| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-70.4) - 20.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 jul. 1838 - 8 mrt. 1917 |
(-64.8) - 13.9 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 dec. 1843 - 27 mei 1910 |
(-59.4) - 7.1 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-58.4) - 25.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-56.2) - 28.5 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-56.2) - 19.3 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-47.0) - 36.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-41.6) - 38.9 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-39.7) - 44.0 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-39.5) - 33.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-33.0) - 20.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-28.4) - 61.8 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-27.3) - 64.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
(-24.1) - 52.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
(-21.7) - 51.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
(-19.2) - 60.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 jun. 1888 - 9 nov. 1918 |
(-14.8) - 15.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
(-14.0) - 42.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
(-12.5) - 65.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 sep. 1901 - 4 mrt. 1909 |
(-1.6) - 5.8 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
(-1.4) - 63.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 jun. 1903 |
0.1 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 dec. 1903 |
0.6 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
1.2 - 5.2 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 apr. 1906 |
3.0 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
4.2 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 sep. 1908 |
5.4 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 sep. 1908 |
5.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1909 - 4 mrt. 1913 |
5.8 - 9.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
6.2 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 mei 1911 |
8.1 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 mei 1911 |
8.1 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 okt. 1911 |
8.5 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
9.8 - 17.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 jun. 1914 - 15 jun. 1914 |
11.1 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 jun. 1914 - 11 nov. 1918 |
11.2 - 15.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 aug. 1914 - 25 nov. 1918 |
11.3 - 15.6 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 sep. 1914 - 9 jul. 1915 |
11.4 - 12.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 okt. 1914 - 24 okt. 1914 |
11.5 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 apr. 1916 - 30 apr. 1916 |
13.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
13.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 mrt. 1917 - 12 mrt. 1917 |
13.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
14.1 - 60.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
14.2 - 20.2 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 nov. 1917 |
14.5 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 nov. 1918 |
15.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
15.8 - 21.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 feb. 1919 - 20 jun. 1919 |
15.8 - 16.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
16.0 - 16.3 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
16.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
16.3 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
16.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
17.8 - 20.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
18.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
19.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
20.3 - 25.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
20.3 - 20.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
20.4 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
22.0 - 31.3 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
25.1 - 64.5 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
25.2 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
25.7 - 65.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
25.8 - 29.9 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
26.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
26.7 - 28.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
26.9 - 29.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
27.3 - 109.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
28.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
28.2 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
28.6 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
29.1 - 29.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
29.6 - 29.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
29.8 - 42.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
29.8 - 29.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
29.9 - 42.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
32.2 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
33.6 - 48.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
34.0 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
34.2 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
36.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
36.3 - 42.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
37.1 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
38.6 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 apr. 1945 - 20 jan. 1953 |
42.0 - 49.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 apr. 1945 |
42.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 mei 1945 |
42.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 aug. 1945 - 9 aug. 1945 |
42.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 okt. 1946 |
43.5 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 okt. 1947 |
44.5 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 dec. 1948 |
45.7 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 mei 1949 |
46.1 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
46.2 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 sep. 1949 - 16 okt. 1963 |
46.4 - 60.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 okt. 1949 |
46.5 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1949 - 7 sep. 1960 |
46.5 - 57.4 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 jun. 1950 |
47.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
47.2 - 50.2 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 jan. 1952 |
48.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 feb. 1952 - Heden |
48.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 jan. 1953 - 20 jan. 1961 |
49.7 - 57.8 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 jun. 1953 |
50.2 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 feb. 1955 - 5 okt. 2011 |
51.8 - 108.5 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 okt. 1957 |
54.5 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 okt. 1958 |
55.5 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 apr. 1975 |
56.2 - 72.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
57.2 - 70.2 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1961 - 22 nov. 1963 |
57.8 - 60.6 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 apr. 1961 |
58.0 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 mei 1961 - 24 jul. 1975 |
58.1 - 72.3 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 aug. 1961 |
58.3 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1962 - 8 dec. 1965 |
59.5 - 62.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 okt. 1962 - 28 okt. 1962 |
59.5 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 okt. 1963 - 1 dec. 1966 |
60.5 - 63.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 nov. 1963 - 20 jan. 1969 |
60.6 - 65.8 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
63.2 - 70.2 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 dec. 1966 - 21 okt. 1969 |
63.6 - 66.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
64.2 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 jan. 1969 - 9 aug. 1974 |
65.8 - 71.3 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 jul. 1969 |
66.3 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 okt. 1969 - 7 mei 1974 |
66.5 - 71.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 okt. 1969 |
66.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 jul. 1972 |
69.3 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
70.2 - 73.2 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 mei 1974 - 1 okt. 1982 |
71.1 - 79.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 aug. 1974 - 20 jan. 1977 |
71.3 - 73.8 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 nov. 1975 |
72.6 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 apr. 1976 |
73.0 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
73.2 - 86.2 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1977 - 20 jan. 1981 |
73.8 - 77.8 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 apr. 1977 |
74.0 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 dec. 1979 - 15 feb. 1989 |
76.7 - 85.8 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 sep. 1980 - 20 aug. 1988 |
77.4 - 85.4 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 jan. 1981 - 20 jan. 1989 |
77.8 - 85.8 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 apr. 1982 - 14 jun. 1982 |
79.0 - 79.2 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 okt. 1982 - 27 okt. 1998 |
79.5 - 95.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 jan. 1983 |
79.8 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
80.2 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 jan. 1984 |
80.8 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
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