Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-80.6) - 2.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-75.2) - 5.3 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-73.4) - 10.4 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-73.2) - 0.3 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-62.0) - 28.2 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-60.9) - 30.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-57.7) - 18.4 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-55.3) - 18.3 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-52.9) - 27.1 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-47.6) - 8.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-46.1) - 32.4 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-35.0) - 30.1 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-19.5) - 27.0 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-8.4) - 30.9 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-7.9) - 31.4 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | (-6.3) | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-3.8) - 8.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | (-3.7) - 8.4 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 0.0 - 15.2 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
1937 | 0.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
May 6, 1937 | 0.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
Aug 27, 1939 | 2.8 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 2.8 - 8.1 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 3.5 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 5.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 8.4 - 16.2 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 8.4 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 8.5 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 8.7 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 9.9 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 10.9 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 12.1 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 12.1 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 12.5 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 12.8 - 26.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 12.9 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 12.9 - 23.8 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 13.1 - 16.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 13.6 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 15.2 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 15.2 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 16.2 - 24.2 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 16.6 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 18.3 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 20.9 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 21.9 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 22.1 - 38.5 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 23.1 - 36.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 24.2 - 27.0 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 24.4 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 24.5 - 38.7 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 25.9 - 29.1 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 25.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Aug 13, 1963 | 26.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 26.9 - 30.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 27.0 - 32.2 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 29.1 - 36.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 30.0 - 32.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 30.1 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 32.2 - 37.7 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 32.7 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 32.9 - 37.5 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 33.0 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 35.7 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 36.1 - 39.1 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 37.5 - 45.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 37.7 - 40.2 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 39.0 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
1976 - 1989 | 39.1 - 52.1 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Apr 1, 1976 | 39.4 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 40.2 - 44.2 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 40.4 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 43.1 - 52.3 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 43.9 - 51.8 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 44.2 - 52.2 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 45.4 - 45.6 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 45.9 - 62.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
1983 | 46.1 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 19, 1983 | 46.2 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 24, 1984 | 47.2 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 52.2 - 56.2 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 52.9 - 53.1 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 53.7 - 54.3 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 53.9 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 55.1 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 55.1 - 59.1 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 56.2 - 64.2 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 56.7 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 57.0 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | Europian Union |
1994 - 1996 | 57.1 - 59.1 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 58.2 | Kobe Earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 1999 | 61.1 - 62.1 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 | 61.1 - 66.2 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 61.8 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 62.0 - 69.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 62.1 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 64.2 - 72.2 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 64.8 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 64.9 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 65.0 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 65.2 | Introduction of the Euro | Europian Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - Today | 66.4 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 68.1 | Indian Ocean Tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 68.6 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 69.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 70.2 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 72.2 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |