| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-86.6) - 4.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-74.6) - 9.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-72.4) - 12.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-72.4) - 3.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-63.2) - 20.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-57.8) - 22.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-56.0) - 27.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-55.7) - 17.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-49.2) - 4.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-44.6) - 45.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-43.5) - 47.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
(-40.3) - 35.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
(-37.9) - 35.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
(-35.5) - 44.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
(-30.2) - 25.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
(-28.7) - 49.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
(-17.6) - 47.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
(-6.3) - 1.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
(-2.1) - 44.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
(-2.0) - 4.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
(-0.4) - 5.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
(-0.2) - 0.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
|
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
0.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
0.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
1.6 - 4.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
2.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
3.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
4.0 - 9.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
4.1 - 4.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
4.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
5.8 - 15.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
8.9 - 48.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
9.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
9.5 - 48.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
9.6 - 13.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
10.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
10.5 - 11.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
10.7 - 12.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
11.1 - 93.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
11.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
12.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
12.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
12.9 - 13.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
13.4 - 13.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
13.5 - 25.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
13.6 - 13.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
13.6 - 25.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
16.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
17.4 - 32.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
17.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
18.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
20.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
20.1 - 26.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
20.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
22.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 apr. 1945 - 20 jan. 1953 |
25.8 - 33.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 apr. 1945 |
25.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 mei 1945 |
25.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 aug. 1945 - 9 aug. 1945 |
26.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 okt. 1946 |
27.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 okt. 1947 |
28.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 dec. 1948 |
29.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 mei 1949 |
29.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
30.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 sep. 1949 - 16 okt. 1963 |
30.2 - 44.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 okt. 1949 |
30.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1949 - 7 sep. 1960 |
30.3 - 41.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 jun. 1950 |
30.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
31.0 - 34.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 jan. 1952 |
32.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 feb. 1952 - Heden |
32.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 jan. 1953 - 20 jan. 1961 |
33.5 - 41.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 jun. 1953 |
33.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 feb. 1955 - 5 okt. 2011 |
35.6 - 92.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 okt. 1957 |
38.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 okt. 1958 |
39.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 apr. 1975 |
40.0 - 55.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
41.0 - 54.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1961 - 22 nov. 1963 |
41.5 - 44.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 apr. 1961 |
41.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 mei 1961 - 24 jul. 1975 |
41.9 - 56.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 aug. 1961 |
42.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1962 - 8 dec. 1965 |
43.3 - 46.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 okt. 1962 - 28 okt. 1962 |
43.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 okt. 1963 - 1 dec. 1966 |
44.3 - 47.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 nov. 1963 - 20 jan. 1969 |
44.4 - 49.5 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
47.0 - 54.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 dec. 1966 - 21 okt. 1969 |
47.4 - 50.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
48.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 jan. 1969 - 9 aug. 1974 |
49.5 - 55.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 jul. 1969 |
50.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 okt. 1969 - 7 mei 1974 |
50.3 - 54.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 okt. 1969 |
50.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 jul. 1972 |
53.0 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
54.0 - 57.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 mei 1974 - 1 okt. 1982 |
54.9 - 63.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 aug. 1974 - 20 jan. 1977 |
55.1 - 57.6 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 nov. 1975 |
56.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 apr. 1976 |
56.7 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
57.0 - 70.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1977 - 20 jan. 1981 |
57.6 - 61.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 apr. 1977 |
57.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 dec. 1979 - 15 feb. 1989 |
60.5 - 69.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 sep. 1980 - 20 aug. 1988 |
61.2 - 69.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 jan. 1981 - 20 jan. 1989 |
61.6 - 69.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 apr. 1982 - 14 jun. 1982 |
62.7 - 62.9 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 okt. 1982 - 27 okt. 1998 |
63.2 - 79.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 jan. 1983 |
63.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
64.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 jan. 1984 |
64.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 jan. 1989 - 20 jan. 1993 |
69.6 - 73.6 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 okt. 1989 - 3 dec. 1989 |
70.3 - 70.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 aug. 1990 - 28 feb. 1991 |
71.1 - 71.7 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 okt. 1990 |
71.3 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 dec. 1991 |
72.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
73.0 - 77.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 jan. 1993 - 20 jan. 2001 |
73.6 - 81.6 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 aug. 1993 |
74.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 nov. 1993 |
74.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
75.0 - 77.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 jan. 1995 |
75.6 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
Gjorgi Tomov
Bona Kostadinova
Birth
