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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

Zakir Husain age 48
Rafiq Hariri age 9 months
Milton Obote age 19
Yun Po-sun age 48
Konstantin Rokossovsky age 48
Gustav Heinemann age 46
Lionel Jospin age 8
Hans Frank age 45
Albert Lebrun age 74
Abolhassan Banisadr age 12
János Kádár age 33
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 26
Bettino Craxi age 11
Valdas Adamkus age 18
Samora Moisés Machel age 11
Mamnoon Hussain age 4
Fahri Korutürk age 42
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi born 1945-09-01
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 1 month
Khalid of Saudi Arabia age 32
Édouard Daladier age 61
Manuel Noriega age 11
Cordell Hull age 73
Raúl Alfonsín age 18
Khaleda Zia born 1946-08-15
Paul Martin age 6
Mwai Kibaki age 13
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 42
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 62
Chang Myon age 46
Chun Doo-hwan age 14
Zhao Ziyang age 25
Gerd von Rundstedt age 69
Jean Chrétien age 11
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 5
John Kufuor age 6
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 24
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 6 months
Adnan Menderes age 46
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 1
Ivan Konev age 47
Karl Carstens age 30
Jacques Delors age 20
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 15
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 53
John Nance Garner age 76
Mohammad Najibullah born 1947-08-06
Zog I of Albania age 49
Dimitris Christofias born 1946-08-29
V. V. Giri age 51
Giovanni Leone age 36
Yahya Khan age 28
Ivan Gašparovič age 4
Cevdet Sunay age 46
Necmettin Erbakan age 18
Felipe González age 3
Alexei Kosygin age 41
Pierre Laval age 62
George F. Kennan age 41
Itamar Franco age 15
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 14
Jacques Rogge age 3
Albert Luthuli age 47
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 8
K. R. Narayanan age 24
Levi Eshkol age 49
Massimo D'Alema born 1949-04-20
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 39
Daniel arap Moi age 20
Kurmanbek Bakiyev born 1949-08-01
Peter Mutharika age 5
Mário Soares age 20
Kgalema Motlanthe born 1949-07-19
Heinrich Lübke age 50
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria age 84
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 41
Liu Shaoqi age 46
Zhu Rongji age 16
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 12
Houari Boumédiène age 12
Gough Whitlam age 29
Mathieu Kérékou age 11
Ismail Omar Guelleh born 1947-11-27
Arnold Rüütel age 17
François Duvalier age 38
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed age 40
Moshe Katsav born 1945-12-05
Ibrahim Rugova age 8 months
Amadou Toumani Touré born 1948-11-04
Ram Baran Yadav born 1948-02-04
Desi Bouterse born 1945-10-13
Xanana Gusmão born 1946-06-20
Anton Denikin age 72
Armand Fallières age 103
Pierre Mauroy age 17
Laurent Fabius born 1946-08-20
Édith Cresson age 11
Lê Đức Thọ age 33
Queen Sofía of Spain age 6
Robert McNamara age 29
Soong Ching-ling age 52
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 4
Mohamed Naguib age 44
Loukas Papademos born 1947-10-11
Mátyás Rákosi age 53
László Sólyom age 3
Charan Singh age 42
Bingu wa Mutharika age 11
Violeta Chamorro age 15
Göran Persson born 1949-01-20
Carl Bildt born 1949-07-15
Semyon Budyonny age 62
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 108
Erich Raeder age 69
Julius Streicher age 60
John J. Pershing age 84
René Coty age 63
Brian Mulroney age 6
R. Venkataraman age 34
Antonio Segni age 54
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 7
Nicolae Timofti born 1948-12-22
Evgeny Primakov age 15
Mykola Azarov born 1947-12-17
Siad Barre age 25
Mary of Teck age 78
Yoshirō Mori age 8
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu age 22
Aleksandr Vasilevsky age 49
George II of Greece age 55
Queen Silvia of Sweden age 1
Hjalmar Schacht age 68
Rodion Malinovsky age 46
Lázaro Cárdenas age 50
Bob Hawke age 15
Sandra Mason born 1949-01-17
Makarios III age 32
Gulzarilal Nanda age 47
Moshe Sharett age 50
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 5
Joaquim Chissano age 5
Sam Nujoma age 16
Sani Abacha age 1
Juvénal Habyarimana age 8
Abdoulaye Wade age 19
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 27
Tadeusz Mazowiecki age 18
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando age 85
P. W. Botha age 29
Lazar Kaganovich age 51
Jiang Qing age 31
Queen Sonja of Norway age 8
Robert Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood age 80
Wilhelm Frick age 68
Semyon Timoshenko age 50
Lee Teng-hui age 22
Paul Keating age 1
Thomas Klestil age 12
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 21
Konstantin Päts age 71
Jerry Rawlings born 1947-06-22
Pál Schmitt age 3
Zail Singh age 29
Amintore Fanfani age 37
Arif Alvi born 1949-07-29
Viktor Zubkov age 3
Vojislav Koštunica age 1
Jozef Tiso age 57
Tomiichi Murayama age 21
Nikolai Bulganin age 50
João Goulart age 26
Jean Monnet age 56
Soong Mei-ling age 47
Li Peng age 16
Ferhat Abbas age 46
Brigitte Bierlein born 1949-06-25
Tassos Papadopoulos age 11
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg age 80
João Bernardo Vieira age 6
Shankar Dayal Sharma age 27
Chaim Herzog age 26
Giuseppe Saragat age 46
Lamberto Dini age 14
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 8
Askar Akayev age 9 months
Algirdas Brazauskas age 12
Prem Tinsulanonda age 24
Roh Tae-woo age 12
Ranil Wickremesinghe born 1949-03-24
Lin Biao age 37
Egon Krenz age 8
Fernando Collor de Mello born 1949-08-12
Paul of Greece age 43
Jacobo Árbenz age 31
Robert Mueller age 1
Ramiz Alia age 19
Leopoldo Galtieri age 19
Levon Ter-Petrosyan age 7 months
Bruno Kreisky age 34
Festus Mogae age 5