Date
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Age
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Historic Event
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Category
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Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882
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(-68.5) - 4.7
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Life of Charles Robert Darwin
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Personalities
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Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892
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(-60.7) - 15.4
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Life of Werner von Siemens
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Personalities
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Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890
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(-57.6) - 13.2
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Life of Theodor Fontane
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Personalities
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Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923
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(-44.6) - 46.4
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Life of Gustave Eiffel
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Personalities
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Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900
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(-43.4) - 22.6
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Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler
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Personalities
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Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917
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(-39.1) - 39.6
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Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin
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Personalities
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Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910
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(-33.6) - 32.9
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Life of Robert Koch
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Personalities
|
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
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(-32.7) - 51.7
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Life of Carl Benz
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Personalities
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Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
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(-30.5) - 54.3
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Life of Thomas Alva Edison
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Personalities
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Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922
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(-30.4) - 45.0
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Life of Alexander Graham Bell
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Personalities
|
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
|
(-21.2) - 62.2
|
Life of Sigmund Freud
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Personalities
|
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
|
(-15.9) - 64.7
|
Life of Robert Bosch
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Personalities
|
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
(-14.0) - 69.7
|
Life of Henry Ford
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Personalities
|
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
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(-13.8) - 59.7
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Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
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Personalities
|
1868 - 1878
|
(-9.6) - 0.4
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Ten Years' War ('Great War')
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884
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(-7.9) - 6.4
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Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle
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Monuments
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Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924
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(-7.3) - 46.5
|
Life of Vladimir Lenin
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Personalities
|
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888
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(-6.5) - 10.6
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German Emperor: Wilhelm I
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Germany
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
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(-2.7) - 87.6
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Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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Personalities
|
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
(-1.6) - 89.8
|
Life of Konrad Adenauer
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881
|
(-0.4) - 3.6
|
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes
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USA - Presidents
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1878
|
0.4
|
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company
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Companies
|
1878 - 1881
|
0.4 - 3.4
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Second Anglo-Afghan War
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Dec 31, 1878
|
1.4
|
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine
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Automobile History
|
1879
|
1.4
|
Discovery of cholera vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
1.4
|
Discovery of plague vaccine
|
Medicine
|
1879
|
1.4
|
Anglo-Zulu War
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Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
1.6 - 77.8
|
Life of Albert Einstein
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Personalities
|
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881
|
3.4 - 3.7
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First Boer War ('First South African War')
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Wars & Military Conflicts
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Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881
|
3.6 - 4.2
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President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield
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USA - Presidents
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
|
4.0 - 77.7
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
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Personalities
|
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885
|
4.2 - 7.6
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President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur
|
USA - Presidents
|
1882
|
4.4
|
Britain occupies Egypt
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Discoveries & Colonization
|
1882
|
4.4
|
Establishment of Peugeot
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Companies
|
1884
|
6.4
|
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin
|
Aviation History
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
6.5 - 86.4
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
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Personalities
|
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885
|
7.3 - 7.6
|
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference')
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889
|
7.6 - 11.6
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1886
|
8.4
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company
|
Companies
|
1886
|
8.4
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson
|
Companies
|
Oct 28, 1886
|
9.3
|
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty
|
Monuments
|
1887
|
9.4
|
Huang He Flood
|
Disasters
|
1887 - 1889
|
9.4 - 11.4
|
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower
|
Monuments
|
1888
|
10.4
|
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz
|
Automobile History
|
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888
|
10.6 - 10.9
|
German Emperor: Friedrich III
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Germany
|
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918
|
10.9 - 41.3
|
German Emperor: Wilhelm II
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Germany
|
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893
|
11.6 - 15.6
|
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
11.7 - 67.8
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
|
Personalities
|
1890
|
12.4
|
Establishment of General Electric
|
Companies
|
1890
|
12.4
|
Establishment of Daimler
|
Companies
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
13.2 - 91.7
|
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897
|
15.6 - 19.6
|
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland
|
USA - Presidents
|
1896
|
18.4
|
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)')
|
Companies
|
1896 - 1897
|
18.4 - 19.4
|
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901
|
19.6 - 24.1
|
President of the United States of America: William McKinley
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902
|
22.2 - 24.9
|
Second Boer War ('Second South African War')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 8, 1900
|
23.1
|
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas
|
Disasters
|
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909
|
24.1 - 31.6
|
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 19, 1901
|
24.2
|
First motorized zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
24.4 - 89.4
|
Life of Walter Elias Disney
|
Personalities
|
Jun 16, 1903
|
25.9
|
Establishment of Ford Motor Company
|
Companies
|
Dec 16, 1903
|
26.4
|
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers
|
Aviation History
|
1904 - 1908
|
26.4 - 30.4
|
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide')
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Apr 18, 1906
|
28.7
|
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
|
Disasters
|
1907
|
29.4
|
First helicopter flight
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 16, 1908
|
31.2
|
Establishment of General Motors
|
Companies
|
Sep 27, 1908
|
31.2
|
Introduction of the Ford Model T
|
Automobile History
|
1909
|
31.5
|
Discovery of antibiotics
|
Medicine
|
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913
|
31.6 - 35.6
|
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft
|
USA - Presidents
|
May 30, 1911
|
33.9
|
One in seven families in the US owns a car
|
Automobile History
|
May 30, 1911
|
33.9
|
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis
|
Automobile History
|
Oct 23, 1911
|
34.3
|
First military use of an airplane
|
Aviation History
|
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921
|
35.6 - 43.6
|
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914
|
36.9
|
First transatlantic flight
|
Aviation History
|
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
|
36.9 - 41.3
|
World War I
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918
|
37.0 - 41.4
|
East African Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915
|
37.2 - 38.0
|
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I)
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914
|
37.2 - 37.3
|
Maritz Rebellion
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1916
|
38.5
|
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG)
|
Companies
|
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916
|
38.8
|
Easter Rising
|
Great Britain
|
1917 - 1923
|
39.5 - 45.5
|
Russian Civil War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917
|
39.6
|
Russian February Revolution
|
Russia
|
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963
|
39.9 - 86.4
|
Life of John F. Kennedy
|
Personalities
|
Nov 7, 1917
|
40.3
|
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
|
Russia
|
Nov 9, 1918
|
41.3
|
German Revolution
|
Germany
|
1919
|
41.5
|
First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925
|
41.6 - 47.6
|
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert
|
Germany
|
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919
|
41.6 - 41.9
|
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann
|
Germany
|
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919
|
41.8 - 42.1
|
Third Anglo-Afghan War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Aug 11, 1919
|
42.1
|
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution
|
Germany
|
Sep 10, 1919
|
42.1
|
Treaty of Saint-Germain
|
Italy
|
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923
|
43.6 - 46.0
|
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding
|
USA - Presidents
|
Dec 6, 1921
|
44.4
|
Anglo-Irish Treaty
|
Great Britain
|
Oct 28, 1922
|
45.3
|
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy
|
Italy
|
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929
|
46.0 - 51.6
|
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge
|
USA - Presidents
|
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923
|
46.1 - 46.4
|
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann
|
Germany
|
Sep 13, 1923
|
46.2
|
Establishing of the military dictatorship
|
Spain
|
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934
|
47.8 - 57.1
|
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg
|
Germany
|
1928
|
50.5
|
Discovery of penicillin
|
Medicine
|
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967
|
50.9 - 90.3
|
Life of Che Guevara
|
Personalities
|
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968
|
51.5 - 90.7
|
Life of Martin Luther King
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933
|
51.6 - 55.6
|
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 25, 1929
|
52.3
|
'Black Friday'
|
USA
|
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931
|
52.5 - 53.8
|
Construction period of the Empire State Building
|
Monuments
|
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932
|
52.7 - 54.9
|
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning
|
Germany
|
Aug 5, 1930 - Today
|
53.1
|
Life of Neil Armstrong
|
Personalities
|
1931
|
53.5
|
Establishment of Porsche
|
Companies
|
Apr 14, 1931
|
53.7
|
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
|
Spain
|
Dec 11, 1931
|
54.4
|
Statute of Westminster
|
Great Britain
|
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932
|
54.9 - 55.3
|
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen
|
Germany
|
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933
|
55.4 - 55.5
|
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher
|
Germany
|
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945
|
55.5 - 67.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler
|
Germany
|
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933
|
55.6 - 55.7
|
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945
|
55.6 - 67.8
|
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
1935
|
57.5
|
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa.
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952
|
59.4 - 74.6
|
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum'
|
Great Britain
|
1937
|
59.5
|
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge
|
Monuments
|
May 6, 1937
|
59.8
|
Hindenburg disaster
|
Aviation History
|
Aug 27, 1939
|
62.1
|
First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945
|
62.1 - 67.5
|
World War II
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
May 14, 1940
|
62.8
|
Establishment of McDonald's
|
Companies
|
Dec 7, 1941
|
64.4
|
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
USA
|
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953
|
67.8 - 75.5
|
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 25, 1945
|
67.8
|
Establishment of the United Nations
|
World
|
May 8, 1945
|
67.8
|
Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire
|
Germany
|
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945
|
68.1
|
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
|
USA
|
Oct 14, 1946
|
69.3
|
Begin of the 4th French Republic
|
France
|
Oct 14, 1947
|
70.3
|
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 21, 1948
|
71.4
|
Republic of Ireland Act
|
Great Britain
|
1949
|
71.5
|
Establishment of Circuit City
|
Companies
|
May 23, 1949
|
71.9
|
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany
|
Germany
|
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963
|
72.2 - 86.3
|
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer
|
Germany - Chancellors
|
Oct 7, 1949
|
72.2
|
Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic
|
Germany
|
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960
|
72.3 - 83.2
|
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR
|
GDR
|
1950 - 1953
|
72.5 - 75.5
|
Korean War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Jun 17, 1950
|
72.9
|
First successful organ transplant
|
Medicine
|
Jan 22, 1952
|
74.5
|
First jet airliner in regular commercial use
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 6, 1952 - Today
|
74.6
|
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II
|
Great Britain
|
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961
|
75.5 - 83.5
|
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 17, 1953
|
75.9
|
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany
|
Germany
|
Feb 24, 1955 - Today
|
77.6
|
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs
|
Personalities
|
Oct 4, 1957
|
80.2
|
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit
|
Technology
|