Explore October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980

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Events

Chinese Civil War 1927-08-01 - 1949-12-07

Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-07-07 - 1945-09-02

World War II 1939-09-01 - 1945-09-02

Battle of the Atlantic 1939-09-03 - 1945-05-08

Battle of South Guangxi 1939-11-15 - 1940-11-30

Western Desert campaign 1940-06-11 - 1943-02-04

Battle of Britain 1940-07-10 - 1940-10-31

Operation Compass 1940-12-09 - 1941-02-09

The Holocaust 1941 - 1945

Invasion of Yugoslavia 1941-04-06 - 1941-04-18

Siege of Tobruk 1941-04-10 - 1941-11-27

Battle of Crete 1941-05-20 - 1941-06-01

Operation Barbarossa 1941-06-22 - 1942-01-07

Second Soviet-Finnish War 1941-06-25 - 1944-09-19

Siege of Leningrad 1941-09-08 - 1944-01-27

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

Malayan campaign 1941-12-08 - 1942-01-31

Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13

Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01 - 1945-08-21

Battle of Bataan 1942-01-07 - 1942-04-09

Wannsee Conference 1942-01-20

Battle of Singapore 1942-02-08 - 1942-02-15

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 Stalingrad 1942-07-17 - 1943-02-02

Kokoda Track campaign 1942-07-21 - 1942-11-16

Guadalcanal campaign 1942-08-07 - 1943-02-09

Quit India Movement 1942-08-08 - 1944-09-01

Battle of the Eastern Solomons 1942-08-24 - 1942-08-25

Second Battle of El Alamein 1942-10-23 - 1942-11-11

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942-10-25 - 1942-10-27

Operation Torch 1942-11-08 - 1942-11-16

Tunisian campaign 1942-11-17 - 1943-05-13

Bengal famine of 1943 1943 - 1944

Battle of Kursk 1943-07-05 - 1943-08-23

Allied invasion of Sicily 1943-07-09 - 1943-08-17

Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02

Allied invasion of Italy 1943-09-03 - 1943-09-16

Battle of Tarawa 1943-11-20 - 1943-11-23

Tehran Conference 1943-11-28 - 1943-12-01

Battle of Monte Cassino 1944-01-17 - 1944-05-18

Battle of Anzio 1944-01-22 - 1944-06-04

Operation Hailstone 1944-02-17 - 1944-02-18

Battle of Imphal 1944-03-08 - 1944-07-03

Battle of Kohima 1944-04-04 - 1944-06-22

Operation Ichi-Go 1944-04-17 - 1944-12-10

Operation Overlord 1944-06-06 - 1944-08-30

Battle of Saipan 1944-06-15 - 1944-07-09

Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944-06-19 - 1944-06-20

Operation Bagration 1944-06-22 - 1944-08-19

Bretton Woods Conference 1944-07-01 - 1944-07-22

Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944-07-13 - 1944-08-29

20 July plot 1944-07-20

Warsaw Uprising 1944-08-01 - 1944-10-02

Operation Dragoon 1944-08-15 - 1944-09-14

Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive 1944-08-20 - 1944-08-29

Operation Olive 1944-08-25 - 1944-12-31

Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07

Battle of Peleliu 1944-09-15 - 1944-11-27

Operation Market Garden 1944-09-17 - 1944-09-25

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

Battle of Debrecen 1944-10-06 - 1944-10-29

Battle of Leyte 1944-10-17 - 1944-12-31

Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944-10-23 - 1944-10-26

Rescue of the Lost Battalion 1944-10-26 - 1944-10-30

Battle of the Bulge 1944-12-16 - 1945-01-25

Siege of Budapest 1944-12-26 - 1945-02-13

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay 1945-01-01 - 1945-03-29

Battle of Luzon 1945-01-09 - 1945-08-15

Vistula–Oder offensive 1945-01-12 - 1945-02-02

East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25

Battle of Manila (1945) 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03

Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03

Yalta Conference 1945-02-04 - 1945-02-11

Battle of Iwo Jima 1945-02-19 - 1945-03-26

East Pomeranian offensive 1945-02-24 - 1945-04-04

Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08

Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22

Vienna offensive 1945-04-02 - 1945-04-13

Spring 1945 offensive in Italy 1945-04-06 - 1945-05-02

Operation Ten-Go 1945-04-07 - 1945-04-07

Battle of Berlin 1945-04-16 - 1945-05-02

Prague offensive 1945-05-06 - 1945-05-11

Charter of the United Nations 1945-06-26

Potsdam Conference 1945-07-17 - 1945-08-02

Chinese Communist Revolution 1945-07-21 - 1949-10-01

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-08-06 - 1945-08-09

Soviet–Japanese War 1945-08-09 - 1945-09-03

Indonesian National Revolution 1945-08-17 - 1949-12-27

Surrender of Japan 1945-09-02 - 1945-09-02

Shangdang Campaign 1945-09-10 - 1945-10-12

Iran crisis of 1946 1945-11-01 - 1946-12-15

Nuremberg trials 1945-11-20 - 1946-10-01

Second Battle of Siping 1946-04-17 - 1946-05-19

International Military Tribunal for the Far East 1946-04-29 - 1948-11-12

Direct Action Day 1946-08-16

Linjiang Campaign 1946-12-17 - 1947-04-01

First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26

Battle of Yan'an 1947-03-13 - 1947-03-19

Malagasy Uprising 1947-03-29 - 1949-02

Menglianggu Campaign 1947-05-13 - 1947-05-16

Indian Independence Act 1947-07-18

Partition of India 1947-08-15

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 1947-10-22 - 1949-01-01

Battle of Badgam 1947-11-03 - 1947-11-03

Battle of Shalateng 1947-11-07 - 1947-11-07

UN Partition Plan for Palestine 1947-11-29 - 1947-11-29

Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 1948-01-30

Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14

Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31

Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14

Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18

1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10

Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21

Siege of Changchun 1948-05-23 - 1948-10-19

Battles of Latrun 1948-05-24 - 1948-07-18

Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27

Operation Pleshet 1948-05-29 - 1948-06-03

Berlin Blockade 1948-06-24 - 1949-05-12

Liaoshen Campaign 1948-09-12 - 1948-11-02

Taiyuan Campaign 1948-10-05 - 1949-04-24

Operation Yoav 1948-10-15 - 1948-10-22

Operation Hiram 1948-10-29 - 1948-10-31

Huaihai Campaign 1948-11-06 - 1949-01-10

Pingjin Campaign 1948-11-29 - 1949-01-31

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948-12-10

Operation Horev 1948-12-22 - 1949-01-07

Operation Uvda 1949-03-05 - 1949-03-10

1949 Syrian coup d'état 1949-03-29

North Atlantic Treaty 1949-04-04 - 1949-04-04

Yangtze River Crossing campaign 1949-04-20 - 1949-06-02

Shanghai Campaign 1949-05-12 - 1949-06-02

Proclamation of the People's Republic of China 1949-10-01 - 1949-10-01

Battle of Guningtou 1949-10-25 - 1949-10-27

Battle of Dengbu Island 1949-11-03 - 1949-11-05

Chengdu Campaign 1949-12-11 - 1949-12-27

Landing Operation on Hainan Island 1950-03-05 - 1950-05-01

Korean War 1950-06-25 - 1953-07-27

Battle of the Pusan Perimeter 1950-08-04 - 1950-09-18

Battle of Inchon 1950-09-10 - 1950-09-19

Battle of Route Coloniale 4 1950-09-16 - 1950-10-18

Second Battle of Seoul 1950-09-22 - 1950-09-28

Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River 1950-11-25 - 1950-12-02

Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950-11-27 - 1950-12-13

Treaty of Paris (1951) 1951-04-18

Battle of Hòa Bình 1951-11-10 - 1952-02-25

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

Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19

Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01

Salk polio vaccine 1955-04-12

Bandung Conference 1955-04-18 - 1955-04-24

Austrian State Treaty 1955-05-15

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 - 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

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

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

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

Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966

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 - 1967

Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25

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

Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05

Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10

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

Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16

Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05

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

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

Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09

Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25

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

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

Green March 1975-11-06

Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28

Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28

Soweto uprising 1976-06-16

Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11

Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25

Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17

Chinese economic reform 1978-12-18

Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26

Sino-Vietnamese War 1979-02-17 - 1979-03-16

Egypt–Israel peace treaty 1979-03-26

Taiwan Relations Act 1979-04-10

Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

Soviet–Afghan War 1979-12-24 - 1989-02-15

Operation Storm-333 1979-12-27 - 1979-12-27

Eradication of smallpox 1980-05-08

Gdańsk Agreement 1980-08-31

Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10

Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20

Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27

Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29

People

Ramsey Clark age 12

Attorney General - United States

Matthew Ridgway age 45

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Denis Healey age 23

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

J. Lawton Collins age 44

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Elliot Richardson age 20

Attorney General - United States

Rab Butler age 37

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Hugh Gaitskell age 34

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Francis Biddle age 54

Attorney General - United States

Robert Bork age 13

Attorney General - United States

Joseph Grew age 60

Secretary of State - United States

W. Michael Blumenthal age 14

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Herbert Morrison age 52

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

John N. Mitchell age 27

Attorney General - United States

Clark Clifford age 33

Secretary of Defense - United States

Robert A. Lovett age 45

Secretary of Defense - United States

Nicholas Katzenbach age 18

Attorney General - United States

C. Douglas Dillon age 31

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Louis A. Johnson age 49

Secretary of Defense - United States

Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 34

Secretary of Defense - United States

Charles Erwin Wilson age 50

Secretary of Defense - United States

Iain Macleod age 26

Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom

Robert B. Anderson age 30

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Tom C. Clark age 41

Attorney General - United States

Robert P. Patterson age 49

Secretary of War - United States

Griffin Bell age 21

Attorney General - United States

Frederick C. Weyand age 24

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

G. William Miller age 15

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 33

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Reginald Maudling age 23

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

William B. Saxbe age 24

Attorney General - United States

David M. Kennedy (politician) age 35

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Herbert Brownell Jr. age 36

Attorney General - United States

David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir age 40

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Kingsley Wood age 59

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

William E. Simon age 12

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Richard Kleindienst age 17

Attorney General - United States

J. Howard McGrath age 36

Attorney General - United States

Kenneth Claiborne Royall age 46

Secretary of War - United States

A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough age 55

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

George M. Humphrey age 50

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Duncan Sandys age 32

Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom

Henry H. Fowler age 32

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley age 58

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Benjamin Civiletti age 5

Attorney General - United States

Joseph W. Barr age 22

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Neil H. McElroy age 35

Secretary of Defense - United States

Manny Shinwell age 56

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 34

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Christopher Soames age 20

Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom

John Wesley Snyder age 45

Secretary of the Treasury - United States

Robert Carr age 23

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle age 31

Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom

Edward H. Levi age 29

Attorney General - United States

Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 40

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Gwilym Lloyd George age 45

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Bruce Palmer Jr. age 27

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Brendan Bracken age 39

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Anthony Barber age 20

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

Bernard W. Rogers age 19

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Peter Thorneycroft age 31

Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom

James P. McGranery age 45

Attorney General - United States

Merlyn Rees age 19

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Edward C. Meyer age 11

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso age 49

Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom

George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall age 58

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 34

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Kenneth Rush age 30

Secretary of State - United States

George Decker age 38

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

Harold Keith Johnson age 28

Chief of Staff of the Army - United States

David D. Newsom age 22

Secretary of State - United States

William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate age 63

Secretary of State for Air - United Kingdom

George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 22

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Frank Soskice age 38

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Jim Griffiths age 50

Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom

Livingston T. Merchant age 36

Secretary of State - United States

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 37

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Richard N. Cooper age 6

Secretary of State - United States

James Chuter Ede age 58

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

Donald Somervell, Baron Somervell of Harrow age 51

Home Secretary - United Kingdom

H. Freeman Matthews age 41

Secretary of State - United States

James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin age 37

First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom

Wilhelm Stuckart age 37

Reichsminister - Germany

J. Edgar Hoover age 45

Director of the FBI - Department of Justice

William H. Webster age 16

Director of the FBI - Department of Justice

Clarence M. Kelley age 28

Director of the FBI - Department of Justice

Neville Chamberlain age 71

Leader - Conservative Party (UK)

Hu Yaobang age 24

Secretariat - Communist Party of China

Thurgood Marshall age 32

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

William Rehnquist age 16

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

John Paul Stevens age 20

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

William J. Brennan Jr. age 34

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Frank Murphy age 50

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Arthur Goldberg age 32

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Potter Stewart age 25

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Byron White age 23

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

John Marshall Harlan II age 41

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Duff Cooper age 50

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom

Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 33

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

Abe Fortas age 30

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

James Clark McReynolds age 78

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary

George Brown age 26

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

Michael Foot age 27

Leader - Labour Party (UK)

Clement Davies age 56

Leader - Liberal Party (UK)

David Steel age 2

Leader - Liberal Party (UK)

Jeremy Thorpe age 11

Leader - Liberal Party (UK)

Jo Grimond age 27

Leader - Liberal Party (UK)

Alfred Bitini Xuma age 47

President - African National Congress

James Moroka age 49

President - African National Congress

Albert Luthuli age 42

President - African National Congress

Oliver Tambo age 22

President - African National Congress

Margaret Buckley age 61

President - Sinn Féin

Paddy McLogan age 41

President - Sinn Féin

Tomás Ó Dubhghaill age 23

President - Sinn Féin

Tomás Mac Giolla age 16

President - Sinn Féin

Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 8

President - Sinn Féin

Archibald Cox age 28

Solicitor General - Department of Justice

Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 7

US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary

Antonin Scalia age 4

Assistant Attorney General - Department of Justice

Anthony Kennedy age 4

US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary

Joe Biden born 1942-11-20

Senate - United States

Daniel Inouye age 16

Senate - United States

William Cohen age 1 month

Senate - United States

Lloyd Bentsen age 19

Senate - United States

Carter Glass age 82

Senate - United States

Al Gore born 1948-03-31

House of Representatives - United States

Dick Cheney born 1941-01-30

House of Representatives - United States

David Lloyd George age 77

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

John Major born 1943-03-29

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Dan Quayle born 1947-02-04

House of Representatives - United States

Leon Panetta age 2

House of Representatives - United States

George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen born 1946-04-12

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Jack Straw born 1946-08-03

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Nigel Lawson age 8

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Kenneth Clarke age 3 months

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Les Aspin age 2

House of Representatives - United States

Douglas Hurd age 10

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Leo Amery age 66

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Leon Brittan age 1

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood age 60

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Norman Lamont born 1942-05-08

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

David Waddington age 11

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Leslie Hore-Belisha age 47

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 47

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Barber Conable age 17

House of Representatives - United States

J. R. Clynes age 71

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 5

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Neil Kinnock born 1942-03-28

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

John Smith age 2

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Margaret Beckett born 1943-01-15

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes age 68

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Ernest Bevin age 59

Member of Parliament - United Kingdom

Ronald Reagan age 29

Governor of California - United States

Bill Clinton born 1946-08-19

Governor of Arkansas - United States

John Paul II age 20

Pope - Vatican City

Kwame Nkrumah age 31

President - Ghana

Bhumibol Adulyadej age 12

King - Thailand

John XXIII age 58

Pope - Vatican City

Ferdinand Marcos age 23

President - Philippines

Francisco Franco age 47

Caudillo - Spain

Sukarno age 39

President - Indonesia

John Paul I age 27

Pope - Vatican City

Juan Carlos I of Spain age 2

King - Spain

Paul VI age 43

Pope - Vatican City

Salvador Allende age 32

President - Chile

Pius XII age 64

Pope - Vatican City

Augusto Pinochet age 24

President of the Government Junta - Chile

Suharto age 19

President - Indonesia

Nicolae Ceaușescu age 22

President - Romania

Idi Amin age 15

President - Uganda

Margrethe II of Denmark age 5 months

Queen - Denmark

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden born 1946-04-30

King - Sweden

Beatrix of the Netherlands age 2

Queen - Netherlands

Park Chung-hee age 22

President - South Korea

Ibn Saud age 64

King - Saudi Arabia

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 20

President - Bangladesh

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 12

President - Pakistan

António de Oliveira Salazar age 51

President - Portugal

Juan Perón age 45

President - Argentina

Norodom Sihanouk age 17

King - Cambodia

Qaboos bin Said Al Said born 1940-11-18

Sultan - Oman

Léopold Sédar Senghor age 34

President - Senegal

Mobutu Sese Seko age 9

President - Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jomo Kenyatta age 47

President - Kenya

Julius Nyerere age 18

President - Tanzania

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim age 73

President - Finland

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 52

President - India

Syngman Rhee age 65

President - South Korea

İsmet İnönü age 56

President - Turkey

Ahmed Ben Bella age 23

President - Algeria

José Eduardo dos Santos born 1942-08-28

President - Angola

Rajendra Prasad age 55

President - India

Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 19

President - Central African Republic

King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 34

King - Saudi Arabia

Hussein I of Jordan age 4

King - Jordan

Habib Bourguiba age 37

President - Tunisia

Isabel Martínez de Perón age 9

President - Argentina

Teodoro Obiang born 1942-06-05

President - Equatorial Guinea

Hastings Banda age 50

President - Malawi

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 10

President - Iceland

Wilhelmina of the Netherlands age 60

Queen - Netherlands

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