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Explore August 13, 1942 – January 1, 1947

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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

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
U Thant age 33
Rudolf Hess age 48
George S. Patton age 56
Colin Powell age 5
Giulio Andreotti age 23
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 5
Alexander Dubček age 20
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Václav Klaus age 1
Ehud Olmert born 1945-09-30
Francesco Cossiga age 14
Leonid Kravchuk age 8
Puyi age 36
Ahmed Ben Bella age 25
Heinz Fischer age 3
Michael D. Higgins age 1
Mario Monti born 1943-03-19
Alberto Fujimori age 4
Roh Moo-hyun born 1946-09-01
Bernard Montgomery age 54
Richard von Weizsäcker age 22
Albert Speer age 37
Ram Nath Kovind born 1945-10-01
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 30
Reza Shah age 64
Albert II of Belgium age 8
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 7
José Eduardo dos Santos born 1942-08-28
John Howard age 3
Rajendra Prasad age 57
Alexander Kerensky age 61
Turgut Özal age 14
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 66
Eisaku Satō age 41
Georgy Malenkov age 40
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 21
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 22
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 36
Michel Temer age 1
Sergei Korolev age 35
Edward Heath age 26
Lavrentiy Beria age 43
Walter Mondale age 14
Paul Biya age 9
Lester B. Pearson age 45
Hussein I of Jordan age 6
Habib Bourguiba age 39
Tansu Çiller born 1946-05-24
Ratko Mladić age 5 months
Dzhokhar Dudayev born 1944-02-15
Claus von Stauffenberg age 34
Martin Bormann age 42
Abdelmadjid Tebboune born 1945-11-17
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 11
Teodoro Obiang age 2 months
B. J. Habibie age 6
Mary Robinson born 1944-05-21
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 21
Hastings Banda age 52
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 21
Moshe Dayan age 27
Stanley Baldwin age 75
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 38
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 12
Abdurrahman Wahid age 1
Alassane Ouattara age 7 months
Denis Sassou-Nguesso born 1943-11-23
Johannes Rau age 11
Yasuo Fukuda age 6
Franz von Papen age 62
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 11 months
Omar Bongo age 6
Celâl Bayar age 59
Emmerson Mnangagwa born 1942-09-15
Lee Myung-bak age 7 months
Alija Izetbegović age 17
Subhas Chandra Bose age 45
Franjo Tuđman age 20
Jorge Rafael Videla age 17
Urho Kekkonen age 41
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 3
Nana Akufo-Addo born 1944-03-29
Adolfo Suárez age 9
Walter Ulbricht age 49
François Englert age 9
Isoroku Yamamoto age 58
Wilhelm Keitel age 59
Hubert Humphrey age 31
Charles G. Dawes age 77
Nelson Rockefeller age 34
John Evans Atta Mills born 1944-07-21
Reuven Rivlin age 2
Hassan II age 13
Cemal Gürsel age 46
Kenneth Kaunda age 18
Robert Schuman age 56
Janet Yellen born 1946-08-13
Lee Harvey Oswald age 2
Alfred Rosenberg age 49
Imre Nagy age 46
Victor Chernomyrdin age 4
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 11 months
Andrei Gromyko age 33
Constantine II of Greece age 2
Robert G. Edwards age 16
Kliment Voroshilov age 61
Spiro Agnew age 23
Carlos Menem age 12
Nikos Anastasiades born 1946-09-27
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir born 1942-10-04
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 37
Laurent Gbagbo born 1945-05-31
Kenan Evren age 25
Roman Herzog age 8
Sali Berisha born 1944-10-15
Stjepan Mesić age 7
Isaac Shamir age 26
Michel Aoun age 8
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 18
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 3
Mahinda Rajapaksa born 1945-11-18
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 24
Ngo Dinh Diem age 41
Isaias Afwerki born 1946-02-02
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 5
Ion Iliescu age 12
Bülent Ecevit age 17
Kim Young-sam age 14
Erich von Manstein age 54
Chaim Weizmann age 67
Sandro Pertini age 45
Tabaré Vázquez age 2
Theodor Heuss age 58
Walter Scheel age 23
Alfred Jodl age 52
Jalal Talabani age 8
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 13
Vicente Fox age 1 month
Olusegun Obasanjo age 5
Olav V of Norway age 39
Beji Caid Essebsi age 15
Alfredo Stroessner age 29
Fidel Ramos age 14
Wallis Simpson age 46
Juscelino Kubitschek age 39
Baudouin of Belgium age 11
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 60
Hua Guofeng age 21
Agostinho Neto age 19
Alpha Condé age 4
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 20
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson born 1943-05-14
Morarji Desai age 46
Ehud Barak age 6 months
Giuliano Amato age 4
Ayub Khan age 35
Emilio Aguinaldo age 73
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 40
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 22
Anastas Mikoyan age 46
Sarojini Naidu age 63
Otto von Habsburg age 29
Chester W. Nimitz age 57
Abdul Hamid born 1944-01-01
Mauno Koivisto age 18
Karolos Papoulias age 13
Zakir Husain age 45
Juliana of the Netherlands age 33
Rafiq Hariri born 1944-11-01
Milton Obote age 16
Yun Po-sun age 44
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 45
Gustav Heinemann age 43
Lionel Jospin age 5
Hans Frank age 42
Albert Lebrun age 71
Abolhassan Banisadr age 9
János Kádár age 30
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 23
Bettino Craxi age 8
Valdas Adamkus age 15
Samora Moisés Machel age 8
Mamnoon Hussain age 1
Fahri Korutürk age 39
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi born 1945-09-01
Chandrika Kumaratunga born 1945-06-29