| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-75.6) - 15.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-70.0) - 8.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-64.6) - 1.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-63.6) - 20.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-61.4) - 23.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-61.4) - 14.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-52.2) - 31.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-46.8) - 33.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-44.9) - 38.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-44.7) - 28.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-38.2) - 15.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-33.6) - 56.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-32.5) - 58.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-29.3) - 46.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-26.9) - 46.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-24.5) - 55.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-20.1) - 10.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-19.2) - 36.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-17.7) - 60.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
(-6.8) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-6.6) - 58.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 |
(-4.0) |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
0.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
0.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
1.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
2.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
2.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
3.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
4.6 - 12.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
5.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
5.9 - 10.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
6.1 - 10.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
6.2 - 7.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
6.2 - 6.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
7.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
8.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
8.6 - 8.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
8.9 - 55.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
9.0 - 15.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
9.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
10.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
10.6 - 16.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
10.6 - 10.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
10.8 - 11.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
11.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
11.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
11.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
12.6 - 15.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
13.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
14.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
15.0 - 20.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
15.1 - 15.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
15.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
16.8 - 26.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
19.9 - 59.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
20.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
20.5 - 59.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
20.6 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
21.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
21.5 - 22.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
21.7 - 23.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
22.1 - 104.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
22.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
23.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
23.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
23.9 - 24.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
24.4 - 24.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
24.6 - 36.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
24.6 - 24.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
24.6 - 36.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
27.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
28.4 - 43.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
28.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
29.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
31.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
31.1 - 37.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
31.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
33.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
36.8 - 44.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
36.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
36.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
37.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
38.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
39.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
40.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
40.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
41.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
41.2 - 55.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
41.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
41.3 - 52.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
41.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
42.0 - 45.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
43.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
43.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
44.5 - 52.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
44.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
46.6 - 103.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
49.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
50.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
51.0 - 66.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
52.0 - 65.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
52.5 - 55.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
52.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
52.9 - 67.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
53.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
54.3 - 57.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
54.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
55.3 - 58.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
55.4 - 60.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
58.0 - 65.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
58.4 - 61.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
59.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
60.6 - 66.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
61.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
61.3 - 65.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
61.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
Charles Huston Hensley
Ethel Lucy Goodwin
Birth