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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
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
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
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
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
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
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
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

Adolf Hitler age 52
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 62
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 15
Queen - United Kingdom
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 59
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 47
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Harry S. Truman age 57
President - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 51
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 40
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 51
President - Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 53
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 49
President - Yugoslavia
George VI age 45
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 49
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 21
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 85
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Karl Dönitz age 50
Reich President - Germany
Fulgencio Batista age 40
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 59
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 71
King - Italy
Walter Ulbricht age 48
First Secretary - East Germany
Umberto II of Italy age 37
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 39
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 57
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 39
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 11
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 57
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 21
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Mohamed Naguib age 40
President - Egypt
René Coty age 59
President - France
Jacobo Árbenz age 28
President - Guatemala
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 18
King - Yugoslavia
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 44
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 58
President - Republic of China
Georges Bidault age 42
President - France
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 41
President - Mexico
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 58
President - Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt born 1952-01-16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 50
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 42
President - Brazil
Trường Chinh age 34
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas age 26
President - Guatemala
Li Zongren age 51
President - Republic of China
Nereu Ramos age 53
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 49
President - Syria
José Linhares age 55
President - Brazil
Carlos Luz age 47
President - Brazil
Juan José Arévalo age 37
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 62
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 65
President - Syria
Adib Shishakli age 32
President - Syria
Husni al-Za'im age 44
President - Syria
Zhang Wentian age 41
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 38
President - Cuba
Sami al-Henaaui age 43
President - Syria
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 52
President - Guatemala
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 26
President - Guatemala
Fawzi Selu age 36
President - Syria
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 29
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 35
President - Guatemala
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 27
President - Syria
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 33
President - Guatemala
Dag Hammarskjöld age 36
Secretary-General - United Nations
Trygve Lie age 45
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 66
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle age 50
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Benito Mussolini age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Jawaharlal Nehru age 51
Prime Minister - India
Kim Il-sung age 29
Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Konrad Adenauer age 65
Chancellor - Germany
Joseph Goebbels age 43
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 55
Prime Minister - Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 23
Prime Minister - Egypt
Clement Attlee age 58
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 43
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 44
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Hideki Tojo age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Georgy Malenkov age 39
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Éamon de Valera age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Léon Blum age 69
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Pietro Badoglio age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 58
Head of Government - Vichy France
Antonio Segni age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Moshe Sharett age 46
Prime Minister - Israel
Amintore Fanfani age 33
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 46
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Bolesław Bierut age 49
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Władysław Sikorski age 60
Prime Minister - Poland
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 54
Leading Minister - Germany
Fumimaro Konoe age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 71
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ichirō Hatoyama age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Ivanoe Bonomi age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Mendès France age 34
Prime Minister - France
Kuniaki Koiso age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
François Darlan age 60
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 46
Prime Minister - Poland
Mario Scelba age 40
Prime Minister - Italy
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Tetsu Katayama age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Hitoshi Ashida age 53
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 54
President - International Olympic Committee
Giuseppe Pella age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Kantarō Suzuki age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
D. F. Malan age 67
Prime Minister - South Africa
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Félix Gouin age 57
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Souvanna Phouma age 40
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 35
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 35
Prime Minister - France
Ferruccio Parri age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 65
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 30
Prime Minister - Poland
T. V. Soong age 49
Premier - Republic of China
J. G. Strijdom age 48
Prime Minister - South Africa
Chen Cheng age 44
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Dušan Simović age 58
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Slobodan Jovanović age 71
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Yen Hsi-shan age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
Nazim al-Kudsi age 35
Prime Minister - Syria
Ivan Šubašić age 49
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
He Yingqin age 51
Premier - Republic of China
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 62
Prime Minister - Egypt
Brock Chisholm age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Zhang Qun age 52
Premier - Republic of China
John J. McCloy age 46
President - World Bank
Seán Lester age 53
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Sun Fo age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene Meyer age 65
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 53
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aly Maher Pasha age 59
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 63
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 66
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhsin al-Barazi age 37
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Jamil al-Elshi age 58
Prime Minister - Syria
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 30
Director-General - World Health Organization
Félix Lancís Sánchez age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha age 45
Prime Minister - Egypt
Huynh Thuc Khang age 65
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Božidar Purić age 50
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Carlos Saladrigas Zayas age 41
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ramón Zaydín age 46
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 50
Prime Minister - Egypt
Weng Wenhao age 52
Premier - Republic of China
Yu Hung-chun age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Manuel Antonio de Varona age 32
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jorge García Montes age 44
Prime Minister - Cuba
Raúl López del Castillo age 48
Prime Minister - Cuba
Husni al-Barazi age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Hassan al-Hakim age 55
Prime Minister - Syria
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 43
President - World Bank
Miloš Trifunović age 69
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Earl Warren age 50
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Fred M. Vinson age 51
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Harlan F. Stone age 69
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Richard Nixon age 28
Vice President - United States
Henry A. Wallace age 53
Vice President - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 63
Vice President - United States
Zhu De age 54
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping age 37
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Omar Bradley age 48
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Lin Biao age 33
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Li Xiannian age 32
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Peng Dehuai age 42
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Dong Biwu age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 40
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
William D. Leahy age 66
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Matthew Ridgway age 46
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
He Long age 45
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 41
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Arthur W. Radford age 45
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Alfred Gruenther age 42
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Heinrich Himmler age 41
Reichsminister - Germany
Hermann Göring age 48
Luftwaffe Commander - Germany
George C. Marshall age 60
Secretary of Defense - United States
Harold Macmillan age 47
Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom
Cordell Hull age 70
Secretary of State - United States
Wilhelm Frick age 64
Reichsminister - Germany
John Foster Dulles age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Dean Acheson age 48
Secretary of State - United States
Henry L. Stimson age 74
Secretary of War - United States
James F. Byrnes age 59
Secretary of State - United States
Stafford Cripps age 52
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Henry Morgenthau Jr. age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Edward Stettinius Jr. age 40
Secretary of State - United States
Maxwell D. Taylor age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
James Forrestal age 49
Secretary of Defense - United States
J. Lawton Collins age 45
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Rab Butler age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Hugh Gaitskell age 35
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Francis Biddle age 55
Attorney General - United States