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Guatemalan Revolution
1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War
1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
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
Space Race
1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War
1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott
1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Little Rock Nine
1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Sputnik 1
1957-10-04
Great Leap Forward
1958-01-01 - 1962-01-01
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Great Chinese Famine
1959-01-01 - 1961-12-31
Laotian Civil War
1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement
1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War
1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement
1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1
1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders
1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état
1961-09-28
Apollo Program
1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-16 - 1962-10-29
Sino-Indian War
1962-10-20 - 1962-11-21
Socialist Education Movement
1963-01-01 - 1966-01-01
1963 Syrian coup d'état
1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign
1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963-11-22
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964-07-02
Harlem riot of 1964
1964-07-16 - 1964-07-22
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964-08-02
Chicago Freedom Movement
1965-01-01 - 1967-01-01
Selma to Montgomery marches
1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état
1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution
1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War
1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War
1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Nigerian Civil War
1967-07-06 - 1970-01-15
1967 Plainfield riots
1967-07-14 - 1967-07-16
1967 Detroit riot
1967-07-23 - 1967-07-28
Orangeburg massacre
1968-02-08
Mỹ Lai massacre
1968-03-16
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
1968-04-04
Fair Housing Act
1968-04-11
Poor People's Campaign
1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
1968-06-06
People
Souvanna Phouma
age 52
Prime Minister
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Laos
Nikita Khrushchev
age 60
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek
age 66
President
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Republic of China
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 45
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 63
President
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France
Hirohito
age 53
Emperor
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Japan
Ho Chi Minh
age 64
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
age 36
President
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United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 63
President
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United States
Jacobo Árbenz
age 40
President
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Guatemala
Leonid Brezhnev
age 47
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 39
President
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Guatemala
Lê Duẩn
age 47
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Winston Churchill
age 79
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 36
President
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Egypt
Anthony Eden
age 56
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Pol Pot
age 29
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Richard Nixon
age 41
Vice President
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United States
Hubert Humphrey
age 43
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 42
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Liu Shaoqi
age 55
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Konrad Adenauer
age 78
Chancellor
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Germany
Fidel Castro
age 27
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Saddam Hussein
age 17
Vice President
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Iraq
Mao Zedong
age 60
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Elizabeth II
age 28
Queen
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United Kingdom
Walter Mondale
age 26
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 28
Senate
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United States
Alben W. Barkley
age 76
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 56
Premier
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People's Republic of China
Daniel Inouye
age 29
Senate
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United States
George H. W. Bush
age 29
House of Representatives
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United States
Melvin Laird
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 40
House of Representatives
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United States
Zhu De
age 67
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Clark Clifford
age 47
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 61
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Robert McNamara
age 37
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Ramsey Clark
age 26
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
John Foster Dulles
age 66
Secretary Of State
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 32
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Dong Biwu
age 68
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Earl Warren
age 63
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Clement Attlee
age 71
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
age 28
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 49
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
John Marshall Harlan II
age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 48
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 39
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 43
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Byron White
age 36
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Connally
age 37
Governor of Texas
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 43
Governor of California
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United States
Nelson Rockefeller
age 45
Governor of New York
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United States
Spiro Agnew
age 35
Governor Of Maryland
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United States
Bill Clinton
age 7
Democratic Party (United States)
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 24
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 44
Kuomintang
Wen Jiabao
age 11
Communist Party of China
Joe Biden
age 11
Democratic Party (United States)
Wang Zhen (general)
age 46
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 38
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 25
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 60
Nazi Party
Herbert Hoover
age 79
Republican Party (United States)
Jiang Zemin
age 27
Communist Party of China
Henry Kissinger
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
Hua Guofeng
age 33
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 38
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 34
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 46
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 44
Communist Party of China
Archibald Cox
age 42
Democratic Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 59
Republican Party (United States)
William H. Webster
age 30
Republican Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 10
United States Navy
Hillary Clinton
age 6
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 65
Communist Party of Vietnam
James R. Schlesinger
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
Jimmy Carter
age 29
Democratic Party (United States)
Jacques Chirac
age 21
French Army
Colin Powell
age 17
United States Army
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 14
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 34
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 74
United States Army
Dick Cheney
age 13
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 11
Communist Party of China
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 40
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 30
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
age 17
Kuomintang
Stephen Breyer
age 15
United States Army
John Paul Stevens
age 34
Republican Party (United States)
David Souter
age 14
Republican Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 17
United States Army
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 24
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 46
Democratic Party (United States)
Karl Dönitz
age 62
Nazi Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 25
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush
age 7
Air National Guard
Otto Hofmann
age 58
George Shultz
age 33
Hafez al-Assad
age 23
Lee Teng-hui
age 31
Yuri Andropov
age 39
Donald Trump
age 7
Hubert Gough
age 83
Naoki Hoshino
age 62
He Yingqin
age 64
Semyon Timoshenko
age 59
Kliment Voroshilov
age 73
Walther Funk
age 63
Erich Raeder
age 78
Baldur von Schirach
age 47
Hjalmar Schacht
age 77
Franz von Papen
age 74
Rodion Malinovsky
age 55
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 64
Rosa Parks
age 41
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 23
Harry S. Truman
age 70
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 51
Souphanouvong
age 44
Francisco Franco
age 61
Clarence M. Kelley
age 42
Albert Einstein
age 75
Nelson Mandela
age 35
Kim Jong-il
age 13
Nicolas Sarkozy
born 1955-01-28
François Hollande
born 1954-08-12
Tim Berners-Lee
born 1955-06-08
Boris Yeltsin
age 23
Muhammad Ali
age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 8
Jo Ann Robinson
age 42
Malcolm X
age 29
Thomas Gage
age 236
Charles III
age 5
Robert A. Lovett
age 58
Juan José Arévalo
age 49
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 45
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 38
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 48
John Major
age 11
Tony Blair
age 1
Gordon Brown
age 3
David Cameron
born 1966-10-09
Theresa May
born 1956-10-01
Boris Johnson
born 1964-06-19
Keir Starmer
born 1962-09-02
Konstantin Chernenko
age 42
Gennady Yanayev
age 16
Narendra Modi
age 3
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 35
Chester W. Nimitz
age 69
Albert Speer
age 49
Warren E. Burger
age 46
William Rehnquist
age 29
John Roberts
born 1955-01-27
Al Gore
age 6
Peng Dehuai
age 55
Henry A. Wallace
age 65
John Nance Garner
age 85
Xi Jinping
age 11 months
George C. Marshall
age 73
Erich von Manstein
age 66
Omar Bradley
age 61
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 74
Dan Quayle
age 7
Puyi
age 48
Zeng Qinghong
age 14
Zhu Rongji
age 25
Ronald McNair
age 3
Ellison Onizuka
age 7
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 23
Warren Christopher
age 28
Edward VIII
age 59
Yasser Arafat
age 24
Courtney Hodges
age 67
Raymond A. Spruance
age 67
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 69
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 21
Clarence Thomas
age 5
Antonin Scalia
age 18