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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
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
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
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
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
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
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
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
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
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
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

Adolf Hitler age 50
Führer - Germany
Joseph Stalin age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 13
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 22
President - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 57
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 45
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 48
President - France
Harry S. Truman age 55
President - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 49
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 31
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 38
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 49
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Chiang Kai-shek age 51
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 47
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 21
President - Egypt
George VI age 43
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 47
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 19
Shah - Iran
Philippe Pétain age 83
Chief of the French State - Vichy France
Karl Dönitz age 48
Reich President - Germany
Fulgencio Batista age 38
President - Cuba
Reza Shah age 61
Shah - Iran
Getúlio Vargas age 57
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 69
King - Italy
Walter Ulbricht age 46
First Secretary - East Germany
Umberto II of Italy age 35
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 37
King - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 55
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 37
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 9
King - Belgium
Vincent Auriol age 55
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 19
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Heinrich Lübke age 45
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 40
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Naguib age 38
President - Egypt
René Coty age 57
President - France
Lázaro Cárdenas age 44
President - Mexico
João Goulart age 20
President - Brazil
Jacobo Árbenz age 26
President - Guatemala
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 16
King - Yugoslavia
Abdul Salam Arif age 18
President - Iraq
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 42
President - Mexico
Wang Jingwei age 56
President - Republic of China
Lê Duẩn age 32
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Adolfo López Mateos age 29
President - Mexico
Georges Bidault age 40
President - France
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 39
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 22
President - Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 56
President - Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt born 1952-01-16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Osvaldo Dorticós age 20
President - Cuba
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 48
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 40
President - Brazil
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 29
President - Brazil
Carlos Castillo Armas age 24
President - Guatemala
Li Tsung-jen age 50
President - Republic of China
Nereu Ramos age 51
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 48
President - Syria
José Linhares age 53
President - Brazil
Carlos Luz age 45
President - Brazil
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 35
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 37
President - Cuba
Juan José Arévalo age 35
President - Guatemala
Jorge Ubico age 60
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 63
President - Syria
Adib Shishakli age 30
President - Syria
Husni al-Za'im age 42
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 36
President - Cuba
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 44
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 33
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 13
President - Syria
Sami al-Henaaui age 41
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 31
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 44
Acting President - Cuba
Juan Federico Ponce Vaides age 50
President - Guatemala
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 24
President - Guatemala
Fawzi Selu age 34
President - Syria
Bahij al-Khatib age 44
President - Syria
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 27
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 33
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 13
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 38
President - Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 22
President - Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 45
President - Guatemala
Izzat al-Nuss age 27
President - Syria
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 31
President - Guatemala
Albert Lebrun age 68
President - France
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 25
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 14
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 34
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 30
Secretary-General - United Nations
Trygve Lie age 43
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 13
Prime Minister - Cuba
Benito Mussolini age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Jawaharlal Nehru age 49
Prime Minister - India
Konrad Adenauer age 63
Chancellor - Germany
Georges Pompidou age 28
Prime Minister - France
Joseph Goebbels age 41
Chancellor - Germany
David Ben-Gurion age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Neville Chamberlain age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Clement Attlee age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Zhou Enlai age 41
Premier - People's Republic of China
Vyacheslav Molotov age 49
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars - Soviet Union
Anthony Eden age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 45
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Ludwig Erhard age 42
Chancellor - Germany
Hideki Tojo age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Georgy Malenkov age 37
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Alec Douglas-Home age 36
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 58
Prime Minister - Italy
Léon Blum age 67
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Pietro Badoglio age 68
Prime Minister - Italy
Édouard Daladier age 55
Prime Minister - France
Giovanni Leone age 30
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Laval age 56
Head of Government - Vichy France
Levi Eshkol age 44
Prime Minister - Israel
Antonio Segni age 48
Prime Minister - Italy
Moshe Sharett age 45
Prime Minister - Israel
Paul-Henri Spaak age 40
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 44
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Bolesław Bierut age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Władysław Sikorski age 58
Prime Minister - Poland
Nobusuke Kishi age 42
Prime Minister - Japan
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 52
Leading Minister - Germany
Fumimaro Konoe age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Hayato Ikeda age 39
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 69
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ichirō Hatoyama age 56
Prime Minister - Japan
Ivanoe Bonomi age 66
Prime Minister - Italy
Hendrik Verwoerd age 38
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul Reynaud age 61
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Mendès France age 32
Prime Minister - France
Kuniaki Koiso age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
François Darlan age 58
Vice-President of the Council - Vichy France
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 44
Prime Minister - Poland
Tanzan Ishibashi age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Debré age 27
Prime Minister - France
Mario Scelba age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Nobuyuki Abe age 63
Prime Minister - Japan
Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Tetsu Katayama age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Hitoshi Ashida age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Avery Brundage age 52
President - International Olympic Committee
Giuseppe Pella age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Fernando Tambroni age 37
Prime Minister - Italy
Kantarō Suzuki age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Walter Hallstein age 37
President - European Commission
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Félix Gouin age 55
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
J. Sigfrid Edström age 68
President - International Olympic Committee
Souvanna Phouma age 38
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 33
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Mitsumasa Yonai age 59
Prime Minister - Japan
Guy Mollet age 33
Prime Minister - France
Ferruccio Parri age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Henri de Baillet-Latour age 63
President - International Olympic Committee
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 28
Prime Minister - Poland
Adone Zoli age 51
Prime Minister - Italy
T. V. Soong age 47
Premier - Republic of China
J. G. Strijdom age 46
Prime Minister - South Africa
Chen Cheng age 42
Premier - Republic of China
John A. Costello age 48
Taoiseach - Ireland
Dušan Simović age 57
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Dragiša Cvetković age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
H. H. Kung age 58
Premier - Republic of China
Yen Hsi-shan age 56
Premier - Republic of China
Stanisław Mikołajczyk age 38
Prime Minister - Poland
Dirk Stikker age 42
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 40
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Avenol age 60
Secretary-General - League of Nations
He Yingqin age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Brock Chisholm age 43
Director-General - World Health Organization
Boun Oum age 27
Prime Minister - Laos
Zhang Qun age 50
Premier - Republic of China
John J. McCloy age 44
President - World Bank
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 40
Prime Minister - Cuba
Seán Lester age 51
Secretary-General - League of Nations
Ali Sabri age 19
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sun Fo age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Eugene Meyer age 64
President - World Bank
Mahmud Fahmi al-Nuqrashi age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Khalid al-Azm age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 14
Prime Minister - Syria
Aly Maher Pasha age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Faris al-Khoury age 61
Prime Minister - Syria
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 47
Prime Minister - Egypt
Sabri al-Asali age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Ismaʿil Sidqi age 64
Prime Minister - Egypt
Muhsin al-Barazi age 35
Prime Minister - Syria
Saadallah al-Jabiri age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Jamil al-Elshi age 56
Prime Minister - Syria
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 28
Director-General - World Health Organization