| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-78.3) - 5.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities | 
		
			| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-72.9) - 7.6 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities | 
		
			| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-71.0) - 12.7 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities | 
		
			| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-70.8) - 2.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities | 
		
			| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-59.7) - 30.5 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities | 
		
			| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-58.6) - 32.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities | 
		
			| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-55.4) - 20.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities | 
		
			| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-53.0) - 20.6 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities | 
		
			| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-50.5) - 29.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities | 
		
			| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-45.3) - 10.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities | 
		
			| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-43.8) - 34.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities | 
		
			| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-32.6) - 32.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities | 
		
			| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-17.2) - 29.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities | 
		
			| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | (-9.2) - 0.0 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany | 
		
			| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-6.1) - 33.2 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities | 
		
			| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-5.5) - 33.7 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities | 
		
			| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | (-4.0) - 78.1 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities | 
		
			| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-1.5) - 10.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany | 
		
			| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | (-1.4) - 10.7 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| 1935 | 0.9 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization | 
		
			| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 2.4 - 17.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain | 
		
			| May 6, 1937 | 2.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History | 
		
			| 1937 | 2.9 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments | 
		
			| Aug 27, 1939 | 5.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History | 
		
			| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 5.1 - 11.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| May 14, 1940 | 5.8 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies | 
		
			| Dec 7, 1941 | 7.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA | 
		
			| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 10.7 - 18.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Apr 25, 1945 | 10.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World | 
		
			| May 8, 1945 | 10.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany | 
		
			| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 11.0 - 11.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA | 
		
			| Oct 14, 1946 | 12.2 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France | 
		
			| Oct 14, 1947 | 13.2 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History | 
		
			| Dec 21, 1948 | 14.4 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain | 
		
			| May 23, 1949 | 14.8 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany | 
		
			| 1949 | 15.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies | 
		
			| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 15.2 - 29.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Oct 7, 1949 | 15.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany | 
		
			| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 15.2 - 26.1 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR | 
		
			| Jun 17, 1950 | 15.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine | 
		
			| 1950 - 1953 | 16.0 - 19.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Jan 22, 1952 | 17.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History | 
		
			| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 17.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 18.5 - 26.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Jun 17, 1953 | 18.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany | 
		
			| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 20.6 - 77.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities | 
		
			| Oct 4, 1957 | 23.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology | 
		
			| Oct 5, 1958 | 24.2 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France | 
		
			| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 25.0 - 40.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| 1960 - 1973 | 26.0 - 39.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 26.5 - 29.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Apr 12, 1961 | 26.7 | First human in space | Technology | 
		
			| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 26.9 - 41.0 | Apollo Space Program | Technology | 
		
			| Aug 13, 1961 | 27.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany | 
		
			| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 28.2 - 31.4 | Second Vatican Council | World | 
		
			| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 28.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA | 
		
			| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 29.3 - 32.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 29.4 - 34.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| 1966 - 1973 | 32.0 - 39.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments | 
		
			| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 32.4 - 35.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| 1967 | 33.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 34.5 - 40.1 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Jul 20, 1969 | 35.0 | First man on the moon | Technology | 
		
			| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 35.3 - 39.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Oct 31, 1969 | 35.3 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies | 
		
			| Jul 21, 1972 | 38.0 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain | 
		
			| 1973 - 1976 | 39.0 - 42.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR | 
		
			| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 39.8 - 48.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 40.1 - 42.5 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Nov 20, 1975 | 41.4 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain | 
		
			| Apr 1, 1976 | 41.7 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| 1976 - 1989 | 42.0 - 55.0 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 42.5 - 46.5 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Apr 16, 1977 | 42.8 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 45.5 - 54.6 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 46.2 - 54.1 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 46.5 - 54.5 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 47.7 - 47.9 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 48.2 - 64.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Jan 19, 1983 | 48.5 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| 1983 | 49.0 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine | 
		
			| Jan 24, 1984 | 49.5 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 54.5 - 58.5 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 55.3 - 55.4 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR | 
		
			| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 56.1 - 56.6 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Oct 3, 1990 | 56.2 | German reunification | Germany | 
		
			| Dec 8, 1991 | 57.4 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia | 
		
			| 1992 - 1996 | 58.0 - 62.0 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 58.5 - 66.5 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Aug 4, 1993 | 59.1 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Nov 1, 1993 | 59.3 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union | 
		
			| 1994 - 1996 | 60.0 - 62.0 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Jan 17, 1995 | 60.5 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters | 
		
			| 1998 - 1999 | 64.0 - 65.0 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| 1998 - 2003 | 64.0 - 69.0 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Aug 15, 1998 | 64.1 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 64.3 - 71.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Jan 1, 1999 | 64.5 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | European Union | 
		
			| Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 66.5 - 74.6 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents | 
		
			| Sep 11, 2001 | 67.2 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA | 
		
			| Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 67.3 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Oct 23, 2001 | 67.3 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Jan 1, 2002 | 67.5 | Introduction of the Euro | European Union | 
		
			| Mar 20, 2003 - May 1, 2003 | 68.7 - 68.8 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts | 
		
			| Dec 26, 2004 | 70.5 | Indian Ocean tsunami | Disasters | 
		
			| Jun 6, 2005 | 70.9 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 71.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors | 
		
			| Jan 9, 2007 | 72.5 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History | 
		
			| Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 74.6 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |