| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-84.5) - 6.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-72.6) - 11.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-70.3) - 14.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-70.3) - 5.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-61.1) - 22.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-55.7) - 24.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-53.9) - 29.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-53.7) - 19.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-47.1) - 6.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-42.5) - 47.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-41.4) - 49.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-38.2) - 37.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-35.8) - 37.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-33.4) - 46.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
(-29.0) - 1.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-28.1) - 27.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-26.6) - 51.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-15.5) - 49.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
(-4.2) - 3.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
(-2.9) - 1.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
(-2.8) - 1.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
(-0.0) - 46.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
0.1 - 6.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
0.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
1.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
1.7 - 7.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
1.7 - 2.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
1.9 - 2.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
2.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
2.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
2.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
3.8 - 6.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
4.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
5.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
6.2 - 11.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
6.2 - 6.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
6.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
8.0 - 17.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
11.0 - 50.4 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
11.1 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
11.6 - 50.9 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
11.8 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
12.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
12.7 - 13.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
12.8 - 15.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
13.2 - 95.3 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
13.9 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
14.1 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
14.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
15.0 - 15.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
15.5 - 15.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
15.7 - 27.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
15.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
15.8 - 27.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
18.1 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
19.5 - 34.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
19.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
20.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
22.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
22.3 - 28.3 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
23.0 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
24.5 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
27.9 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
27.9 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
28.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
28.2 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
29.4 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
30.4 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
31.6 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
32.0 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
32.1 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
32.3 - 46.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
32.4 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
32.4 - 43.3 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
33.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
33.1 - 36.1 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
34.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
34.7 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
35.7 - 43.7 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
36.1 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
37.8 - 94.4 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
40.4 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
41.4 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
42.1 - 58.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
43.1 - 56.1 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
43.7 - 46.5 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
43.9 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
44.0 - 58.2 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
44.2 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
45.4 - 48.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
45.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
46.4 - 49.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
46.5 - 51.7 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
49.1 - 56.1 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
49.5 - 52.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
50.1 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
51.7 - 57.2 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 |
52.2 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
52.4 - 57.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 |
52.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
Helen V Scanlon
Richard Francis Long
Birth