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Explore October 5, 1948 – April 24, 1949

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24
Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31
Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10
Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07
Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04
Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02

People

Joseph Stalin age 69
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 54
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 64
President - United States
Hirohito age 47
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 58
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 60
President - Republic of China
George VI age 52
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 56
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 28
Shah - Iran
Leopold III of Belgium age 46
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 64
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 28
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 48
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 65
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Zongren age 58
President - Republic of China
Shukri al-Quwatli age 56
President - Syria
Juan José Arévalo age 44
President - Guatemala
Husni al-Za'im age 51
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 45
President - Cuba
Trygve Lie age 52
Secretary-General - United Nations
Jawaharlal Nehru age 58
Prime Minister - India
David Ben-Gurion age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 56
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 65
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alcide De Gasperi age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Shigeru Yoshida age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 53
Prime Minister - Poland
Hitoshi Ashida age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
J. Sigfrid Edström age 77
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 37
Prime Minister - Poland
John A. Costello age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yen Hsi-shan age 65
Premier - Republic of China
He Yingqin age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
John J. McCloy age 53
President - World Bank
Sun Fo age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 52
Prime Minister - Egypt
Weng Wenhao age 59
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 39
Prime Minister - Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo age 55
Prime Minister - Cuba
Kim Il-sung age 36
Premier - North Korea
D. F. Malan age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Fred M. Vinson age 58
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 70
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 47
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 73
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 52
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 48
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
George C. Marshall age 67
Secretary of State - United States
Omar Bradley age 55
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Acheson age 55
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Forrestal age 56
Secretary of Defense - United States
Louis A. Johnson age 57
Secretary of Defense - United States
Tom C. Clark age 49
Attorney General - United States
Manny Shinwell age 64
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 66
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 66
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
J. Edgar Hoover age 53
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 73
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 32
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 56
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Dalton age 61
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 64
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 55
President - African National Congress
Margaret Buckley age 69
President - Sinn Féin
Lyndon B. Johnson age 40
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 37
Senate - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 44
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 31
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 66
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 30
House of Representatives - United States
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 55
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 53
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 47
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 53
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 46
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Brown age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 35
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 57
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 46
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 35
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 52
Governor of Ohio - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 55
Governor of Texas - United States
Sid McMath age 36
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 53
Governor of Ohio - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Paul A. Dever age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 52
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 56
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 65
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 25
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 20
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 55
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 47
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 72
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 53
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 25
King - Cambodia
Syngman Rhee age 73
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 64
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 76
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 66
King - Jordan
Chaim Weizmann age 73
President - Israel
Gustaf V of Sweden age 90
King - Sweden
Juliana of the Netherlands age 39
Queen - Netherlands
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 77
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 49
King - Denmark
Karl Renner age 77
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 56
President - Dominican Republic
Luigi Einaudi age 74
President - Italy
Mohammed V of Morocco age 39
Sultan - Morocco
Bolesław Bierut age 56
President - Poland
Sveinn Björnsson age 67
President - Iceland
Rómulo Gallegos age 64
President - Venezuela
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 52
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 49
King - Eswatini
Elpidio Quirino age 57
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 42
President - Costa Rica
William Tubman age 52
President - Liberia
Óscar Carmona age 78
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 78
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 38
Sultan - Oman
Jigme Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Seán T. O'Kelly age 66
President - Ireland
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 49
President - Chile
Bechara El Khoury age 58
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 48
Queen - Tonga
Manuel Odría age 50
President - Peru
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 54
President - Peru
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 56
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 42
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 72
President - Honduras
Omer Nishani age 61
President - Albania
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 39
President - Venezuela
Enrique Hertzog age 50
President - Bolivia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 63
Emir - Kuwait
Dumarsais Estimé age 48
President - Haiti
Josip Vidmar age 53
President - Slovenia
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 50
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 51
President - Paraguay
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 61
President - Honduras
Sao Shwe Thaik age 52
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 93
Emir - Qatar
Ernst Nobs age 62
President - Switzerland
Felipe Molas López age 47
President - Paraguay
Jonas Žemaitis age 39
President - Lithuania
Enrico Celio age 59
President - Switzerland
Raimundo Rolón age 45
President - Paraguay
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 48
President - Peru
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 46
Regent - Lesotho
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 37
President - Indonesia
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 76
President - Nicaragua
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 73
President - Panama
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 67
President - Mongolia
Miha Marinko age 48
President - Slovenia
Enver Hoxha age 39
Prime Minister - Albania
António de Oliveira Salazar age 59
Prime Minister - Portugal
Georgi Dimitrov age 66
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Liaquat Ali Khan age 53
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Paul-Henri Spaak age 49
Prime Minister - Belgium
Willem Drees age 62
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 51
Prime Minister - Thailand
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 73
Prime Minister - Canada
Mohammad Hatta age 46
Prime Minister - Indonesia
Einar Gerhardsen age 51
Prime Minister - Norway
Tage Erlander age 47
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 66
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 53
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 41
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Ben Chifley age 63
Prime Minister - Australia