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Roaring Twenties
1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Beer Hall Putsch
1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published
1925-07-18
Northern Expedition
1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Shanghai massacre
1927-04-12 - 1927-04-12
Nanchang Uprising
1927-08-01 - 1927-08-05
Chinese Civil War
1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Autumn Harvest Uprising
1927-09-07
Central Plains War
1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression
1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday
1929-10-29
Salt March
1930-03-12 - 1930-04-06
Encirclement Campaigns
1930-11-01 - 1934-10-10
Mukden Incident
1931-09-18 - 1931-09-18
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1931-09-18 - 1932-02-27
Proclamation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1932-09-23 - 1932-09-23
Nazi seizure of power
1933-01-30
Reichstag fire
1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933
1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives
1934-06-30 - 1934-07-02
Long March
1934-10-16 - 1935-10-19
Zunyi Conference
1935-01-15 - 1935-01-17
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
1936–1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine
1936-04-19 - 1939-08-26
Spanish Civil War
1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Great Purge
1936-08-19 - 1938-11-17
Xi'an Incident
1936-12-12 - 1936-12-25
Bombing of Guernica
1937-04-26 - 1937-04-26
Second Sino-Japanese War
1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident
1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Shanghai
1937-08-13 - 1937-11-26
Battle of Nanking
1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre
1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss
1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Battle of Wuhan
1938-06-11 - 1938-10-27
Battle of the Ebro
1938-07-25 - 1938-11-16
Munich Agreement
1938-09-30
Kristallnacht
1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939-05-11 - 1939-09-16
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
1939-08-23
Invasion of Poland
1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II
1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Battle of the Atlantic
1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08
Winter War
1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Operation Weserübung
1940-04-09 - 1940-06-10
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
Operation Compass
1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09
The Holocaust
1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
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
Burma campaign
1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
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 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
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11
Operation Torch
1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16
Tunisian campaign
1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13
Battle of Kursk
1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
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 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
20 July plot
1944-07-20
Warsaw Uprising
1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02
Operation Dragoon
1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
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
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge
1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
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
Battle of Okinawa
1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
Battle of Berlin
1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02
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
Surrender of Japan
1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02
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
Direct Action Day
1946-08-16
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
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948
1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01
UN Partition Plan for Palestine
1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29
Marshall Plan
1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War
1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Battle of Jerusalem (1948)
1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of Latrun
1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18
Apartheid
1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Berlin Blockade
1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
Liaoshen Campaign
1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02
Operation Yoav
1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22
Huaihai Campaign
1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10
Pingjin Campaign
1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31
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
Korean War
1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Battle of Inchon
1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19
Second Battle of Seoul
1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
Mau Mau uprising
1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
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
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
Suez Crisis
1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
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
Congo Crisis
1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
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
Li Xiannian
age 14
Communist Party of China
Yang Shangkun
age 16
Communist Party of China
Zhao Ziyang
age 3
Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
age 7
Communist Party of China
Hua Guofeng
age 2
Communist Party of China
Thomas R. Marshall
age 69
Democratic Party (United States)
Li Peng
born 1928-10-20
Communist Party of China
Rong Yiren
age 7
Communist Party of China
Wang Zhen (general)
age 15
Communist Party of China
Wen Jiabao
born 1942-09-15
Communist Party of China
Li Keqiang
born 1955-07-01
Communist Party of China
James Baker
born 1930-04-28
Democratic Party (United States)
Chiang Ching-kuo
age 13
Kuomintang
Kamala Harris
born 1964-10-20
Democratic Party (United States)
Mike Pence
born 1959-06-07
Republican Party (United States)
Sun Yun-suan
age 9
Kuomintang
Lee Yuan-tsu
born 1923-09-24
Kuomintang
Lien Chan
born 1936-08-27
Kuomintang
David Souter
born 1939-09-17
Republican Party (United States)
Sandra Day O'Connor
born 1930-03-26
Republican Party (United States)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.
age 15
Democratic Party (United States)
John Kerry
born 1943-12-11
Democratic Party (United States)
Hillary Clinton
born 1947-10-26
Democratic Party (United States)
Liz Cheney
born 1966-07-28
Republican Party (United States)
James R. Schlesinger
born 1929-02-15
Republican Party (United States)
Condoleezza Rice
born 1954-11-14
Republican Party (United States)
John Lewis
born 1940-02-21
Democratic Party (United States)
George Wallace
age 4
Democratic Party (United States)
Kyösti Kallio
age 50
President
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Finland
Iwane Matsui
age 45
General
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Imperial Japanese Army
Yoshijirō Umezu
age 41
General
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Imperial Japanese Army
Lee Teng-hui
age 7 months
Second lieutenant
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Imperial Japanese Army
William Rehnquist
born 1924-10-01
Sergeant
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United States Army Air Forces
George S. Patton
age 37
General
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United States Army
John J. Pershing
age 63
General of the Armies
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United States Army
Courtney Hodges
age 36
General
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United States Army
Raymond A. Spruance
age 37
Admiral
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United States Navy
Frank Jack Fletcher
age 38
Admiral
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United States Navy
Stephen Breyer
born 1938-08-15
Corporal
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United States Army
Anthony Kennedy
born 1936-07-23
Private (first class)
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California Army National Guard
Mahatma Gandhi
age 53
President
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Indian National Congress
Jacques Chirac
born 1932-11-29
Second lieutenant
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French Army
Colin Powell
born 1937-04-05
General
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United States Army
Zog I of Albania
age 27
President
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Albania
Omer Nishani
age 36
President
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Albania
Haxhi Lleshi
age 9
President
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Albania
Benyoucef Benkhedda
age 3
Prime Minister
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Algeria
Houari Boumédiène
born 1932-08-23
President
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Algeria
Abderrahmane Farès
age 12
President
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Algeria
Ahmad ibn Billah
age 6
President
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Algeria
Ferhat Abbas
age 24
President
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Algeria
Arturo Umberto Illia
age 23
President
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Argentina
Hipólito Yrigoyen
age 73
President
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Argentina
Arturo Frondizi
age 14
President
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Argentina
Edelmiro Julián Farrell
age 36
President
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Argentina
José Félix Uriburu
age 55
President
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Argentina
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
age 54
President
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Argentina
Pedro Pablo Ramírez
age 39
President
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Argentina
Juan Carlos Onganía
age 9
President
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Argentina
Agustín Pedro Justo
age 47
President
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Argentina
Roberto Marcelino Ortiz
age 36
President
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Argentina
Juan Perón
age 27
President
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Argentina
Eduardo Lonardi
age 26
President
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Argentina
José Domingo Molina Gómez
age 26
President
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Argentina
Roberto Marcelo Levingston
age 3
President
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Argentina
José María Guido
age 13
President
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Argentina
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
age 20
President
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Argentina
Ramón Castillo
age 49
President
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Argentina
Arturo Rawson
age 38
President
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Argentina
Leopold Figl
age 20
Chancellor
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Austria
Karl Renner
age 52
Chancellor
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Austria
Franz Jonas
age 23
President
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Austria
Adolf Schärf
age 33
President
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Austria
Theodor Körner
age 50
President
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Austria
Michael Hainisch
age 65
President
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Austria
Carlos Blanco Galindo
age 41
President
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Bolivia
Hernán Siles Zuazo
age 9
President
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Bolivia
Daniel Salamanca Urey
age 54
President
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Bolivia
Bautista Saavedra
age 53
President
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Bolivia
Hernando Siles Reyes
age 41
President
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Bolivia
Enrique Peñaranda
age 29
President
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Bolivia
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
born 1925-06-21
President
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Bolivia
Enrique Hertzog
age 25
President
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Bolivia
Juan José Torres
age 3
President
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Bolivia
Néstor Guillén
age 33
President
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Bolivia
Alfredo Ovando Candía
age 5
President
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Bolivia
Germán Busch
age 20
President
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Bolivia
Víctor Paz Estenssoro
age 15
President
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Bolivia
René Emilio Barrientos Ortuño
age 4
President
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Bolivia
José Luis Tejada Sorzano
age 41
President
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Bolivia
Tomás Monje
age 38
President
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Bolivia
David Toro
age 25
President
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Bolivia
Mamerto Urriolagoitía
age 27
President
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Bolivia
Carlos Quintanilla
age 35
President
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Bolivia
Felipe S. Guzmán
age 44
President
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Bolivia
Hugo Ballivián
age 22
President
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Bolivia
Seretse Khama
age 2
President
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Botswana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana
age 7
President
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Burkina Faso
Michel Micombero
born 1940-08-26
President
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Burundi
Ahmadou Ahidjo
born 1924-08-24
President
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Cameroon
David Dacko
born 1930-03-24
Prime Minister
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Central African Republic
Jean-Bedel Bokassa
age 2
President
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Central African Republic
François Tombalbaye
age 5
Prime Minister
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Chad
Salvador Allende
age 15
President
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Chile
Eduardo Frei Montalva
age 12
President
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Chile
Jorge Alessandri
age 27
President
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Chile
Carlos Dávila
age 35
President
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Chile
Luis Altamirano
age 56
President
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Chile
Bartolomé Blanche
age 44
President
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Chile
Pedro Opaso
age 47
President
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Chile
Pedro Dartnell
age 49
President
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Chile
Emilio Bello Codesido
age 55
President
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Chile
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
age 45
President
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Chile
Gabriel Gonzáles Videla
age 24
President
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Chile
Juan Antonio Rios
age 34
President
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Chile
Pedro Aguirre Cerda
age 44
President
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Chile
Arturo Alessandri
age 54
President
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Chile
Juan Esteban Montero
age 44
President
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Chile
Emiliano Figueroa
age 57
President
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Chile
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
age 23
President
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Colombia
Laureano Gómez
age 34
President
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Colombia
Eduardo Santos
age 35
President
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Colombia
Guillermo León Valencia
age 14
President
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Colombia
Carlos Lleras Restrepo
age 15
President
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Colombia
Mariano Ospina Pérez
age 31
President
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Colombia
Miguel Abadía Méndez
age 56
President
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Colombia
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez
age 65
President
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Colombia
Enrique Olaya Herrera
age 42
President
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Colombia
Alberto Lleras Camargo
age 17
President
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Colombia
Alfonso López Pumarejo
age 37
President
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Colombia
Misael Pastrana Borrero
born 1923-11-14
President
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Colombia
Gabriel París Gordillo
age 13
President
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Colombia
Mario Echandi Jiménez
age 8
President
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Costa Rica
Otilio Ulate Blanco
age 32
President
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Costa Rica
José Figueres Ferrer
age 16
President
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Costa Rica
Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno
age 64
President
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Costa Rica
León Cortés Castro
age 40
President
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Costa Rica
Julio Acosta García
age 51
President
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Costa Rica
José Joaquín Trejos Fernández
age 7
President
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Costa Rica
Cleto González Víquez
age 64
President
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Costa Rica
Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich
age 16
President
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Costa Rica
Teodoro Picado Michalski
age 23
President
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Costa Rica
Makarios III
age 10
President
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Cyprus
Mobutu Sese Seko
born 1930-10-14
President
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joseph Kasa-Vubu
age 13
President
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Antonio Imbert Barrera
age 2
President
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Dominican Republic
Horacio Vásquez
age 62
President
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Dominican Republic
Juan Bosch
age 14
President
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Dominican Republic
Joaquín Balaguer
age 17
President
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Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
age 31
President
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Dominican Republic
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit
age 2
President
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Dominican Republic
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy
age 4
President
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Ecuador
Isidro Ayora
age 44
President
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Ecuador
Camilo Ponce Enríquez
age 11
President
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Ecuador
Galo Plaza
age 17
President
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Ecuador
Carlos Arroyo
age 29
President
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Ecuador
Andrés F. Córdova
age 31
President
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Ecuador
Otto Arosemena
born 1925-07-19
President
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Ecuador
Antonio Pons
age 25
President
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Ecuador
Federico Páez
age 47
President
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Ecuador
Gonzalo Córdova
age 60
President
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Ecuador
Julio Enrique Moreno
age 44
President
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Ecuador
Arturo Araujo
age 45
President
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El Salvador
Fidel Sánchez Hernández
age 6
President
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El Salvador
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez
age 44
President
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El Salvador
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
age 40
President
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El Salvador
Pío Romero Bosque
age 63
President
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El Salvador
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
age 49
President
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El Salvador
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko
born 1924-01-01
President
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Equatorial Guinea
Konstantin Päts
age 49
President
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Estonia
Risto Ryti
age 34
President
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Finland
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
age 61
President
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Finland
Lauri Kristian Relander
age 40
President
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Finland
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
age 58
President
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Finland
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
age 56
President
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Finland
Urho Kekkonen
age 23
President
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Finland
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
age 52
President
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Finland
Jean-Hilaire Aubame
age 10
President
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Gabon
Léon M'ba
age 21
President
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Gabon
Edward Akufo-Addo
age 17
President
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Ghana
Joseph Arthur Ankrah
age 8
President
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Ghana
Akwasi Afrifa
born 1936-04-24
President
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Ghana
Charles Arden-Clarke
age 25
President
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Ghana
Nii Amaa Ollennu
age 17
President
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Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
age 13
President
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Ghana
Theodoros Pangalos
age 45
Prime Minister
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Greece
Alexandros Zaimis
age 67
Prime Minister
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Greece
Pavlos Kountouriotis
age 69
President
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Greece
Ahmed Sékou Touré
age 1
President
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Guinea
Arthur Chung
age 5
President
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Guyana
Edward Luckhoo
age 11
President
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Guyana
Antonio Thrasybule Kébreau
age 13
President
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Haiti
Paul Magloire
age 16
President
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Haiti
François Duvalier
age 16
President
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Haiti
Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis
age 22
President
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Haiti
Dumarsais Estimé
age 23
President
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Haiti
Stenio Vincent
age 49
President
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Haiti
Louis Borno
age 57
President
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Haiti
Louis Eugene Roy
age 62
President
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Haiti
Franck Lavaud
age 20
President
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Haiti
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