May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-76.5) - 6.9 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-71.1) - 9.4 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-69.3) - 14.4 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-69.1) - 4.4 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-57.9) - 32.2 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-56.8) - 34.5 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-53.6) - 22.5 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-51.2) - 22.4 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-48.8) - 31.1 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-43.5) - 12.5 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-42.0) - 36.4 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-30.9) - 34.1 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
(-15.4) - 31.1 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
(-7.4) - 1.7 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
(-4.3) - 34.9 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
(-3.8) - 35.4 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
(-3.6) - 0.3 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
(-2.2) - 79.9 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
(-0.4) - 0.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
0.1 - 0.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
0.2 - 12.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
0.3 - 0.4 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
0.3 - 12.4 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
2.6 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
4.1 - 19.3 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 |
4.5 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
4.7 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 |
6.8 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
6.8 - 12.8 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 |
7.5 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 |
9.1 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
12.4 - 20.2 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 |
12.5 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
May 8, 1945 |
12.5 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
12.8 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
Oct 14, 1946 |
13.9 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
Oct 14, 1947 |
14.9 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 |
16.1 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 |
16.6 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
16.7 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
16.9 - 31.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 |
16.9 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
16.9 - 27.9 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 |
17.6 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
17.7 - 20.7 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 |
19.2 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
19.3 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
20.2 - 28.2 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 |
20.6 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
22.3 - 79.0 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 |
24.9 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 |
25.9 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
26.7 - 42.5 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
27.7 - 40.7 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
28.2 - 31.1 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 |
28.5 |
First human in space |
Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
28.6 - 42.7 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 |
28.8 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
29.9 - 33.1 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
30.0 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
31.0 - 34.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
31.1 - 36.2 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
33.7 - 40.7 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 |
34.1 - 37.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
1967 |
34.7 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
36.2 - 41.8 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 |
36.7 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
37.0 - 41.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 |
37.0 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 |
39.7 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 |
40.7 - 43.7 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
41.6 - 49.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
41.8 - 44.2 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 |
43.1 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 |
43.4 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 |
43.7 - 56.7 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
44.2 - 48.2 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 |
44.5 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
47.2 - 56.3 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
47.9 - 55.8 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
48.2 - 56.2 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
49.4 - 49.6 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
49.9 - 66.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 |
50.2 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 |
50.7 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 |
51.3 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 |
56.2 - 60.2 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 |
57.0 - 57.1 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 |
57.8 - 58.4 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 |
57.9 |
German reunification |
Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 |
59.1 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
1992 - 1996 |
59.7 - 63.7 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 |
60.2 - 68.3 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 |
60.8 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 |
61.0 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
1994 - 1996 |
61.7 - 63.7 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 |
62.2 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
1998 - 1999 |
65.7 - 66.7 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 |
65.7 - 70.7 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 |
65.8 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |