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Events

Progressive era 1896-01-01 - 1916-12-31
Mexican Revolution 1910-11-20 - 1920-12-01
Second Guangzhou Uprising 1911-04-27
Xinhai Revolution 1911-10-10 - 1912-02-12
Wuchang Uprising 1911-10-10 - 1911-12-01
Republic of China proclaimed 1912-01-01
July Crisis 1914-06-28 - 1914-08-06
World War I 1914-07-28 - 1918-11-11
First Battle of the Marne 1914-09-05 - 1914-09-12
First Battle of Ypres 1914-10-19 - 1914-11-22
Armenian genocide 1915-01-01 - 1917-01-01
Second Battle of Champagne 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-06
Third Battle of Artois 1915-09-25 - 1915-11-04
National Protection War 1915-12-25 - 1916-07-14
Battle of Verdun 1916-02-21 - 1916-12-18
Battle of the Somme 1916-07-01 - 1916-11-18
Russian Revolution 1917-03-08 - 1923-06-16
Russian Civil War 1917-11-07 - 1923-06-16
Second Battle of the Marne 1918-07-15 - 1918-07-18
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918-09-26 - 1918-11-11
German Revolution 1918-10-29 - 1919-08-11
Polish–Ukrainian War 1918-11-01 - 1919-07-18
Armistice of 11 November 1918 1918-11-11
Battle of Saint-Mihiel 1918-11-12 - 1918-09-15
Biennio Rosso 1919-01-01 - 1920-12-31
Polish–Soviet War 1919-02-14 - 1921-03-18
Polish–Lithuanian War 1919-05-03 - 1920-11-29
Treaty of Versailles 1919-06-28
Roaring Twenties 1920-01-01 - 1929-12-31
March on Rome 1922-10-27 - 1922-10-29
Declaration of the Creation of the USSR 1922-12-30
Beer Hall Putsch 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-09
Mein Kampf published 1925-07-18
Northern Expedition 1926-07-09 - 1928-12-29
Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07
Central Plains War 1929-03-01 - 1930-11-01
Great Depression 1929-09-04 - 1939-09-01
Black Tuesday 1929-10-29
Reichstag fire 1933-02-27
Reichstag Fire Decree 1933-02-28
Enabling Act of 1933 1933-03-23
Night of the Long Knives 1934-07-02 - 1934-07-05
Nuremberg Laws enacted 1935-09-15 - 1935-11-14
Second Italo-Ethiopian War 1935-10-03 - 1937-02-19
Remilitarization of the Rhineland 1936-03-07
Spanish Civil War 1936-07-17 - 1939-04-01
Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02
Marco Polo Bridge Incident 1937-07-07 - 1937-07-09
Battle of Nanking 1937-12-01 - 1937-12-13
Nanjing Massacre 1937-12-13 - 1938-02-07
Anschluss 1938-03-12 - 1938-04-10
Munich Agreement 1938-09-30
Kristallnacht 1938-11-09 - 1938-11-10
Invasion of Poland 1939-09-01 - 1939-10-06
World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-20
Winter War 1939-11-30 - 1940-03-13
Battle of France 1940-05-10 - 1940-06-25
Battle of Dunkirk 1940-05-26 - 1940-06-04
Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18
Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07
Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19
Babi Yar massacre 1941-09-29 - 1941-09-30
Battle of Moscow 1941-10-02 - 1942-01-07
Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941-12-07
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09
Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20
Bataan Death March 1942-04-09 - 1942-04-17
Battle of the Coral Sea 1942-05-04 - 1942-05-08
Battle of Midway 1942-06-04 - 1942-06-07
Lidice massacre 1942-06-10
Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23
Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30
Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20
20 July plot 1944-07-20
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-08-23 - 1944-10-26
Battle of Metz 1944-09-27 - 1944-12-13
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
Battle of Aachen 1944-10-02 - 1944-10-21
Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-11-24 - 1944-10-30
Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25
Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26
Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01
Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03
Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15
Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01
International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18
Partition of India 1947-08-15
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12
1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29
Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27
Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28
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
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
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
Montgomery bus boycott 1955-12-05 - 1956-12-20
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
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964-01-01
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Albany Movement 1961-01-01 - 1962-12-01
Vostok 1 1961-04-12
Bay of Pigs Invasion 1961-04-17 - 1961-04-20
Freedom Riders 1961-05-04 - 1961-12-10
1961 Syrian coup d'état 1961-09-28
Apollo Program 1961-10-27 - 1972-12-19
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
1963 Syrian coup d'état 1963-03-08
Birmingham campaign 1963-04-03 - 1963-05-10
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963-06-11
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963-08-28
Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963-11-22
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
Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965-08-06
1966 Syrian coup d'état 1966-02-21 - 1966-02-23
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
Cambodian Civil War 1967-03-11 - 1975-04-17
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
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
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
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
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
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 1971-12-03 - 1971-12-16
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

People

Puyi age 2
Richard Nixon born 1913-01-09
Charles de Gaulle age 17
Warren G. Harding age 42
Ho Chi Minh age 18
William Howard Taft age 50
Herbert Hoover age 33
Jacques Chirac born 1932-11-29
Nicholas II of Russia age 40
Leonid Brezhnev age 1
Hirohito age 7
John F. Kennedy born 1917-05-29
David Lloyd George age 45
H. H. Asquith age 55
Tôn Đức Thắng age 19
Emperor Meiji age 55
Adolf Hitler age 19
Georges Clemenceau age 66
Chiang Kai-shek age 20
Lyndon B. Johnson born 1908-08-27
Hafez al-Assad born 1930-10-06
Raymond Poincaré age 47
Chiang Ching-kuo born 1910-04-27
Harry S. Truman age 24
Joseph Stalin age 29
Souvanna Phouma age 6
Fidel Castro born 1926-08-13
Franz Joseph I of Austria age 77
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 26
Wilhelm II age 49
Charles I of Austria age 20
Gamal Abdel Nasser born 1918-01-15
Pol Pot born 1925-05-19
Neville Chamberlain age 39
Gerald Ford born 1913-07-14
Theodore Roosevelt age 49
Carlos Castillo Armas born 1914-11-04
Woodrow Wilson age 51
Emperor Taishō age 28
Winston Churchill age 33
Jacobo Árbenz born 1913-09-14
Jimmy Carter born 1924-10-01
Calvin Coolidge age 36
Lê Duẩn age 1
Guangxu Emperor age 36
Mehmed V age 63
Mehmed VI age 47
Clement Attlee age 25
Anthony Eden age 11
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 17
Nikita Khrushchev age 14
Thomas R. Marshall age 54
Charles G. Dawes age 42
Charles Curtis age 48
John Nance Garner age 39
Dong Biwu age 22
Hua Guofeng born 1921-02-16
Edward VII age 66
Sun Yun-suan born 1913-11-10
Edward VIII age 14
Walter Mondale born 1928-01-05
Liu Shaoqi age 9
George V age 43
Kim Il-sung born 1912-04-15
Elizabeth II born 1926-04-21
Konrad Adenauer age 32
Joseph Goebbels age 10
Kurt von Schleicher age 26
Mao Zedong age 14
Saddam Hussein born 1937-04-28
Charles W. Fairbanks age 56
Józef Piłsudski age 40
James S. Sherman age 52
Spiro Agnew born 1918-11-09
George VI age 12
Hubert Humphrey born 1911-05-27
Alben W. Barkley age 30
Henry A. Wallace age 19
Zhou Enlai age 10
Daniel Inouye born 1924-09-07
Li Xiannian born 1909-06-23
Joe Biden born 1942-11-20
Robert F. Kennedy born 1925-11-20
Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04
George H. W. Bush born 1924-06-12
Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30
Hermann Göring age 15
Al Gore born 1948-03-31
Harlan F. Stone age 35
Fred M. Vinson age 18
Earl Warren age 17
Edward Douglass White age 62
Zhu De age 21
Soong Ching-ling age 15
Warren E. Burger age 9 months
James R. Schlesinger born 1929-02-15
Melvin Laird born 1922-09-01
Clark Clifford age 1
John Connally born 1917-02-27
John Foster Dulles age 20
George Shultz born 1920-12-13
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 2
Nicholas Katzenbach born 1922-01-17
Ramsey Clark born 1927-12-18
Robert McNamara born 1916-06-09
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 2
George C. Marshall age 27
Margaret Thatcher born 1925-10-13
Omar Bradley age 15
Douglas MacArthur age 28
William H. Webster born 1924-03-06
Clarence M. Kelley born 1911-10-24
Vladimir Lenin age 38
Deng Xiaoping age 3
William Rehnquist born 1924-10-01
John Marshall Harlan II age 9
William J. Brennan Jr. age 2
Potter Stewart born 1915-01-23
Arthur Goldberg born 1908-08-08
Abe Fortas born 1910-06-19
Thurgood Marshall age 0 months
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 9 months
John Paul Stevens born 1920-04-20
Byron White born 1917-06-08
Ronald Reagan born 1911-02-06
Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19
Charles Evans Hughes age 46
Nelson Rockefeller born 1908-07-08
Wen Jiabao born 1942-09-15
Wang Zhen (general) age 2 months
Kurt Daluege age 10
Rong Yiren born 1916-05-01
Li Peng born 1928-10-20
John Kerry born 1943-12-11
Hillary Clinton born 1947-10-26
Liz Cheney born 1966-07-28
John J. Pershing age 47
Jiang Zemin born 1926-08-17
Franz von Papen age 28
Martin Bormann age 8
Reinhard Heydrich age 4
Colin Powell born 1937-04-05
Condoleezza Rice born 1954-11-14
Rudolf Hess age 14
John Lewis born 1940-02-21
George Wallace born 1919-08-25
Wilhelm Frick age 31
Robert A. Lovett age 12
Heinrich Himmler age 7
Karl Dönitz age 16
Barack Obama born 1961-08-04
Sun Yat-sen age 41
Lee Teng-hui born 1923-01-15
Henry Kissinger born 1923-05-27
Levi P. Morton age 84
Kamala Harris born 1964-10-20
Mike Pence born 1959-06-07
Courtney Hodges age 21
Raymond A. Spruance age 22
Frank Jack Fletcher age 23
Lee Yuan-tsu born 1923-09-24
Lien Chan born 1936-08-27
Yoshijirō Umezu age 26
Hu Yaobang born 1915-11-20
Zhao Ziyang born 1919-10-17
Stephen Breyer born 1938-08-15
Yang Shangkun age 11 months
James Baker born 1930-04-28
Hu Jintao born 1942-12-21
David Souter born 1939-09-17
Anthony Kennedy born 1936-07-23
George S. Patton age 22
Antonin Scalia born 1936-03-11
Iwane Matsui age 29
Sandra Day O'Connor born 1930-03-26
Archibald Cox born 1912-05-17
J. Edgar Hoover age 13
Li Keqiang born 1955-07-01
Martin Luther King Jr. born 1929-01-15
President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
George W. Bush born 1946-07-06
Air National Guard
Francisco Franco age 15
Wilhelm Groener age 40
Benito Mussolini age 24
Erich Ludendorff age 43
Paul von Hindenburg age 60
Hubert Gough age 37
Naoki Hoshino age 16
Kōki Hirota age 30
Doihara Kenji age 24
Akira Mutō age 15
He Yingqin age 18
Semyon Timoshenko age 13
Kliment Voroshilov age 27
Friedrich Jeckeln age 13
Ernst Kaltenbrunner age 4
Wilhelm Keitel age 25
Walther Funk age 17
Hans Fritzsche age 8
Erich Raeder age 32
Alfred Rosenberg age 15
Fritz Sauckel age 13
Arthur Seyss-Inquart age 15
Baldur von Schirach age 1
Hjalmar Schacht age 31
Kyösti Kallio age 35
Kiichirō Hiranuma age 40
Rodion Malinovsky age 9
Heitarō Kimura age 19
Kingorō Hashimoto age 18
Seishirō Itagaki age 23
Rosa Parks born 1913-02-04
Hideki Tōjō age 23
Mikhail Gorbachev born 1931-03-02
Yuan Shikai age 48
Claus von Stauffenberg age 7 months
Ruhollah Khomeini age 5
Malcolm X born 1925-05-19
Jo Ann Robinson born 1912-04-17
Aung San Suu Kyi born 1945-06-19
Muhammad Ali born 1942-01-17
Boris Yeltsin born 1931-02-01
Tim Berners-Lee born 1955-06-08
Nikola Tesla age 52
François Hollande born 1954-08-12
Nicolas Sarkozy born 1955-01-28
Kim Jong-il born 1941-02-16
Nelson Mandela born 1918-07-18
Mahatma Gandhi age 38
Albert Einstein age 29
Clarence Thomas born 1948-06-23
Ruth Bader Ginsburg born 1933-03-15
Yasser Arafat born 1929-08-24
Joseph Gallieni age 59
Warren Christopher born 1925-10-27
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born 1918-07-17
Narendra Modi born 1950-09-17
Gennady Yanayev born 1937-08-26
Konstantin Chernenko born 1911-09-24
Keir Starmer born 1962-09-02
Liz Truss born 1975-07-26
Boris Johnson born 1964-06-19
Theresa May born 1956-10-01
David Cameron born 1966-10-09
Gordon Brown born 1951-02-20
Tony Blair born 1953-05-06
John Major born 1943-03-29
Julio César Méndez Montenegro born 1915-11-23
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 0 months
Juan José Arévalo age 3
Tokugawa Yoshinobu age 70
Charles III born 1948-11-14
Thomas Gage age 190
John Roberts born 1955-01-27
Joseph Joffre age 56
Emilio De Bono age 42
Albert Speer age 3
Donald Trump born 1946-06-14
Yuri Andropov born 1914-06-15
Julius Streicher age 23
Alfred Jodl age 18
Otto Hofmann age 12
Fritz Todt age 16
Otto Rasch age 16
Hans Frank age 8
Eva Braun born 1912-02-06
Ernst Röhm age 20
Isoroku Yamamoto age 24
Chester W. Nimitz age 23
Manuel Azaña age 28
Souphanouvong born 1909-07-13
Lawrence Eagleburger born 1930-08-01
Ellison Onizuka born 1946-06-24
Ronald McNair born 1950-10-21
Zhu Rongji born 1928-10-23
Zeng Qinghong born 1939-07-30
Empress Dowager Cixi age 72
Matthias Erzberger age 32
Ferdinand Foch age 56
Joseph Chamberlain age 72
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial age 28
Gerd von Rundstedt age 32
Erich von Manstein age 20
Ōyama Iwao age 65
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria age 44
Xi Jinping born 1953-06-15
Cai E age 25
Leon Trotsky age 28
Peng Dehuai age 9