Date | Age | Historic Event | Category |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-82.9) - 0.5 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-77.5) - 3.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-75.7) - 8.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-64.3) - 25.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-63.2) - 28.1 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-60.0) - 16.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-57.6) - 16.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-55.2) - 24.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-49.9) - 6.1 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-48.4) - 30.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-37.3) - 27.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-21.8) - 24.7 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | (-10.7) - 28.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | (-10.2) - 29.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | (-8.6) | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-6.1) - 6.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | (-6.0) - 6.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | (-2.2) - 12.9 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
Aug 27, 1939 | 0.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 0.5 - 5.8 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 1.2 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 2.8 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 6.1 - 13.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 6.1 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 6.2 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 6.4 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 7.6 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 8.6 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 9.8 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 9.8 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 10.2 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 10.5 - 24.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 10.6 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 10.6 - 21.5 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 10.8 - 13.8 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 11.3 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 12.9 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 12.9 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 13.9 - 21.9 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 14.3 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 16.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 18.6 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 19.6 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 19.8 - 36.2 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 20.8 - 33.8 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 21.9 - 24.7 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 22.1 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 22.2 - 36.4 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 23.6 - 26.8 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 23.6 - 23.7 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Aug 13, 1963 | 24.4 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 24.6 - 27.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 24.7 - 29.9 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 26.8 - 33.8 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 27.8 - 30.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 27.8 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 29.9 - 35.4 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 30.4 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 30.6 - 35.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 30.7 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |