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Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin 1953-03-05 - 1953-03-09
Discovery of the structure of DNA 1953-04-25
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
Brown v. Board of Education 1954-05-17
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
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12
Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Philippeville massacre 1955-08-20 - 1955-08-25
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Khrushchev's Secret Speech 1956-02-25
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 1956-10-23 - 1956-11-10
Suez Crisis 1956-10-29 - 1956-11-07
Battle of Algiers (1956–1957) 1957-01-07 - 1957-10-08
Treaty of Rome 1957-03-25
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
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
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
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 1961-01-17
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
Construction of the Berlin Wall 1961-08-13
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Second Vatican Council 1962-10-11 - 1965-12-08
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
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963-08-05
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
Zanzibar Revolution 1964-01-12
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
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
Operation Grand Slam 1965-09-01 - 1965-09-06
Battle of Phillora 1965-09-07 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Asal Uttar 1965-09-08 - 1965-09-10
Battle of Burki 1965-09-10 - 1965-09-11
Battle of Chawinda 1965-09-14 - 1965-09-19
Battle of Ia Drang 1965-11-14 - 1965-11-18
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Battle of Long Tan 1966-08-18 - 1966-08-18
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Ammunition Hill 1967-06-06 - 1967-06-06
Battle of Tel Faher 1967-06-09 - 1967-06-09
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
Battle of Dak To 1967-11-03 - 1967-11-23
Prague Spring 1968-01-05 - 1968-08-21
Siege of Khe Sanh 1968-01-21 - 1968-07-09
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
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
May 68 1968-05-02 - 1968-06-23
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 1968-07-01
Tlatelolco massacre 1968-10-02
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Battle of Hamburger Hill 1969-05-10 - 1969-05-20
Stonewall riots 1969-06-28 - 1969-07-03
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
Bangladesh War of Independence 1971-03-26 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Garibpur 1971-11-20 - 1971-11-21
Battle of Hilli 1971-11-22 - 1971-12-18
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
Bloody Sunday (1972) 1972-01-30
Nixon's visit to China 1972-02-21 - 1972-02-28
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
Battle of Xuân Lộc 1975-04-09 - 1975-04-21
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Fall of Saigon 1975-04-30 - 1975-04-30
Helsinki Accords 1975-08-01
Green March 1975-11-06

People

Joseph Stalin age 73
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 25
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 34
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 58
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 61
President - France
Harry S. Truman age 67
President - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 61
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 38
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 43
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 38
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 57
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 50
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 61
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 40
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 45
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 64
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 59
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 33
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 33
President - Egypt
George VI age 56
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 59
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 32
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 39
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 21
President - Syria
Fulgencio Batista age 50
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 69
President - Brazil
Walter Ulbricht age 58
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 67
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 32
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 49
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 21
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 52
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 67
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 31
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Heinrich Lübke age 57
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 53
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Naguib age 50
President - Egypt
René Coty age 69
President - France
João Goulart age 32
President - Brazil
Jacobo Árbenz age 38
President - Guatemala
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 37
President - Iraq
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 54
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 42
President - France
Abdul Salam Arif age 30
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 29
President - Mexico
Abdul Rahman Arif age 35
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 44
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 44
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 40
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 41
President - Mexico
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 51
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 34
President - Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt born 1952-01-16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Osvaldo Dorticós age 32
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 46
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 61
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 52
President - Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva age 52
President - Brazil
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 41
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 65
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 63
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas age 37
President - Guatemala
Nereu Ramos age 63
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 60
President - Syria
Carlos Luz age 57
President - Brazil
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 47
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 50
President - Cuba
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 38
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 22
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 46
President - Republic of China
Hashim al-Atassi age 76
President - Syria
Adib Shishakli age 43
President - Syria
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 33
President - Guatemala
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 48
President - Cuba
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 56
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 45
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 25
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 36
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 43
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 57
Acting President - Cuba
Ahmad al-Khatib age 18
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 33
President - Egypt
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 36
President - Guatemala
Fawzi Selu age 47
President - Syria
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 39
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 25
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 51
President - Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 34
President - Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 57
President - Guatemala
Izzat al-Nuss age 40
President - Syria
Kim Il-sung age 39
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 25
President - France
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 38
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 26
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 46
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 33
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 42
Secretary-General - United Nations
Trygve Lie age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 77
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Fidel Castro age 25
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 62
Prime Minister - India
Indira Gandhi age 34
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 19
Prime Minister - France
Konrad Adenauer age 76
Chancellor - Germany
Golda Meir age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
David Ben-Gurion age 65
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 38
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 29
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 33
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 53
Premier - People's Republic of China
Anthony Eden age 54
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Macmillan age 57
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 35
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 35
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Giulio Andreotti age 32
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 50
Prime Minister - Japan
Georgy Malenkov age 49
Chairman - Soviet Union
Edward Heath age 35
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Alec Douglas-Home age 48
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 69
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 70
Prime Minister - Italy
Giovanni Leone age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 47
Chairman - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 56
Prime Minister - Israel
Robert McNamara age 35
President - World Bank
Antonio Segni age 60
Prime Minister - Italy
Gulzarilal Nanda age 53
Prime Minister - India
Moshe Sharett age 57
Prime Minister - Israel
Paul-Henri Spaak age 52
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Nikolai Bulganin age 56
Chairman - Soviet Union
Bolesław Bierut age 59
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 73
Prime Minister - Japan
Kakuei Tanaka age 33
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 41
Premier - Republic of China
Nobusuke Kishi age 55
Prime Minister - Japan
Emilio Colombo age 31
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 52
Prime Minister - Japan
Ichirō Hatoyama age 69
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 50
Prime Minister - South Africa
Mariano Rumor age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Mendès France age 44
Prime Minister - France
Takeo Miki age 44
Prime Minister - Japan
Yigal Allon age 33
Prime Minister - Israel
Tanzan Ishibashi age 67
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Debré age 39
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 36
Prime Minister - France
Mario Scelba age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Pierre Messmer age 35
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 64
President - International Olympic Committee
Giuseppe Pella age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Fernando Tambroni age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Maurice Couve de Murville age 44
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 36
Prime Minister - South Africa
Walter Hallstein age 50
President - European Commission
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay age 64
Secretary General - NATO
J. Sigfrid Edström age 81
President - International Olympic Committee
Souvanna Phouma age 50
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 45
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Guy Mollet age 46
Prime Minister - France
Liam Cosgrave age 31
Taoiseach - Ireland
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 40
Prime Minister - Poland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 37
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 40
Secretary General - NATO
Adone Zoli age 64
Prime Minister - Italy
J. G. Strijdom age 58
Prime Minister - South Africa
Jean Rey age 49
President - European Commission
Chen Cheng age 55
Premier - Republic of China
Sicco Mansholt age 43
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 26
President - European Commission
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 39
Prime Minister - Syria
John A. Costello age 60
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jack Lynch age 34
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 42
Prime Minister - Poland
Manlio Brosio age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 24
President - European Commission
Amin al-Hafiz age 30
Prime Minister - Syria
Dirk Stikker age 54
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 52
Taoiseach - Ireland
Mustafa al-Nahhas age 72
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kim Il age 41
Premier - North Korea
Brock Chisholm age 55
Director-General - World Health Organization
Boun Oum age 40
Prime Minister - Laos
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 52
Prime Minister - Cuba
Ali Sabri age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 26
Prime Minister - Syria
Halfdan T. Mahler age 28
Director-General - World Health Organization
Aly Maher Pasha age 70
Prime Minister - Egypt
Hussein Sirri Pasha age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt
Yusuf Zuayyin age 20
Prime Minister - Syria
Sabri al-Asali age 49
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 34
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Fawzi age 51
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aziz Sedki age 31
Prime Minister - Egypt
Stanisław Mackiewicz age 55
Prime Minister - Poland
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 40
Director-General - World Health Organization
Gonzalo Güell age 56
Prime Minister - Cuba
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 33
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmad Najib al-Hilali age 60
Prime Minister - Egypt