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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted
1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War
1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland
1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France
1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk
1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain
1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia
1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa
1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War
1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre
1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow
1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07
Pacific War
1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign
1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan
1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference
1942-01-20
Bataan Death March
1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway
1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre
1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord
1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
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
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945)
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre
1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution
1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War
1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946
1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials
1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
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
Indian Independence Act
1947-07-18
Partition of India
1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1949-03-29
People
Clement Attlee
age 44
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 52
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Raymond Poincaré
age 66
Prime Minister
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France
Ho Chi Minh
age 37
President
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Vietnam
Harry S. Truman
age 43
President
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United States
Joseph Stalin
age 48
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlain
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt
age 45
President
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United States
Mao Zedong
age 33
Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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Communist Party of China
Calvin Coolidge
age 55
President
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United States
Adolf Hitler
age 38
Führer
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Germany
Hirohito
age 26
Emperor
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Japan
Herbert Hoover
age 53
President
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 49
Vice President
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United States
Henry A. Wallace
age 38
Vice President
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United States
John Nance Garner
age 58
Vice President
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United States
Konrad Adenauer
age 51
Chancellor
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Germany
Charles Curtis
age 67
Vice President
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United States
Charles G. Dawes
age 61
Vice President
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United States
Kurt von Schleicher
age 45
Chancellor
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Germany
Kim Il-sung
age 15
Chairman Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
George VI
age 31
King
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United Kingdom
Joseph Goebbels
age 29
Chancellor
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Germany
Józef Piłsudski
age 59
Prime Minister
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Poland
Edward VIII
age 33
King
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United Kingdom
George V
age 62
King
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United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai
age 29
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 16
Senate
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United States
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 18
Senate
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 39
Senate
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United States
Richard Nixon
age 14
House of Representatives
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United States
John F. Kennedy
age 10
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 14
House of Representatives
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United States
Hermann Göring
age 34
President of the Reichstag
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Germany
Fred M. Vinson
age 37
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
William Howard Taft
age 69
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone
age 54
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Charles Evans Hughes
age 65
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
George C. Marshall
age 46
Secretary Of State
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United States
David Lloyd George
age 64
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Omar Bradley
age 34
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 36
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Douglas MacArthur
age 47
Chief of Staff of the Army
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United States
Earl Warren
age 36
Governor of California
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 16
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
born 1946-08-19
Democratic Party (United States)
Daniel Inouye
age 2
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
born 1942-11-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 11
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 19
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 4
United States Army
Jiang Zemin
age 11 months
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 33
Nazi Party
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Martin Bormann
age 27
Nazi Party
Reinhard Heydrich
age 23
Nazi Party
Dick Cheney
born 1941-01-30
Republican Party (United States)
William Rehnquist
age 2
United States Air Force
Kurt Daluege
age 29
Nazi Party
Iwane Matsui
age 49
Imperial Japanese Army
Heinrich Himmler
age 26
Nazi Party
Lee Teng-hui
age 4
Imperial Japanese Army
George S. Patton
age 41
United States Army
Hu Jintao
born 1942-12-21
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 18
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 20
Communist Party of China
Dong Biwu
age 41
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 7
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 11
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 6
Communist Party of China
George H. W. Bush
age 3
Republican Party (United States)
Deng Xiaoping
age 22
Communist Party of China
Jimmy Carter
age 2
United States Navy
John Paul Stevens
age 7
United States Navy
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Thurgood Marshall
age 19
Democratic Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 3
Republican Party (United States)
Arthur Goldberg
age 18
Democratic Party (United States)
Potter Stewart
age 12
Republican Party (United States)
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 21
United States Army
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 38
Communist Party of Vietnam
Clark Clifford
age 20
United States Navy
Melvin Laird
age 4
United States Navy
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Charles de Gaulle
age 36
French Army
Wilhelm Frick
age 50
Nazi Party
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 7
United States Army
Karl Dönitz
age 35
Nazi Party
Walter Mondale
born 1928-01-05
Democratic Party (United States)
Courtney Hodges
age 40
United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 41
United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 42
United States Navy
Liu Shaoqi
age 28
Communist Party of China
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 17
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 13
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 3
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
Byron White
age 10
Democratic Party (United States)
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 45
Imperial Japanese Army
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Hans Fritzsche
age 27
Walther Funk
age 36
George W. Bush
born 1946-07-06
Wilhelm Keitel
age 44
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
age 23
Claus von Stauffenberg
age 19
Manuel Azaña
age 47
Hideki Tōjō
age 42
Martin Luther King Jr.
born 1929-01-15
Erich Raeder
age 51
Francisco Franco
age 34
Mikhail Gorbachev
born 1931-03-02
Friedrich Jeckeln
age 32
Kliment Voroshilov
age 46
Chester W. Nimitz
age 42
Isoroku Yamamoto
age 43
Semyon Timoshenko
age 32
He Yingqin
age 37
Lê Duẩn
age 20
Akira Mutō
age 34
Doihara Kenji
age 44
Kōki Hirota
age 49
Ernst Röhm
age 39
Naoki Hoshino
age 35
Heitarō Kimura
age 38
Souphanouvong
age 18
Pol Pot
age 2
Benito Mussolini
age 44
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 37
Rodion Malinovsky
age 28
Leonid Brezhnev
age 20
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 24
Saddam Hussein
born 1937-04-28
Franz von Papen
age 47
Robert F. Kennedy
age 1
Kiichirō Hiranuma
age 59
Nikita Khrushchev
age 33
Chiang Kai-shek
age 39
Paul von Hindenburg
age 79
Seishirō Itagaki
age 42
Elizabeth II
age 1
Rosa Parks
age 14
Kyösti Kallio
age 54
Hjalmar Schacht
age 50
Baldur von Schirach
age 20
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
age 35
Fritz Sauckel
age 32
Erich Ludendorff
age 62
Wilhelm Groener
age 59
Alfred Rosenberg
age 34
Hubert Gough
age 57
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Kim Jong-il
born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela
age 9
Mahatma Gandhi
age 57
Albert Einstein
age 48
John Marshall Harlan II
age 28
Abe Fortas
age 17
Clarence M. Kelley
age 15
Antonin Scalia
born 1936-03-11
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Clarence Thomas
born 1948-06-23
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat
born 1929-08-24
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 9
Ramsey Clark
born 1927-12-18
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 5
Warren Christopher
age 1
Lawrence Eagleburger
born 1930-08-01
John Connally
age 10
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 9
Gennady Yanayev
born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko
age 15
John Major
born 1943-03-29
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 22
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 12
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 11
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 19
Jacobo Árbenz
age 13
Juan José Arévalo
age 22
Robert A. Lovett
age 31
Charles III
born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage
age 209
Malcolm X
age 2
Jo Ann Robinson
age 15
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
Aung San Suu Kyi
born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali
born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin
born 1931-02-01
Nikola Tesla
age 71
Leon Trotsky
age 47
Peng Dehuai
age 28
Al Gore
born 1948-03-31
Warren E. Burger
age 19
Joseph Joffre
age 75
Anthony Eden
age 30
Emilio De Bono
age 61
Albert Speer
age 22
Donald Trump
born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov
age 13
Julius Streicher
age 42
Alfred Jodl
age 37
Otto Hofmann
age 31
Fritz Todt
age 35
Otto Rasch
age 35
Hans Frank
age 27
Hafez al-Assad
born 1930-10-06
George Shultz
age 6
Souvanna Phouma
age 25
Margaret Thatcher
age 1
Ellison Onizuka
born 1946-06-24
Zhu Rongji
born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong
born 1939-07-30
Soong Ching-ling
age 34
Zhu De
age 40
Puyi
age 21
Nelson Rockefeller
age 19
Dan Quayle
born 1947-02-04
Ferdinand Foch
age 75
John J. Pershing
age 66
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 47
Gerd von Rundstedt
age 51
H. H. Asquith
age 74
Erich von Manstein
age 39
Georges Clemenceau
age 85
Wilhelm II
age 68
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 21
Robert McNamara
age 11
Fidel Castro
age 11 months
Spiro Agnew
age 8
Eva Braun
age 15