✦ 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
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
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
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
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
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
1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands 1982-04-02 - 1982-04-03
Falklands War 1982-04-02 - 1982-06-14
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

Ronald Reagan age 64
President - United States
Elizabeth II age 49
Queen - United Kingdom
Mao Zedong age 81
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Fidel Castro age 49
President - Cuba
Jimmy Carter age 51
President - United States
Gerald Ford age 62
President - United States
Saddam Hussein age 38
President - Iraq
Ali Khamenei age 36
President - Iran
Hirohito age 74
Emperor - Japan
Leonid Brezhnev age 68
General Secretary of the Communist Party - Soviet Union
Hosni Mubarak age 47
President - Egypt
François Mitterrand age 59
President - France
Ruhollah Khomeini age 73
Supreme Leader - Iran
Josip Broz Tito age 83
President - Yugoslavia
Anwar Sadat age 56
President - Egypt
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi age 56
Shah - Iran
Erich Honecker age 63
General Secretary - East Germany
Hafez al-Assad age 45
President - Syria
Walter Scheel age 56
President - Germany
Baudouin of Belgium age 45
King - Belgium
Hua Guofeng age 54
Chairman - Communist Party of China
Abolhassan Banisadr age 42
President - Iran
Karl Carstens age 60
President - Germany
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 42
President - Iran
Chiang Ching-kuo age 65
President - Republic of China
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr age 61
President - Iraq
José López Portillo age 55
President - Mexico
Hu Yaobang age 60
General Secretary - Communist Party of China
Luis Echeverría age 53
President - Mexico
João Figueiredo age 57
President - Brazil
Ernesto Geisel age 68
President - Brazil
Lê Duẩn age 68
General Secretary - Communist Party of Vietnam
Efraín Ríos Montt age 49
President - Guatemala
Osvaldo Dorticós age 56
President - Cuba
Trường Chinh age 68
President - Vietnam
Tôn Đức Thắng age 87
President - Vietnam
Yen Chia-kan age 70
President - Republic of China
Nguyen Huu Tho age 65
President - Vietnam
Sufi Abu Taleb age 50
President - Egypt
Kim Il-sung age 63
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea - North Korea
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing age 49
President - France
Pol Pot age 50
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea - Cambodia
Kurt Waldheim age 56
Secretary-General - United Nations
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 55
Secretary-General - United Nations
Margaret Thatcher age 50
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Indira Gandhi age 58
Prime Minister - India
Jacques Chirac age 43
Prime Minister - France
Deng Xiaoping age 71
Chairman of the Central Military Commission - People's Republic of China
Helmut Kohl age 45
Chancellor - Germany
Shimon Peres age 52
Prime Minister - Israel
Yitzhak Rabin age 53
Prime Minister - Israel
Helmut Schmidt age 56
Chancellor - Germany
Zhou Enlai age 77
Premier - People's Republic of China
Menachem Begin age 62
Prime Minister - Israel
Harold Wilson age 59
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
James Callaghan age 63
Prime Minister - United Kingdom
Aldo Moro age 59
Prime Minister - Italy
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 52
Prime Minister - Poland
Giulio Andreotti age 56
Prime Minister - Italy
Francesco Cossiga age 47
Prime Minister - Italy
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 55
President - International Olympic Committee
Zhao Ziyang age 56
Premier - People's Republic of China
Alexei Kosygin age 71
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Pierre Mauroy age 47
Prime Minister - France
Robert McNamara age 59
President - World Bank
Charan Singh age 72
Prime Minister - India
P. W. Botha age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Takeo Fukuda age 70
Prime Minister - Japan
Raymond Barre age 51
Prime Minister - France
Zenkō Suzuki age 64
Prime Minister - Japan
Giovanni Spadolini age 50
Prime Minister - Italy
Arnaldo Forlani age 49
Prime Minister - Italy
Masayoshi Ōhira age 65
Prime Minister - Japan
Takeo Miki age 68
Prime Minister - Japan
Nikolai Tikhonov age 70
Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Soviet Union
Gaston Thorn age 47
President - European Commission
Milka Planinc age 51
Prime Minister - Yugoslavia
B. J. Vorster age 59
Prime Minister - South Africa
Kaysone Phomvihane age 54
Prime Minister - Laos
Roy Jenkins age 55
President - European Commission
Souvanna Phouma age 74
Prime Minister - Laos
Phạm Văn Đồng age 69
Prime Minister - Vietnam
Garret FitzGerald age 49
Taoiseach - Ireland
Liam Cosgrave age 55
Taoiseach - Ireland
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin age 61
President - International Olympic Committee
Charles Haughey age 50
Taoiseach - Ireland
Joseph Luns age 64
Secretary General - NATO
François-Xavier Ortoli age 50
President - European Commission
Jack Lynch age 58
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 66
Prime Minister - Poland
Masayoshi Ito age 61
Prime Minister - Japan
Pak Song-chol age 62
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 65
Premier - North Korea
Edward Babiuch age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Mustafa Khalil age 55
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 49
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 52
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 62
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 57
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 48
Prime Minister - Syria
Alden W. Clausen age 52
President - World Bank
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 43
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Morarji Desai age 79
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 38
Prime Minister - Syria
Warren E. Burger age 68
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 51
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 47
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 67
Vice President - United States
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 47
Vice President - Iraq
Li Xiannian age 66
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
George Scratchley Brown age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David C. Jones age 54
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 53
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 52
Secretary of State - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 43
Secretary of Defense - United States
George Shultz age 54
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 50
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 51
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 58
Secretary of State - United States
Edmund Muskie age 61
Secretary of State - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 48
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 48
Secretary of Defense - United States
Denis Healey age 58
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 49
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Donald Regan age 56
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 57
Attorney General - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 59
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
G. William Miller age 50
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William E. Simon age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 58
Attorney General - United States
Benjamin Civiletti age 40
Attorney General - United States
Edward H. Levi age 64
Attorney General - United States
Bernard W. Rogers age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Merlyn Rees age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 46
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 57
Secretary of State - United States
Richard N. Cooper age 41
Secretary of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 55
Secretary of State - United States
William H. Webster age 51
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 64
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Thurgood Marshall age 67
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 51
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 55
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
William J. Brennan Jr. age 69
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 60
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 58
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 68
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 45
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Michael Foot age 62
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 37
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe age 46
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 62
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Oliver Tambo age 58
President - African National Congress
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 43
President - Sinn Féin
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 42
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 39
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 37
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 39
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Joe Biden age 33
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 28
Senate - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 64
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 51
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 27
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 34
House of Representatives - United States
Bill Clinton age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
John Paul II age 55
Pope - Vatican City
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 47
King - Thailand
Ferdinand Marcos age 58
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 83
Caudillo - Spain
John Paul I age 63
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 37
King - Spain
Paul VI age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 60
President - Chile
Suharto age 54
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 57
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 50
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 35
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 29
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 37
Queen - Netherlands
Park Chung-hee age 58
President - South Korea
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 35
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 69
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 45
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 82
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 53
President - Tanzania
José Eduardo dos Santos age 33
President - Angola
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 54
President - Central African Republic
Hussein I of Jordan age 40
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 72
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 44
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 33
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 85
President - Malawi
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 45
President - Iceland
Jorge Rafael Videla age 50
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 75
President - Finland
Hassan II age 46
King - Morocco
Kenneth Kaunda age 51
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 58
President - Turkey