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Events

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
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
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
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
Chicago Freedom Movement 1965 - 1967
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
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
Six-Day War 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-10
Battle of Abu-Ageila 1967-06-05 - 1967-06-06
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
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 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
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
Yom Kippur War 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-25
First Battle of Mount Hermon 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-07
Valley of Tears 1973-10-06 - 1973-10-09
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
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
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
1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia 1983 - 1985
1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut 1983-04-18
Sri Lankan Civil War 1983-07-23 - 2009-05-18
United States invasion of Grenada 1983-10-25 - 1983-12-15
Battle of Tripoli (1983) 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-20
Operation Kheibar 1984-02-14 - 1984-03-19
Kurdish–Turkish conflict 1984-08-15
Assassination of Indira Gandhi 1984-10-31
Bhopal disaster 1984-12-02 - 1984-12-03
Perestroika 1985 - 1991-12-26
Operation Badr (1985) 1985-03-10 - 1985-03-20
Live Aid 1985-07-13
Plaza Accord 1985-09-22
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster 1986-01-28
First Battle of al-Faw 1986-02-11 - 1986-03-10
Second Battle of Zhawar 1986-02-28 - 1986-04-19
Chernobyl disaster 1986-04-26
Reykjavík Summit 1986-10-11 - 1986-10-12
Operation Karbala-5 1987-01-08 - 1987-02-26

People

Chen Cheng age 60
Premier - Republic of China
Sicco Mansholt age 48
President - European Commission
François-Xavier Ortoli age 31
President - European Commission
Salah ad-Din al-Bitar age 44
Prime Minister - Syria
John A. Costello age 65
Taoiseach - Ireland
Jack Lynch age 39
Taoiseach - Ireland
Piotr Jaroszewicz age 47
Prime Minister - Poland
Manlio Brosio age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Franco Maria Malfatti age 29
President - European Commission
Masayoshi Ito age 43
Prime Minister - Japan
Dirk Stikker age 59
Secretary General - NATO
Seán Lemass age 57
Taoiseach - Ireland
Pak Song-chol age 43
Premier - North Korea
Kim Il age 46
Premier - North Korea
Boun Oum age 45
Prime Minister - Laos
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá age 57
Prime Minister - Cuba
Edward Babiuch age 29
Prime Minister - Poland
Atef Sedki age 26
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Lutfi Mahmud age 21
Prime Minister - Egypt
Ali Sabri age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mustafa Khalil age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Kamal Hassan Ali age 23
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj age 31
Prime Minister - Syria
Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin age 30
Prime Minister - Egypt
Halfdan T. Mahler age 33
Director-General - World Health Organization
Sun Yun-suan age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Abdul Rauf al-Kasm age 25
Prime Minister - Syria
Yusuf Zuayyin age 25
Prime Minister - Syria
Sabri al-Asali age 54
Prime Minister - Syria
Mamdouh Salem age 39
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud Fawzi age 56
Prime Minister - Egypt
Aziz Sedki age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Abdul Rahman Khleifawi age 30
Prime Minister - Syria
Marcolino Gomes Candau age 45
Director-General - World Health Organization
Barber Conable age 34
President - World Bank
Gonzalo Güell age 61
Prime Minister - Cuba
Muhammad Sedki Sulayman age 38
Prime Minister - Egypt
Yu Kuo-hwa age 43
Premier - Republic of China
Alden W. Clausen age 33
President - World Bank
Yu Hung-chun age 59
Premier - Republic of China
George David Woods age 55
President - World Bank
Jorge García Montes age 60
Prime Minister - Cuba
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi age 34
Prime Minister - Egypt
Bashir al-Azma age 46
Prime Minister - Syria
Wang Yun-wu age 68
Premier - Republic of China
Kamal el-Din Hussein age 36
Prime Minister - Egypt
Mahmoud al-Ayyubi age 25
Prime Minister - Syria
Eugene R. Black Sr. age 58
President - World Bank
Emilio Núñez Portuondo age 58
Prime Minister - Cuba
Nur al-Din Kahala age 47
Prime Minister - Syria
Sami al-Jundi age 35
Prime Minister - Syria
Hsu Ching-chung age 49
Premier - Republic of China
Kurt Georg Kiesinger age 52
Chancellor - Germany
Morarji Desai age 60
Prime Minister - India
Lal Bahadur Shastri age 52
Prime Minister - India
Muhammad Ali al-Halabi age 20
Prime Minister - Syria
Earl Warren age 65
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
William Rehnquist age 32
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
Warren E. Burger age 49
Chief Justice - US Judiciary
George H. W. Bush age 32
Vice President - United States
Walter Mondale age 29
Vice President - United States
Hubert Humphrey age 45
Vice President - United States
Nelson Rockefeller age 48
Vice President - United States
Spiro Agnew age 38
Vice President - United States
Soong Ching-ling age 63
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Lee Teng-hui age 33
Vice President - Republic of China
Zhu De age 70
Vice Chairman - People's Republic of China
Hardan al-Tikriti age 32
Vice President - Iraq
Salih Mahdi Ammash age 28
Vice President - Iraq
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri age 14
Vice President - Iraq
Li Peng age 28
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lin Biao age 49
Vice Chairman - Communist Party of China
Peng Dehuai age 58
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Chen Yi age 55
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Maxwell D. Taylor age 55
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
He Long age 60
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Nie Rongzhen age 57
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China - People's Republic of China
Lyman Lemnitzer age 57
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Nathan F. Twining age 59
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Thomas Hinman Moorer age 44
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Arthur W. Radford age 60
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
George Scratchley Brown age 38
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
David C. Jones age 35
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
William J. Crowe age 32
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Earle Wheeler age 49
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
John William Vessey Jr. age 34
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - United States
Henry Kissinger age 33
Secretary of State - United States
Robert F. Kennedy age 31
Attorney General - United States
Donald Rumsfeld age 24
Secretary of Defense - United States
John Foster Dulles age 68
Secretary of State - United States
James Baker age 26
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
George Shultz age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Warren Christopher age 31
Secretary of State - United States
Alexander Haig age 32
Secretary of State - United States
William Westmoreland age 42
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Dean Rusk age 47
Secretary of State - United States
Cyrus Vance age 39
Secretary of State - United States
Edmund Muskie age 42
Secretary of State - United States
John Connally age 39
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
James R. Schlesinger age 27
Secretary of Defense - United States
Christian Herter age 61
Secretary of State - United States
William P. Rogers age 43
Secretary of State - United States
Creighton Abrams age 42
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Geoffrey Howe age 30
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Nigel Lawson age 24
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Harold Brown age 29
Secretary of Defense - United States
Melvin Laird age 34
Secretary of Defense - United States
Ramsey Clark age 29
Attorney General - United States
Denis Healey age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Elliot Richardson age 36
Attorney General - United States
Rab Butler age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Douglas Hurd age 26
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Robert Bork age 29
Attorney General - United States
Leon Brittan age 17
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
W. Michael Blumenthal age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
John N. Mitchell age 43
Attorney General - United States
Clark Clifford age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
Donald Regan age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Nicholas Katzenbach age 34
Attorney General - United States
C. Douglas Dillon age 47
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Thomas S. Gates Jr. age 50
Secretary of Defense - United States
Charles Erwin Wilson age 66
Secretary of Defense - United States
Iain Macleod age 43
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Robert B. Anderson age 46
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Griffin Bell age 38
Attorney General - United States
Edwin Meese age 25
Attorney General - United States
Frederick C. Weyand age 40
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
G. William Miller age 31
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone age 49
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Reginald Maudling age 39
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
William B. Saxbe age 40
Attorney General - United States
David M. Kennedy (politician) age 51
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Herbert Brownell Jr. age 52
Attorney General - United States
William E. Simon age 29
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Richard Kleindienst age 33
Attorney General - United States
George M. Humphrey age 66
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Duncan Sandys age 48
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Henry H. Fowler age 48
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
William French Smith age 39
Attorney General - United States
Benjamin Civiletti age 21
Attorney General - United States
Joseph W. Barr age 38
Secretary of the Treasury - United States
Neil H. McElroy age 52
Secretary of Defense - United States
John A. Wickham Jr. age 28
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford age 51
Secretary of State for the Colonies - United Kingdom
Christopher Soames age 36
Secretary of State for War - United Kingdom
Robert Carr age 40
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward H. Levi age 45
Attorney General - United States
Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory age 57
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Gwilym Lloyd George age 62
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Bruce Palmer Jr. age 43
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Anthony Barber age 36
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Bernard W. Rogers age 35
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Peter Thorneycroft age 47
Chancellor of the Exchequer - United Kingdom
Merlyn Rees age 36
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Edward C. Meyer age 28
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk age 51
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Kenneth Rush age 46
Secretary of State - United States
George Decker age 54
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
Harold Keith Johnson age 44
Chief of Staff of the Army - United States
David D. Newsom age 39
Secretary of State - United States
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe age 38
First Lord of the Admiralty - United Kingdom
Frank Soskice age 54
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Livingston T. Merchant age 53
Secretary of State - United States
Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor age 53
Home Secretary - United Kingdom
Richard N. Cooper age 22
Secretary of State - United States
Walter J. Stoessel Jr. age 36
Secretary of State - United States
Caspar Weinberger age 39
Secretary of Defense - United States
J. Edgar Hoover age 62
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
William H. Webster age 32
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Clarence M. Kelley age 45
Director of the FBI - Department of Justice
Antonin Scalia age 20
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Thurgood Marshall age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Paul Stevens age 36
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Hugh Gaitskell age 50
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
William J. Brennan Jr. age 50
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Arthur Goldberg age 48
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Potter Stewart age 41
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Byron White age 39
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
John Marshall Harlan II age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Tom C. Clark age 57
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Lewis F. Powell Jr. age 49
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Abe Fortas age 46
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
Sandra Day O'Connor age 26
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court - US Judiciary
George Brown age 42
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Michael Foot age 43
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
Neil Kinnock age 14
Leader - Labour Party (UK)
David Steel age 18
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jeremy Thorpe age 27
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Jo Grimond age 43
Leader - Liberal Party (UK)
Albert Luthuli age 59
President - African National Congress
Oliver Tambo age 39
President - African National Congress
Paddy McLogan age 58
President - Sinn Féin
Tomás Mac Giolla age 32
President - Sinn Féin
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh age 24
President - Sinn Féin
Gerry Adams age 8
President - Sinn Féin
Archibald Cox age 44
Solicitor General - Department of Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 23
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Stephen Breyer age 18
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Anthony Kennedy age 20
US Court of Appeals - US Judiciary
Jeff Sessions age 10
United States Attorney - Department of Justice