| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-65.6) - 25.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 mrt. 1834 - 6 mrt. 1900 |
(-64.3) - 1.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 jul. 1838 - 8 mrt. 1917 |
(-60.0) - 18.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 dec. 1843 - 27 mei 1910 |
(-54.6) - 11.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-53.6) - 30.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-51.4) - 33.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-51.4) - 24.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-42.2) - 41.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-36.8) - 43.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-34.9) - 48.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-34.7) - 38.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-28.2) - 25.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-23.6) - 66.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-22.5) - 68.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
(-19.3) - 56.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
(-16.9) - 56.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
(-14.4) - 65.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 jun. 1888 - 9 nov. 1918 |
(-10.0) - 20.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
(-9.2) - 46.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
(-7.7) - 70.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1897 - 14 sep. 1901 |
(-1.3) - 3.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 okt. 1899 - 31 mei 1902 |
1.2 - 3.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 sep. 1900 |
2.1 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 sep. 1901 - 4 mrt. 1909 |
3.2 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 okt. 1901 |
3.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
3.4 - 68.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 jun. 1903 |
4.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 dec. 1903 |
5.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
6.0 - 10.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 apr. 1906 |
7.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
9.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 sep. 1908 |
10.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 sep. 1908 |
10.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1909 - 4 mrt. 1913 |
10.6 - 14.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
11.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 mei 1911 |
12.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 mei 1911 |
12.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 okt. 1911 |
13.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
14.6 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 jun. 1914 - 15 jun. 1914 |
15.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 jun. 1914 - 11 nov. 1918 |
16.0 - 20.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 aug. 1914 - 25 nov. 1918 |
16.1 - 20.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 sep. 1914 - 9 jul. 1915 |
16.2 - 17.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 okt. 1914 - 24 okt. 1914 |
16.2 - 16.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 apr. 1916 - 30 apr. 1916 |
17.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
18.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 mrt. 1917 - 12 mrt. 1917 |
18.6 - 18.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
18.9 - 65.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
19.0 - 25.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 nov. 1917 |
19.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 nov. 1918 |
20.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
20.6 - 26.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 feb. 1919 - 20 jun. 1919 |
20.6 - 20.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
20.8 - 21.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
21.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
21.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
21.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
22.6 - 25.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
23.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
24.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
25.1 - 30.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
25.1 - 25.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
25.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
26.8 - 36.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
29.9 - 69.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
30.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
30.5 - 69.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
30.6 - 34.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
31.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
31.5 - 32.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
31.7 - 33.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
32.1 - 114.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
32.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
33.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
33.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
33.9 - 34.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
34.4 - 34.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
34.6 - 46.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
34.6 - 34.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
34.6 - 46.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
37.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
38.4 - 53.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
38.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
39.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
41.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
41.1 - 47.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
41.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
43.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 apr. 1945 - 20 jan. 1953 |
46.8 - 54.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 apr. 1945 |
46.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 mei 1945 |
46.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 aug. 1945 - 9 aug. 1945 |
47.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 okt. 1946 |
48.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 okt. 1947 |
49.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 dec. 1948 |
50.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 mei 1949 |
50.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
51.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 sep. 1949 - 16 okt. 1963 |
51.2 - 65.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 okt. 1949 |
51.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1949 - 7 sep. 1960 |
51.3 - 62.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 jun. 1950 |
51.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
52.0 - 55.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 jan. 1952 |
53.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 feb. 1952 - Heden |
53.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 jan. 1953 - 20 jan. 1961 |
54.5 - 62.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 jun. 1953 |
54.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 feb. 1955 - 5 okt. 2011 |
56.6 - 113.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 okt. 1957 |
59.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 okt. 1958 |
60.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 apr. 1975 |
61.0 - 76.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
62.0 - 75.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1961 - 22 nov. 1963 |
62.5 - 65.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 apr. 1961 |
62.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
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