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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
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
Truman Doctrine 1947-03-12
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19
Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02
Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03
Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07
UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Costa Rican Civil War 1948-03-12 - 1948-04-24
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19
Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Indian annexation of Hyderabad 1948-09-13 - 1948-09-18
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
Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02
Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01
Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27
Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05
Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27

People

Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Harry S. Truman age 61
President - United States
Hirohito age 44
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 55
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
President - Republic of China
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 53
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 63
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Umberto II of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 61
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 61
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 48
President - Mexico
Georges Bidault age 45
President - France
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 44
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 62
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 38
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Li Zongren age 55
President - Republic of China
Shukri al-Quwatli age 53
President - Syria
José Linhares age 59
President - Brazil
Juan José Arévalo age 40
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 69
President - Syria
Husni al-Za'im age 48
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 42
President - Cuba
Sami al-Henaaui age 47
President - Syria
Trygve Lie age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Charles de Gaulle age 54
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Jawaharlal Nehru age 55
Prime Minister - India
Kim Il-sung age 33
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Konrad Adenauer age 69
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 58
Prime Minister - Israel
Josip Broz Tito age 53
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Clement Attlee age 62
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 47
Premier - People's Republic of China
Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
Léon Blum age 73
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Shigeru Yoshida age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 75
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kijūrō Shidehara age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 50
Prime Minister - Poland
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Tetsu Katayama age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Hitoshi Ashida age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Kantarō Suzuki age 77
Prime Minister - Japan
D. F. Malan age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
Félix Gouin age 60
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 74
President - International Olympic Committee
Ferruccio Parri age 55
Prime Minister - Italy
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 34
Prime Minister - Poland
T. V. Soong age 53
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Yen Hsi-shan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Nazim al-Kudsi age 39
Prime Minister - Syria
He Yingqin age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Brock Chisholm age 49
Director-General - World Health Organization
Zhang Qun age 56
Premier - Republic of China
John J. McCloy age 50
President - World Bank
Seán Lester age 56
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Sun Fo age 53
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene Meyer age 69
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 67
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhsin al-Barazi age 41
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 52
Prime Minister - Syria
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Huynh Thuc Khang age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Weng Wenhao age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 36
Prime Minister - Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo age 52
Prime Minister - Cuba
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 47
President - World Bank
Fred M. Vinson age 55
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 72
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Alben W. Barkley age 67
Vice President - United States
Deng Xiaoping age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 52
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Peng Dehuai age 46
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 44
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 70
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George C. Marshall age 64
Secretary of State - United States
Dean Acheson age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 77
Secretary of War - United States
James F. Byrnes age 63
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 56
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
James Forrestal age 53
Secretary of Defense - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 49
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Louis A. Johnson age 54
Secretary of Defense - United States
Tom C. Clark age 45
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 54
Secretary of War - United States
J. Howard McGrath age 41
Attorney General - United States
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 51
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 60
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 60
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 63
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 68
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Arthur Creech Jones age 54
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sidney Souers age 53
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Hoyt Vandenberg age 46
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter age 48
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 50
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Winston Churchill age 70
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 29
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Robert H. Jackson age 53
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Frank Murphy age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Dalton age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 52
President - African National Congress
James Moroka age 54
President - African National Congress
Clement Davies age 61
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
John Hynd age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 66
President - Sinn Féin
Philip Perlman age 55
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
John T. Koehler age 41
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
W. John Kenney age 41
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
H. Struve Hensel age 44
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Mark E. Andrews age 42
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 34
Senate - United States
John Foster Dulles age 57
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 87
Senate - United States
John F. Kennedy age 28
House of Representatives - United States
Richard Nixon age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Gerald Ford age 32
House of Representatives - United States
Anthony Eden age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 51
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 64
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Foot age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 24
House of Representatives - United States
Rab Butler age 42
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 57
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 27
House of Representatives - United States
George Brown age 30
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 52
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 44
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 36
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 50
House of Representatives - United States
Frank Soskice age 43
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 54
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Earl Warren age 54
Governor of California - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 43
Governor of New York - United States
Herman Talmadge age 32
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank Lausche age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 37
Governor of Texas - United States
Walter E. Edge age 71
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 57
Governor of Texas - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 52
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 44
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 48
Governor of Maryland - United States
Sid McMath age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Colgate Darden age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
Gordon Browning age 55
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Paul A. Dever age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 48
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Jim Nance McCord age 66
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 42
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 62
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 52
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 22
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 17
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 52
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 44
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 69
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 69
King - Saudi Arabia
Juan Perón age 49
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 22
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 78
President - Finland
Syngman Rhee age 70
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 60
President - Turkey
Puyi age 39
Emperor - Manchukuo
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 65
Queen - Netherlands
Haakon VII of Norway age 73
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 63
King - Jordan