✦ 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
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
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

People

Elizabeth II age 46
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 78
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Richard Nixon age 59
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 58
President - United States
Hirohito age 71
Emperor - Japan
Georges Pompidou age 60
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 65
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 84
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 80
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 53
President - Egypt
Haile Selassie age 79
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 52
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 59
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 41
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 52
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 41
Monarch - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 72
President - Germany
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 58
President - Iraq
Alain Poher age 63
President - France
Luis Echeverría age 50
President - Mexico
Ernesto Geisel age 64
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 65
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Osvaldo Dorticós age 53
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 66
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 86
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 83
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 53
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 60
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 46
President - France
Pol Pot age 47
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 45
Prime Minister - Cuba
Indira Gandhi age 54
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 39
Prime Minister - France
Golda Meir age 74
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 58
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 50
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 53
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 74
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Wilson age 56
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Giulio Andreotti age 53
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 71
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alexei Kosygin age 68
Chairman - Soviet Union
Robert McNamara age 56
President - World Bank
Kakuei Tanaka age 54
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Mariano Rumor age 57
Prime Minister - Italy
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 57
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Messmer age 56
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 84
President - International Olympic Committee
B. J. Vorster age 56
Prime Minister - South Africa
Souvanna Phouma age 70
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 66
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 57
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 60
Secretary General - NATO
Sicco Mansholt age 63
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 47
President - European Commission
Jack Lynch age 54
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 62
Prime Minister - Poland
Kim Il age 62
Premier - North Korea
Halfdan T. Mahler age 49
Director-General - World Health Organization
Aziz Sedki age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 61
Director-General - World Health Organization
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 40
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 64
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 35
Vice President - Iraq
Spiro Agnew age 53
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 79
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Yen Chia-kan age 66
Vice President - Republic of China
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 43
Vice President - Iraq
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 60
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
George Scratchley Brown age 53
Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 49
Secretary Of State - United States
George Shultz age 51
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
William Westmoreland age 58
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Roy Jenkins age 51
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
James R. Schlesinger age 43
Secretary Of Defense - United States
William P. Rogers age 59
Secretary Of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 57
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Melvin Laird age 49
Secretary Of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 54
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elliot Richardson age 51
Attorney General - United States
Robert Bork age 45
Attorney General - United States
Reginald Maudling age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 56
Attorney General - United States
William E. Simon age 44
Secretary Of The Treasury - United States
Richard Kleindienst age 48
Attorney General - United States
Robert Carr age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Anthony Barber age 51
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Kenneth Rush age 62
Secretary Of State - United States
Clarence M. Kelley age 60
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 47
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 66
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 57
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 55
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 64
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 43
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 54
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 39
President - Sinn Féin
John Paul Stevens age 52
US Court Of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 29
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 44
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 61
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 47
Senate - United States
Margaret Thatcher age 46
Member Of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 61
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 47
Governor of Georgia - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 63
Governor of New York - United States
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 44
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 54
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 79
Caudillo - Spain
Paul VI age 74
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 64
President - Chile
Augusto Pinochet age 56
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 51
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 54
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 47
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 32
Monarch - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 26
Monarch - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 54
President - South Korea
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 44
President - Pakistan
Juan Perón age 76
President - Argentina
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 31
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 65
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 41
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 78
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 50
President - Tanzania
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 51
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 66
- Saudi Arabia
Hussein I of Jordan age 36
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 68
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 41
President - Argentina
Hastings Banda age 82
President - Malawi
Urho Kekkonen age 71
President - Finland
Éamon de Valera age 89
President - Ireland
Hassan II age 42
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 48
President - Zambia
Olav V of Norway age 69
Monarch - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 59
President - Paraguay
Ahmed Sékou Touré age 50
President - Guinea
Juliana of the Netherlands age 63
King - Netherlands
Fahri Korutürk age 68
President - Turkey
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden age 89
Monarch - Sweden
V. V. Giri age 77
President - India
Giovanni Leone age 63
President - Italy
Cevdet Sunay age 73
President - Turkey
Félix Houphouët-Boigny age 66
President - Ivory Coast
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco age 49
Prince - Monaco
Houari Boumédiène age 39
President - Algeria
Jigme Singye Wangchuck age 16
King - Bhutan
Siad Barre age 52
President - Somalia
Makarios III age 58
President - Cyprus
Juvénal Habyarimana age 35
President - Rwanda
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan age 54
President - United Arab Emirates
Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko age 48
President - Equatorial Guinea
Seretse Khama age 50
President - Botswana
Ahmadou Ahidjo age 47
President - Cameroon
Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma age 36
President - Togo
Jean-Claude Duvalier age 20
President - Haiti
Mohammed Daoud Khan age 62
President - Afghanistan
Georgios Papadopoulos age 53
President - Greece
Ne Win age 61
President - Myanmar
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck age 43
King - Bhutan
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg age 51
Monarch - Luxembourg
Franz Jonas age 72
President - Austria
Rudolf Kirchschläger age 57
President - Austria
Sobhuza II age 72
King - Eswatini
Ephraim Katzir age 56
President - Israel
Moussa Traoré age 35
President - Mali
Rafael Caldera age 56
President - Venezuela
Zalman Shazar age 82
President - Israel
Philibert Tsiranana age 59
President - Madagascar
Dawda Kairaba Jawara age 48
President - The Gambia
Carlos Andrés Pérez age 49
President - Venezuela
François Tombalbaye age 54
President - Chad
Kristján Eldjárn age 55
President - Iceland
Yakubu Gowon age 37
President - Nigeria
José Figueres Ferrer age 65
President - Costa Rica
Diori Hamani age 56
President - Niger
William Richard Tolbert age 59
President - Liberia
Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV of Tonga age 53
Monarch - Tonga
Juan Velasco Alvarado age 62
President - Peru
Gaafar Nimeiry age 41
President - Sudan
Hugo Banzer age 46
President - Bolivia
Joaquín Balaguer age 65
President - Dominican Republic
Luís Cabral age 41
President - Guinea-Bissau
António de Spínola age 62
President - Portugal
Juan María Bordaberry age 44
President - Uruguay
Erskine Hamilton Childers age 66
President - Ireland
Moktar Ould Daddah age 47
President - Mauritania
Michel Micombero age 31
President - Burundi
Marien Ngouabi age 33
President - Republic of the Congo
Isa II of Bahrain age 39
Monarch - Bahrain
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani age 39
Emir - Qatar
Alejandro Agustín Lanusse age 53
President - Argentina
Héctor José Cámpora age 63
President - Argentina