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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
Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung 1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang 1940-05-01 - 1940-06-24
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust 1941 - 1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27
Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01
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
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
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
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
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 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
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
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
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1 1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War 1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-08-05
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22

People

Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
George Lansbury age 80
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jeremy Thorpe age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ernest Bevin age 58
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nelson Rockefeller age 31
Governor of New York - United States
John Connally age 22
Governor of Texas - United States
W. Averell Harriman age 47
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 37
Governor of New York - United States
Pat Brown age 34
Governor of California - United States
Herbert H. Lehman age 61
Governor of New York - United States
John W. Bricker age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Herman Talmadge age 26
Governor of Georgia - United States
Goodwin Knight age 42
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 29
Governor of Texas - United States
Charles Edison age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Orval Faubus age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John A. Volpe age 30
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Charles Poletti age 36
Governor of New York - United States
W. Lee O'Daniel age 49
Governor of Texas - United States
Culbert Olson age 62
Governor of California - United States
Frank Lausche age 43
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 32
Governor of Texas - United States
Leverett Saltonstall age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Foster Furcolo age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Walter E. Edge age 65
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Carl E. Bailey age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Coke R. Stevenson age 51
Governor of Texas - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 41
Governor of Virginia - United States
James Hubert Price age 61
Governor of Virginia - United States
Beauford H. Jester age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Maurice J. Tobin age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Herbert O'Conor age 42
Governor of Maryland - United States
Sid McMath age 27
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Carl Sanders age 14
Governor of Georgia - United States
Francis Cherry age 31
Governor of Arkansas - United States
C. William O'Neill age 23
Governor of Ohio - United States
Thomas J. Herbert age 45
Governor of Ohio - United States
Endicott Peabody age 19
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
A. Harry Moore age 62
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Jim Rhodes age 30
Governor of Ohio - United States
John William Brown age 25
Governor of Ohio - United States
Colgate Darden age 42
Governor of Virginia - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 21
Governor of Georgia - United States
Homer Martin Adkins age 49
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Benjamin T. Laney age 42
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Robert F. Bradford age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John S. Battle age 49
Governor of Virginia - United States
Paul A. Dever age 36
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Michael DiSalle age 31
Governor of Ohio - United States
William M. Tuck age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 30
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 32
Governor of Virginia - United States
Buford Ellington age 32
Governor of Tennessee - United States
William Preston Lane Jr. age 47
Governor of Maryland - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 27
Governor of Indiana - United States
Alfred E. Driscoll age 37
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 38
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 31
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Henry F. Schricker age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
M. Clifford Townsend age 55
Governor of Indiana - United States
George N. Craig age 30
Governor of Indiana - United States
Ralph F. Gates age 46
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 45
Governor of Maryland - United States
Harold W. Handley age 29
Governor of Indiana - United States
Barber Conable age 16
New York State Senate - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 30
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 11
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 57
Pope - Vatican City
Francisco Franco age 46
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 38
President - Indonesia
Paul VI age 42
Pope - Vatican City
Pius XII age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Park Chung-hee age 21
President - South Korea
Ibn Saud age 63
King - Saudi Arabia
António de Oliveira Salazar age 50
President - Portugal
Juan Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 16
King - Cambodia
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 33
President - Senegal
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 72
President - Finland
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 51
President - India
Syngman Rhee age 64
President - South Korea
İsmet İnönü age 55
President - Turkey
Ahmed Ben Bella age 22
President - Algeria
Rajendra Prasad age 54
President - India
Hussein I of Jordan age 3
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 36
President - Tunisia
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 59
Queen - Netherlands
Celâl Bayar age 56
President - Turkey
Urho Kekkonen age 39
President - Finland
Hassan II age 10
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 44
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 67
King - Norway
Abdullah I of Jordan age 57
King - Jordan
Chaim Weizmann age 64
President - Israel
Olav V of Norway age 36
King - Norway
Gustaf V of Sweden age 81
King - Sweden
Alfredo Stroessner age 26
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 17
President - Guinea
Ayub Khan age 32
President - Pakistan
Saud of Saudi Arabia age 37
King - Saudi Arabia
Juliana of the Netherlands age 30
Queen - Netherlands
Yun Po-sun age 42
President - South Korea
Christian X of Denmark age 69
King - Denmark
Michael I of Romania age 17
King - Kingdom of Romania
Juho Kusti Paasikivi age 68
President - Finland
Frederik IX of Denmark age 40
King - Denmark
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 56
King - Sweden
Karl Renner age 68
President - Austria
Rafael Trujillo age 48
President - Dominican Republic
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 34
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 16
Prince - Monaco
François Duvalier age 32
President - Haiti
Luigi Einaudi age 65
President - Italy
Enrico de Nicola age 61
President - Italy
Ananda Mahidol age 14
King - Thailand
Makarios III age 26
President - Cyprus
Konstantin Päts age 65
President - Estonia
Jozef Tiso age 52
President - Slovakia
Ferhat Abbas age 40
President - Algeria
Mohammed V of Morocco age 30
King - Morocco
Manuel L. Quezon age 61
President - Philippines
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 15
President - Cameroon
Risto Ryti age 50
President - Finland
Giovanni Gronchi age 52
President - Italy
Antanas Smetona age 65
President - Lithuania
Nnamdi Azikiwe age 34
President - Nigeria
Iskandar Ali Mirza age 39
President - Pakistan
Douglas Hyde age 79
President - Ireland
Sveinn Björnsson age 58
President - Iceland
Talal I of Jordan age 30
King - Jordan
Kārlis Ulmanis age 62
President - Latvia
Modibo Keïta age 24
President - Mali
Diosdado Macapagal age 29
President - Philippines
Ramon Magsaysay age 32
President - Philippines
Kyösti Kallio age 66
President - Finland
Carol II of Romania age 46
King - Kingdom of Romania
Rómulo Gallegos age 55
President - Venezuela
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 10
King - Bhutan
David Dacko age 9
President - Central African Republic
Joseph Kasa-Vubu age 29
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi age 54
President - Israel
Manuel Roxas age 47
President - Philippines
Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg age 43
Grand Duchess - Luxembourg
Aden Abdullah Osman Daar age 30
President - Somalia
Sobhuza II age 40
King - Eswatini
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson age 45
President - Iceland
Rómulo Betancourt age 31
President - Venezuela
José Paciano Laurel age 48
President - Philippines
Sergio Osmeña age 61
President - Philippines
Fernando Belaúnde age 27
President - Peru
Elpidio Quirino age 48
President - Philippines
Léon M'ba age 37
President - Gabon
Zalman Shazar age 49
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 27
President - Madagascar
Arturo Umberto Illia age 39
President - Argentina
Arturo Frondizi age 30
President - Argentina
François Tombalbaye age 21
President - Chad
José Figueres Ferrer age 33
President - Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza García age 43
President - Nicaragua
Diori Hamani age 23
President - Niger
Víctor Paz Estenssoro age 32
President - Bolivia
William Tubman age 43
President - Liberia
Carlos P. Garcia age 42
President - Philippines
Adolf Schärf age 49
President - Austria
Theodor Körner age 66
President - Austria
Joaquín Balaguer age 33
President - Dominican Republic
Óscar Carmona age 69
President - Portugal
Jorge Alessandri age 43
President - Chile
Moktar Ould Daddah age 14
President - Mauritania
Louis II, Prince of Monaco age 69
Prince - Monaco
Said bin Taimur Al Said age 29
Sultan - Oman
Władysław Raczkiewicz age 54
President - Poland
Isa II of Bahrain age 6
Emir - Bahrain
Jigme Wangchuck age 34
King - Bhutan
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu age 36
President - Argentina
Seán T. O'Kelly age 57
President - Ireland
Fulbert Youlou age 22
President - Republic of the Congo
Leopold Figl age 37
President - Austria
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla age 40
President - Chile
Juan Bosch age 30
President - Dominican Republic
Muteesa II of Buganda age 14
President - Uganda
Marcos Pérez Jiménez age 25
President - Venezuela
Ibrahim Abboud age 39
President - Sudan
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez age 57
President - El Salvador
Américo Tomás age 44
President - Portugal
Ho Chong age 43
Acting President - South Korea
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo age 61
President - Chile
Pedro Aguirre Cerda age 60
President - Chile
Alberto Lleras Camargo age 33
President - Colombia
Camille Chamoun age 39
President - Lebanon
Manuel Prado Ugarteche age 50
President - Peru
Haxhi Lleshi age 26
President - Albania
Laureano Gómez age 50
President - Colombia
Oswaldo López Arellano age 18
President - Honduras
Bechara El Khoury age 49
President - Lebanon
Grégoire Kayibanda age 15
President - Rwanda