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Guatemalan Revolution 1944-10-01 - 1954-06-01
First Indochina War 1946-12-19 - 1954-08-01
Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Mau Mau uprising 1952-10-07 - 1960-01-12
Cuban Revolution 1953-07-26 - 1959-01-01
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
Toussaint Rouge 1954-11-01 - 1954-11-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
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
Independence of Ghana 1957-03-06
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
Basque conflict 1959-07-31 - 2011-10-20
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
Nicaraguan Revolution 1961 - 1990-02-01
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
Eritrean War of Independence 1961-09-01 - 1991-05-29
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
Brunei revolt 1962-12-08 - 1962-12-17
Socialist Education Movement 1963 - 1966
Battle of Ap Bac 1963-01-02 - 1963-01-02
1963 Togolese coup d'état 1963-01-13
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence 1963-01-23 - 1974-09-10
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
1964 Gabonese coup d'état 1964-02-17 - 1964-02-18
Colombian conflict 1964-05-27
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
Independence of Zambia 1964-10-24
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
Selma to Montgomery marches 1965-03-07 - 1965-03-25
Dominican Civil War 1965-04-24 - 1965-09-03
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
Operation Focus 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-05
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
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
Tet Offensive 1968-01-30 - 1968-09-23
Battle of Huế 1968-01-31 - 1968-03-02
Orangeburg massacre 1968-02-08
Years of Lead 1968-03-01 - 1988-10-23
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
Football War 1969-07-14 - 1969-07-18
Apollo 11 1969-07-16 - 1969-07-24
Woodstock 1969-08-15 - 1969-08-18
ARPANET first message 1969-10-29
First Earth Day 1970-04-22
Cambodian campaign 1970-04-29 - 1970-07-22
1970 Bhola cyclone 1970-11-12
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
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
Battle of Longewala 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-07
Operation Trident (1971) 1971-12-04 - 1971-12-05
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
1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état 1972-10-26
Roe v. Wade 1973-01-22
1973 Chilean coup d'état 1973-09-11
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Operation Badr (1973) 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-08
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
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Green March 1975-11-06
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
German Autumn 1977-09-05 - 1977-10-18
Iranian Revolution 1978-01-07 - 1979-02-11
Birth of Louise Brown 1978-07-25
Camp David Accords 1978-09-17 - 1978-09-17
Jonestown massacre 1978-11-18
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
1979 Equatorial Guinean coup d'état 1979-08-03
Salvadoran Civil War 1979-10-15 - 1992-01-16
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
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 Two Sisters 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Mount Longdon 1982-06-11 - 1982-06-12
Battle of Wireless Ridge 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Battle of Mount Tumbledown 1982-06-13 - 1982-06-14
Operation Ramadan 1982-07-13 - 1982-08-03
December murders 1982-12-08 - 1982-12-09
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18

People

John Marshall Harlan II age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
David Steel age 15
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Tom C. Clark age 54
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Francis Pym age 32
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield age 37
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Abe Fortas age 43
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Anthony Crosland age 35
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
George Brown age 39
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
George Brown, Baron George-Brown age 39
Leader of the Opposition - United Kingdom
George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth age 33
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Roy Mason age 29
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Cecil Parkinson age 22
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Jo Grimond age 40
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 21
President - Sinn Féin
Clement Davies age 70
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Tomás Mac Giolla age 30
President - Sinn Féin
Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton age 70
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
William Ruckelshaus age 21
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Lawrence Walsh age 42
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Geoffrey Rippon age 29
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Douglas Jay age 47
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Davies age 38
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Frederick Erroll, 1st Baron Erroll of Hale age 39
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham age 43
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Laurence Silberman age 18
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton age 50
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester age 40
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas age 41
President of the Board of Trade - United Kingdom
Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby age 55
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - United Kingdom
Harold R. Tyler Jr. age 31
Deputy Attorney General - Department of Justice
Paddy McLogan age 55
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 41
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
J. Lee Rankin age 46
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Simon Sobeloff age 59
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 21
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Antonin Scalia age 18
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 15
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 17
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 7
United States Attorney - Department of Justice
Joe Biden age 11
Senate - United States
Dan Quayle age 7
Senate - United States
Alben W. Barkley age 76
Senate - United States
Daniel Inouye age 29
Senate - United States
William Cohen age 13
Senate - United States
Lloyd Bentsen age 33
Senate - United States
Nicholas F. Brady age 23
Senate - United States
Al Gore age 5
House of Representatives - United States
John McCain age 17
House of Representatives - United States
Dick Cheney age 13
House of Representatives - United States
John Major age 10
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Panetta age 15
House of Representatives - United States
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Margaret Beckett age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jack Straw age 7
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Harriet Harman age 3
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Neil Kinnock age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 22
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Kenneth Clarke age 13
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
John Smith age 15
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Les Aspin age 15
House of Representatives - United States
Douglas Hurd age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Leon Brittan age 14
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Norman Lamont age 11
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
David Waddington age 24
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Manny Shinwell age 69
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil age 60
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Barber Conable age 31
House of Representatives - United States
James P. McGranery age 58
House of Representatives - United States
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking age 19
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Jim Griffiths age 63
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
James Chuter Ede age 71
Member of Parliament - United Kingdom
Bill Clinton age 7
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Jerry Brown age 15
Governor of California - United States
Mario Cuomo age 21
Governor of New York - United States
Michael Dukakis age 20
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
W. Averell Harriman age 62
Governor of New York - United States
Thomas E. Dewey age 52
Governor of New York - United States
Lamar Alexander age 13
Governor of Tennessee - United States
George Deukmejian age 25
Governor of California - United States
Pat Brown age 48
Governor of California - United States
Dale Bumpers age 28
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Mark White age 14
Governor of Texas - United States
Winthrop Rockefeller age 41
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Chuck Robb age 14
Governor of Virginia - United States
Hugh Carey age 34
Governor of New York - United States
Preston Smith age 42
Governor of Texas - United States
David Pryor age 19
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Herman Talmadge age 40
Governor of Georgia - United States
Otis Bowen age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Thomas Kean age 18
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Goodwin Knight age 57
Governor of California - United States
Price Daniel age 43
Governor of Texas - United States
George Busbee age 26
Governor of Georgia - United States
Orval Faubus age 44
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Brendan Byrne age 29
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Edward J. King age 28
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
John A. Volpe age 45
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Marvin Mandel age 33
Governor of Maryland - United States
Winfield Dunn age 26
Governor of Tennessee - United States
John J. Gilligan age 33
Governor of Ohio - United States
Malcolm Wilson age 40
Governor of New York - United States
Harry Hughes age 27
Governor of Maryland - United States
Frank Lausche age 58
Governor of Ohio - United States
Allan Shivers age 46
Governor of Texas - United States
Thomas B. Stanley age 63
Governor of Virginia - United States
Foster Furcolo age 42
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Dolph Briscoe age 30
Governor of Texas - United States
Edgar Whitcomb age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Lester Maddox age 38
Governor of Georgia - United States
Frank D. White age 20
Governor of Arkansas - United States
J. Lindsay Almond age 55
Governor of Virginia - United States
Dick Celeste age 16
Governor of Ohio - United States
Mills Godwin age 39
Governor of Virginia - United States
Carl Sanders age 28
Governor of Georgia - United States
Joe Frank Harris age 18
Governor of Georgia - United States
Francis Cherry age 45
Governor of Arkansas - United States
C. William O'Neill age 38
Governor of Ohio - United States
Endicott Peabody age 34
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Jim Rhodes age 44
Governor of Ohio - United States
John N. Dalton age 22
Governor of Virginia - United States
John William Brown age 40
Governor of Ohio - United States
Ernest Vandiver age 35
Governor of Georgia - United States
Joe Purcell age 30
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Francis Sargent age 38
Governor of Massachusetts - United States
Michael DiSalle age 46
Governor of Ohio - United States
Richard J. Hughes age 44
Governor of New Jersey - United States
Albertis Harrison age 47
Governor of Virginia - United States
Robert D. Orr age 36
Governor of Indiana - United States
Buford Ellington age 46
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Frank G. Clement age 33
Governor of Tennessee - United States
Bob C. Riley age 29
Governor of Arkansas - United States
Matthew E. Welsh age 41
Governor of Indiana - United States
Roger D. Branigin age 51
Governor of Indiana - United States
Theodore McKeldin age 53
Governor of Maryland - United States
Robert B. Meyner age 45
Governor of New Jersey - United States
William T. Cahill age 41
Governor of New Jersey - United States
George N. Craig age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
J. Millard Tawes age 59
Governor of Maryland - United States
Harold W. Handley age 44
Governor of Indiana - United States
John Paul II age 33
Pope - Vatican City
Kwame Nkrumah age 44
President - Ghana
Bhumibol Adulyadej age 26
King - Thailand
John XXIII age 72
Pope - Vatican City
Ferdinand Marcos age 36
President - Philippines
Francisco Franco age 61
Caudillo - Spain
Sukarno age 52
President - Indonesia
John Paul I age 41
Pope - Vatican City
Juan Carlos I of Spain age 16
King - Spain
Paul VI age 56
Pope - Vatican City
Salvador Allende age 45
President - Chile
Pius XII age 78
Pope - Vatican City
Augusto Pinochet age 38
President - Chile
Suharto age 32
President - Indonesia
Nicolae Ceaușescu age 36
President - Romania
Idi Amin age 29
President - Uganda
Margrethe II of Denmark age 13
Queen - Denmark
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 7
King - Sweden
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 16
Queen - Netherlands
Park Chung-hee age 36
President - South Korea
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 34
President - Bangladesh
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 26
President - Pakistan
Juan Perón age 58
President - Argentina
Norodom Sihanouk age 31
King - Cambodia
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 13
Sultan - Oman
Léopold Sédar Senghor age 47
President - Senegal
Mobutu Sese Seko age 23
President - Democratic Republic of the Congo
Jomo Kenyatta age 60
President - Kenya
Julius Nyerere age 31
President - Tanzania
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 65
President - India
Syngman Rhee age 79
President - South Korea
Ahmed Ben Bella age 37
President - Algeria
José Eduardo dos Santos age 11
President - Angola
Rajendra Prasad age 69
President - India
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 33
President - Central African Republic
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 48
King - Saudi Arabia
Paul Biya age 21
President - Cameroon
Hussein I of Jordan age 18
King - Jordan
Habib Bourguiba age 50
President - Tunisia
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 23
President - Argentina
Teodoro Obiang age 11
President - Equatorial Guinea
Hastings Banda age 64
President - Malawi
Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 33
King - Saudi Arabia
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir age 23
President - Iceland
Omar Bongo age 18
President - Gabon
Celâl Bayar age 70
President - Turkey
Jorge Rafael Videla age 28
President - Argentina
Urho Kekkonen age 53
President - Finland
Hassan II age 24
King - Morocco
Cemal Gürsel age 58
President - Turkey
Kenneth Kaunda age 29
President - Zambia
Kenan Evren age 36
President - Turkey
Haakon VII of Norway age 81
King - Norway
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq age 29
President - Pakistan
Ngo Dinh Diem age 53
President - South Vietnam
Mengistu Haile Mariam age 16
President - Ethiopia
Sandro Pertini age 57
President - Italy
Olusegun Obasanjo age 17
President - Nigeria
Olav V of Norway age 50
King - Norway
Alfredo Stroessner age 41
President - Paraguay