 51.3 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 |
50.1 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 |
50.5 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
50.7 - 63.7 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
51.3 - 55.3 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 |
51.5 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
54.2 - 63.3 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
54.9 - 62.8 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
55.3 - 63.3 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
56.5 - 56.7 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
57.0 - 73.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 |
57.3 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
57.7 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 |
58.3 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 |
63.3 - 67.3 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 |
64.0 - 64.1 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 |
64.8 - 65.4 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Charlotte Cranch Raup
David Lawrence Cremin
Birth