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Explore August 17, 1945 – December 27, 1949

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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
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
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
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
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
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

George Orwell age 42
John Paul II age 25
Margaret Thatcher age 19
Ernest Hemingway age 46
Gabriel García Márquez age 18
Fidel Castro age 19
Yuri Gagarin age 11
Mikhail Gorbachev age 14
Henry Ford age 82
Stephen Hawking age 3
Jean-Paul Sartre age 40
Jimmy Carter age 20
Benedict XVI age 18
Mother Teresa age 35
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
George H. W. Bush age 21
Alan Turing age 33
John Maynard Keynes age 62
Simone de Beauvoir age 37
Niels Bohr age 59
Muammar Gaddafi age 3
John Lennon age 4
Muhammad Ali age 3
Max Planck age 87
Kofi Annan age 7
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Lech Wałęsa age 1
Indira Gandhi age 27
Saddam Hussein age 8
Aung San Suu Kyi age 1 month
Enrico Fermi age 43
Nikita Khrushchev age 51
Benjamin Netanyahu born 1949-10-21
14th Dalai Lama age 10
Silvio Berlusconi age 8
Bob Marley age 6 months
Herbert Hoover age 71
Mahathir Mohamad age 20
Boris Yeltsin age 14
Ali Khamenei age 6
Jacques Chirac age 12
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 26
Kwame Nkrumah age 35
Yasser Arafat age 15
Ban Ki-moon age 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger born 1947-07-30
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva born 1945-10-27
Henry Kissinger age 22
Václav Havel age 8
Georges Pompidou age 34
Leonid Brezhnev age 38
Robert Mugabe age 21
Hosni Mubarak age 17
Golda Meir age 47
John XXIII age 63
Dilma Rousseff born 1947-12-14
Ferdinand Marcos age 27
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Malcolm X age 20
François Mitterrand age 28
Alexander Fleming age 64
Milton Friedman age 33
Ruhollah Khomeini age 42
Valentina Tereshkova age 8
Pol Pot age 20
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 6
António Guterres born 1949-04-30
Akihito age 11
Helmut Kohl age 15
J. Robert Oppenheimer age 41
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 27
Rosa Parks age 32
Shimon Peres age 22
John Paul I age 32
Anwar Sadat age 26
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 7
Paul VI age 47
Willy Brandt age 31
Gerhard Schröder age 1
Dag Hammarskjöld age 40
Hassan Rouhani born 1948-11-12
Salvador Allende age 37
Hu Jintao age 2
John von Neumann age 41
Augusto Pinochet age 29
Lee Kuan Yew age 21
Suharto age 24
Ariel Sharon age 17
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 27
Desmond Tutu age 13
Sergio Mattarella age 4
Manmohan Singh age 12
Pervez Musharraf age 2
Yuri Andropov age 31
Lech Kaczyński born 1949-06-18
Buzz Aldrin age 15
Mohammad Khatami age 1
Patrice Lumumba age 20
Yitzhak Rabin age 23
Rosalind Franklin age 25
Andrei Sakharov age 24
Dick Cheney age 4
Douglas MacArthur age 65
Raúl Castro age 14
Sheikh Hasina born 1947-09-28
Giorgio Napolitano age 20
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 5
Idi Amin age 20
Rodrigo Duterte age 4 months
Hermann Göring age 52
Helmut Schmidt age 26
Margrethe II of Denmark age 5
Rachel Carson age 38
Corazon Aquino age 12
Edward VIII age 51
John Kerry age 1
Madeleine Albright age 8
José Mujica age 10
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 21
Muhammad Ali Jinnah age 68
Yoshihide Suga born 1948-12-06
Rajiv Gandhi age 12 months
Thabo Mbeki age 3
Wernher von Braun age 33
Eva Perón age 26
Harald V of Norway age 8
John Major age 2
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 8
Slobodan Milošević age 3
Jacob Zuma age 3
Martti Ahtisaari age 8
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden born 1946-04-30
Mitt Romney born 1947-03-12
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 9
Konstantin Chernenko age 33
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 13
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 7
Jiang Zemin age 19
Sauli Niinistö born 1948-08-24
Eduard Shevardnadze age 17
Romano Prodi age 6
Robert F. Kennedy age 19
Pranab Mukherjee age 9
Park Chung-hee age 27
Vyacheslav Molotov age 55
Joachim Gauck age 5
Thomas Sankara born 1949-12-21
Megawati Soekarnoputri born 1947-01-23
Menachem Begin age 32
Philippe Pétain age 89
Erich Honecker age 33
Hafez al-Assad age 14
Muhammadu Buhari age 2
Horst Köhler age 2
Sebastián Piñera born 1949-12-01
Tarja Halonen age 1
Daniel Ortega born 1945-11-11
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 6
Islam Karimov age 7
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 25
Omar al-Bashir age 1
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 280
Naoto Kan born 1946-10-10
Pratibha Patil age 10
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono born 1949-09-09
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 17
Heydar Aliyev age 22
Hassanal Bolkiah born 1946-07-15
Mario Draghi born 1947-09-03
Kim Dae-jung age 21
Radovan Karadžić age 1 month
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 22
Aldo Moro age 28
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 4
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 38
F. W. de Klerk age 9
Ludwig Erhard age 48
Ashraf Ghani born 1949-05-19
Kurt Waldheim age 26
Alexander Van der Bellen age 1
Miloš Zeman age 10 months
Mobutu Sese Seko age 14
Jomo Kenyatta age 51
Julius Nyerere age 23
Saparmurat Niyazov age 5
Yoweri Museveni age 11 months
Leonid Kuchma age 7
Donald Rumsfeld age 13
Olof Palme age 18
Süleyman Demirel age 20
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 29
Joachim von Ribbentrop age 52
Queen Camilla born 1947-07-17
Jonas Salk age 30
Karl Dönitz age 53
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 12
Pierre Trudeau age 25
Fulgencio Batista age 44
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 56