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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
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Little Rock Nine 1957-09-04 - 1958-09-04
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis 1958-08-23 - 1958-12-02
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Sharpeville massacre 1960-03-21
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
Albany Movement 1961-11 - 1962
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
Brunei revolt 1962-12-08 - 1962-12-17
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Togolese coup d'état 1963-01-13
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
1964 Gabonese coup d'état 1964-02-17 - 1964-02-18
Colombian conflict 1964-05-27
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
Independence of Zambia 1964-10-24
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Dominican Civil War 1965-04-24 - 1965-09-03
Operation Gibraltar 1965-08-05 - 1965-08-31
Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 1965-08-05 - 1965-09-23
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
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
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
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Football War 1969-07-14 - 1969-07-18
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Woodstock 1969-08-15 - 1969-08-18
ARPANET first message 1969-10-29
First Earth Day 1970-04-22
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
1970 Bhola cyclone 1970-11-12
Corrective Movement (Syria) 1970-11-13
Bangladesh genocide 1971-03-25 - 1971-12-16
1971 Dhaka University massacre 1971-03-25
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
Easter Offensive 1972-03-30 - 1972-10-22
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
1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état 1972-10-26
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
Operation Abirey-Halev 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-23
Battle of the Chinese Farm 1973-10-15 - 1973-10-17
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
1975 spring offensive 1974-12-13 - 1975-04-30
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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Green March 1975-11-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

People

William Westmoreland age 44
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Rusk age 49
Secretary of State - United States
John Connally age 41
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Roy Jenkins age 37
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington age 39
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
James R. Schlesinger age 29
Secretary of Defense - United States
Christian Herter age 63
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 45
Secretary of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 43
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
John Profumo age 43
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Melvin Laird age 36
Secretary of Defense - United States
Ramsey Clark age 30
Attorney General - United States
Denis Healey age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elliot Richardson age 38
Attorney General - United States
Rab Butler age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Bork age 31
Attorney General - United States
John N. Mitchell age 44
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 51
Secretary of Defense - United States
Nicholas Katzenbach age 36
Attorney General - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 52
Secretary of Defense - United States
Iain Macleod age 44
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 41
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Reginald Maudling age 41
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 42
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 53
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William E. Simon age 30
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Kleindienst age 35
Attorney General - United States
Duncan Sandys age 50
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 40
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 53
Secretary of Defense - United States
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 37
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 41
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward H. Levi age 47
Attorney General - United States
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 45
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Anthony Barber age 38
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 52
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Kenneth Rush age 48
Secretary of State - United States
George Decker age 56
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 46
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 40
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 56
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Livingston T. Merchant age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Frederick Lee, Baron Lee of Newton age 52
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 55
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Alan Lennox-Boyd age 53
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Anthony Greenwood age 46
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
John A. McCone age 56
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
William Raborn age 53
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Richard Helms age 45
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
William Colby age 38
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 63
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 46
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Margaret Thatcher age 32
Leader - Conservative Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 60
President - African National Congress
Warren Christopher age 32
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Oliver Tambo age 40
President - African National Congress
Thurgood Marshall age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 33
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 38
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Gaitskell age 52
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 52
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Jeremy Thorpe age 29
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Arthur Goldberg age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 43
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 41
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 59
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Crosland age 40
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Brown age 44
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 44
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 37
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roy Mason age 34
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 45
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 25
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Mac Giolla age 34
President - Sinn Féin
William Ruckelshaus age 26
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Walsh age 46
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Geoffrey Rippon age 34
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Douglas Jay age 51
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Davies age 42
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 44
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 47
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Laurence Silberman age 22
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 54
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 44
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 45
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 60
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 36
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Paddy McLogan age 59
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 46
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
J. Lee Rankin age 51
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 22
Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice
Anthony Kennedy age 22
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
William H. Webster age 34
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 15
Senate - United States
Walter Mondale age 30
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 34
Senate - United States
Edmund Muskie age 44
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 37
Senate - United States
Winston Churchill age 83
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Michael Foot age 45
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Geoffrey Howe age 31
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Cohen age 18
House of Representatives - United States
Nigel Lawson age 26
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 20
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 28
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 18
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 16
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Herbert Morrison age 70
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Steel age 20
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 50
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 29
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 73
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 65
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 35
House of Representatives - United States
Peter Thorneycroft age 49
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James P. McGranery age 63
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 23
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 37
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Clement Davies age 74
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 67
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 76
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Ronald Reagan age 47
Governor of California - United States
Jimmy Carter age 33
Governor of Georgia - United States
Jerry Brown age 20
Governor of California - United States
W. Averell Harriman age 66
Governor of New York - United States
Pat Brown age 53
Governor of California - United States
Dale Bumpers age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 46
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Hugh Carey age 39
Governor of New York - United States
Preston Smith age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
David Pryor age 24
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Otis Bowen age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
Goodwin Knight age 61
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 47
Governor of Texas - United States
George Busbee age 31
Governor of Georgia - United States
Orval Faubus age 48
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Brendan Byrne age 34
Governor of New Jersey - United States
John A. Volpe age 49
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Marvin Mandel age 38
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield Dunn age 31
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John J. Gilligan age 37
Governor of Ohio - United States
Malcolm Wilson age 44
Governor of New York - United States
Foster Furcolo age 47
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 35
Governor of Texas - United States
Edgar Whitcomb age 40
Governor of Indiana - United States
Lester Maddox age 42
Governor of Georgia - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 60
Governor of Virginia - United States
Mills Godwin age 43
Governor of Virginia - United States
Carl Sanders age 33
Governor of Georgia - United States
C. William O'Neill age 42
Governor of Ohio - United States
Endicott Peabody age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Rhodes age 49
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
Francis Sargent age 43
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Michael DiSalle age 50
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 49
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 51
Governor of Virginia - United States
Buford Ellington age 51
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Frank G. Clement age 38
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob C. Riley age 33
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 45
Governor of Indiana - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 56
Governor of Indiana - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 57
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 50
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William T. Cahill age 46
Governor of New Jersey - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 64
Governor of Maryland - United States
Harold W. Handley age 48
Governor of Indiana - United States
Kwame Nkrumah age 48
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 30
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 76
Pope - Vatican City
Ferdinand Marcos age 41
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 65
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 57
President - Indonesia
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 20
King - Spain
Paul VI age 60
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 50
President - Chile
Pius XII age 82
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 42
President of the Government Junta - Chile
Suharto age 37
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 40
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 33
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 18
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 12
King - Sweden
Park Chung-hee age 40
President - South Korea
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 38
President - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 30
President - Pakistan
Juan Perón age 62
President - Argentina
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 17
Sultan - Oman