| Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-68.2) - 22.9 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-62.7) - 16.1 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-57.2) - 9.3 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-56.3) - 28.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-54.1) - 30.7 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-54.0) - 21.5 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-44.8) - 38.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-39.4) - 41.1 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-37.6) - 46.2 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-37.4) - 36.1 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-30.9) - 22.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-26.2) - 64.0 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-25.1) - 66.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-22.0) - 54.2 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-19.6) - 54.1 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-17.1) - 62.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-12.7) - 17.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-11.8) - 44.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-10.4) - 68.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | (-4.0) - 0.6 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | (-1.4) - 1.3 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 0.6 - 8.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 0.7 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 0.8 - 65.9 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 2.3 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 2.8 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 2.9 - 6.9 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 5.2 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 5.9 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 7.6 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 7.6 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 7.9 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 8.0 - 12.0 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| May 30, 1911 | 10.3 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 10.3 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 10.7 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 12.0 - 20.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 13.3 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 13.4 - 17.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 13.5 - 17.8 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 13.6 - 14.4 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 13.7 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 14.9 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 15.2 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 15.9 - 21.9 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 16.1 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 16.3 - 62.8 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 16.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 17.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 17.9 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 18.0 - 24.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 18.0 - 18.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 18.2 - 18.5 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 18.5 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 18.6 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 20.0 - 22.5 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 20.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 21.7 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 22.5 - 28.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 22.5 - 22.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 22.6 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 24.2 - 33.5 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 26.9 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 27.3 - 66.7 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 27.9 - 67.2 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 28.0 - 32.1 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 28.7 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 28.9 - 30.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 29.1 - 31.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 29.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 29.9 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 30.2 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 30.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 31.3 - 31.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 31.8 - 32.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 32.0 - 44.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 32.0 - 32.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 32.1 - 44.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 33.9 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 35.8 - 51.0 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 35.9 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| May 6, 1937 | 36.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 38.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 38.6 - 43.9 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 39.3 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 40.8 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 44.2 - 51.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 44.2 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 44.2 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 44.5 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 45.7 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 46.7 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 47.9 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 47.9 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| May 23, 1949 | 48.3 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 48.6 - 62.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 48.7 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 48.7 - 59.6 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 48.9 - 51.9 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 49.4 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 51.0 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 51.0 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 51.9 - 60.0 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 52.4 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 54.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 56.7 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 57.7 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 57.9 - 74.2 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 58.9 - 71.9 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 60.0 - 62.8 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 60.2 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 60.3 - 74.5 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 61.7 - 64.8 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 61.7 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Aug 13, 1963 | 62.5 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 62.7 - 65.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 62.8 - 68.0 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 64.9 - 71.9 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 65.8 - 68.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 65.9 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
| Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 68.0 - 73.5 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| Jul 20, 1969 | 68.5 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
| Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 68.7 - 73.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 31, 1969 | 68.7 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
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