Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-74.7) - 15.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-73.6) - 17.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-70.4) - 5.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-68.0) - 5.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-65.5) - 14.4 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-58.8) - 19.7 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-47.6) - 17.4 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-32.1) - 14.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-21.1) - 18.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-20.5) - 18.8 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | (-18.9) | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | (-12.6) - 2.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | (-4.2) - 3.5 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 0.2 - 14.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 0.2 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 0.3 - 11.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 0.5 - 3.5 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 0.9 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 2.5 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 2.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 3.5 - 11.5 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 3.9 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 5.6 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 8.2 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 9.2 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 9.5 - 25.8 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 10.5 - 23.5 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 11.5 - 14.4 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 11.8 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 11.9 - 26.1 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 13.3 - 16.4 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 13.3 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Aug 13, 1963 | 14.1 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 14.3 - 17.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 14.4 - 19.5 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 16.5 - 23.5 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 17.4 - 20.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 17.5 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 19.5 - 25.1 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 20.0 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 20.3 - 24.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 20.3 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 23.0 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 23.5 - 26.5 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 24.9 - 33.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 25.1 - 27.6 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 26.4 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
1976 - 1989 | 26.5 - 39.5 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Apr 1, 1976 | 26.7 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 27.6 - 31.6 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 27.8 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 30.5 - 39.6 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 31.2 - 39.1 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 31.6 - 39.6 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 32.8 - 33.0 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 33.3 - 49.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
1983 | 33.5 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 19, 1983 | 33.6 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 24, 1984 | 34.6 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 39.6 - 43.6 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 40.3 - 40.4 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 41.1 - 41.7 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 41.3 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 42.4 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 42.5 - 46.5 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 43.6 - 51.6 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 44.1 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 44.3 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | Europian Union |
1994 - 1996 | 44.5 - 46.5 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 45.6 | Kobe Earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 1999 | 48.5 - 49.5 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 | 48.5 - 53.5 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 49.1 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 49.3 - 56.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 49.5 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 51.6 - 59.6 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 52.2 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 52.3 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 52.3 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 52.5 | Introduction of the Euro | Europian Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - Today | 53.7 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 55.5 | Indian Ocean Tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 55.9 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 56.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 57.5 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 59.6 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |