| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-80.2) - 4.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-78.0) - 6.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-68.8) - 14.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-63.4) - 17.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-61.6) - 22.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-61.3) - 12.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-50.2) - 40.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-49.1) - 42.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-45.9) - 30.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-43.5) - 30.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-41.1) - 38.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-35.8) - 20.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-34.3) - 44.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-23.2) - 41.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
(-7.7) - 38.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
(-6.0) - 0.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
(-1.5) - 4.0 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
0.2 - 9.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
3.3 - 42.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
3.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
3.9 - 43.1 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
4.0 - 8.0 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
4.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
4.9 - 6.2 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
5.1 - 7.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
5.5 - 87.6 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
6.1 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
6.4 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
6.8 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
7.3 - 7.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
7.8 - 7.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
7.9 - 20.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
8.0 - 8.1 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 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 |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
11.8 - 27.0 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
12.2 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
12.4 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
14.5 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
14.5 - 20.5 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
15.2 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
16.8 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
20.2 - 27.9 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
20.2 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
20.2 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
20.5 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
21.7 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
22.7 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
23.8 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
24.3 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
24.4 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
24.6 - 38.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
24.6 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
24.7 - 35.6 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
25.3 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
25.4 - 28.4 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
26.9 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
27.0 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
27.9 - 35.9 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
28.3 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
30.0 - 86.7 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
32.6 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 |
33.6 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 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 |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
35.9 - 38.8 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 |
36.2 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
36.3 - 50.5 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 |
36.5 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 |
37.7 - 40.8 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 |
37.7 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 |
38.7 - 41.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 |
38.8 - 43.9 |
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 |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 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 |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 |
43.9 - 49.5 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 |
44.4 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 |
44.7 - 49.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 |
44.7 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| Jul 21, 1972 |
47.4 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
48.4 - 51.4 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 |
49.3 - 57.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 |
49.5 - 52.0 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| Nov 20, 1975 |
50.8 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| Apr 1, 1976 |
51.1 |
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 |
| Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 |
52.0 - 56.0 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 16, 1977 |
52.2 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 |
54.9 - 64.0 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 |
55.6 - 63.5 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 |
56.0 - 64.0 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 |
57.2 - 57.3 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 |
57.6 - 73.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 19, 1983 |
58.0 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
58.4 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| Jan 24, 1984 |
59.0 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 |
64.0 - 68.0 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 |
64.7 - 64.8 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 |
65.5 - 66.1 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 3, 1990 |
65.7 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| Dec 8, 1991 |
66.8 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
67.4 - 71.4 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 |
68.0 - 76.0 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 4, 1993 |
68.5 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Nov 1, 1993 |
68.7 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
69.4 - 71.4 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 17, 1995 |
70.0 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1998 - 1999 |
73.4 - 74.4 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 2003 |
73.4 - 78.4 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 15, 1998 |
73.5 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 |
73.7 - 80.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Jan 1, 1999 |
73.9 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
George William Norman Fredeen
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Birth