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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
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
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
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31
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
Bombing of Dresden 1945-02-13 - 1945-02-15
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
Truman Doctrine 1947-03-12
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
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
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
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
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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
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

Talal I of Jordan age 32
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Ramon Magsaysay age 34
President - Philippines
Archibald Wavell age 58
Viceroy - British Raj
Rómulo Gallegos age 57
President - Venezuela
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 12
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 56
President - Israel
Manuel Roxas age 49
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 45
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Antonín Zápotocký age 56
President - Czechoslovakia
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
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President - Nicaragua
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 34
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 45
President - Liberia
Theodor Körner age 68
President - Austria
Óscar Carmona age 71
President - Portugal
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 71
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 56
President - Poland
Jigme Wangchuck age 36
King - Bhutan
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 38
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 59
President - Ireland
Leopold Figl age 39
President - Austria
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 42
President - Chile
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 27
President - Venezuela
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 58
President - El Salvador
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 63
President - Chile
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 62
President - Chile
Camille Chamoun age 41
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 52
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 27
President - Albania
Laureano Gómez age 52
President - Colombia
Bechara El Khoury age 51
President - Lebanon
Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 41
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 54
President - Argentina
Norodom Suramarit age 45
King - Cambodia
Manuel Odría age 43
President - Peru
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 41
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 47
President - Portugal
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 55
President - Argentina
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 47
President - Mongolia
Arnulfo Arias age 40
President - Panama
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 47
President - Peru
Ramón Castillo age 67
President - Argentina
Aleksander Zawadzki age 41
President - Poland
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 54
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 57
President - Argentina
Eduardo Lonardi age 45
President - Argentina
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 49
President - Colombia
Galo Plaza age 35
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 65
President - Honduras
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 46
Emir - Kuwait
Edwin Barclay age 59
President - Liberia
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 34
President - Venezuela
Omer Nishani age 54
President - Albania
Gualberto Villarroel age 32
President - Bolivia
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 32
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 53
President - Colombia
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 50
President - Costa Rica
Zdeněk Fierlinger age 50
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Enrique Peñaranda age 47
President - Bolivia
Enrique Hertzog age 43
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 52
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 55
President - Colombia
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 56
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 60
President - Paraguay
Dumarsais Estimé age 41
President - Haiti
Max Petitpierre age 42
President - Switzerland
Mwambutsa IV of Burundi age 29
Mwami - Kingdom of Burundi
Arturo Rawson age 56
President - Argentina
Mohamed Amin Didi age 31
President - Maldives
Philipp Etter age 49
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 57
President - Uruguay
Juan José de Amézaga age 60
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 44
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 44
President - Paraguay
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 45
President - Bolivia
Carlos Arroyo age 47
President - Ecuador
Paul Magloire age 34
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 55
Sultan - Morocco
Josip Vidmar age 46
President - Slovenia
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 57
President - Uruguay
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 43
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 44
President - Paraguay
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 41
President - Costa Rica
Viliam Široký age 39
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 41
President - Costa Rica
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 54
President - Honduras
Émile Eddé age 58
President - Lebanon
Sao Shwe Thaik age 44
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 86
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Berreta age 65
President - Uruguay
Tomás Romero Pereira age 55
President - Paraguay
Néstor Guillén age 51
President - Bolivia
Tomás Monje age 56
President - Bolivia
Ernst Nobs age 55
President - Switzerland
Ernst Wetter age 64
President - Switzerland
Juan Manuel Frutos age 62
President - Paraguay
Felipe Molas López age 40
President - Paraguay
Óscar Osorio age 30
President - El Salvador
Khalifa bin Harub age 62
Sultan of Zanzibar - Sultanate of Zanzibar
Mutara III Rudahigwa age 30
Mwami - Kingdom of Rwanda
Hugo Ballivián age 40
President - Bolivia
Élie Lescot age 57
President - Haiti
Julio Lozano Díaz age 56
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 32
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 54
President - Myanmar
Karl Kobelt age 50
President - Switzerland
Eduard von Steiger age 60
President - Switzerland
Enrico Celio age 52
President - Switzerland
Raimundo Rolón age 38
President - Paraguay
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 41
President - Peru
Jan Šrámek age 71
Prime Minister - Czechoslovakia
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 62
President - El Salvador
Alfred Naqqache age 53
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 39
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 49
Emir - Qatar
Markus Feldmann age 44
President - Switzerland
Rodolphe Rubattel age 45
President - Switzerland
Walther Stampfli age 56
President - Switzerland
Franck Lavaud age 38
President - Haiti
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 30
President - Indonesia
Petro Trad age 65
President - Lebanon
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 40
President - Maldives
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 29
President - Panama
Giuliano Gozi age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ayoub Tabet age 67
President - Lebanon
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 40
President - Uruguay
Osmín Aguirre y Salinas age 51
President - El Salvador
Salvador Castaneda Castro age 54
President - El Salvador
Hamad I of Bahrain age 69
Hakim - Bahrain
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 69
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 53
President - Panama
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 66
President - Panama
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 45
President - Argentina
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 46
President - Mongolia
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 60
President - Mongolia
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 66
President - Nicaragua
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 48
President - Panama
Assaat age 37
President - Indonesia
Miha Marinko age 41
President - Slovenia
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 48
President - Nicaragua
Giuseppe Maiani age 16
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Forcellini age 40
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vincenzo Pedini age 21
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Francesco Balsimelli age 47
Captain Regent - San Marino
Mir Osman Ali Khan age 55
Nizam of Hyderabad - Hyderabad State
Enver Hoxha age 32
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Georgi Dimitrov age 59
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Imre Nagy age 45
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Ion Antonescu age 59
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Pridi Banomyong age 41
Prime Minister - Thailand
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 38
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Chang Myon age 42
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Adnan Menderes age 42
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Liaquat Ali Khan age 46
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mátyás Rákosi age 49
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Paul-Henri Spaak age 42
Prime Minister - Belgium
Willem Drees age 55
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 34
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Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 32
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William Lyon Mackenzie King age 66
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Milovan Đilas age 30
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Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 39
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Robert Menzies age 46
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Mohammad Hatta age 39
Prime Minister - Indonesia
John Curtin age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Ferenc Szálasi age 44
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Einar Gerhardsen age 44
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Tage Erlander age 40
Prime Minister - Sweden
Louis St. Laurent age 59
Prime Minister - Canada
Khorloogiin Choibalsan age 46
Prime Minister - Mongolia
U Nu age 34
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Georgios Papandreou age 53
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Per Albin Hansson age 55
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Khawaja Nazimuddin age 47
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 23
Prime Minister - Tonga
Arthur Fadden age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Ben Chifley age 56
Prime Minister - Australia
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 25
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 25
Prime Minister - Malta
Muhammad Ali Bogra age 31
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mehmet Shehu age 28
Prime Minister - Albania
Petru Groza age 56
Prime Minister - Romania
Johan Ferrier age 31
Prime Minister - Suriname
Thorvald Stauning age 67
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Chivu Stoica age 33
Prime Minister - Romania
Frank Forde age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Gaston Eyskens age 36
Prime Minister - Belgium
Alexandros Papagos age 57
Prime Minister - Greece
Zoltán Tildy age 51
Prime Minister - Hungary
Johan Nygaardsvold age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Karl-August Fagerholm age 39
Prime Minister - Finland