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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

Sālote Tupou III of Tonga age 39
Queen - Tonga
Edelmiro Julián Farrell age 52
President - Argentina
Hernán Siles Zuazo age 25
President - Bolivia
Sisowath Monivong age 63
King - Cambodia
Norodom Suramarit age 43
King - Cambodia
Alphonse Massamba-Débat age 18
President - Republic of the Congo
Manuel Odría age 41
President - Peru
José María Guido age 29
President - Argentina
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla age 39
President - Colombia
Francisco Craveiro Lopes age 45
President - Portugal
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz age 53
President - Argentina
Guillermo León Valencia age 30
President - Colombia
Fouad Chehab age 37
President - Lebanon
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa age 45
President - Mongolia
Arnulfo Arias age 38
President - Panama
José Luis Bustamante y Rivero age 45
President - Peru
Ramón Castillo age 65
President - Argentina
Aleksander Zawadzki age 39
President - Poland
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow age 52
Viceroy - British Raj
Pedro Pablo Ramírez age 55
President - Argentina
Eduardo Lonardi age 43
President - Argentina
Mariano Ospina Pérez age 47
President - Colombia
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 24
President - Costa Rica
Galo Plaza age 33
President - Ecuador
Tiburcio Carías age 63
President - Honduras
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 44
Emir - Kuwait
Edwin Barclay age 57
President - Liberia
Antanas Merkys age 52
President - Lithuania
Luis Somoza Debayle age 16
President - Nicaragua
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 32
President - Venezuela
José Félix Estigarribia age 51
President - Paraguay
Óscar R. Benavides age 63
President - Peru
Omer Nishani age 52
President - Albania
Gualberto Villarroel age 30
President - Bolivia
Eleazar López Contreras age 56
President - Venezuela
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud age 30
President - Venezuela
Eduardo Santos age 51
President - Colombia
Otilio Ulate Blanco age 48
President - Costa Rica
Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani age 19
Emir - Qatar
Nicolás Lindley López age 30
President - Peru
Abderrahmane Farès age 28
President - Algeria
Enrique Peñaranda age 45
President - Bolivia
Enrique Hertzog age 41
President - Bolivia
Juan Antonio Rios age 50
President - Chile
Alfonso López Pumarejo age 53
President - Colombia
Ramón Villeda Morales age 29
President - Honduras
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah age 54
Emir - Kuwait
Federico Chávez age 58
President - Paraguay
Camilo Ponce Enríquez age 27
President - Ecuador
Dumarsais Estimé age 39
President - Haiti
Justas Paleckis age 40
President - Lithuania
Max Petitpierre age 40
President - Switzerland
Arturo Rawson age 54
President - Argentina
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy age 20
President - Ecuador
Mohamed Amin Didi age 29
President - Maldives
Dominique Mbonyumutwa age 18
President - Rwanda
Philipp Etter age 47
President - Switzerland
Alfredo Baldomir age 55
President - Uruguay
Juan José de Amézaga age 58
President - Uruguay
Isaías Medina Angarita age 42
President - Venezuela
Higinio Morínigo age 42
President - Paraguay
Mamerto Urriolagoitía age 43
President - Bolivia
Carlos Arroyo age 45
President - Ecuador
Paul Magloire age 32
President - Haiti
Mohammed Ben Aarafa age 53
Sultan - Morocco
Josip Vidmar age 44
President - Slovenia
Marcel Pilet-Golaz age 49
President - Switzerland
Andrés Martínez Trueba age 55
President - Uruguay
Luis Batlle Berres Pérez age 41
President - Uruguay
Natalicio González age 42
President - Paraguay
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia age 39
President - Costa Rica
Teodoro Picado Michalski age 39
President - Costa Rica
Juan Manuel Gálvez age 52
President - Honduras
Émile Eddé age 56
President - Lebanon
Sao Shwe Thaik age 43
President - Myanmar
Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani age 84
Emir - Qatar
Tomás Berreta age 64
President - Uruguay
Tomás Romero Pereira age 53
President - Paraguay
Ricardo Pérez Godoy age 34
President - Peru
Néstor Guillén age 49
President - Bolivia
Tomás Monje age 54
President - Bolivia
Carlos Quintanilla age 51
President - Bolivia
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich age 32
President - Costa Rica
Ernst Nobs age 53
President - Switzerland
Ernst Wetter age 62
President - Switzerland
Juan Manuel Frutos age 60
President - Paraguay
Felipe Molas López age 38
President - Paraguay
Hugo Ballivián age 38
President - Bolivia
Gabriel París Gordillo age 29
President - Colombia
León Cortés Castro age 56
President - Costa Rica
Élie Lescot age 55
President - Haiti
Julio Lozano Díaz age 54
President - Honduras
Jonas Žemaitis age 30
President - Lithuania
Ba U age 52
President - Myanmar
Karl Kobelt age 48
President - Switzerland
Willy Spühler age 37
President - Switzerland
Paul Chaudet age 34
President - Switzerland
Eduard von Steiger age 58
President - Switzerland
Friedrich Traugott Wahlen age 40
President - Switzerland
Hans Streuli age 47
President - Switzerland
Enrico Celio age 50
President - Switzerland
Raimundo Rolón age 36
President - Paraguay
Zenón Noriega Agüero age 39
President - Peru
Benyoucef Benkhedda age 19
President - Algeria
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez age 60
President - El Salvador
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis age 39
President - Haiti
Stenio Vincent age 65
President - Haiti
Alfred Naqqache age 51
President - Lebanon
Mantsebo Amelia 'Matsaba age 37
Regent - Lesotho
Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani age 47
Emir - Qatar
Markus Feldmann age 42
President - Switzerland
Rodolphe Rubattel age 43
President - Switzerland
Walther Stampfli age 54
President - Switzerland
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau age 29
President - Haiti
Franck Lavaud age 36
President - Haiti
Franck Sylvain age 30
President - Haiti
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara age 28
President - Indonesia
Win Maung age 23
President - Myanmar
René Schick age 29
President - Nicaragua
Thomas Holenstein age 43
President - Switzerland
Petro Trad age 63
President - Lebanon
Ibrahim Muhammad Didi age 38
President - Maldives
Ricardo Arias Espinosa age 27
President - Panama
Giuliano Gozi age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Andrés F. Córdova age 47
President - Ecuador
Julio Enrique Moreno age 60
President - Ecuador
Daniel Fignolé age 25
President - Haiti
Ayoub Tabet age 65
President - Lebanon
Alberto Fermín Zubiría age 38
President - Uruguay
Benito Nardone age 32
President - Uruguay
Hamad I of Bahrain age 67
Hakim - Bahrain
Seeiso of Basutoland age 34
King - Lesotho
Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes age 67
President - Nicaragua
Enrique Adolfo Jiménez age 51
President - Panama
Domingo Díaz Arosemena age 64
President - Panama
José Domingo Molina Gómez age 43
President - Argentina
Jamsrangiin Sambuu age 44
President - Mongolia
Carlos Fischer age 36
President - Uruguay
Martín Echegoyen age 48
President - Uruguay
Daniel Fernández Crespo age 38
President - Uruguay
Eduardo Víctor Haedo age 38
President - Uruguay
Gonchigiin Bumtsend age 58
President - Mongolia
Leonardo Argüello Barreto age 64
President - Nicaragua
Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan age 50
President - Pakistan
Arturo Lezama age 40
President - Uruguay
Faustino Harrison age 39
President - Uruguay
Charles Arden-Clarke age 41
President - Ghana
Gabasheane Masupha age 35
King - Lesotho
Daniel Chanis Pinzón age 46
President - Panama
Assaat age 35
President - Indonesia
Miha Marinko age 39
President - Slovenia
Benjamín Lacayo Sacasa age 46
President - Nicaragua
Paek Nak-chun age 44
Acting President - South Korea
Gwak Sanghun age 43
Acting President - South Korea
Giuseppe Maiani age 14
Captain Regent - San Marino
Honduran military junta of 1956–1957
President - Honduras
Giovanni Vito Marcucci age 12
Captain Regent - San Marino
Primo Marani age 16
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giovanni Zaccaria Savoretti age 19
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giuseppe Forcellini age 38
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ferruccio Piva age 15
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Giancecchi age 17
Captain Regent - San Marino
Enrico Andreoli age 18
Captain Regent - San Marino
Pietro Reffi age 12
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giancarlo Ghironzi age 7
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vincenzo Pedini age 19
Captain Regent - San Marino
Alvaro Casali age 43
Captain Regent - San Marino
Francesco Balsimelli age 45
Captain Regent - San Marino
Lord Mountbatten age 39
Viceroy - British Raj
Archibald Wavell age 56
Viceroy - British Raj
C. R. Swart age 44
State President - South Africa
Lee Kuan Yew age 16
Prime Minister - Singapore
Patrice Lumumba age 14
Prime Minister - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Enver Hoxha age 31
Prime Minister - Albania
Jomo Kenyatta age 46
Prime Minister - Kenya
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 23
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Lester B. Pearson age 42
Prime Minister - Canada
Georgi Dimitrov age 57
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Imre Nagy age 43
Prime Minister - Hungary
Ion Antonescu age 57
Prime Minister - Romania
Pridi Banomyong age 39
Prime Minister - Thailand
Milton Obote age 13
Prime Minister - Uganda
János Kádár age 27
Prime Minister - Hungary
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 36
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Chang Myon age 40
Prime Minister - South Korea
Adnan Menderes age 40
Prime Minister - Turkey
Liaquat Ali Khan age 44
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Mátyás Rákosi age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Willem Drees age 53
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 32
Prime Minister - Greece
Plaek Phibunsongkhram age 42
Prime Minister - Thailand
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 30
Prime Minister - Afghanistan
John Diefenbaker age 44
Prime Minister - Canada
Ioannis Metaxas age 68
Prime Minister - Greece
William Lyon Mackenzie King age 64
Prime Minister - Canada
Milovan Đilas age 28
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej age 37
Prime Minister - Romania
Robert Menzies age 44
Prime Minister - Australia
Abd al-Karim Qasim age 24
Prime Minister - Iraq
Ne Win age 28
Prime Minister - Myanmar