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Cold War
1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Civil rights movement
1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
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
Apollo 11
1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
People
Hirohito
age 54
Emperor
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Japan
Souvanna Phouma
age 53
Prime Minister
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Laos
John F. Kennedy
age 38
President
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United States
Charles de Gaulle
age 64
President
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France
Lyndon B. Johnson
age 46
President
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United States
Leonid Brezhnev
age 48
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Pol Pot
age 30
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea
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Cambodia
Carlos Castillo Armas
age 40
President
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Guatemala
Richard Nixon
age 42
President
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United States
Ho Chi Minh
age 65
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Dwight D. Eisenhower
age 64
President
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United States
Gamal Abdel Nasser
age 37
President
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Egypt
Chiang Kai-shek
age 67
President
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Republic of China
Nikita Khrushchev
age 61
General Secretary of the Communist Party
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Soviet Union
Lê Duẩn
age 48
General Secretary
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Communist Party of Vietnam
Anthony Eden
age 58
Prime Minister
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United Kingdom
Fidel Castro
age 28
Prime Minister
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Cuba
Konrad Adenauer
age 79
Chancellor
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Germany
Saddam Hussein
age 18
Vice President
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Iraq
Mao Zedong
age 61
Chairman Of The Central Military Commission
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People's Republic of China
Liu Shaoqi
age 56
Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Hubert Humphrey
age 44
Vice President
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United States
Spiro Agnew
age 36
Vice President
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United States
Kim Il-sung
age 43
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea
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North Korea
Elizabeth II
age 29
Queen
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United Kingdom
Alben W. Barkley
age 77
Senate
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United States
Walter Mondale
age 27
Senate
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United States
Daniel Inouye
age 30
Senate
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United States
Robert F. Kennedy
age 29
Senate
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United States
Zhou Enlai
age 57
Premier
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People's Republic of China
George H. W. Bush
age 31
House of Representatives
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United States
Gerald Ford
age 42
House of Representatives
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United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr.
age 49
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Zhu De
age 68
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Clark Clifford
age 48
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Soong Ching-ling
age 62
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Ramsey Clark
age 27
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Melvin Laird
age 32
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Nicholas Katzenbach
age 33
Attorney General
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Department of Justice
Robert McNamara
age 39
Secretary Of Defense
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United States
Earl Warren
age 64
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
Dong Biwu
age 69
Vice Chairman
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People's Republic of China
Warren E. Burger
age 47
Chief Justice
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US Judiciary
David M. Kennedy (politician)
age 50
Secretary Of The Treasury
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United States
John Foster Dulles
age 67
Secretary Of State
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United States
Clement Attlee
age 72
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher
age 29
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Winston Churchill
age 80
Member Of Parliament
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United Kingdom
Deng Xiaoping
age 50
Secretariat
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Communist Party of China
Byron White
age 38
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Abe Fortas
age 45
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II
age 56
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr.
age 49
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Potter Stewart
age 40
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg
age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court
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US Judiciary
Nelson Rockefeller
age 47
Governor of New York
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United States
John Connally
age 38
Governor of Texas
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United States
Ronald Reagan
age 44
Governor of California
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United States
Hua Guofeng
age 34
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 39
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 35
Communist Party of China
Jiang Zemin
age 28
Communist Party of China
James Baker
age 25
Democratic Party (United States)
Dick Cheney
age 14
Republican Party (United States)
Bill Clinton
age 8
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Keqiang
age 0 months
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
age 12
Communist Party of China
Barack Obama
born 1961-08-04
Democratic Party (United States)
Joe Biden
age 12
Democratic Party (United States)
Douglas MacArthur
age 75
United States Army
Henry Kissinger
age 32
Republican Party (United States)
Hu Jintao
age 12
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 47
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 39
Communist Party of China
Li Peng
age 26
Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian
age 46
Communist Party of China
Rudolf Hess
age 61
Nazi Party
Yang Shangkun
age 48
Communist Party of China
Herbert Hoover
age 81
Republican Party (United States)
Colin Powell
age 18
United States Army
Jacques Chirac
age 22
French Army
Jimmy Carter
age 30
Democratic Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
age 26
Republican Party (United States)
Tôn Đức Thắng
age 66
Communist Party of Vietnam
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
age 7
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
age 11
United States Navy
William H. Webster
age 31
Republican Party (United States)
J. Edgar Hoover
age 60
Republican Party (United States)
Archibald Cox
age 43
Democratic Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 47
Democratic Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
age 8 months
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
age 25
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
Anthony Kennedy
age 19
United States Army
David Souter
age 15
Republican Party (United States)
John Paul Stevens
age 35
Republican Party (United States)
Stephen Breyer
age 16
United States Army
George Wallace
age 35
Democratic Party (United States)
Lien Chan
age 18
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
age 31
Kuomintang
Sun Yun-suan
age 41
Kuomintang
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 45
Kuomintang
Karl Dönitz
age 63
Nazi Party
Martin Luther King Jr.
age 26
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush
age 9
Air National Guard
Hubert Gough
age 85
Yuri Andropov
age 41
Lee Teng-hui
age 32
Naoki Hoshino
age 63
He Yingqin
age 65
Semyon Timoshenko
age 60
Kliment Voroshilov
age 74
Walther Funk
age 64
Erich Raeder
age 79
Baldur von Schirach
age 48
Hjalmar Schacht
age 78
Otto Hofmann
age 59
Franz von Papen
age 75
Rodion Malinovsky
age 56
Kingorō Hashimoto
age 65
Rosa Parks
age 42
Hafez al-Assad
age 24
George Shultz
age 34
Francisco Franco
age 62
Souphanouvong
age 46
Ruhollah Khomeini
age 52
Chester W. Nimitz
age 70
Harry S. Truman
age 71
Mikhail Gorbachev
age 24
Clarence M. Kelley
age 43
Nelson Mandela
age 37
Kim Jong-il
age 14
Nicolas Sarkozy
age 6 months
François Hollande
age 11 months
Tim Berners-Lee
age 1 month
Boris Yeltsin
age 24
Muhammad Ali
age 13
Aung San Suu Kyi
age 10
Jo Ann Robinson
age 43
Malcolm X
age 30
Thomas Gage
age 237
Charles III
age 6
Robert A. Lovett
age 59
Juan José Arévalo
age 50
Jacobo Árbenz
age 41
Enrique Peralta Azurdia
age 47
Julio César Méndez Montenegro
age 39
John Major
age 12
Tony Blair
age 2
Gordon Brown
age 4
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 43
Gennady Yanayev
age 17
Narendra Modi
age 4
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio
age 37
Donald Trump
age 9
Albert Speer
age 50
William Rehnquist
age 30
John Roberts
age 6 months
Al Gore
age 7
Peng Dehuai
age 56
Henry A. Wallace
age 66
John Nance Garner
age 86
Xi Jinping
age 2
George C. Marshall
age 74
Erich von Manstein
age 67
Omar Bradley
age 62
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial
age 75
Dan Quayle
age 8
Puyi
age 49
Zeng Qinghong
age 16
Zhu Rongji
age 26
Ronald McNair
age 4
Ellison Onizuka
age 9
Lawrence Eagleburger
age 25
Warren Christopher
age 29
Edward VIII
age 61
Yasser Arafat
age 25
Courtney Hodges
age 68
Raymond A. Spruance
age 69
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 70
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
age 22
Clarence Thomas
age 7
Antonin Scalia
age 19