✦ History

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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

Elizabeth II age 32
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 41
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 64
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 67
President - France
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 67
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 45
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 50
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 45
President - United States
Nikita Khrushchev age 64
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Kim Il-sung age 46
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Hirohito age 57
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 68
President - Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 47
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 51
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 70
President - Republic of China
Josip Broz Tito age 66
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 40
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 39
President - Egypt
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 32
President - France
Haile Selassie age 66
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 38
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 46
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 27
President - Syria
Fulgencio Batista age 57
President - Cuba
Walter Ulbricht age 65
First Secretary - East Germany
Theodor Heuss age 74
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 39
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 56
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 28
King - Belgium
Gustav Heinemann age 59
President - Germany
Heinrich Lübke age 63
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 59
Chairman - People's Republic of China
René Coty age 76
President - France
João Goulart age 39
President - Brazil
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 44
President - Iraq
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 60
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 49
President - France
Abdul Salam Arif age 37
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 36
President - Mexico
Abdul Rahman Arif age 42
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 51
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 51
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 47
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 48
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 41
President - Brazil
Osvaldo Dorticós age 39
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 52
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 67
President - Mexico
Artur da Costa e Silva age 58
President - Brazil
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 48
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 72
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 70
President of North Vietnam - Vietnam
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 54
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 56
President - Cuba
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 45
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 29
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 52
President - Republic of China
Amin al-Hafiz age 36
President - Syria
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 40
President - Guatemala
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 62
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 52
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 32
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 42
President - Guatemala
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 50
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 63
Acting President - Cuba
Ahmad al-Khatib age 25
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 40
President - Egypt
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 44
President - Syria
Izzat al-Nuss age 46
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 33
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 53
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 39
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 49
Secretary-General - United Nations
Fidel Castro age 32
Prime Minister - Cuba
Jawaharlal Nehru age 68
Prime Minister - India
Indira Gandhi age 40
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 25
Prime Minister - France
Konrad Adenauer age 82
Chancellor - Germany
Golda Meir age 60
Prime Minister - Israel
David Ben-Gurion age 71
Prime Minister - Israel
Willy Brandt age 44
Chancellor - Germany
Yitzhak Rabin age 36
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 39
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 60
Premier - People's Republic of China
Harold Macmillan age 64
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Harold Wilson age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 46
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 41
Prime Minister - Italy
Ludwig Erhard age 61
Chancellor - Germany
Giulio Andreotti age 39
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 57
Prime Minister - Japan
Edward Heath age 42
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 54
Chancellor - Germany
Alec Douglas-Home age 55
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Éamon de Valera age 75
Taoiseach - Ireland
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 53
Prime Minister - India
Hua Guofeng age 37
Premier - People's Republic of China
Giovanni Leone age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 54
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Robert McNamara age 42
President - World Bank
Antonio Segni age 67
Prime Minister - Italy
Gulzarilal Nanda age 60
Prime Minister - India
Paul-Henri Spaak age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Kakuei Tanaka age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Chiang Ching-kuo age 48
Premier - Republic of China
Nobusuke Kishi age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Emilio Colombo age 38
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 58
Prime Minister - Japan
Hendrik Verwoerd age 57
Prime Minister - South Africa
Mariano Rumor age 43
Prime Minister - Italy
Takeo Miki age 51
Prime Minister - Japan
Yigal Allon age 39
Prime Minister - Israel
Michel Debré age 46
Prime Minister - France
Jacques Chaban-Delmas age 43
Prime Minister - France
Pierre Messmer age 42
Prime Minister - France
Avery Brundage age 70
President - International Olympic Committee
Fernando Tambroni age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Maurice Couve de Murville age 51
Prime Minister - France
B. J. Vorster age 42
Prime Minister - South Africa
Walter Hallstein age 56
President - European Commission
Kaysone Phomvihane age 37
Prime Minister - Laos
Souvanna Phouma age 56
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 52
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Liam Cosgrave age 38
Taoiseach - Ireland
Józef Cyrankiewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 44
President - International Olympic Committee
Joseph Luns age 47
Secretary General - NATO
Jean Rey age 56
President - European Commission
Chen Cheng age 61
Premier - Republic of China
Sicco Mansholt age 50
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 33
President - European Commission
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Jack Lynch age 41
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 48
Prime Minister - Poland
Manlio Brosio age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 31
President - European Commission
Dirk Stikker age 61
Secretary General - NATO
Mitja Ribičič age 39
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Seán Lemass age 59
Taoiseach - Ireland
Petar Stambolić age 46
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Pak Song-chol age 45
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 48
Premier - North Korea
Boun Oum age 46
Prime Minister - Laos
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 59
Prime Minister - Cuba
Mika Špiljak age 41
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Džemal Bijedić age 41
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
Ali Sabri age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 33
Prime Minister - Syria
Halfdan T. Mahler age 35
Director-General - World Health Organization
Yusuf Zuayyin age 26
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 40
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Fawzi age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aziz Sedki age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 47
Director-General - World Health Organization
Gonzalo Güell age 63
Prime Minister - Cuba
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 39
Prime Minister - Egypt
George David Woods age 57
President - World Bank
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 35
Prime Minister - Egypt
Bashir al-Azma age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Wang Yun-wu age 70
Premier - Republic of China
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 37
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 26
Prime Minister - Syria
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 60
President - World Bank
Nur al-Din Kahala age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Sami al-Jundi age 36
Prime Minister - Syria
Earl Warren age 67
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 50
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Saddam Hussein age 21
Vice President - Iraq
Hubert Humphrey age 47
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 50
Vice President - United States
Spiro Agnew age 39
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 65
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Zhu De age 71
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Hardan al-Tikriti age 33
Vice President - Iraq
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 30
Vice President - Iraq
Deng Xiaoping age 54
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 50
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Li Xiannian age 49
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Alexander Haig age 33
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
Peng Dehuai age 59
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Maxwell D. Taylor age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 62
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nathan F. Twining age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 46
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Lauris Norstad age 51
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
George Scratchley Brown age 40
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 50
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Andrew Goodpaster age 43
Supreme Allied Commander Europe - NATO
George H. W. Bush age 34
Director of Central Intelligence - United States
Henry Kissinger age 35
Secretary of State - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 32
Attorney General - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 26
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Foster Dulles age 70
Secretary of State - United States
George Shultz age 37
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Allen Dulles age 65
Director of Central Intelligence - United States