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Events

Self-Strengthening Movement 1861-01-01 - 1895-12-31
Gilded Age 1870-01-01 - 1900-12-31
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882-05-06
Sino-French War 1884-08-22 - 1885-04-04
First Sino-Japanese War 1894-07-25 - 1895-04-17
First Guangzhou Uprising 1895-10-26
Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Spanish-American War 1898-04-21 - 1898-08-13
Wuxu Coup 1898-09-22
Philippine-American War 1899-02-04 - 1902-07-02
Second Boer War 1899-10-11 - 1902-05-31
Boxer Rebellion 1899-10-18 - 1901-09-07
Huizhou Uprising 1900-10-08 - 1900-11-08
Russo-Japanese War 1904-02-08 - 1905-09-05
Battle of Mukden 1905-02-20 - 1905-03-10
Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-09-05
Zhennanguan Uprising 1907-12-01
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso 1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
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
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
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 Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
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
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
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
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

Chester A. Arthur age 50
Chiang Kai-shek born 1887-10-31
James A. Garfield age 47
Adolf Hitler born 1889-04-20
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
Warren G. Harding age 13
Wilhelm II age 20
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Rutherford B. Hayes age 57
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Charles de Gaulle born 1890-11-22
Harry S. Truman born 1884-05-08
Charles I of Austria born 1887-08-17
Joseph Stalin age 10 months
Ho Chi Minh born 1890-05-19
William Howard Taft age 22
Souvanna Phouma born 1901-10-07
Herbert Hoover age 5
Franklin D. Roosevelt born 1882-01-30
Leonid Brezhnev born 1906-12-19
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Raymond Poincaré age 19
Georges Clemenceau age 38
David Lloyd George age 16
H. H. Asquith age 27
Puyi born 1906-02-07
Dwight D. Eisenhower born 1890-10-14
Guangxu Emperor age 8
William McKinley age 36
Theodore Roosevelt age 21
Woodrow Wilson age 22
Emperor Taishō age 1 month
Hirohito born 1901-04-29
Lê Duẩn born 1907-04-07
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 49
Benjamin Harrison age 46
Nikita Khrushchev born 1894-04-15
Grover Cleveland age 42
Neville Chamberlain age 10
Winston Churchill age 4
Carlos Castillo Armas born 1914-11-04
Nicholas II of Russia age 11
Emperor Meiji age 27
Mehmed V age 35
Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14
Mehmed VI age 18
Clement Attlee born 1883-01-03
Anthony Eden born 1897-06-12
Calvin Coolidge age 7
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Mao Zedong born 1893-12-26
Levi P. Morton age 55
Liu Shaoqi born 1898-11-24
Edward VIII born 1894-06-23
Edward VII age 37
Thomas R. Marshall age 25
James S. Sherman age 24
Charles W. Fairbanks age 27
Garret Hobart age 35
Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15
Konrad Adenauer age 3
Kurt von Schleicher born 1882-04-07
George V age 14
George VI born 1895-12-14
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Józef Piłsudski age 11
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27
Alben W. Barkley age 1
Henry A. Wallace born 1888-10-07
John Nance Garner age 10
Charles Curtis age 19
Charles G. Dawes age 14
Queen Victoria age 60
Joseph Goebbels born 1897-10-29
Otto von Bismarck age 64
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Zhou Enlai born 1898-03-05
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
Hermann Göring born 1893-01-12
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
David M. Kennedy (politician) born 1905-07-21
Soong Ching-ling born 1893-01-27
John Foster Dulles born 1888-02-25
Zhu De born 1886-12-01
Edward Douglass White age 34
Harlan F. Stone age 7
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Fred M. Vinson born 1890-01-22
Earl Warren born 1891-03-19
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Clark Clifford born 1906-12-25
George C. Marshall born 1880-12-31
Thomas S. Gates Jr. born 1906-04-10
Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09
Dong Biwu born 1886-03-05
Omar Bradley born 1893-02-12
Douglas MacArthur born 1880-01-26
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Vladimir Lenin age 9
Deng Xiaoping born 1904-08-22
Abe Fortas born 1910-06-19
Arthur Goldberg born 1908-08-08
Potter Stewart born 1915-01-23
William J. Brennan Jr. born 1906-04-25
John Marshall Harlan II born 1899-05-20
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Thurgood Marshall born 1908-07-02
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
John Connally born 1917-02-27
Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08
Charles Evans Hughes age 17
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Kurt Daluege born 1897-09-15
Franz von Papen born 1879-10-29
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Martin Bormann born 1900-06-17
Tôn Đức Thắng born 1888-08-20
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
George S. Patton born 1885-11-11
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Iwane Matsui age 1
Heinrich Himmler born 1900-10-07
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Karl Dönitz born 1891-09-16
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Robert A. Lovett born 1895-09-14
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
Wilhelm Frick age 2
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
Rudolf Hess born 1894-04-26
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
Reinhard Heydrich born 1904-03-07
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Sun Yun-suan born 1913-11-10
Frank Jack Fletcher born 1885-04-29
Raymond A. Spruance born 1886-07-03
Courtney Hodges born 1887-01-05
Sun Yat-sen age 12
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
John J. Pershing age 19
Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
Wang Zhen (general) born 1908-04-11
Rong Yiren born 1916-05-01
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
J. Edgar Hoover born 1895-01-01
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23
Yang Shangkun born 1907-08-03
Archibald Cox born 1912-05-17
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
Lewis F. Powell Jr. born 1907-09-19
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
David Souter born 1939-09-17
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
Yoshijirō Umezu born 1882-01-04
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Air National Guard
Jefferson Davis age 71
Souphanouvong born 1909-07-13
Benito Mussolini born 1883-07-29
Paul von Hindenburg age 32
Erich Ludendorff age 14
Wilhelm Groener age 11
Francisco Franco born 1892-12-04
Hubert Gough age 9
Naoki Hoshino born 1892-04-10
Kōki Hirota age 1
Doihara Kenji born 1883-08-08
Akira Mutō born 1892-12-15
He Yingqin born 1890-04-02
Semyon Timoshenko born 1895-02-18
Kliment Voroshilov born 1881-02-04
Friedrich Jeckeln born 1895-02-02
Ernst Kaltenbrunner born 1903-10-04
Wilhelm Keitel born 1882-09-22
Walther Funk born 1890-08-18
Hans Fritzsche born 1900-04-21
Erich Raeder age 3
Alfred Rosenberg born 1893-01-12
Fritz Sauckel born 1894-10-27
Arthur Seyss-Inquart born 1892-07-22
Baldur von Schirach born 1907-05-09
Hjalmar Schacht age 2
Kyösti Kallio age 6
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 12
Rodion Malinovsky born 1898-11-23
Heitarō Kimura born 1888-09-28
Kingorō Hashimoto born 1890-02-19
Seishirō Itagaki born 1885-01-21
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Hideki Tōjō born 1884-12-30
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Yuan Shikai age 20
Claus von Stauffenberg born 1907-11-15
Ulysses S. Grant age 57
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla age 23
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi age 10
Albert Einstein age 7 months
Clarence M. Kelley born 1911-10-24
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Joseph Gallieni age 30
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Julio César Méndez Montenegro born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia born 1908-06-17
Juan José Arévalo born 1904-09-10
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 42
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage age 161
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson born 1912-04-17
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Emilio De Bono age 13
Albert Speer born 1905-03-19
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher born 1885-02-12
Alfred Jodl born 1890-05-10
George B. McClellan age 52
Otto Hofmann born 1896-03-16
Fritz Todt born 1891-09-04
Otto Rasch born 1891-12-07
Hans Frank born 1900-05-23
Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
John Schofield age 48
Eva Braun born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm born 1887-11-28
Isoroku Yamamoto born 1884-04-04
Chester W. Nimitz born 1885-02-24
Manuel Azaña born 1880-01-10
Ruhollah Khomeini born 1902-09-24
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Empress Dowager Cixi age 43
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
Matthias Erzberger age 4
Ferdinand Foch age 28
Joseph Chamberlain age 43
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial born 1879-12-17
Gerd von Rundstedt age 3
Erich von Manstein born 1887-11-24
Ōyama Iwao age 36
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 15
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Cai E born 1882-12-19
Leon Trotsky born 1879-11-07
Peng Dehuai born 1898-10-24
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Warren E. Burger born 1907-09-17
Joseph Joffre age 27