✦ History

Explore November 20, 1975 – October 28, 1982

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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
Cultural Revolution 1966-05-16 - 1976-10-06
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Cambodian genocide 1975-04-17 - 1979-01-07
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
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
Soweto uprising 1976-06-16
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
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
Three Mile Island accident 1979-03-28
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
Internal conflict in Peru 1980-05-17 - 2000
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
HIV/AIDS epidemic 1981-06-05
IBM Personal Computer 1981-08-12
Assassination of Anwar Sadat 1981-10-06
Operation Tariq al-Quds 1981-11-29 - 1981-12-07
Martial law in Poland 1981-12-13 - 1983-07-22
Operation Fath ol-Mobin 1982-03-22 - 1982-03-28
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Invasion of South Georgia 1982-04-03 - 1982-04-03
Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 1982-04-24 - 1982-05-24
Operation Paraquet 1982-04-25 - 1982-04-25
Sinking of ARA General Belgrano 1982-05-02 - 1982-05-02
Battle of San Carlos (1982) 1982-05-21 - 1982-05-25
Battle of Goose Green 1982-05-28 - 1982-05-29
Bluff Cove air attacks 1982-06-08 - 1982-06-08
Battle of Mount Harriet 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03

People

Tom Adams age 44
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pen Sovan age 39
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Léon Mébiame age 41
Prime Minister - Gabon
Victor Saúde Maria age 36
Prime Minister - Guinea-Bissau
Milton Cato age 60
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Joseph Conombo age 58
Prime Minister - Burkina Faso
Ahmed Dini Ahmed age 45
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Patrick John age 37
Prime Minister - Dominica
Cristino Seriche Bioko age 35
Prime Minister - Equatorial Guinea
Walter Kieber age 44
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Henri Lopès age 38
Prime Minister - Republic of the Congo
Kennedy Simmonds age 39
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Cesar Virata age 44
Prime Minister - Philippines
Shah Azizur Rahman age 50
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Chan Sy age 43
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Abdallah Mohamed Kamil age 39
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Jadallah Azzuz at-Talhi age 36
Prime Minister - Libya
Allan Louisy age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Solomon Mamaloni age 32
Prime Minister - Solomon Islands
Edward Sokoine age 37
Prime Minister - Tanzania
Djidingar Dono Ngardoum age 47
Prime Minister - Chad
Mabandla Dlamini age 45
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Tu'i Pelehake age 53
Prime Minister - Tonga
Abdessalam Jalloud age 30
Prime Minister - Libya
Henri Maïdou age 39
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Makhosini Dlamini age 61
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Abdelhamid Sharaf age 36
Prime Minister - Jordan
Shafik Wazzan age 50
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Winston Cenac age 50
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Maphevu Dlamini age 53
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw age 59
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Peter Colotka age 50
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Daniel Lisulo age 44
Prime Minister - Zambia
Kassim al-Rimawi age 57
Prime Minister - Jordan
Ahmed Ould Bouceif age 41
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Michael Pilgrim age 28
Prime Minister - Saint Lucia
Mainza Chona age 45
Prime Minister - Zambia
Édouard Nzambimana age 29
Prime Minister - Burundi
Ali Mroudjaé age 36
Prime Minister - Comoros
Oliver Seraphin age 32
Prime Minister - Dominica
Paul Southwell age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Lee Moore age 36
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Nalumino Mundia age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Manuel Ulloa Elias age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Pedro Richter Prada age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Abdallah Mohamed age 25
Prime Minister - Comoros
Elijah Mudenda age 48
Prime Minister - Zambia
Óscar Vargas Prieto age 58
Prime Minister - Peru
Jean-Pierre Lebouder age 31
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Simon Narcisse Bozanga age 32
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Bernard Ayandho age 44
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara age 28
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Radivoje Brajović age 40
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Marko Orlandić age 45
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Salim Ben Ali age 57
Prime Minister - Comoros
Ahmad Salim uld Sidi age 36
Prime Minister - Mauritania
Henry Neijhorst age 35
Prime Minister - Suriname
Jorge Fernández-Maldonado age 53
Prime Minister - Peru
Momčilo Cemović age 47
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Guillermo Arbulú Galliani age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Adolfo Suárez age 43
Prime Minister - Spain
Óscar Molina Pallochia age 54
Prime Minister - Peru
Hans Brunhart age 30
Prime Minister - Liechtenstein
Keith Holyoake age 71
Governor-General - New Zealand
John Kerr age 61
Governor-General - Australia
Elmira Minita Gordon age 44
Governor-General - Belize
Ninian Stephen age 52
Governor-General - Australia
Zelman Cowen age 56
Governor-General - Australia
Fiatau Penitala Teo age 64
Governor-General - Tuvalu
Florizel Glasspole age 66
Governor-General - Jamaica
David Beattie age 51
Governor-General - New Zealand
Gerald Cash age 58
Governor-General - The Bahamas
Milo Butler age 69
Governor-General - The Bahamas
John Guise age 61
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Tore Lokoloko age 45
Governor-General - Papua New Guinea
Arleigh Winston Scott age 75
Governor-General - Barbados
Barack Obama age 14
Donald Trump age 29
Michael Jackson age 17
Vladimir Putin age 23
Nelson Mandela age 57
George W. Bush age 29
Charlie Chaplin age 86
Bill Gates age 20
Pope Francis age 38
Steve Jobs age 20
Angela Merkel age 21
Neil Armstrong age 45
François Hollande age 21
Elvis Presley age 40
Volodymyr Zelenskyy born 1978-01-25
Gabriel García Márquez age 48
Mikhail Gorbachev age 44
Elon Musk age 4
Stephen Hawking age 33
Jean-Paul Sartre age 70
Emmanuel Macron born 1977-12-21
Benedict XVI age 48
Mother Teresa age 65
Hillary Clinton age 28
Kamala Harris age 11
Nicolas Sarkozy age 20
Richard Nixon age 62
Xi Jinping age 22
Naruhito age 15
Hugo Chávez age 21
Simone de Beauvoir age 67
Muammar Gaddafi age 33
John Lennon age 35
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 21
Muhammad Ali age 33
Kofi Annan age 37
Charles III age 27
Osama bin Laden age 18
Lech Wałęsa age 32
Leo XIV age 20
Diego Maradona age 15
Narendra Modi age 25
Rafael Correa age 12
Aung San Suu Kyi age 30
Benjamin Netanyahu age 26
Dmitry Medvedev age 10
14th Dalai Lama age 40
Silvio Berlusconi age 39
Shinzo Abe age 21
Bob Marley age 30
Tim Berners-Lee age 20
Boris Yeltsin age 44
Guillermo Lasso age 20
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn age 56
Alexander Lukashenko age 21
Tony Blair age 22
Yasser Arafat age 46
David Cameron age 9
Linus Torvalds age 5
Ban Ki-moon age 31
Arnold Schwarzenegger age 28
Boris Johnson age 11
Diana, Princess of Wales age 14
Bashar al-Assad age 10
Benazir Bhutto age 22
Jair Bolsonaro age 20
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva age 30
Theresa May age 19
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad age 19
Václav Havel age 39
Rishi Sunak born 1980-05-12
Justin Trudeau age 3
Nicolás Maduro age 13
Golda Meir age 77
Dilma Rousseff age 27
Milton Friedman age 63
Valentina Tereshkova age 38
Ilham Aliyev age 13
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf age 37
António Guterres age 26
Akihito age 41
Rosa Parks age 62
Gordon Brown age 24
Giorgia Meloni born 1977-01-15
Olaf Scholz age 17
Keir Starmer age 13
Willy Brandt age 61
Gerhard Schröder age 31
Hassan Rouhani age 27
Hu Jintao age 32
Evo Morales age 16
Joko Widodo age 14
Petro Poroshenko age 10
Mikheil Saakashvili age 7
Liz Truss age 3 months
Ursula von der Leyen age 17
Mike Pence age 16
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner age 22
Michelle Bachelet age 24
Ariel Sharon age 47
Felipe VI of Spain age 7
Desmond Tutu age 44
Viktor Yanukovych age 25
Mohamed Morsi age 24
Viktor Orbán age 12
Sergio Mattarella age 34
Manmohan Singh age 43
Pervez Musharraf age 32
Yuri Andropov age 61
Julia Gillard age 14
Abdullah Gül age 25
Lech Kaczyński age 26
Frank-Walter Steinmeier age 19
Jeff Bezos age 11
Buzz Aldrin age 45
Mohammad Khatami age 32
Tsai Ing-wen age 19
Mariano Rajoy age 20
Andrei Sakharov age 54
Condoleezza Rice age 21
Raúl Castro age 44
Sheikh Hasina age 28
Giorgio Napolitano age 50
Nursultan Nazarbayev age 35