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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Trinity nuclear test 1945-07-16
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
Direct Action Day 1946-08-16
Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01

People

Ernest Hemingway age 43
Gabriel García Márquez age 15
Fidel Castro age 16
Yuri Gagarin age 8
Mikhail Gorbachev age 11
Henry Ford age 79
Stephen Hawking age 7 months
Jean-Paul Sartre age 37
Jimmy Carter age 17
Benedict XVI age 15
Mother Teresa age 31
George H. W. Bush age 18
Jawaharlal Nehru age 52
Richard Nixon age 29
Alan Turing age 30
John Maynard Keynes age 59
Simone de Beauvoir age 34
Niels Bohr age 56
Muammar Gaddafi age 2 months
John Lennon age 1
Muhammad Ali age 6 months
Max Planck age 84
Kofi Annan age 4
Lech Wałęsa born 1943-09-29
Gerald Ford age 29
Indira Gandhi age 24
Saddam Hussein age 5
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Enrico Fermi age 40
Nikita Khrushchev age 48
14th Dalai Lama age 7
Silvio Berlusconi age 5
Bob Marley born 1945-02-06
Herbert Hoover age 68
Mahathir Mohamad age 17
Boris Yeltsin age 11
Ali Khamenei age 3
Kim Il-sung age 30
Jacques Chirac age 9
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 23
Kwame Nkrumah age 32
Yasser Arafat age 12
Ban Ki-moon born 1944-06-13
B. R. Ambedkar age 51
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945-10-27
Eleanor Roosevelt age 57
Konrad Adenauer age 66
Henry Kissinger age 19
Václav Havel age 5
Georges Pompidou age 31
Leonid Brezhnev age 35
Robert Mugabe age 18
Hosni Mubarak age 14
Golda Meir age 44
John XXIII age 60
Kim Jong-il age 1
Ferdinand Marcos age 24
Malcolm X age 17
François Mitterrand age 25
Alexander Fleming age 61
David Ben-Gurion age 55
Milton Friedman age 30
Ruhollah Khomeini age 39
Valentina Tereshkova age 5
John McCain age 5
Pol Pot age 17
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 3
Akihito age 8
Helmut Kohl age 12
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 38
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 24
Rosa Parks age 29
Shimon Peres age 19
Wangari Maathai age 2
John Paul I age 29
Prince Philip age 21
Anwar Sadat age 23
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 4
Paul VI age 44
Willy Brandt age 28
Gerhard Schröder born 1944-04-07
Dag Hammarskjöld age 37
Salvador Allende age 34
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
John von Neumann age 38
Augusto Pinochet age 26
Lee Kuan Yew age 18
Suharto age 21
Ariel Sharon age 14
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 24
Desmond Tutu age 10
Sergio Mattarella age 1
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 16
Manmohan Singh age 9
Pervez Musharraf born 1943-08-11
Yuri Andropov age 28
Buzz Aldrin age 12
Mohammad Khatami born 1943-10-14
Patrice Lumumba age 17
Yitzhak Rabin age 20
Rosalind Franklin age 22
Andrei Sakharov age 21
Dick Cheney age 1
Douglas MacArthur age 62
Raúl Castro age 11
Giorgio Napolitano age 17
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 2
Idi Amin age 17
Rodrigo Duterte born 1945-03-28
Erwin Rommel age 50
Helmut Schmidt age 23
Margrethe II of Denmark age 2
Rachel Carson age 35
Corazon Aquino age 9
James Watson age 14
Edward VIII age 48
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Madeleine Albright age 5
José Mujica age 7
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 18
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 65
Rajiv Gandhi born 1944-08-20
Thabo Mbeki age 1 month
Georgy Zhukov age 45
Wernher von Braun age 30
Eva Perón age 23
Harald V of Norway age 5
John Major born 1943-03-29
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 5
Slobodan Milošević age 11 months
Jacob Zuma age 4 months
Martti Ahtisaari age 5
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden born 1946-04-30
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 6
Konstantin Chernenko age 30
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 10
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 4
Jiang Zemin age 16
Zhou Enlai age 44
Eduard Shevardnadze age 14
Romano Prodi age 3
Robert F. Kennedy age 16
Pranab Mukherjee age 6
Park Chung-hee age 24
Vyacheslav Molotov age 52
Joachim Gauck age 2
Menachem Begin age 29
Erich Honecker age 29
Francis Crick age 26
Hafez al-Assad age 11
Muhammadu Buhari born 1942-12-17
Horst Köhler born 1943-02-22
Peter Higgs age 13
Tarja Halonen born 1943-12-24
Daniel Ortega born 1945-11-11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 3
Islam Karimov age 4
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 22
Omar al-Bashir born 1944-01-01
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 277
Naoto Kan born 1946-10-10
Adolf Eichmann age 36
Pratibha Patil age 7
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 14
Eva Braun age 30
Heydar Aliyev age 19
Hassanal Bolkiah born 1946-07-15
Kim Dae-jung age 18
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 42
Radovan Karadžić born 1945-06-19
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 19
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 17
Aldo Moro age 25
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 35
F. W. de Klerk age 6
Ludwig Erhard age 45
Kurt Waldheim age 23
Alexander Van der Bellen born 1944-01-18
Miloš Zeman born 1944-09-28
Mobutu Sese Seko age 11
Jomo Kenyatta age 48
Julius Nyerere age 20
Saparmurat Niyazov age 2
Yoweri Museveni born 1944-09-15
Leonid Kuchma age 4
Donald Rumsfeld age 10
Olof Palme age 15
Süleyman Demirel age 17
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 26
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 49
Jonas Salk age 27
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 9
Pierre Trudeau age 22
Fulgencio Batista age 41
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 53
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 19
Syngman Rhee age 67
Junichiro Koizumi age 7 months
Tarō Asō age 1