| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-80.2) - 4.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-78.0) - 6.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-68.8) - 14.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-63.4) - 17.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-61.5) - 22.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-61.3) - 12.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-50.2) - 40.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-49.1) - 42.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-45.9) - 30.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-43.5) - 30.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-41.1) - 38.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-35.8) - 20.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-34.3) - 44.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-23.2) - 41.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
(-7.7) - 38.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
(-6.0) - 0.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
(-1.5) - 4.0 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
0.2 - 9.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
3.3 - 42.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
3.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
3.9 - 43.2 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
4.0 - 8.0 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
4.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
4.9 - 6.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
5.1 - 7.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
5.5 - 87.6 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
6.2 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
6.4 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
6.8 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
7.3 - 7.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
7.8 - 7.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
8.0 - 20.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
8.0 - 8.1 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
8.0 - 20.2 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
10.4 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
11.8 - 27.0 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
12.2 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
12.4 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
14.5 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
14.5 - 20.6 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
15.2 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
16.8 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
20.2 - 27.9 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
20.2 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
20.2 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
20.5 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
21.7 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
22.7 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
23.9 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
24.3 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
24.4 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
24.6 - 38.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
24.6 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
24.7 - 35.6 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
25.3 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
25.4 - 28.4 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
26.9 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
27.0 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
27.9 - 35.9 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
28.3 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
30.0 - 86.7 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
32.6 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
33.6 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
34.4 - 50.2 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
35.4 - 48.4 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
35.9 - 38.8 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
36.2 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
36.3 - 50.5 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
36.5 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
37.7 - 40.8 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
37.7 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
38.7 - 41.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
38.8 - 44.0 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
41.4 - 48.4 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
41.8 - 44.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
42.4 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
44.0 - 49.5 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
44.4 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
44.7 - 49.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
44.7 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
47.5 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
48.4 - 51.4 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
49.3 - 57.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
49.5 - 52.0 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
50.8 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
51.2 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
51.4 - 64.4 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
52.0 - 56.0 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
52.2 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
54.9 - 64.0 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
55.6 - 63.5 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
56.0 - 64.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
Reginald Frederick Cumming
Nellie Eugenie Sargent
Birth