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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
The Holocaust 1941-01-01 - 1945-09-20
Pacific War 1941-12-07 - 1945-09-02
Burma campaign 1941-12-14 - 1945-09-13
Solomon Islands campaign 1942-01-01 - 1945-08-21
Italian campaign 1943-07-09 - 1945-05-02
Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine 1944-08-25 - 1945-03-07
Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
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
East Prussian offensive 1945-01-13 - 1945-04-25
Manila massacre 1945-02-03 - 1945-03-03
Battle of Manila (1945) 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
Vienna offensive 1945-03-16 - 1945-04-15
Western Allied invasion of Germany 1945-03-22 - 1945-05-08
Battle of Okinawa 1945-04-01 - 1945-06-22
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
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
Siege of Skardu 1948-02-11 - 1948-08-14
Marshall Plan 1948-04-03 - 1951-12-31
Israeli Declaration of Independence 1948-05-14
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel 1948-05-14
Battle of Jerusalem (1948) 1948-05-15 - 1948-07-18
Battles of the Kinarot Valley 1948-05-15 - 1948-05-21
1948 Arab–Israeli War 1948-05-15 - 1949-03-10
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
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
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
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Poor People's Campaign 1968-05-12 - 1968-06-24
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy 1968-06-06
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 Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
Battle of Basantar 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-16
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender 1971-12-16 - 1971-12-16
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
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
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
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
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
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
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
Iran–Iraq War 1980-09-22 - 1988-08-20
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980) 1980-09-22 - 1980-11-10
Siege of Abadan 1980-11-06 - 1981-09-27
Operation Morvarid 1980-11-29 - 1980-11-29

People

Adolf Hitler age 55
Führer - Germany
Ronald Reagan age 34
President - United States
Joseph Stalin age 66
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Elizabeth II age 18
Queen - United Kingdom
John F. Kennedy age 27
President - United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt age 63
President - United States
Mao Zedong age 51
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Charles de Gaulle age 54
President - France
Fidel Castro age 18
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 20
President - United States
Harry S. Truman age 60
President - United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower age 54
President - United States
Richard Nixon age 32
President - United States
Lyndon B. Johnson age 36
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 31
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 7
President - Iraq
Nikita Khrushchev age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hirohito age 43
Emperor - Japan
Ho Chi Minh age 54
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Georges Pompidou age 33
President - France
Leonid Brezhnev age 38
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Chiang Kai-shek age 57
President - Republic of China
Ruhollah Khomeini age 42
Supreme Leader - Iran
Josip Broz Tito age 52
President - Yugoslavia
Gamal Abdel Nasser age 27
President - Egypt
Anwar Sadat age 26
President - Egypt
George VI age 49
King - United Kingdom
Haile Selassie age 52
Emperor - Ethiopia
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 25
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 32
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 14
President - Syria
Karl Dönitz age 53
Reich President - Germany
Fulgencio Batista age 44
President - Cuba
Getúlio Vargas age 62
President - Brazil
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy age 75
King - Italy
Walter Ulbricht age 51
First Secretary - East Germany
Umberto II of Italy age 40
King - Italy
Leopold III of Belgium age 43
Monarch - Belgium
Theodor Heuss age 61
President - Germany
Walter Scheel age 25
President - Germany
Juscelino Kubitschek age 42
President - Brazil
Baudouin of Belgium age 14
Monarch - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 23
Chairman of the Communist Party of China - Communist Party of China
Gustav Heinemann age 45
President - Germany
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President - Iran
Karl Carstens age 30
President - Germany
Vincent Auriol age 60
President - France
Farouk of Egypt age 25
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Heinrich Lübke age 50
President - Germany
Liu Shaoqi age 46
Chairman - People's Republic of China
Mohamed Naguib age 43
President - Egypt
René Coty age 62
President - France
João Goulart age 25
President - Brazil
Jacobo Árbenz age 31
President - Guatemala
Peter II of Yugoslavia age 21
King - Yugoslavia
Chiang Ching-kuo age 34
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 30
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 24
President - Mexico
Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco age 47
President - Brazil
Alain Poher age 35
President - France
Abdul Salam Arif age 24
President - Iraq
Luis Echeverría age 23
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 27
President - Brazil
Abdul Rahman Arif age 28
President - Iraq
Ernesto Geisel age 37
President - Brazil
Manuel Ávila Camacho age 47
President - Mexico
Lê Duẩn age 37
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz age 33
President - Mexico
Adolfo López Mateos age 34
President - Mexico
Georges Bidault age 45
President - France
Miguel Alemán Valdés age 44
President - Mexico
Jânio Quadros age 28
President - Brazil
Eurico Gaspar Dutra age 61
President - Brazil
Fuad II of Egypt born 1952-01-16
King - Kingdom of Egypt
Osvaldo Dorticós age 25
President - Cuba
Emílio Garrastazu Médici age 39
President - Brazil
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines age 54
President - Mexico
Café Filho age 46
President - Brazil
Artur da Costa e Silva age 45
President - Brazil
Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli age 34
President - Brazil
Dong Biwu age 58
Acting Chairman - People's Republic of China
Tôn Đức Thắng age 56
President - Vietnam
Carlos Castillo Armas age 30
President - Guatemala
Li Tsung-jen age 56
President - Republic of China
Nereu Ramos age 56
President - Brazil
Shukri al-Quwatli age 53
President - Syria
José Linhares age 59
President - Brazil
Carlos Luz age 50
President - Brazil
Muhammad Najib Al-Rubaiy age 40
President - Iraq
Manuel Urrutia Lleó age 43
President - Cuba
Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz age 31
President - Iraq
Nureddin al-Atassi age 16
President - Syria
Yen Chia-kan age 39
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 34
President - Vietnam
Juan José Arévalo age 40
President - Guatemala
Hashim al-Atassi age 69
President - Syria
Adib Shishakli age 36
President - Syria
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 26
President - Guatemala
Husni al-Za'im age 48
President - Syria
Carlos Prío Socarrás age 41
President - Cuba
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 49
President - Guatemala
Nazim al-Kudsi age 39
President - Syria
Luai al-Atassi age 19
President - Syria
Julio César Méndez Montenegro age 29
President - Guatemala
Sami al-Henaaui age 47
President - Syria
Enrique Peralta Azurdia age 36
President - Guatemala
Carlos Manuel Piedra age 50
Acting - Cuba
Ahmad al-Khatib age 12
President - Syria
Zakaria Mohieddin age 26
President - Egypt
Carlos Enrique Díaz de León age 29
President - Guatemala
Fawzi Selu age 40
President - Syria
Elfego Hernán Monzón Aguirre age 32
President - Guatemala
Francisco Javier Arana age 39
President - Guatemala
Amin al-Hafez age 19
President - Syria
Luis Arturo González López age 44
President - Guatemala
Óscar Mendoza Azurdia age 27
President - Guatemala
Guillermo Flores Avendaño age 50
President - Guatemala
Izzat al-Nuss age 33
President - Syria
Jorge Toriello Garrido age 36
President - Guatemala
Kim Il-sung age 32
General Secretary Of The Workers' Party Of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 19
President - France
Maamun al-Kuzbari age 31
President - Syria
Pol Pot age 19
General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Dag Hammarskjöld age 39
Secretary-General - United Nations
Kurt Waldheim age 26
Secretary-General - United Nations
U Thant age 36
Secretary-General - United Nations
Trygve Lie age 48
Secretary-General - United Nations
Winston Churchill age 70
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Margaret Thatcher age 19
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Jawaharlal Nehru age 55
Prime Minister - India
Indira Gandhi age 27
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 12
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Konrad Adenauer age 69
Chancellor - Germany
Joseph Goebbels age 47
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Prime Minister - Israel
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Ludwig Erhard age 48
Chancellor - Germany
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 21
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Giulio Andreotti age 26
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Francesco Cossiga age 16
Prime Minister - Italy
Eisaku Satō age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Georgy Malenkov age 43
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Edward Heath age 28
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Éamon de Valera age 62
Taoiseach - Ireland
Alcide De Gasperi age 63
Prime Minister - Italy
Léon Blum age 72
Chairman of the Provisional Government - France
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 24
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 25
Premier - People's Republic of China
Giovanni Leone age 36
Prime Minister - Italy
Alexei Kosygin age 40
Chairman - Soviet Union
Levi Eshkol age 49
Prime Minister - Israel
Robert McNamara age 28
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 42
Prime Minister - India
Antonio Segni age 54
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Gulzarilal Nanda age 46
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Moshe Sharett age 50
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P. W. Botha age 29
Prime Minister - South Africa
Paul-Henri Spaak age 46
Secretary General - NATO
Amintore Fanfani age 37
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Nikolai Bulganin age 49
Chairman - Soviet Union
Bolesław Bierut age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Shigeru Yoshida age 66
Prime Minister - Japan
Kakuei Tanaka age 26
Prime Minister - Japan
Nobusuke Kishi age 48
Prime Minister - Japan
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk age 57
Leading Minister - Germany
Emilio Colombo age 24
Prime Minister - Italy
Hayato Ikeda age 45
Prime Minister - Japan
Jan Smuts age 74
Prime Minister - South Africa
Ichirō Hatoyama age 62
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Fukuda age 40
Prime Minister - Japan
Ivanoe Bonomi age 71
Prime Minister - Italy
Hendrik Verwoerd age 43
Prime Minister - South Africa
Raymond Barre age 20
Prime Minister - France
Mariano Rumor age 29
Prime Minister - Italy
Zenkō Suzuki age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Arnaldo Forlani age 19
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 34
Prime Minister - Japan
Pierre Mendès France age 38
Prime Minister - France
Takeo Miki age 37
Prime Minister - Japan
Kuniaki Koiso age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Kijūrō Shidehara age 72
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 39
Chairman - Soviet Union
Yigal Allon age 26
Prime Minister - Israel
Gaston Thorn age 16
President - European Commission
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski age 49
Prime Minister - Poland
Tanzan Ishibashi age 60
Prime Minister - Japan
Michel Debré age 33
Prime Minister - France