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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
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
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
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
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

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
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 22
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo born 1947-04-05
Junichiro Koizumi age 3
Tarō Asō age 4
U Thant age 36
Rudolf Hess age 51
George S. Patton age 59
Colin Powell age 8
Giulio Andreotti age 26
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 8
Hideki Tojo age 60
Alexander Dubček age 23
Wen Jiabao age 2
Václav Klaus age 4
Ehud Olmert born 1945-09-30
Francesco Cossiga age 17
Leonid Kravchuk age 11
Ali Abdullah Saleh born 1947-03-21
Puyi age 39
Ahmed Ben Bella age 28
Heinz Fischer age 6
Michael D. Higgins age 4
Mario Monti age 2
Alberto Fujimori age 7
Roh Moo-hyun born 1946-09-01
Bernard Montgomery age 57
Richard von Weizsäcker age 25
Albert Speer age 40
Ram Nath Kovind born 1945-10-01
Nawaz Sharif born 1949-12-25
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 34
Albert II of Belgium age 11
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 10
José Eduardo dos Santos age 2
John Howard age 6
Rajendra Prasad age 60
Alexander Kerensky age 64
Turgut Özal age 17
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel age 69
Eisaku Satō age 44
Yukio Hatoyama born 1947-02-11
Georgy Malenkov age 43
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 24
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 25
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 39
Michel Temer age 4
Sergei Korolev age 38
Edward Heath age 29
Lavrentiy Beria age 46
Walter Mondale age 17
Paul Biya age 12
Lester B. Pearson age 48
Hussein I of Jordan age 9
Habib Bourguiba age 42
Tansu Çiller born 1946-05-24
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan born 1948-09-07
Ratko Mladić age 3
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 1
Abdelmadjid Tebboune born 1945-11-17
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 14
Teodoro Obiang age 3
B. J. Habibie age 9
Mary Robinson age 1
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 24
Hastings Banda age 55
Thaksin Shinawatra born 1949-07-26
Jarosław Kaczyński born 1949-06-18
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 24
Moshe Dayan age 30
Stanley Baldwin age 78
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 41
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 15
Abdurrahman Wahid age 4
Alassane Ouattara age 3
Denis Sassou-Nguesso age 1
Johannes Rau age 14
Yasuo Fukuda age 9
Jeremy Corbyn born 1949-05-26
Franz von Papen age 65
Óscar Arias Sánchez age 3
Omar Bongo age 9
Celâl Bayar age 62
Emmerson Mnangagwa age 2
Lee Myung-bak age 3
Alija Izetbegović age 20
Subhas Chandra Bose age 48
Franjo Tuđman age 23
Jorge Rafael Videla age 20
Urho Kekkonen age 44
Zviad Gamsakhurdia age 6
Nana Akufo-Addo age 1
José Ramos-Horta born 1949-12-26
Adolfo Suárez age 12
Walter Ulbricht age 52
François Englert age 12
Wilhelm Keitel age 62
Charles G. Dawes age 80
Nelson Rockefeller age 37
Alec Douglas-Home age 42
John Evans Atta Mills age 1
Reuven Rivlin age 5
Hassan II age 16
Cemal Gürsel age 49
Trương Tấn Sang born 1949-01-21
Kenneth Kaunda age 21
Alan García born 1949-05-23
Robert Schuman age 59
Janet Yellen born 1946-08-13
Lee Harvey Oswald age 5
Alfred Rosenberg age 52
Imre Nagy age 49
Victor Chernomyrdin age 7
Ahmet Necdet Sezer age 3
Andrei Gromyko age 36
Constantine II of Greece age 5
Robert G. Edwards age 19
Kliment Voroshilov age 64
Spiro Agnew age 26
Carlos Menem age 15
Nikos Anastasiades born 1946-09-27
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 2
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 40
Laurent Gbagbo age 2 months
Kenan Evren age 28
Roman Herzog age 11
Sali Berisha age 10 months
Stjepan Mesić age 10
Isaac Shamir age 29
Michel Aoun age 11
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 21
Aníbal Cavaco Silva age 6
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum born 1949-07-15
Mahinda Rajapaksa born 1945-11-18
Yasuhiro Nakasone age 27
Ngo Dinh Diem age 44
Henry A. Wallace age 56
Isaias Afwerki born 1946-02-02
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 8
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa born 1948-12-12
Ion Iliescu age 15
Bülent Ecevit age 20
Kim Young-sam age 17
Erich von Manstein age 57
Sandro Pertini age 48
Anwar Ibrahim born 1947-08-10
Tabaré Vázquez age 5
Walter Scheel age 26
Alfred Jodl age 55
Jalal Talabani age 11
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 16
Vicente Fox age 3
Olusegun Obasanjo age 8
Olav V of Norway age 42
Ion Antonescu age 63
Beji Caid Essebsi age 18
Alfredo Stroessner age 32
Fidel Ramos age 17
Wallis Simpson age 49
Juscelino Kubitschek age 42
Baudouin of Belgium age 14
Mohammad Mosaddegh age 63
Hua Guofeng age 24
Agostinho Neto age 22
Alpha Condé age 7
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 23
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 2
Morarji Desai age 49
Ehud Barak age 3
Giuliano Amato age 7
Ayub Khan age 38
Emilio Aguinaldo age 76
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 43
Pietro Badoglio age 73
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 25
Anastas Mikoyan age 49
Sarojini Naidu age 66
Otto von Habsburg age 32
Chester W. Nimitz age 60
Abdul Hamid age 1
Kim Campbell born 1947-03-10
Mauno Koivisto age 21
Karolos Papoulias age 16