Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-73.8) - 16.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-72.7) - 18.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-69.5) - 6.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-67.1) - 6.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-64.7) - 15.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-57.9) - 20.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-46.8) - 18.3 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-31.3) - 15.2 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-20.2) - 19.1 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-19.6) - 19.6 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | (-18.1) | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | (-11.7) - 3.4 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | (-3.4) - 4.4 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Dec 21, 1948 | 0.3 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 0.3 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 0.7 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 1.0 - 15.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 1.1 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 1.1 - 12.0 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 1.3 - 4.3 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 1.8 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 3.4 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 3.4 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 4.4 - 12.4 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 4.8 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 6.5 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 9.1 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 10.1 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 10.3 - 26.7 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 11.3 - 24.3 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 12.4 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 12.6 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 12.7 - 26.9 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 14.1 - 17.3 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 14.1 - 14.2 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Aug 13, 1963 | 15.0 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 15.1 - 18.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 15.2 - 20.4 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 17.3 - 24.3 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 18.3 - 21.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 18.3 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 20.4 - 25.9 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 20.9 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 21.1 - 25.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 21.2 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 23.9 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 24.3 - 27.3 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 25.7 - 34.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 25.9 - 28.4 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 27.2 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
1976 - 1989 | 27.3 - 40.4 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Apr 1, 1976 | 27.6 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 28.4 - 32.4 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 28.6 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 31.3 - 40.5 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 32.1 - 40.0 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 32.4 - 40.4 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 33.6 - 33.8 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 34.1 - 50.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
1983 | 34.4 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 19, 1983 | 34.4 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 24, 1984 | 35.4 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 40.4 - 44.4 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 41.2 - 41.3 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 41.9 - 42.5 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 42.1 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 43.3 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 43.4 - 47.4 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 44.4 - 52.4 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 44.9 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 45.2 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | Europian Union |
1994 - 1996 | 45.4 - 47.4 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 46.4 | Kobe Earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 1999 | 49.4 - 50.4 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 | 49.4 - 54.4 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 50.0 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 50.2 - 57.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 50.4 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 52.4 - 60.4 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 53.1 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 53.1 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 53.2 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 53.4 | Introduction of the Euro | Europian Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - Today | 54.6 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 56.4 | Indian Ocean Tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 56.8 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 57.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 58.4 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 60.4 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |