Date
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Age
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Historic Event
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Category
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Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929
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(-82.8) - 1.6
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Life of Carl Benz
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Personalities
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Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931
|
(-80.6) - 4.2
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Life of Thomas Alva Edison
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Personalities
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May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939
|
(-71.3) - 12.1
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Life of Sigmund Freud
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Personalities
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Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942
|
(-65.9) - 14.6
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Life of Robert Bosch
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Personalities
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Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947
|
(-64.1) - 19.7
|
Life of Henry Ford
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Personalities
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Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937
|
(-63.9) - 9.6
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Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain
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Personalities
|
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965
|
(-52.7) - 37.5
|
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
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Personalities
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Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967
|
(-51.6) - 39.7
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Life of Konrad Adenauer
|
Personalities
|
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955
|
(-48.4) - 27.7
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Life of Albert Einstein
|
Personalities
|
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955
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(-46.0) - 27.6
|
Life of Alexander Fleming
|
Personalities
|
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963
|
(-43.6) - 36.4
|
Life of Theodor Heuss
|
Personalities
|
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945
|
(-38.3) - 17.7
|
Life of Adolf Hitler
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Personalities
|
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969
|
(-36.8) - 41.7
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Life of Dwight David Eisenhower
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Personalities
|
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966
|
(-25.7) - 39.4
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Life of Walter Elias Disney
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Personalities
|
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963
|
(-10.2) - 36.3
|
Life of John F. Kennedy
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Personalities
|
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929
|
(-4.0) - 1.6
|
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge
|
USA - Presidents
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May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934
|
(-2.3) - 7.0
|
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg
|
Germany
|
1928
|
0.4
|
Discovery of penicillin
|
Medicine
|
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967
|
0.8 - 40.2
|
Life of Che Guevara
|
Personalities
|
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968
|
1.4 - 40.7
|
Life of Martin Luther King
|
Personalities
|
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933
|
1.6 - 5.6
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President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover
|
USA - Presidents
|
Oct 25, 1929
|
2.2
|
'Black Friday'
|
USA
|
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931
|
2.4 - 3.7
|
Construction period of the Empire State Building
|
Monuments
|
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932
|
2.6 - 4.8
|
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning
|
Germany
|
Aug 5, 1930 - Today
|
3.0
|
Life of Neil Armstrong
|
Personalities
|
1931
|
3.4
|
Establishment of Porsche
|
Companies
|
Apr 14, 1931
|
3.7
|
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic
|
Spain
|
Dec 11, 1931
|
4.3
|
Statute of Westminster
|
Great Britain
|
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932
|
4.8 - 5.3
|
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen
|
Germany
|
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933
|
5.3 - 5.5
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Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher
|
Germany
|
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945
|
5.5 - 17.7
|
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler
|
Germany
|
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933
|
5.6
|
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship
|
Germany
|
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945
|
5.6 - 17.7
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President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
USA - Presidents
|
1935
|
7.4
|
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa.
|
Discoveries & Colonization
|
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952
|
9.3 - 24.5
|
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum'
|
Great Britain
|
1937
|
9.4
|
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge
|
Monuments
|
May 6, 1937
|
9.7
|
Hindenburg disaster
|
Aviation History
|
Aug 27, 1939
|
12.0
|
First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane
|
Aviation History
|
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945
|
12.1 - 17.4
|
World War II
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
May 14, 1940
|
12.8
|
Establishment of McDonald's
|
Companies
|
Dec 7, 1941
|
14.3
|
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
|
USA
|
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953
|
17.7 - 25.5
|
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 25, 1945
|
17.7
|
Establishment of the United Nations
|
World
|
May 8, 1945
|
17.8
|
Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire
|
Germany
|
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945
|
18.0
|
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
|
USA
|
Oct 14, 1946
|
19.2
|
Begin of the 4th French Republic
|
France
|
Oct 14, 1947
|
20.2
|
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1
|
Aviation History
|
Dec 21, 1948
|
21.4
|
Republic of Ireland Act
|
Great Britain
|
1949
|
21.4
|
Establishment of Circuit City
|
Companies
|
May 23, 1949
|
21.8
|
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany
|
Germany
|
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963
|
22.1 - 36.2
|
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer
|
Germany - Chancellors
|
Oct 7, 1949
|
22.2
|
Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic
|
Germany
|
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960
|
22.2 - 33.1
|
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR
|
GDR
|
1950 - 1953
|
22.4 - 25.4
|
Korean War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
Jun 17, 1950
|
22.9
|
First successful organ transplant
|
Medicine
|
Jan 22, 1952
|
24.5
|
First jet airliner in regular commercial use
|
Aviation History
|
Feb 6, 1952 - Today
|
24.5
|
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II
|
Great Britain
|
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961
|
25.5 - 33.5
|
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
USA - Presidents
|
Jun 17, 1953
|
25.9
|
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany
|
Germany
|
Feb 24, 1955 - Today
|
27.6
|
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs
|
Personalities
|
Oct 4, 1957
|
30.2
|
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit
|
Technology
|
Oct 5, 1958
|
31.2
|
Begin of the 5th French Republic
|
France
|
1959 - Apr 30, 1975
|
31.4 - 47.7
|
Vietnam War
|
Wars & Military Conflicts
|
1960 - 1973
|
32.4 - 45.4
|
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR
|
GDR
|
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963
|
33.5 - 36.3
|
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy
|
USA - Presidents
|
Apr 12, 1961
|
33.7
|
First human in space
|
Technology
|
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975
|
33.8 - 48.0
|
Apollo Space Program
|
Technology
|
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965
|
35.2 - 38.4
|
Second Vatican Council
|
World
|
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962
|
35.2
|
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis')
|
USA
|
Aug 13, 1963
|
36.0
|
Construction of the Berlin Wall
|
Germany
|
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966
|
36.2 - 39.3
|
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard
|
Germany - Chancellors
|
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969
|
36.3 - 41.5
|
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson
|
USA - Presidents
|