✦ History

Explore June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of An Lộc 1972-04-13 - 1972-07-20
Watergate scandal 1972-06-17 - 1974-08-09
Second Battle of Quảng Trị 1972-06-28 - 1972-09-16
Munich massacre 1972-09-05 - 1972-09-06
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
1973 oil crisis 1973-10-17 - 1974-03-18
Third Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-21 - 1973-10-22
Carnation Revolution 1974-04-25
Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974-07-20 - 1974-08-18

People

Arthur Chung age 54
President - Guyana
Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana age 56
President - Burkina Faso
Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry age 68
President - Pakistan
Américo Tomás age 77
President - Portugal
Siaka Stevens age 66
President - Sierra Leone
Benjamin Sheares age 64
President - Singapore
Alfonso López Michelsen age 59
President - Colombia
Haxhi Lleshi age 58
President - Albania
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong age 40
President - Ghana
Oswaldo López Arellano age 51
President - Honduras
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho age 34
King - Lesotho
Gabriel Ramanantsoa age 66
President - Madagascar
Grégoire Kayibanda age 48
President - Rwanda
Hammer DeRoburt age 49
President - Nauru
Raúl Alberto Lastiri age 55
President - Argentina
Phaedon Gizikis age 55
President - Greece
Ibrahim Nasir age 45
President - Maldives
Misael Pastrana Borrero age 48
President - Colombia
William Gopallawa age 74
President - Sri Lanka
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 54
President - El Salvador
Suleiman Frangieh age 62
President - Lebanon
Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah age 59
Emir - Kuwait
Arturo Armando Molina age 44
President - El Salvador
Abu Sayeed Chowdhury age 51
President - Bangladesh
Mohammad Mohammadullah age 50
President - Bangladesh
Daniel Oduber Quirós age 50
President - Costa Rica
Ramón Ernesto Cruz Uclés age 69
President - Honduras
Sergej Kraigher age 58
President - Slovenia
Nello Celio age 58
President - Switzerland
Roger Bonvin age 64
President - Switzerland
Ernst Brugger age 58
President - Switzerland
Tekin Arıburun age 66
President - Turkey
Tsagaanlamyn Dügersüren age 58
President - Mongolia
Ferruccio Piva age 48
Captain Regent - San Marino
Giordano Bruno Reffi age 51
Captain Regent - San Marino
Antonio Lazzaro Volpinari age 28
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jim Fouché age 74
State President - South Africa
Muammar Gaddafi age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Lee Kuan Yew age 48
Prime Minister - Singapore
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 52
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Olof Palme age 45
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sirimavo Bandaranaike age 56
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Pierre Trudeau age 52
Prime Minister - Canada
Bülent Ecevit age 47
Prime Minister - Turkey
Gough Whitlam age 55
Prime Minister - Australia
Bruno Kreisky age 61
Chancellor - Austria
Konstantinos Karamanlis age 65
Prime Minister - Greece
Abdou Diouf age 36
Prime Minister - Senegal
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 36
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Marcelo Caetano age 65
Prime Minister - Portugal
Luis Carrero Blanco age 68
Prime Minister - Spain
Abdul Razak Hussein age 50
Prime Minister - Malaysia
William McMahon age 64
Prime Minister - Australia
Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah age 46
Prime Minister - Kuwait
Gaston Thorn age 43
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Leo Tindemans age 50
Prime Minister - Belgium
Anker Jørgensen age 49
Prime Minister - Denmark
Joop den Uyl age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal age 55
Prime Minister - Mongolia
Dom Mintoff age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Mehmet Shehu age 59
Prime Minister - Albania
Kalevi Sorsa age 41
Prime Minister - Finland
Jens Otto Krag age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Trygve Bratteli age 62
Prime Minister - Norway
Carlos Arias Navarro age 63
Prime Minister - Spain
Thanom Kittikachorn age 60
Prime Minister - Thailand
Gaston Eyskens age 67
Prime Minister - Belgium
Michael Manley age 47
Prime Minister - Jamaica
Pierre Werner age 58
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Ion Gheorghe Maurer age 69
Prime Minister - Romania
George Cadle Price age 53
Premier - Belize
Lars Korvald age 56
Prime Minister - Norway
Kamisese Mara age 52
Prime Minister - Fiji
Poul Hartling age 57
Prime Minister - Denmark
Barend Biesheuvel age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam age 71
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Rafael Paasio age 69
Prime Minister - Finland
Forbes Burnham age 49
Prime Minister - Guyana
Vasco Gonçalves age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Manea Mănescu age 55
Prime Minister - Romania
Jenő Fock age 56
Prime Minister - Hungary
Kim Jong-pil age 46
Prime Minister - South Korea
Sanya Dharmasakti age 65
Prime Minister - Thailand
Eric Williams age 60
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Louis Lansana Beavogui age 48
Prime Minister - Guinea
Lynden Pindling age 42
Prime Minister - The Bahamas
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 56
Prime Minister - Spain
Edmond Leburton age 57
Prime Minister - Belgium
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 59
Prime Minister - Iceland
Henck Arron age 36
Prime Minister - Suriname
Adamantios Androutsopoulos age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Son Ngoc Thanh age 63
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Spiridon Markezinis age 63
Prime Minister - Greece
Francisco Mendes age 33
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Hedi Amara Nouira age 61
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Ferit Melen age 65
Prime Minister - Turkey
Gérard Kango Ouédraogo age 46
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Kirti Nidhi Bista age 45
Prime Minister - Nepal
Errol Barrow age 52
Prime Minister - Barbados
Norman Kirk age 49
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Rashidi Kawawa age 46
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Eric Gairy age 50
Prime Minister - Grenada
Mohammed Karim Lamrani age 53
Prime Minister - Morocco
Ahmed Osman age 42
Prime Minister - Morocco
Adelino da Palma Carlos age 67
Prime Minister - Portugal
Zaid al-Rifai age 35
Prime Minister - Jordan
Naim Talu age 52
Prime Minister - Turkey
Long Boret age 39
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Patrick John age 34
Premier - Dominica
Walter Kieber age 41
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Henri Lopès age 34
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
In Tam age 49
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Alfred Hilbe age 43
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Jules Sedney age 49
Prime Minister - Suriname
Aklilu Habte-Wold age 60
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Amin al-Hafez age 46
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Jack Marshall age 60
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Tu'i Pelehake age 50
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 27
Prime Minister - Libya
Hang Thun Hak age 47
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Makhosini Dlamini age 58
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Takieddin el-Solh age 64
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II age 50
Prime Minister - Samoa
Ahmad Lawzi age 47
Prime Minister - Jordan
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 55
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 47
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini age 39
Prime Minister - Yemen
Ksente Bogoev age 52
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Mainza Chona age 42
Prime Minister - Zambia
Edward Oliver LeBlanc age 48
Premier - Dominica
Mikael Imru age 42
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín age 52
Prime Minister - Peru
Albin Nyamoya age 47
Prime Minister - Burundi
Marko Orlandić age 41
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Said Ibrahim Ben Ali age 61
Prime Minister - Comoros
Žarko Bulajić age 49
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Ernesto Montagne Sánchez age 55
Prime Minister - Peru
Mekonnen Endalkachew age 43
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
John Kerr age 57
Governor-General - Australia
Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt age 71
Governor-General - New Zealand
Paul Hasluck age 67
Governor-General - Australia
Clifford Campbell age 80
Governor-General - Jamaica
Florizel Glasspole age 62
Governor-General - Jamaica
Milo Butler age 65
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Herbert Duffus age 63
Governor-General - Jamaica
John Warburton Paul age 56
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Arleigh Winston Scott age 72
Governor-General - Barbados
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 34
Prince - Spain
George H. W. Bush age 48
United States Ambassador to the UN
Barack Obama age 10
Donald Trump age 26
Michael Jackson age 13
Vladimir Putin age 19
Nelson Mandela age 53
George W. Bush age 25
Pablo Picasso age 90
Charlie Chaplin age 83
Bill Gates age 16
Pope Francis age 35
Steve Jobs age 17
Bill Clinton age 25
Angela Merkel age 17
Neil Armstrong age 41
François Hollande age 17
Elvis Presley age 37
John Paul II age 52
Gabriel García Márquez age 45
Mikhail Gorbachev age 41
Elon Musk age 11 months
Stephen Hawking age 30
Jean-Paul Sartre age 67
Benedict XVI age 45
Mother Teresa age 61
Harry S. Truman age 88
Hillary Clinton age 24
Kamala Harris age 7
Nicolas Sarkozy age 17
Xi Jinping age 19
Naruhito age 12
Hugo Chávez age 17
Simone de Beauvoir age 64
John Lennon age 31
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 18
Muhammad Ali age 30
Kofi Annan age 34
Charles III age 23
Osama bin Laden age 15
Lech Wałęsa age 28
Lyndon B. Johnson age 63
Leo XIV age 16
Diego Maradona age 11
Narendra Modi age 21
Rafael Correa age 9
Aung San Suu Kyi age 27
Benjamin Netanyahu age 22
Dmitry Medvedev age 6
14th Dalai Lama age 36
Silvio Berlusconi age 35
Shinzo Abe age 17
Bob Marley age 27