| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-77.4) - 13.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-71.9) - 6.8 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-66.4) - 0.1 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-65.5) - 18.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-63.3) - 21.5 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-63.2) - 12.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-54.0) - 29.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-48.6) - 31.9 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-46.8) - 36.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-46.6) - 26.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-40.1) - 13.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-35.4) - 54.8 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-34.4) - 57.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-31.2) - 45.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-28.8) - 44.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-26.3) - 53.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
(-21.9) - 8.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-21.1) - 35.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-19.6) - 58.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-8.4) - 56.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
(-1.2) - 2.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| May 30, 1911 |
1.1 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
1.1 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
1.5 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
2.8 - 10.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
4.1 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
4.2 - 8.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
4.3 - 8.6 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
4.4 - 5.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
4.4 - 4.5 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
6.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
6.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
6.8 - 6.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
7.1 - 53.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
7.2 - 13.2 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
7.5 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
8.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
8.8 - 14.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
8.8 - 9.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
9.0 - 9.3 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
9.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
9.3 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
9.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
10.8 - 13.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
11.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
12.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
13.3 - 18.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
13.3 - 13.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
13.4 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
15.0 - 24.3 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
18.1 - 57.5 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
18.2 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
18.7 - 58.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
18.8 - 22.8 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
19.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
19.7 - 21.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
19.9 - 22.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
20.3 - 102.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
21.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
21.2 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
21.6 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
22.1 - 22.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
22.6 - 22.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
22.8 - 35.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
22.8 - 22.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
22.8 - 35.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
25.2 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
26.6 - 41.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
27.0 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
27.2 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
29.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
29.3 - 35.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
30.0 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
31.6 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
35.0 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
35.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
35.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
35.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
36.5 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
37.5 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
38.7 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
39.1 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
39.2 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
39.4 - 53.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
39.5 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
39.5 - 50.4 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
40.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
40.2 - 43.2 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
41.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
41.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
42.7 - 50.7 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
43.1 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
44.8 - 101.5 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
47.4 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
48.5 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
49.2 - 65.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
50.2 - 63.2 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
50.7 - 53.6 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
51.0 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
51.1 - 65.3 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
51.3 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
Adelard Perrault
Louise Lemieux
Birth
