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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
Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15
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 Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02
Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16
Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09
Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01
Manhattan Project 1942-08-13 - 1947-01-01
Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27
Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16
Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23
Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18
Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04
Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18
Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03
Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22
Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19
Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27
Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25
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
Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29
Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29
Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15
Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13
Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02
Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07
Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11
Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26
Trinity nuclear test 1945-07-16
Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09
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
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
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
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
Landing Operation on Hainan Island 1950-03-05 - 1950-05-01
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18
Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Battle of Route Coloniale 4 1950-09-16 - 1950-10-18
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13
Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18
Battle of Hòa Bình 1951-11-10 - 1952-02-25
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin 1953-03-05 - 1953-03-09
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
Korean Armistice Agreement 1953-07-27
1953 Iranian coup d'état 1953-08-15 - 1953-08-19
1954 Syrian coup d'état 1954-02-01
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954-03-13 - 1954-05-07
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état 1954-06-18 - 1954-06-27
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 1954-09-03 - 1955-05-01
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Austrian State Treaty 1955-05-15
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25

People

Francis Biddle age 55
Attorney General - United States
Wilhelm Stuckart age 38
Reichsminister - Germany
Joseph Grew age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Herbert Morrison age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert A. Lovett age 46
Secretary of Defense - United States
Louis A. Johnson age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 51
Secretary of Defense - United States
Tom C. Clark age 42
Attorney General - United States
Robert P. Patterson age 50
Secretary of War - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 37
Attorney General - United States
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Kingsley Wood age 60
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
J. Howard McGrath age 37
Attorney General - United States
Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 47
Secretary of War - United States
A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 56
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
George M. Humphrey age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 59
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 56
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
John Strachey (politician) age 39
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 35
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
John Wesley Snyder age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 32
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 46
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Brendan Bracken age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 46
Attorney General - United States
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 50
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 59
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 64
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 59
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 52
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
H. Freeman Matthews age 42
Secretary of State - United States
James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Alan Lennox-Boyd age 36
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Arthur Creech Jones age 50
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos age 48
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Oliver Stanley age 45
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury age 48
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne age 61
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Sidney Souers age 49
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Hoyt Vandenberg age 42
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter age 44
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Walter Bedell Smith age 46
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Harold Wilson age 25
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Albert Luthuli age 43
President - African National Congress
Robert H. Jackson age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William P. Rogers age 28
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Frank Murphy age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 42
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Duff Cooper age 51
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hugh Dalton age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hartley Shawcross age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Alfred Bitini Xuma age 48
President - African National Congress
James Moroka age 50
President - African National Congress
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 35
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton age 57
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 57
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 58
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Ernest Brown age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Hastings Lees-Smith age 63
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
John Hynd age 39
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Margaret Buckley age 62
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 24
President - Sinn Féin
Paddy McLogan age 42
President - Sinn Féin
Potter Stewart age 26
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
John T. Koehler age 37
Assistant Secretary of the Navy - United States
John F. Kennedy age 24
Senate - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 33
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 30
Senate - United States
Carter Glass age 83
Senate - United States
Gerald Ford age 28
House of Representatives - United States
David Lloyd George age 78
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Edward Heath age 25
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roy Jenkins age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christian Herter age 46
House of Representatives - United States
Michael Foot age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Lloyd Bentsen age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Melvin Laird age 19
House of Representatives - United States
Denis Healey age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leo Amery age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 61
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Iain Macleod age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 34
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Duncan Sandys age 33
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leslie Hore-Belisha age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Joseph W. Barr age 23
House of Representatives - United States
George Brown age 27
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 48
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
J. R. Clynes age 72
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 41
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Anthony Barber age 21
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Peter Thorneycroft age 32
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 39
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 38
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
W. Averell Harriman age 49
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 39
Governor of New York - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 63
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 48
Governor of Ohio - United States
Herman Talmadge age 28
Governor of Georgia - United States
Goodwin Knight age 44
Governor of California - United States
Charles Edison age 51
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Orval Faubus age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Charles Poletti age 38
Governor of New York - United States
Culbert Olson age 64
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 34
Governor of Texas - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Walter E. Edge age 67
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 53
Governor of Texas - United States
James Hubert Price age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 48
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 40
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 44
Governor of Maryland - United States
Sid McMath age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Francis Cherry age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Colgate Darden age 44
Governor of Virginia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 51
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John S. Battle age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paul A. Dever age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
William M. Tuck age 45
Governor of Virginia - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 49
Governor of Maryland - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 38
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 40
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 33
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 58
Governor of Indiana - United States
George N. Craig age 32
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 18
New York State Senate - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 13
King - Thailand
Francisco Franco age 48
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 40
President - Indonesia
Pius XII age 65
Pope - Vatican City
Ibn Saud age 65
King - Saudi Arabia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 52
President - Portugal
Juan Perón age 46
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 18
King - Cambodia
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 74
President - Finland
Syngman Rhee age 66
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 57
President - Turkey
Rajendra Prasad age 56
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 5
King - Jordan
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 61
Queen - Netherlands
Celâl Bayar age 58
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 41
President - Finland
Haakon VII of Norway age 69
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 59
King - Jordan
Chaim Weizmann age 66
President - Israel
Gustaf V of Sweden age 83
King - Sweden
Alfredo Stroessner age 28
President - Paraguay
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 39
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 32
Queen - Netherlands
Christian X of Denmark age 71
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 19
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 70
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 42
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 58
King - Sweden
Lord Mountbatten age 41
Viceroy - British Raj
Karl Renner age 70
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 49
President - Dominican Republic
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 18
Prince - Monaco
Luigi Einaudi age 67
President - Italy
Enrico de Nicola age 63
President - Italy
Ananda Mahidol age 16
King - Thailand
Jozef Tiso age 54
President - Slovakia
Mohammed V of Morocco age 32
Sultan - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 63
President - Philippines
Risto Ryti age 52
President - Finland
Giovanni Gronchi age 54
President - Italy
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 41
President - Pakistan
Douglas Hyde age 81
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 60
President - Iceland
Talal I of Jordan age 32
King - Jordan
Ramon Magsaysay age 34
President - Philippines
Archibald Wavell age 58
Viceroy - British Raj
Rómulo Gallegos age 57
President - Venezuela
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 12
King - Bhutan
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 56
President - Israel
Manuel Roxas age 49
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 45
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Sobhuza II age 42
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 47
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 33
President - Venezuela
José Paciano Laurel age 50
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 63
President - Philippines
Elpidio Quirino age 50
President - Philippines
José Figueres Ferrer age 35
President - Costa Rica